Sculptures by Other Artists
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart reports that Thorvaldsen’s portrait busts of himself and Jacqueline Schubart, A718...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Herman Schubart
Thorvaldsen apologizes for his late reply and informs Schubart that he is finishing Bacchus, A2. ...
Antonio Canova
Nicolai Abildgaard, Kunstakademiet, København
Canova thanks Abildgaard for his nomination as a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts,...
Arnold Wallick
Christian 8.
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Arnold Wallick
Christian 8.
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Friederike Brun
Bertel Thorvaldsen
A list of the objects that Friederike Brun leaves in storage with Thorvaldsen.
Christian Daniel Rauch
Caroline von Humboldt
Rauch writes that Thorvaldsen will contribute a relief to the planned monument to Queen Luise.
Christian Daniel Rauch
Caroline von Humboldt
Rauch writes that Thorvaldsen has finished Cupid Holding a Butterfly to Hurt it with an Arrow and...
Christian Daniel Rauch
Caroline von Humboldt
Rauch has modelled a portrait bust, which will now be executed in marble. He will then make money...
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 is getting better every day and is going to begin Thorvaldsen’s portrait bust, Dep.31.
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’s portrait of Thorvaldsen, Dep.31, is praised and is very lifelike. He is going to send a c...
Christian Daniel Rauch
Bertel Thorvaldsen
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Christian Daniel Rauch
Caroline von Humboldt
Like Thorvaldsen, Rauch intends to have his portrait statue roughhewn by his assistants. He state...
Christian Daniel Rauch
Caroline von Humboldt
Thorvaldsen has praised Rauch’s sepulchral monument to Queen Luise. He is not feeling well ...
Christian Daniel Rauch
Caroline von Humboldt
Rauch is helped by Thorvaldsen’s assistants in the execution of his monument to Queen Luise. Thor...
Jelizaveta Aleksejevna Osterman-Tolstaja
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Osterman-Tolstaja describes a monument that she wants to erect to her beloved brother, and that s...
Paolo Prossalendi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Prossalendi forwards a commission for a monument to the British governor-general Thomas Maitland,...
Dionisio Bulzo
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bulzo gives instructions concerning the commission for a monument to the British governor-general...
Spiridion Naranzi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Naranzi informs Thorvaldsen that he will act as an intermediary concerning the commission for a m...
Caroline von Humboldt
Christian Daniel Rauch
Caroline von Humboldt is pleased that Rauch has been commissioned to execute a monument to the Ge...
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In the report of the state of the arts in Italy in 1813-15, Thorvaldsen is awarded the leading po...
Spiridion Naranzi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Naranzi writes that the cast of a bust of Thomas Maitland, cf. G342, has finally arrived in Venic...
Spiridion Naranzi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Naranzi has apparently received a letter from Thorvaldsen which has crossed his own letter to the...
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Sommariva is pleased that Thorvaldsen is with their mutual friend Herman Schubart, and that he ta...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
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Luigi Basiletti
Paolo Tosio
Basiletti sends some engravings to Tosio, among them reproductions of works by Canova and Thorval...
Vincenz Rüttimann
Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Rüttimann informs Pfyffer von Altishofen that Heinrich Keller has spoken with Thorvaldsen about t...
Heinrich Keller
Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Keller writes that the model for Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. A119, is much admired. He is ...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
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Christian 8.
Christian 8.
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Christian 8.
Christian 8.
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Christian 8.
Christian 8.
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Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Visits Canova’s workshop and comments on the sculptor’s works. Then he visits Thorvaldsen’s works...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Thorvaldsen begins modelling the bust of Christian (8.) Frederik, cf. A197. The sculptor and the ...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Thorvaldsen and Rudolf Schadow model and others draw the beautiful Vittoria Caldoni, whom August ...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
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Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Has visited Thorvaldsen and is pleased with the sketch, Nysø34, for the statue of Caroline Amalie...
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound
The Earl of Minto describes a visit to Thorvaldsen’s and Canova’s workshops and compa...
Jacob Ludwig Salomo Bartholdy
Johann Martin von Wagner
Bartholdy writes about Franz Erwein von Schönborn’s commission of a statue of Bacchus from the la...
Johann Martin von Wagner
Leo von Klenze
Wagner sums up Schönborn’s possibilities regarding his commission of a Bacchus statue from the la...
Franz Erwein von Schönborn
Johann Martin von Wagner
Schönborn thanks Wagner for his help and advice in connection with the completion of an unfinishe...
Johann Martin von Wagner
Franz Erwein von Schönborn
Wagner regrets his late answer regarding the completion of the Bacchus statue left by the late Ru...
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Sommarive has heard about the accidental shot that has wounded Thorvaldsen. In Florence, he has t...
Johann Leeb
Franz Erwein von Schönborn
Leeb writes that he has completed the model for his statue Sleeping Cupid and has had it cast in ...
Franz Erwein von Schönborn
De Chapeaurouge
Schönborn has been informed that a marble statue is ready to be sent to him. He assumes that it i...
Johann Leeb
Franz Erwein von Schönborn
Leeb reports that his statue Sleeping Cupid has been completed in marble. He has been relieved to...
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 ...
Johann Martin von Wagner
Franz Erwein von Schönborn
Wagner writes that Thorvaldsen is particularly late in completing the works commissioned from him...
Ludwig Schorn
Franz Erwein von Schönborn
Thorvaldsen is used indirectly to reduce the price of works by Johann Heinrich von Dannecker.
Ferdinando Dôrhel
Bertel Thorvaldsen
On behalf of his client, Luigi Sommariva, Dôrhel presses Thorvaldsen for the remaining part of th...
Johann Leeb
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Leeb thanks Thorvaldsen for his advice and his helpfulness. He is pleased to have settled in Muni...
Antagelig senest primo marts 1829
Carlo Poggi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Poggi asks Thorvaldsen for work after a year of troubles has put him in a desperate situation. Ea...
Hermann Ernst Freund
Bertel Thorvaldsen
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Adam Oehlenschläger
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Adam Oehlenschläger recommends the composer J.F. Frøhlich to Thorvaldsen. He is pleased that the ...
Verein für Schiller's Denkmal
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The Schiller Association commissions a monument to the poet Friedrich Schiller. The Association w...
Ludwig von Schwanthaler
Franz Erwein von Schönborn
Thorvaldsen has praised Schwanthaler’s reliefs, and the sculptor regrets that it takes such a lon...
C.F. Hansen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hansen hopes to see Thorvaldsen and his works for Christiansborg Palace and the Church of Our Lad...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The corvette Galathea will arrive at Leghorn around 1.7.1833, and Thorvaldsen is asked to have th...
Friederike Brun
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Brun is suffering, she has no hope of recovery and wants to die, but she looks forward to seeing ...
Redaktørerne ved Dagen
Omnes
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Giuseppe Martinengo Cesaresco
Ippolito Fenaroli
Martinengo Cesaresco writes to Count Fenaroli and tells him that he will report his orders to Ten...
Johanne Juliane Antonetti
Adelgunde Vogt
Receipt from the plaster-casting works of Antonetti’s Widow for two moulds and three casts.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Alessandro Ceccarini
Thorvaldsen recommends the apprentice sculptor Alessandro Ceccarini after having seen his copies ...
Angelo Bezzi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bezzi is in financial difficulties and asks Thorvaldsen to give him his statuette Dice Player, G2...
Timothy Shay Arthur
Omnes
Description of Thorvaldsen’s visit to the sculptor Hiram Powers’ workshop in Florence...
G. Chiappa
Omnes
In an article about the Malaspina Museum in Pavia, the chronicler Giuseppe Chiappa reports the ne...