Comment on 13.7.1804
Baron Herman Schubart had, presumably during their stay together in Naples in April of that year, invited Thorvaldsen to spend the hot summer months with him and his wife, Jacqueline, at their country house Montenero. Thorvaldsen had been ill for a long time and needed rest, see the related article Thorvaldsen’s Illness 1803-04 about this.
Therefore, Thorvaldsen had left for Florence at the end of May with Count Adam Gottlob Detlef Moltke, see the Thorvaldsen Chronlogy. Han had apparently planned to arrive at Leghorn and Schubart’s Montenero during June but remained until the middle of July in Florence, which he had not visited before. Thus, Thorvaldsen did not arrive at Montenero until around the date of Lund’s letter.
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