The Thorvaldsens Museum Archives

Comment on 30.1.1807

I.e. a marble version of Psyche, which has not been positively identified.
It may be the statue which was commissioned 6.3.1806 by the Danish-German N.I. Stuhr, as suggested by Thiele II, p. 71. However, it is not known whether Stuhr – if indeed it was him – ever received the marble copy.
Therefore, it could be that the marble version of Psyche remained in Thorvaldsen’s workshop and was later sold to the British Henry Philip Hope. This marble copy is now in Thorvaldsens Museum, A821.
It could also be the marble copy of Psyche, which is in the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin, but that is an unproven hypothesis.
In any case, this passage proves that Thorvaldsen carved a marble copy of Psyche during the winter of 1806-1807.

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