23.8.1796
Sender Nicolai Abildgaard, Jens Juel, København Kunstakademiet, Peter Meyn
Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts instructs Thorvaldsen on the terms of his travelling grant....
17.1.-14.2.1797
Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thorvaldsen’s diary from his sojourn in Malta, Palermo and Naples.
13.2.1797
Recipient København Kunstakademiet
Thorvaldsen’s first report to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts since his departure from Cope...
Ultimo 1797
Recipient Nicolai Abildgaard
Thorvaldsen’s draft of his first report to Abildgaard on his activities in Rome. He has visited t...
5.1.1798
Thorvaldsen reports to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts that he has studied Rome and its sur...
12.10.1799
Thorvaldsen thanks Abildgaard for his support. He tells him that many of the Roman art collection...
3.12.1799
Sender Nicolai Abildgaard
Abildgaard reports that the works Thorvaldsen sent to Copenhagen have arrived safely. He complime...
4.4.1800
Thorvaldsen has received Abildgaard’s latest letter and thanks him for everything he does to prom...
21.7.1800
Abildgaard relates that some people in Copenhagen have accused Thorvaldsen of being lazy in Rome,...
24.10.1800
Thorvaldsen reports that the transportation of two crates with artworks bound for the Royal Danis...
4.10.1801
Abildgaard informs Thorvaldsen that the last instalment of his travelling grant has been sent to ...
Antagelig april 1802
Recipient Jørgen West
Thorvaldsen complains that he has not received any letter for a long time.
24.5.1803
Sender C.F.F. Stanley
Stanley informs Thorvaldsen about his illness. He has to visit the spas on the island of Ischia. ...
27.9.1803
Stanley is sorry that Thorvaldsen has been ill, but he is happy that the sculptor has found lodgi...
25.2.1804
Thorvaldsen apologizes for his long silence due to an illness which has left him incapable of wor...
First draft of a letter: Thorvaldsen apologizes for his long silence due to an illness which has ...
5.4.1804
Stanley has been well and ill by turns all winter. He will not be able to come to Rome until he h...
10.4.1804
Stanley is not sure if Thorvaldsen received his last letter and writes more or less the same thin...
Juni-primo juli 1804
Recipient J.L. Lund
Thorvaldsen asks Lund to deliver a letter from him to Maria Zoëga. He has remained in Florence an...
Efter 9. og før 16.7.1804
Thorvaldsen is happy that J.L. Lund has had his grant prolonged so that he can stay in Rome for a...
6.8.1804
Second draft of a letter: Thorvaldsen informs Abildgaard that he has been seriously ill. He asks ...
First draft of a letter: Thorvaldsen tells Abildgaard how devastated he was when he received the ...
Thorvaldsen informs Abildgaard that he has been seriously ill. He asks Abildgaard’s permission to...
16.9.1804
Stanley is planning to remain near Naples until the middle of October and then go to Rome. He wri...
29.12.1804
Abildgaard recommends the bearer of the letter, Carl Christian Seydewitz, to Thorvaldsen. He comm...
9.3.1805
Stanley suggests having Gotskalk Thorvaldsen admitted to Vartov, an institution for the poor. Sta...
16.8.1805
Stanley teases Thorvaldsen because he has not heard from him for a long time, but suddenly a lett...
24.8.1805
Stanley has received a letter from the mayor of Copenhagen concerning Gotskalk Thorvaldsen’...
30.8.1805
Stanley ironically describes his amazement at having received two letters from Thorvaldsen. He al...
Efter 21.9.1805
Recipient Herman Schubart
Fragment of a draft letter: Thorvaldsen informs Schubart that he is coming to Rome after two days...
23.9.1806
Second draft of a letter: Thorvaldsen has received payment for the three catalogue volumes of the...
First draft of a letter: Thorvaldsen has received payment for the three catalogue volumes of the ...
31.12.1806
Sender C.F. Hansen
C.F. Hansen commissions works from Thorvaldsen. For the façade of Christiansborg Palace, he wants...
30.1.1807
Thorvaldsen thanks Schubart for a bill of exchange. He has had financial problems because the war...
21.2.1807
Thorvaldsen has received commissions from C.F. Hansen and the Building Commission for Christiansb...
Antagelig 5.-7.10.1807
Thorvaldsen declines the invitation to Montenero.
17.7.1808
Sender J.L. Lund
Lund’s receipt for a loan of 50 scudi from Thorvaldsen
20.8.1808
Thorvaldsen cannot come to Montenero because he is waiting for a final answer regarding a commiss...
7.7.1809
Sender C.F. Høyer
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
4.8.1809
12.9.1810
7.1.1811
12.11.1811
17.11.1811
Ca. 1812
Thorvaldsen puts in a good word for the engagement of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and Laura Zoë...
Antagelig tidligst forår 1812
Recipient NN
Thorvaldsen admits that the addressee has every reason to be angry with him.
18.9.1812
20.10.1812
23.8.1813
Sender C.W. Eckersberg
Recipient J.F. Clemens
The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.
13.11.1813
Sandsynligvis 18.11.1813
Sender David Ferdinand Koreff
Koreff teases Thorvaldsen for not having written or sent the drawings he had promised. He asks th...
19.11.1814
11.2.1815
5.8.1815
2.11.1815
2.1.1816
24.1.1816
1.2.1816
27.4.1816
Efter 21.5.1816
Recipient O.O. Bagge
Antagelig tidligst oktober 1817, senest september 1819
Sender John Gibson
Recipient Omnes
Gibson retells an anecdote about Thorvaldsen, the painter Peter von Cornelius, and a number of sc...
16.3.1818
Sender Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom
Recipient Erik Gustaf Geijer
The orientation of the Nazarenes towards the past is explained in terms of a speculative German n...
1.4.1818
Eckersberg takes advantage of the departure of the Nymph from Copenhagen to send greetings to Tho...
22.11.1818
Workshop accounts for one or several weeks in November 1818.
2.1.1819
Sender François-Joseph Navez
Navez thanks Thorvaldsen for lending him a bust. He asks for another one or a basrelief to make d...
29.1.1819
Navez asks Thorvaldsen to lend him a pair of antique busts. He also thanks him for the loan of Ho...
31.7.1819
Sender Heinrich Keller
Recipient Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Keller reports that the small model for the monument to the Swiss guards in Lucerne, cf. Dying Li...
3.12.1819
Sender Hermann Ernst Freund
Freund tells Thorvaldsen about the progress of work in the workshop in Rome. He mentions the work...
25.12.1819
Sender Christian 8.
Recipient Christian 8.
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
19.9.1820
Høyer forwards a letter from H.E. Freund in Rome to Thorvaldsen, who is on his way through Europe...
15.10.1821
Sender P.O. Brøndsted
Brøndsted invites Thorvaldsen to accompany him on visits to collections of antiques.
16.3.1822
Sender Hans Henrik Gunnerus
Imprisoned at Frederiksten fortress, Hans Henrik Gunnerus writes to Thorvaldsen with an appeal fo...
Sender Johann Martin von Wagner
Recipient Leo von Klenze
Wagner sums up Schönborn’s possibilities regarding his commission of a Bacchus statue from the la...
20.4.1822
Sender Franz Erwein von Schönborn
Recipient Johann Martin von Wagner
Schönborn thanks Wagner for his help and advice in connection with the completion of an unfinishe...
24.5.1822
Recipient Hans Henrik Gunnerus
Thorvaldsen responds to Gunnerus’ letter of 16.3.1822. He feels sympathy for Gunnerus and his unh...
28.11.1822
The letter is a repetition of the letter dated 21.7.1822, which Thorvaldsen has not answered. Lun...
21.2.1824
Gunnerus informs Thorvaldsen that he has handed over his deed of gift of 24.5.1822 and the owners...
19.3.1824
Sender Pietro Benvenuti
Benvenuti recommends the young Italian sculptor Ranieri Bartolini to Thorvaldsen and hopes that t...
9.8.1825
Sender A. Andersen Feldborg
Andersen Feldborg gives Thorvaldsen his book Denmark Delineated, probably @M653.He writes that Ja...
19.6.1827
Sender Giovanni Battista Bassi
Bassi acknowledges receipt of payment for the two paintings, Forest Track, B62, and Ruins at Foru...
4.7.1827
Sender Ditlev Martens
Martens has returned from Sicily and Calabria and sends a detailed account of his journey. In spi...
17.9.1827
C.F. Hansen has read a letter from Hermann Ernst Freund concerning the forthcoming transportation...
18.1.1828
Sender Redaktørerne ved Kjøbenhavns flyvende Post
Antagelig 26.6.1828
Sender H.W. Bissen
Bissen recounts his journey on foot to Florence and mentions that he has seen Thorvaldsen’s Chris...
8.1.1829
Sender Frederik Ferdinand Friis
Recipient Just Mathias Thiele
Thorvaldsen’s own comments to the manuscript of J.M. Thiele’s first biography of Thorvaldsen.
4.5.1829
Sender Christian Horneman
Hornemann reports the latest gossip from the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and about their m...
30.1.1830
Sender Verein für Schiller's Denkmal
The Schiller Association commissions a monument to the poet Friedrich Schiller. The Association w...
5.5.1830
Sender Magnus Theodor Moltke
Magnus Moltke writes that his father, A.G.D. Moltke, has given him his bust, A212, and Angelika K...
5.7.1830
Sender Samuel Morse
Morse informs Thorvaldsen that he is leaving for Naples but will return to Rome in September or O...
6.10.1830
Three receipts for money received from Thorvaldsen for one or more paintings for Joseph Hambro.
26.10.1830
Sender J.C. Dahl
Thorvaldsen’s bust of Dahl, A229, has finally arrived in Dresden. Dahl writes that a crate with t...
1831
Sender Rembrandt Peale
Peale describes his impression of Thorvaldsen, his works, and his studio practice. He is critical...
15.3.1831
Sender Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Recipient Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Mendelsohn has learnt something from Horace Vernet, which he thinks everyone could learn from him...
27.6.1831
24.4.1832
Sender John Stevens Cogdell
20.11.1832
Sender Eduard Magnus
Magnus recommends his friend Eduard Scholl, an art-lover, to Thorvaldsen and hopes that he or Bie...
12.1.1833
Hansen hopes to see Thorvaldsen and his works for Christiansborg Palace and the Church of Our Lad...
18.11.1833
Sender H.C. Andersen
Recipient H.C. Andersen
Andersen describes a Ponte Molle party that he attended with Thorvaldsen and other German and Sca...
Antagelig 1834-1838
Sender Jørgen Sonne
Sonne acknowledges receipt of payment for a painting, either A Battlefield on the Morning after a...
12.9.1834
Sender Giovanni de Angelis
Recipient Ditlev Blunck
The commentary for this accounting is not available at the moment.