Contemporary Reproductions of Thorvaldsen's Works
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Heinrich Keller
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Keller recommends his wife’s brother, the engraver Filippo Tosetti, to Thorvaldsen with ref...
Christian Daniel Rauch
Caroline von Humboldt
Rauch writes about the choice of marble. He finds it offensive that Thorvaldsen publishes his wor...
Christian Daniel Rauch
Caroline von Humboldt
Rauch will soon be ready to model his portrait bust of Thorvaldsen, Dep.31. Then he will send it ...
Christian Daniel Rauch
Caroline von Humboldt
Rauch sends the promised engravings of Thorvaldsen’s reliefs through Count von Schulenburg-Witzen...
Christian Daniel Rauch
Caroline von Humboldt
Like Thorvaldsen, Rauch intends to have his portrait statue roughhewn by his assistants. He state...
P.O. Brøndsted
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Brøndsted has been on a short trip to Leghorn to get some money. He has visited Montenero and ask...
Anna Maria Uhden
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Anna Maria writes that she has not yet received news from him. She hopes that he will return to R...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Anna Maria Uhden
Thorvaldsen has received the two letters from Anna Maria Uhden. Because of Jacqueline Schubart’s ...
David Ferdinand Koreff
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Koreff teases Thorvaldsen for not having written or sent the drawings he had promised. He asks th...
G.L. Lahde, Adam Oehlenschläger
Omnes
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Friedrich Karl Ludwig Sickler
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Luigi Basiletti
Paolo Tosio
Basiletti has completed a drawing for Tosio of Thorvaldsen’s sculpture Ganymede with Jupiter’s Ea...
Paolina Bergonzi
Paolo Tosio
Paolina writes that Basiletti has completed his drawing of Thorvaldsen’s sculpture Ganymede with ...
Jørgen Knudtzon
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Knudtzon has talked to the German publisher and printer Johann Friedrich Wenner about the publica...
Angelo Testa
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Testa’s receipt for a total of 23 scudi for an engraving after a relief by Thorvaldsen, pro...
Angelo Testa
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Testa’s receipt for a total of 17 scudi for an engraving, probably E32p, after Thorvaldsen&...
Jørgen Knudtzon
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Knudtzon writes that he has returned to Norway. He looks forward to seeing Thorvaldsen in Copenha...
Lauritz Kruse
Omnes
A prospectus in which Kruse invites his fellow countrymen to contribute to the acquisition of Tho...
Lauritz Kruse
Omnes
A prospectus in German in which Kruse invites his Danish-German fellow countrymen in Schleswig, H...
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Sommariva has heard that the lapidary Girometti is working on his portrait in cameo. He deeply re...
Caroline von Humboldt
Christian Daniel Rauch
Thorvaldsen has spent a month in Naples but still does not look happy and well. The clay model of...
Luigi Basiletti
Paolo Tosio
Basiletti sends some engravings to Tosio, among them reproductions of works by Canova and Thorval...
Clemens Metternich
Dorothea Lieven
Metternich has prepared space for Thorvaldsen’s reliefs Night, cf. A369 and Day, cf. A370, in a p...
Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Scavenius visited Thorvaldsen and saw him modelling Cupid and the Graces, cf. A29. Thorvaldsen ha...
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Sommariva writes that unfortunately he has had to give up his plans to go to Rome. He is proud of...
Caroline von Humboldt
Christian Daniel Rauch
Caroline von Humboldt has not demanded an answer from Thorvaldsen concerning Rauch’s possible rol...
Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Scavenius bought cameos after Night, cf. A369, and Day, cf. A370, finished his diary, and went fo...
Caroline von Humboldt
Christian Daniel Rauch
Rauch can get the latest news about Thorvaldsen from Karl Wilhelm Wach. Frances Mackenzie has bro...
P.O. Brøndsted
Marie Aagaard
Brøndsted tells Aagaard that Thorvaldsen has left Rome, which is good because there were so many ...
Heinrich Keller
Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Keller reports that both models of the monument Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. A119, have be...
Heinrich Keller
Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Keller gives instructions concerning measurements and special circumstances in connection with th...
Jørgen Koch
Christian 8.
Hermann Ernst Freund and Pietro Tenerani will soon begin modelling two small figures probably for...
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Sommariva has received the first reproductions in cameo of the frieze Alexander the Great’s Entry...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Visits the German painter Adolf Senff and then Thorvaldsen, who is working on a marble version of...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Sends a drawing of his bust, cf. either A197 or A753, to Countess Pauline Escalon.
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian (8.) Frederik and Caroline Amalie have visited Sommariva’s villa by Lake Como. Th...
Tidligst 10.8.1821, senest ultimo 1822
Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Pfyffer von Altishoffen sends Thorvaldsen some material regarding the monument Dying lion (The Lu...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Describes the inauguration of the monument Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. A119, in Lucerne, w...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Giovanni Edoardo De Pecis
Thorvaldsen writes to De Pecis about the two reliefs Day, cf. A902, and Night, cf. A901 executed ...
Rudolf Emanuel Wettstein
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Wettstein asks Thorvaldsen for a recommendation of the Swiss painter Hieronimus Hess. He has hear...
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Sommarive has heard about the accidental shot that has wounded Thorvaldsen. In Florence, he has t...
Franz Erwein von Schönborn
Johann Martin von Wagner
Schönborn writes that the portrait bust of Crown Prince Ludwig (1.) of Bavaria, cf. A233, commiss...
Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Pfyffer von Altishofen sends a reproduction of Thorvaldsen’s monument Dying lion (The Lucer...
C.W. Eckersberg
Bertel Thorvaldsen
A warm greeting from Copenhagen, which Thorvaldsen acknowledges by sending Eckersberg’s bust, A78...
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Bertel Thorvaldsen
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Guillaume Bertrand-Favre
Giuseppe Basseggio
Bertrand-Favre asks the art dealer Basseggio to send a cast of Thorvaldsen’s bas-relief The...
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Bertel Thorvaldsen
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Johan Gunder Adler
Hermann Ernst Freund
Freund is put in charge of the packing of those of Thorvaldsen’s artworks which are to be ...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian (8.) Frederik sends a list of those of Thorvaldsen’s artworks that he wants to be...
Johann Martin von Wagner
Franz Erwein von Schönborn
Wagner mentions that a carved gemstone after Thorvaldsen’s Cupid Received by Anacreon, Winter, cf...
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The room in which the frieze Alexander the Great’s Entry into Babylon, cf. A505, is to be put up ...
Moritz Oppenheim
Bertel Thorvaldsen, Emil Wolff
Oppenheim has returned safely from a journey to Northern Italy and the southern part of Germany. ...
Johann Martin von Wagner
Franz Erwein von Schönborn
Wagner writes that Thorvaldsen is particularly late in completing the works commissioned from him...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
C.F. Hansen
One of three draft letters, in Thorvaldsen’s own hand, of a fourth draft letter dated 7.2.1...
Johann Leeb
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Leeb thanks Thorvaldsen for his advice and his helpfulness. He is pleased to have settled in Muni...
Redaktørerne ved Allgemeine Zeitung
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Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
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Leonardo Camia
Luigi Bienaimé
Accounts concerning the Italian draughtsman Leonardo Camia’s, drawings after two works by ...
Luigi Bienaimé
Franz Erwein von Schönborn
Bienaimé has heard from the sculptor Emil Wolff that Schönborn considers having Bienaimé execute ...
Karl Grüneisen, Redaktørerne ved Kunst-Blatt
Omnes
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H.C. Andersen
H.C. Andersen
Andersen has visited Thorvaldsen and was comforted and encouraged by him after having told him ab...
Redaktørerne ved Allgemeine Zeitung
Omnes
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Gaspare Galeazzi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
After many tribulations, Galeazzi has had 12 Byron medals struck at the Mint in Turin. He has als...
Heinrich Maria von Hess
Franz Erwein von Schönborn
Hess acknowledges receipt of the payment for his portrait of Thorvaldsen, which is a copy of one ...
Marie Lehmann
Marie Lehmann
Marie Puggaard describes a merry Christmas party in the company of Thorvaldsen and other Danes in...
Redaktørerne ved Kjøbenhavnsposten
Omnes
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Karl Brandenburg
Bertel Thorvaldsen
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Redaktørerne ved Dagen, NN
Omnes
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Christian Daniel Rauch
Ferdinand Ruscheweyh
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Redaktørerne ved Dansk Kunstblad
Omnes
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Den kongelige Direktion for Statsgælden og den Synkende Fond
Committeen for Salg af Gibsafstøbninger af Thorvaldsens Arbeider, Hans Puggaard
The committee gets permission to use a vacant lease in the Bourse for free until another potentia...
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 8th part of 60 in all.
Redaktørerne ved Kunst-Blatt
Omnes
A room in the Bourse is converted for the production and sale of plaster casts of Thorvaldsen’s w...
Ludvig Müller
Comitteen for Oprettelsen af Thorvaldsens Museum
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Marie Lehmann
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Marie Puggaard is impatient for news from Thorvaldsen and hopes that he will remain in Rome until...
Gustav Edvard Brock
Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo
Brock sends the list of the objects in Thorvaldsen’s estate that Christine Stampe lays clai...
Johanne Juliane Antonetti
Omnes
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Bing & Ferslew, H.W. Bissen, C.W. Eckersberg, J.L. Lund
Omnes
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