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Funerary Monuments, Reliefs

11.5.1811

Christian Daniel Rauch

Caroline von Humboldt

Rauch writes that Thorvaldsen will contribute a relief to the planned monument to Queen Luise.

22.5.1811

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, C.R.W. Wiedemann

Bertel Thorvaldsen

C.R.W. Wiedemann asks Thorvaldsen to execute a monument to his niece Auguste Böhmer, A700-A703. T...

18.8.1811

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Schelling thanks Thorvaldsen for accepting the commision for Monument to Auguste Böhmer, A700-A70...

16.6.1814

C.W. Eckersberg

Herman Schubart

The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.

13.8.1814

Christian Daniel Rauch

Caroline von Humboldt

Rauch has heard that Thorvaldsen is executing a monument to Baroness Jacqueline Schubart, but he ...

3.10.1815

Jelizaveta Aleksejevna Osterman-Tolstaja

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Osterman-Tolstaja describes a monument that she wants to erect to her beloved brother, and that s...

Presumably 1816

Stanisław Dunin-Borkowski

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Dunin-Borkowski asks Thorvaldsen to come and see him the same day as he has something important t...

18.2.1817

P.O. Brøndsted

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Brøndsted wonders why he has had no answer to the commission for a monument transmitted in his la...

27.4.1817

Luigi Porro Lambertenghi

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Porro Lambertenghi regrets that Thorvaldsen has not been paid as agreed. He has now made new arra...

1.8.1817

Thomson Bonar

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Bonar asks Thorvaldsen to send him a sketch of the relief of the Three Marys and the angel at Chr...

19.8.1817

Thomson Bonar

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Bonar sends a death mask of his son, Thomson Henry Bonar, and asks Thorvaldsen to execute a portr...

24.9.1817

Thomson Bonar

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Bonar has received Thorvaldsen’s letter, and now he wants to know when his son’s bust and the rel...

13.10.1817

Thomson Bonar

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Bonar gives Thorvaldsen more details regarding the funerary monument to his son Thomson Henry Bon...

2.1.1818

P.O. Brøndsted

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Brøndsted has finally received an answer from Thorvaldsen to his latest letters, one of which has...

16.1.1818

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Francesco Barberini

Thorvaldsen acknowledges receipt of 42 scudi, through Barberini, as part payment for Monument to ...

30.7.1818

Francesco Barberini

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Barberini has heard that the marble version of Monument to over Anna Maria Porro Serbelloni, cf. ...

18.12.1818

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Luigi Porro Lambertenghi

Thorvaldsen conveys his thanks for the valuable box and the words of praise that he has received ...

28.5.1819

P.O. Brøndsted

Andreas Christian Gierlew

Brøndsted thanks Gierlew for his letter. He is currently editing his investigations from his expe...

12.6.1819

Elisabeth Chitrowo

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Elizabeth Chitrowo writes to Thorvaldsen in order to persuade him to execute a bas-relief for a f...

August 1819 - marts 1820

NN

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Accounts of payments concerning the following works by Thorvaldsen: A119, A893, A312, A720, A811,...

23.10.1819 - 9.6.1821

NN

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Workshop accounts for carving the marble version of Monument to Stanislaus Chaudoir’s Wife, cf. A...

17.9.1820

Stanislaus de Chaudoir

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Chaudoir inquires whether Thorvaldsen has had time to think about the commissioned monument to hi...

11.7.1821

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Giovanni Edoardo De Pecis

Thorvaldsen writes to De Pecis to thank him for the portrait of Appiani made by the Milanese scul...

12.8.1821

Jørgen Conrad de Falsen

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Writing on an envelope, Falsen reminds Thorvaldsen that he has promised to make a sepulchral monu...

19.12.1821

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Giovanni Edoardo De Pecis

Thorvaldsen writes to De Pecis about the two reliefs Day, cf. A902, and Night, cf. A901 executed ...

Not earlier than 25.1.1823

Bertel Thorvaldsen

NN

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

20.2.1823

Maria Mokronowska

Bertel Thorvaldsen

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

16.12.1823

Jørgen Conrad de Falsen

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Falsen reminds Thorvaldsen that he has commissioned a monument to his late wife. However, the mem...

4.7.1824

Commissione per il Monumento Vaccà

Commissione per il Monumento Vaccà

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

20.3.1825

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Simon Moritz von Bethmann

Thorvaldsen recommends the painter Moritz Oppenheim warmly to Simon von Bethmann and takes the op...

20.3.1826

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Jørgen Conrad de Falsen

Thorvaldsen tries to formulate an answer to Falsen’s criticism of the two reliefs he has received...

25.11.1826

Johan Gunder Adler

Hermann Ernst Freund

The Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen wants more casts of Thorvaldsen’s works.

7.6.1827

Luigi Bonci

Niccolo Viviani

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

8.6.1827

Antonio Piccolomini Bellanti

Francesco Mastiani-Brunacci

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

5.7.1827

Commissione per il Monumento Vaccà

Omnes

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

6.7.1827

Giovanni Domenico Anguillesi

Antonio Piccolomini Bellanti

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

Antagelig omkring august 1827

Giovanni Domenico Anguillesi

Niccolo Viviani

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

13.8.1827

Giovanni Domenico Anguillesi

Antonio Piccolomini Bellanti

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

15.8.1827

Antonio Piccolomini Bellanti

Giovanni Domenico Anguillesi

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

18.8.1827

NN

Giovanni Domenico Anguillesi

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

18.8.1827

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Francesco Mastiani-Brunacci

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

22.8.1827

Antonio Piccolomini Bellanti

NN

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

30.8.1827

G. Conti

Giovanni Domenico Anguillesi

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

19.9.1827

Antonio Piccolomini Bellanti

Giovanni Domenico Anguillesi

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

6.10.1827

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Giovanni Domenico Anguillesi

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

17.10.1827

Francesco Mastiani-Brunacci

Giovanni Domenico Anguillesi

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

3.11.1827

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Giovanni Domenico Anguillesi

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

1.2.1828

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Giovanni Domenico Anguillesi

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

26.4.1828

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Giovanni Domenico Anguillesi

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

9.6.1828

Niccolo Viviani

Francesco Mastiani-Brunacci

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

1.7.1828

C. Giuseppe Caproni Camerino

Giovanni Domenico Anguillesi

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

25.4.1829

NN

Giovanni Domenico Anguillesi

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

9.6.1829

Luigi Bienaimé

Giovanni Domenico Anguillesi

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

18.8.1829

Luigi Bienaimé

Giovanni Domenico Anguillesi

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

5.10.1829

G. Cantini

Giovanni Domenico Anguillesi

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

21.10.1829

Luigi Bienaimé

Giovanni Domenico Anguillesi

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

17.11.1829

Luigi Bienaimé

Giovanni Domenico Anguillesi

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

5.12.1829

Federico Passani

Giovanni Domenico Anguillesi

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

28.6.1830

Magistrato della Communità di Pisa

Giovanni Domenico Anguillesi

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

9.10.1832

Teresa Lubomirska

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Teresa Lubomirska tells Thorvaldsen that Zofia Potocka has written to her several times to ask Th...

5.10.1833

H.C. Andersen

H.C. Andersen

Andersen visits the cemetery Campo Santo in Pisa, where he sees Thorvaldsen’s relief Monument to ...

19.10.1833

H.C. Andersen

H.C. Andersen

Andersen visits Thorvaldsen for the first time in Rome. He seeks him in vain in his workshop but ...

18.12.1834

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Helena Ponińska

Thorvaldsen sends his regrets that he is unable to spend the evening with Ponińska because of a b...

Presumably 1835

Helena Ponińska

Bertel Thorvaldsen

A comprehensive corrective to a sketch made by Thorvaldsen, probably A617, for the sepulchral rel...

Presumably 1835

Helena Ponińska

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Thorvaldsen is asked to make further adjustments to his sketch for the monument to Ponińska’s two...

Presumably 1835

Helena Ponińska

Bertel Thorvaldsen

On an earlier occasion, Thorvaldsen has expressed his interest in executing a sepulchral monument...

Antagelig 1835

Helena Ponińska

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Ponińska asks Thorvaldsen to send the sketch for the sepulchral relief she has commissioned from ...

15.2.1835

Helena Ponińska

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Ponińska reminds Thorvaldsen to send her a copy of the contract for the monument to her two child...

21.4.1835

Helena Ponińska

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Ponińska has returned from Naples and is soon leaving Rome. Therefore she asks Thorvaldsen to set...

27.4.1835

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Helena Ponińska

With this contract, Thorvaldsen undertakes to execute a sepulchral monument to Helena Ponińska’s ...

1839 [1837]

A.F. Elmquist

Omnes

The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.

5.1.1841

Helena Ponińska

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Ponińska has now waited six years for the sepulchral relief to her children. She has written more...

30.1.1841

Johan Bravo

Helena Ponińska

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

1.2.1841

Johan Bravo

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Bravo writes that Thorvaldsen has received a letter in Rome from Helena Ponińska. She points out ...

15.5.1841

Johan Bravo

Lozzano Argoli

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

15.3.1842

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Helena Ponińska

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

10.5.1842

Carlo Torlonia

Bertel Thorvaldsen

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.