The Thorvaldsens Museum Archives

Comment on Transportation of Thorvaldsen's Artworks to Copenhagen 1828

The Building Commission for the Church of Our Lady, Copenhagen requested the following works:

• Christ, cf. A82 (in marble)
• Peter, A86
• Matthew, A87
• John, A89
• James the Less, A91
• Philip, A93
• Thomas, A96
• James the Greater, A98
• Bartholomew, A99
• Simon Zelotes, A101
• Paul, A103
• Jude Thaddæus, A105
• Andrew, A108

John the Baptist Preaching:

• Reclining Youth, A64
• Old Scribe, A63
• Mother with her Son, A62
• Father with his Son, A61
• Youth, A60
• John the Baptist, A59
• A Boy, A65
• Pharisee, A66
• Hunter, A67
• Two Children, A68
• Mother with her Child, A69
• Reclining Shepherd, A70

• Two candelabra for the high altar
• Baptismal Angel Kneeling, cf. A112
• The Entry into Jerusalem, cf. A559

The Building Commission for Christiansborg Palace requested:

• Two caryatids, cf. A55 and A56
• Alexander the Great’s Entry into Babylon
  (The Alexander Frieze), cf. A503

Christian (8.) Frederik requested:

• Caroline Amalie, marble version; cf. A754
• Christian (8.) Frederik, marble version; cf. A753
• Caroline Amalie, in plaster or marble; cf. A164

The Academy of Fine Arts requested:

• Nicolaus Copernicus, cf. A113
• The horse for Józef Poniatowski, cf. A123
• Monument to Ercole Consalvi, cf. A612
  
  

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