The Thorvaldsens Museum Archives

Comment on Echoes of Antiquity: Thorvaldsen’s Collections as a Reservoir of Motifs

Also, Koch’s drawing seems to be a preliminary study for his painting Landscape with the Abduction
of Hylas (1832), now held by Städel Museum, Frankfurt. This painting could also have served as a source of inspiration for Thorvaldsen, since here even the nymphs are in the same position as in Thorvaldsen’s work, and Koch mentions his interest in it in a letter. Letter to Thorvaldsen from Joseph Anton Koch dated April 18, 1833, The Thorvaldsen’s Museum Archives.

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