Comment on 28.7.1805
Once Thorvaldsen’s success and fame had been established, he began in 1825 to send home plaster casts of his most famous work to the Academy of Fine Arts; the Academy had later commissioned a “complete collection” of Thorvaldsen’s works for the already large collection of antique casts, cf. the related article Commission for the Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen.
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