24.8.1805

Sender Filippo Mazzei

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Filippo Mazzei writes to Thorvaldsen, whom he has not been able to meet in Rome, in order to invi...

11.10.1805

Sender Filippo Mazzei

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Mazzei contacts Thorvaldsen to clarify a misunderstanding about the size of the sculpture which t...

11.11.1805

Sender Filippo Mazzei

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Mazzei writes to make sure that the price of Thorvaldsen’s sculpture has been given in scud...

31.12.1806

Sender C.F. Hansen

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

C.F. Hansen commissions works from Thorvaldsen. For the façade of Christiansborg Palace, he wants...

18.6.1811

Sender Christian Daniel Rauch

Recipient Caroline von Humboldt

Rauch regrets that Thorvaldsen has not yet finished the statues of Cupid Holding a Butterfly to H...

19.7.1811

Sender Christian Daniel Rauch

Recipient Caroline von Humboldt

Rauch writes that Thorvaldsen has finished Cupid Holding a Butterfly to Hurt it with an Arrow and...

6.10.1817

Sender Caroline von Humboldt

Recipient Christian Daniel Rauch

Many young artists in Rome are ill, and Thorvaldsen is not feeling very well either. He has compl...

17.1.1818

Sender NN

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Workshop accounts for the second week of January 1818.

16.5.1818

Sender Vincenz Rüttimann

Recipient Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen

Despite the prospect of only a modest payment, Thorvaldsen has agreed to execute a model for the ...

Antagelig 23. eller 28.5.1818

Sender Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Description of the rock wall in Lucerne where the monument to the Swiss Guard is to be placed, Dy...

13.6.1818

Sender Jørgen Koch

Recipient Jonas Collin

Koch writes about Thorvaldsen’s works and commissions. The sculptor has completed Mercury a...

13.6.1818

Sender Vincenz Rüttimann

Recipient Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen

Thorvaldsen has not yet made the promised draft of the monument to the fallen Swiss Guards, cf. D...

2.8.1818

Sender Vincenz Rüttimann

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Before leaving Rome, Rüttimann wants to visit Thorvaldsen in order to discuss the monument Dying ...

8.8.1818

Sender Vincenz Rüttimann

Recipient Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen

Thorvaldsen has finished a drawing for the monument to the members of the Swiss Guard, cf. Dying ...

7.9.1818

Sender Vincenz Rüttimann

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Rüttimann is grateful that Thorvaldsen has agreed to execute a model of Dying Lion (The Lucerne ...

31.10.1818

Sender NN

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Workshop accounts for the fifth week of October 1818.

7.11.1818

Sender NN

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Workshop accounts for the first week of November 1818.

19.11.1818

Sender Vincenz Rüttimann

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Rüttimann reiterates some questions that he wants Thorvaldsen to answer concerning the monument D...

Antagelig 5.12.1818

Sender Heinrich Keller

Recipient Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen

Keller sends a drawing of the monument Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. A119. He fears that the...

6.1.1819

Sender Heinrich Keller

Recipient Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen

Keller reports that Thorvaldsen has begun work on the model for Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf...

16.1.1819

Sender NN

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Workshop accounts for the second week of January 1819.

13.2.1819

Sender Heinrich Keller

Recipient Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen

Keller regrets that work on the model for Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. A119, is so slow and...

20.2.1819

Sender Heinrich Keller

Recipient Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen

Keller informs Pfyffer von Altishofen that Thorvaldsen is delighted at the idea of having the mon...

6.3.1819

Sender P.O. Brøndsted

Recipient Holger Halling Aagaard

Brøndsted praises Thorvaldsen’s latest sculptures, Dancing Girl, A179, Cupid and the Graces, A29 ...

26.3.1819

Sender Heinrich Keller

Recipient Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen

Keller informs Pfyffer von Altishofen that Thorvaldsen has been ill and therefore has not begun w...

24.4.1819

Sender Heinrich Keller

Recipient Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen

Keller reports that Thorvaldsen is very busy and is about to leave for Denmark.

7.5.1819

Sender Heinrich Keller

Recipient Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen

Keller writes that the model for Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. A119, is much admired. He is ...

8.5.1819

Sender NN

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Workshop accounts for the first week of May 1819.

22.5.1819

Sender Heinrich Keller

Recipient Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen

Keller reports that the model for Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion) , cf. cast A119, is nearly finish...

23.5.1819

Sender Heinrich Keller

Recipient Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen

Keller reports that Thorvaldsen wants to visit Lucerne in order to see the execution of the monum...

6.6.1819

Sender NN

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Workshop accounts for the first week of June 1819.

12.6.1819

Sender Heinrich Keller

Recipient Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen

Keller expresses a hope that, in spite of the price, an accomplished Italian sculptor will be cho...

17.6.1819

Sender Heinrich Keller

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Keller presses Thorvaldsen for the completion of the model for Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf....

19.6.1819

Sender Heinrich Keller

Recipient Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen

Keller complains that it is difficult to get Thorvaldsen to complete his work on the model for Dy...

17.7.1819-5.1.1822

Sender NN

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Accounts for payment of wages to Thorvaldsen’s assistants for the marble carving of Dancing Girl,...

3.7.1819

Sender Heinrich Keller

Recipient Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen

Keller writes that the model for Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. A119, has been completed and ...

Omkring 3.7.1819

Sender Heinrich Keller

Recipient Omnes

Review of the planned monument Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. cast A119, in commemoration of ...

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...

August 1819 - marts 1820

Sender NN

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

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

5.8.1819

Sender Heinrich Keller

Recipient Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen

Keller is pleased that Thorvaldsen, contrary to expectations, has visited Lucerne on his journey ...

7.8.1819

Sender Heinrich Keller

Recipient Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen

Keller reports that both models of the monument Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. A119, have be...

14.8.1819

Sender Heinrich Keller

Recipient Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen

Keller gives instructions concerning measurements and special circumstances in connection with th...

17.3.1821-26.12.1822

Sender NN

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Accounts of repairs on a marble version of Cupid Triumphant, cf. A22, which had been damaged in t...

12.8.1821

Sender Jørgen Conrad de Falsen

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

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

12.8.1821

Sender Christian 8.

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Describes the inauguration of the monument Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. A119, in Lucerne, w...

Tidligst 1823, senest 1825

Sender Anton Endres

Recipient Franz Erwein von Schönborn

A survey of works commissioned from Thorvaldsen in 1823 by Schönborn, cf. A177, A233, A827, A411 ...

25.1.1823

Sender Franz Erwein von Schönborn

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Schönborn forwards the contract for his commission from Thorvaldsen and asks the sculptor to ackn...

25.1.1823

Sender Franz Erwein von Schönborn

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Schönborn writes that he has already paid 1,000 scudi, and that Thorvaldsen can draw the remainde...

25.1.1823

Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen

Recipient Franz Erwein von Schönborn

Contract signed by Thorvaldsen concerning Schönborn’s commission of the statue Shepherd Boy, cf. ...

31.1.1823

Sender Rudolf Emanuel Wettstein

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Wettstein asks Thorvaldsen for a recommendation of the Swiss painter Hieronimus Hess. He has hear...

26.4.-27.12.1823

Sender NN

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Accounts for carving the fourth marble version of Shepherd Boy, cf. A177.

9.5.1823

Sender Jollage & Hopfgarten

Recipient Franz Erwein von Schönborn

The bronze founders Jollage and Hopfgarten acknowledge receipt of payment for casting a bronze la...

13.9.1823

Sender Johann Martin von Wagner

Recipient Franz Erwein von Schönborn

Wagner writes that progress is being made on the works commissioned by Schönborn from Thorvaldsen.

30.7.1825

Sender Johann Martin von Wagner

Recipient Franz Erwein von Schönborn

Wagner writes that Thorvaldsen is particularly late in completing the works commissioned from him...

17.2.1827

Sender Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound thanks Thorvaldsen for having taken on the Scottish sculptor Alexander R...

30.12.1827

Sender Democrito Gandolfi

Recipient Rodolfo Vantini

Gandolfi describes an accident regarding a marble version of the sculpture Cupid with the Lyre, e...

19.1.1828

Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen

Recipient Slotsbygningskommissionen

Specification of Thorvaldsen’s expenses for storage, crates, and packing in connection with...

2.2.1828

Sender Paolo Tosio

Recipient Paolo Tosio

Folder containing documents concerning, among other things, Democrito Gandolfi and his marble ver...

3.1.1829

Sender Luigi Bienaimé

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

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

2.2.1830

Sender Leo von Klenze

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Klenze informs Thorvaldsen of the address that he must go to in Munich.The Monument to Eugène de ...

20.2.1830

Sender Franz Erwein von Schönborn

Recipient Ludwig Schorn

Schönborn has read that Thorvaldsen is in Munich, and therefore he would like Schorn to ask the s...

28.2.1830

Sender Ludwig Schorn

Recipient Franz Erwein von Schönborn

Schorn has complied with Schönborn’s wish and sends Thorvaldsen’s response regarding the progress...

16.3.1830

Sender NN

Recipient Omnes

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

12.6.1831

Sender Anastasie de Circourt

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Anastasie de Circourt recommends the Swiss sculptor Raphael Christen to Thorvaldsen.

24.10.1832

Sender Luigi Bienaimé

Recipient Franz Erwein von Schönborn

Bienaimé has heard from the sculptor Emil Wolff that Schönborn considers having Bienaimé execute ...

27.10.1833

Sender H.C. Andersen

Recipient H.C. Andersen

Andersen has visited St. Peter’s Basilica, where he saw Thorvaldsen’s monument to Pius 7., cf. A1...

November 1847

Sender Emilie Roed

Recipient Jens William Kruse

Emilie Roed writes about a serious influenza epidemic in Copenhagen, which has infected over 40,0...