1.3.1841

Sender

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Sender’s Location

Nysø

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Recipient

Otto Reedtz-Thott

Recipient’s Location

Gavnø

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Udskrift: S.T. Hr: Baron Thott / til / Gavnøe.
Tilskrift: S.T. Hr: Baron Thott

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Da jeg med Bestemthed erklærede mig i min Skrivelse af 5te Jan: skulle jeg ikke have svaret videre, naar det ikke var for at tilføie: at dersom De ikke forinden dette Aars Udgang, betaler mig de øvrige 400 Skudi, saa maae De ganske renoncere paa omtalte Hebe og hvad de 200 Sc: angaaer, jeg har modtaget som Forskud, saa kan der aldrig være tale om Tilbagelevering, og endnu mindre om at ansee det som en Gave af Dem til mig, derimod staar det Dem frit for at ansee de resterende 400 Sc: for en Gave fra mig til Dem, dersom De ikke i Tide indløser, den for saa mange Aar siden bestilte Hebe, hvoraf det halve blev giort (ja meer en det halve) er giort kort efter sammes Bestilling, og staaer hos mig i Rom, hvortil Ferdinandi Mori’s Kobbere, en Kysterman, kan tiene Dem til Bevis, hvoriblandt den findes stukket blandt mine første Arbejder; — Videre bliver der nu ikke rørt ved samme Hebe, før jeg paa den Dem tilmeldte Maade haver faaet de skyldige, øvrige 400 Sc:, NB: De maae, inden denne Maaneds Udgang lade mig vide, om De (paa de i mit sidste Brev opgivne Conditioner, : nemlig inden dette Aars Udgang, ville anvise et Huus, hvor jeg kan aflevere Figuren og modtage Pængene) hvis De endnu ønsker samme, skulle imidlertid ikke denne Maaned noget Svar komme, anseer jeg det heele som ophævet[.]
De har nu, i 2 Breve, draget mit Udsagn, angaaende Figurens Tilværelse i Tvivl, dette kalder jeg groft! og med Beviset, som De meget let kan forskaffe Dem, falder da samme Uartighed paa Dem selv tilbage; —

A. Thorvaldsen

Nysøe den 1’ Marts

1841.

Oversættelse af dokument

As I gave my opinion with certainty, in my letter of January 5^th I should not have answered further, if it was not to add: that if you do not pay me the rest: 400 Scudi before the end of this year you must give up the mentioned Hebe completely, and as for the 200 Scudi, which I have received in advance, a return is out of the question, much less to regard it as a gift from you to me, whereas you are free to consider the 400 Scudi in arrears as a gift from me to you, if you do not redeem the Hebe on time, commissioned so many years ago, of which half of it (even more than half of it) was executed shortly after I was commissioned to make it, and which is standing at my place in Rome for which Ferdinandi Mori’s engravings, s Kysterman [?] among which an engraving has been made among my first works, may serve as proof.- Nothing more will be done to the mentioned Hebe until I have received the rest 400 Scudi in the described way. NB: Before the end of this month you must let me know whether you still want the figure (on the conditions stipulated in my last letter, namely before the end of this year to indicate a house, where I can deliver the figure and receive the money) However, if no answer arrives this month, I shall consider it all annulled.
In two letters you have now questioned my statement regarding the existence of the figure, I consider this rude! and with the proof, which you can easily procure, the rudeness is rebounding on you; —

A. Thorvaldsen

Nysoe, March 1^st 1841

[Translated by Karen Husum]

Document Type

Amanuensis

Christine Stampe

Archival Reference

Subjects

• Otto Reedtz-Thott's Commission of Hebe 1806

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