The Thorvaldsens Museum Archives

Comment on After 1.2.1842, before 15.2.1842

I.e. Thorvaldsens statue Vulcan, A8, which ended up in Thorvaldsens Museum. The marble version was begun in Rome not later than April 1838. Later, in 1844, it was transported to Copenhagen, see Transportation of Thorvaldsens Artworks 1844. The statue was not finished until 1861 in Copenhagen.
This commission for Christiansborg Palace was never realized, but Thorvaldsen had planned to decorate a room in the castle with three statues, viz. Vulcan, Mars and Cupid, cf. A6, and Venus with the Apple, f. A853. Together, the three statues were to form a kind of three-dimensional response to the relief Venus, Mars and Cupid in the Smithy of Vulcan, cf. A419, which illustrates the antique poet Anacreon’s 45^th song.

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