Statues, Classical Mythology
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Kunstakademiet, København
Thorvaldsen presents the relief Numa Pompilius and Egeria, A748, to the Royal Academy. He also ap...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Kunstakademiet, København
Thorvaldsen reports to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts that he has studied Rome and its sur...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Kunstakademiet, København
Thorvaldsen informs the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts that he has sent two samples of his wor...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Kunstakademiet, København
Both Thorvaldsen’s semi-annual report to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and the works he w...
Nicolai Abildgaard
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Abildgaard reports that the works Thorvaldsen sent to Copenhagen have arrived safely. He complime...
Cornelius Høyer, Kunstakademiet, København
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts has evaluated Thorvaldsen’s Bacchus and Ariadne, A1, and is...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Nicolai Abildgaard
Thorvaldsen has received Abildgaard’s latest letter and thanks him for everything he does to prom...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Kunstakademiet, København
Thorvaldsen is delighted that the work he has sent to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts has w...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Nicolai Abildgaard
Thorvaldsen reports that the transportation of two crates with artworks bound for the Royal Danis...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Kunstakademiet, København
Thorvaldsen regrets that his report to the Royal Academy has been delayed. He would have liked to...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Kunstakademiet, København
Thorvaldsen reports that the two crates with artworks bound for the Royal Danish Academy of Fine ...
Tidligst marts 1803, antagelig senest 1805
Patrick Moir
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Patrick Moir requests Thovaldsen’s presence the following morning in order to settle matters rega...
Tidligst 19. og senest 23.3.1803
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thomas Hope
Transcript of Thomas Hope’s copy of his contract with Thorvaldsen regarding Jason with the Golden...
After 23.3.1803, before summer 1803
Finelli & Keller
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thorvaldsen’s contract with the sculptors Pietro Finelli and Heinrich Keller concerning the deliv...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Herman Schubart
Thorvaldsen thanks Schubart and his sister Charlotte Schimmelmann for the efforts they are making...
Jevdokija Ivanovna Golitsyna
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Golitsyna explains that she has written to the banker Torlonia concerning the money she owes Thor...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart wants to know if Thorvaldsen will accept the commission of Baptismal Font, cf. A555,1. B...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Herman Schubart
Thorvaldsen apologizes for his late reply and informs Schubart that he is finishing Bacchus, A2. ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Herman Schubart
Thorvaldsen apologizes for his late answer to Schubart’s letter. He thanks him for the comm...
Antonio Canova
Nicolai Abildgaard, Kunstakademiet, København
Canova thanks Abildgaard for his nomination as a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts,...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart writes that Charlotte Schimmelmann is satisfied with Thorvaldsen’s sketch of Bapti...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart forwards the freight bill concerning The Dance of the Muses on Helicon, cf. A705, and th...
C.F. Stanley
C.F.F. Stanley
Stanley Senior writes that Thorvaldsen has been appointed professor at the Academy of Fine Arts i...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart has read in a newspaper that Thorvaldsen has been appointed professor at the Academy of ...
Nicolai Abildgaard
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Abildgaard is sympathetic to the idea that Thorvaldsen should remain in Rome for the time being b...
Nicolaus Jac. Stuhr
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stuhr has arrived at Leghorn and informed Herman Schubart that his busts of A.P. Bernstorff, A207...
Patrick Moir
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Moir informs Thorvaldsen on behalf of Thomas Hope that the fourth and last payment for Jason with...
Arnold Wallick
Christian 8.
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Johan Christian August Bielke
The commentary for this contract is not available at the moment.
Irina Vorontsova
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Vorontsova is very impatient to receive the long-awaited artworks. Thorvaldsen has informed her a...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Herman Schubart
Thorvaldsen thanks Schubart for a bill of exchange. He has had financial problems because the war...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
C.F. Hansen
Thorvaldsen suggests subjects from Greek mythology for the reliefs for the Christiansborg Palace ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
C.F. Hansen
Draft for letter: Thorvaldsen suggests motifs from Greek mythology for the reliefs for the Christ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Herman Schubart
Thorvaldsen has received commissions from C.F. Hansen and the Building Commission for Christiansb...
C.F. Hansen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
C.F. Hansen suggests that the statues of Solon and Lycurgus for the Copenhagen city hall and cour...
C.F. Hansen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The building commission will forward an advance payment at 1000 scuid to Thorvaldsen. Hansen sugg...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Herman Schubart
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Irina Vorontsova
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Countess Vorontsova has written to Thorvaldsen several times without receiving an answer, so she ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Theodor von Hahn
Contract between Thorvaldsen and Theodor von Hahn concerning delivery of the marble statue Cupid ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hans West
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Christian Daniel Rauch
Caroline von Humboldt
Rauch regrets that Thorvaldsen has not yet finished the statues of Cupid Holding a Butterfly to H...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Chrystian Piotr Aigner
This contract binds Thorvaldsen to execute two six-foot-tall caryatids with matching capital and ...
Christian Daniel Rauch
Caroline von Humboldt
Thorvaldsen is working on two caryatids, A55 and A56, which are to flank a plaque that commemorat...
Peder Malling
Christian 8.
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
P.O. Brøndsted
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Brøndsted has been on a short trip to Leghorn to get some money. He has visited Montenero and ask...
Giovanni Battista Bassi
Luigi Basiletti
Bassi has visited Thorvaldsen and seen the group Ganymede with Jupiter’s Eagle, cf. A44, which ha...
Luigi Basiletti
Paolo Tosio
Basiletti asks a question on behalf of the Guarneri family, probably concerning an acquaintance o...
Paolina Bergonzi
Paolo Tosio
Paolina sends news to her husband. A letter has arrived from Luigi Basiletti, which encloses anot...
Luigi Basiletti
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Basiletti writes to Thorvaldsen about the sculpture Ganimede with Jupiter’s Eagle, cf. “A44...
Paolina Bergonzi
Paolo Tosio
Paolina misses her husband, whose return has been delayed, but she is pleased to hear that he and...
Luigi Basiletti
Paolo Tosio
Basiletti tells Tosio that he has received the sculpture Ganymede with Jupiter’s Eagle, cf. A44. ...
Luigi Basiletti
Paolo Tosio
Basiletti sends news to Tosio, who is staying at Asola. He has written to one Manini in Milan reg...
Paolina Bergonzi
Paolo Tosio
Paolina writes that Franz I will not come through Brescia on his journey to Milan. She tells Tosi...
Paolina Bergonzi
Paolo Tosio
Paolina sends news about the positive reception in their home in Brescia of the marble version of...
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...
Caroline von Humboldt
Christian Daniel Rauch
Thorvaldsen har completed Venus with the Apple, A12, and at least 15 portrait busts of Britons.
Hans Carl Knudtzon
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Knudtzon reminisces about his journey to Rome and hopes to see Thorvaldsen the following year dur...
Guillaume Bertrand-Favre
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bertrand-Favre cancels his commission for two bas-reliefs because they will be placed too high o...
Guillaume Bertrand-Favre
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bertrand-Favre writes to Thorvaldsen about the statue Ganymede Filling the Cup, cf. A43, which h...
Redaktørerne ved Grätzer Zeitung
Omnes
Paragraph praising Shepherd Boy, A177, and the bust of Georges Gordon Byron.
Caroline von Humboldt
Christian Daniel Rauch
Thorvaldsen has completed Goddess of Hope, A47, which Caroline von Humboldt greatly admires. The ...
Caroline von Humboldt
Christian Daniel Rauch
Once more, Caroline von Humboldt praises Thorvaldsen’s latest work, Goddess of Hope, A47.
Caroline von Humboldt
Christian Daniel Rauch
Thorvaldsen is working hard on another group and a single figure. Caroline von Humboldt has commi...
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Bertel Thorvaldsen
Workshop accounts concerning work on the clay bozzetto for The Graces, cf. A30, the clay model fo...
Atanazy Raczyński
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Raczyński sends part of the payment for Ganymede Offering the Cup, cf. A854, expressing his hope ...
Ludwig Fuhrmann
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Fuhrmann asks Thorvaldsen to inform Atanazy Raczyński about the progress of Ganymede Offering the...
Jørgen Koch
Jonas Collin
Koch writes about Thorvaldsen’s works and commissions. The sculptor has completed Mercury a...
Caroline von Humboldt
Christian Daniel Rauch
Thorvaldsen will not accompany Herman Schubart to Denmark but will leave in the spring in the com...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
B.S. Ingemann
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Excerpt of Ingemann’s Reiselyren, which describes some of Thorvaldsen’s works.
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...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Atanazy Raczyński
Thorvaldsen acknowledges receipt of 250 scudi as part payment for Ganymede Offering the Cup, cf. ...
Caroline von Humboldt
Christian Daniel Rauch
Wilhelm Schadow is working on several paintings, among them The Road to Calvary, B156. Thorvaldse...
Atanazy Raczyński
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Raczyński thanks Thorvaldsen for the drawing of Ganymede and hopes to receive the statue soon, cf...
Gerhard Stub
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stub asks Thorvaldsen to let him know if Atanazy Raczyński’s statue of Ganymede, cf. A41, is fini...
Caroline von Humboldt
Christian Daniel Rauch
Rauch’s friends in Rome are deeply worried about his health and ask for news. Thorvaldsen has com...
Franziska Caspers
Charlotte Thierry
Thorvaldsen has guided Caspers through the Vatican museum by torchlight. She admires his inspirin...
P.O. Brøndsted
Holger Halling Aagaard
Brøndsted writes that he sees Thorvaldsen every day. He praises Thorvaldsen’s latest works, Cupid...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Atanazy Raczyński
Thorvaldsen regrets that he cannot send Ganymede Offering the Cup, cf. A41, to Raczyński as the s...
P.O. Brøndsted
Holger Halling Aagaard
Brøndsted praises Thorvaldsen’s latest sculptures, Dancing Girl, A179, Cupid and the Graces, A29 ...
Thomas Hope
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thomas Hope urges Thorvaldsen to finish and deliver Jason with the Golden Fleece, A822, commissio...
Caroline von Humboldt
Christian Daniel Rauch
Caroline von Humboldt has not demanded an answer from Thorvaldsen concerning Rauch’s possible rol...
P.O. Brøndsted
Andreas Christian Gierlew
Brøndsted thanks Gierlew for his letter. He is currently editing his investigations from his expe...
Luigi Chiaveri
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Chiaveri asks Thorvaldsen to speak to Giovanni Raimondo Torlonia as soon as possible regarding Ja...
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
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Brøndsted blames Thorvaldsen for not travelling to Denmark by the route recommended to him. Brønd...
John Gibson
John Crouchley
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
Redaktørerne ved Nyeste Skilderie af Kjøbenhavn
Omnes
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Visits Canova’s workshop and comments on the sculptor’s works. Then he visits Thorvaldsen’s works...
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Bertel Thorvaldsen
Accounts of repairs on a marble version of Cupid Triumphant, cf. A22, which had been damaged in t...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Has visited Thorvaldsen and is pleased with the sketch, Nysø34, for the statue of Caroline Amalie...
Giovanni Raimondo Torlonia
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Torlonia is disappointed that Thorvaldsen has not complied with the agreement to complete Jason w...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Describes the inauguration of the monument Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. A119, in Lucerne, w...
Giovanni Raimondo Torlonia
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Torlonia assumes that Jason with the Golden Fleece, A822, is ready to be shipped as Thorvaldsen h...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Giovanni Raimondo Torlonia
Thorvaldsen answers Torlonia regarding Jason with the Golden Fleece, A822, which is to be deliver...
Giovanni Raimondo Torlonia
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Torlonia has received several letters from Thomas Hope, who is impatient to have the statue of Ja...
A. Andersen Feldborg
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Andersen Feldborg gives Thorvaldsen his book Denmark Delineated, probably @M653.He writes that Ja...
Giovanni Raimondo Torlonia
Bertel Thorvaldsen
On behalf of Thomas Hope, Torlonia urges Thorvaldsen to finish the statue of Jason with the Golde...
C.F. Hansen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
An inquiry about Thorvaldsen’s sculptural decorations for the Church of Our Lady and Christ...
Kirkebygningskommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The Building Commission for the Church of Our Lady, Copenhagen, is looking forward to receiving ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Johan Gunder Adler
Thorvaldsen calls in the loan of 9000 scudi which Christian (8.) Frederik took from him, cf. cert...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian 8.
Thorvaldsen sends a list of the works that can be ready for transportation to Denmark in the spri...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Thorvaldsen writes which works will be ready to be sent to Denmark in the spring of 1827.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
C.F. Hansen
Thorvaldsen lists the works which will be ready to be sent to Denmark in the spring of 1827. Extr...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
C.F. Hansen
One of three draft letters, in Thorvaldsen’s own hand, of a fourth draft letter dated 7.2.1...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
C.F. Hansen
One of three draft letters, in Thorvaldsen’s own hand, of a fourth draft letter dated 7.2.1...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Kirkebygningskommissionen
Thorvaldsen lists the works which will be ready to be sent to Denmark in the spring of 1827 and c...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The letter expresses dissatisfaction with the number of works for the Church of Our Lady and Chri...
Conrad Rantzau
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Rantzau writes from Nice, where he is staying in his capacity of travelling companion to Prince F...
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
In consequence of a royal ordinance, the Building Commission for Christiansborg Palace ask Thorva...
Kirkebygningskommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The Building Commission for the Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen seize the opportunity to have th...
Giovanni Raimondo Torlonia
Bertel Thorvaldsen
On behalf of Thomas Hope, Torlonia urges Thorvaldsen to finish the statue of Jason with the Golde...
J.C. Ulrich
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Ulrich lists the works of art for the Church of Our Lady and Christiansborg Palace which the merc...
Johan Gunder Adler, Hermann Ernst Freund
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Adler writes to the Building Commission for Christiansborg Palace, quoting a letter dated 30.6.18...
C.F. Hansen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
C.F. Hansen has read a letter from Hermann Ernst Freund concerning the forthcoming transportation...
N.C.L. Abrahams
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Abrahams sends a report from Paris. He has met the bronze caster Louis-Claude-Ferdinand Soyer, wh...
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The ship owner L.N. Hvidt has informed the Building Commission for Christiansborg Palace that the...
Democrito Gandolfi
Rodolfo Vantini
Gandolfi describes an accident regarding a marble version of the sculpture Cupid with the Lyre, e...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Specification of Thorvaldsen’s expenses for storage, crates, and packing in connection with...
Paolo Tosio
Paolo Tosio
Folder containing documents concerning, among other things, Democrito Gandolfi and his marble ver...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Michael Shaw Stewart
Thorvaldsen’s receipt for _Cupid with his Bow_in marble, cf. A819.
Charles Baring Wall
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Wall has heard the the statue Ganymede Offering the Cup, A854, has been finished in marble, and t...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thomas Hope
Thorvaldsen sends Hope the statue of Jason with the Golden Fleece, A822, 25 years after the contr...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thomas Hope
Thorvaldsen sends Hope the statue of Jason with the Golden Fleece, A822, 25 years after the contr...
Jørgen Knudtzon
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Jørgen Knudtzon
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Jørgen Knudtzon
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Knudtzon reports that Thorvaldsen’s statues of Venus, A853, Ganymede Offering the Cup, A85...
Thomas Hope
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hope gratefully acknowledges receipt of Jason with the Golden Fleece, A822, the portrait busts of...
Rembrandt Peale
Omnes
Peale describes his impression of Thorvaldsen, his works, and his studio practice. He is critical...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian Frederik has heard that the Alexander Frieze, cf. A503, and Christ, cf. A82, and John t...
C.F. Hansen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Clarification of circumstances relating to the commissions for Christiansborg Palace and the Chur...
Luigi Bienaimé
Franz Erwein von Schönborn
Bienaimé has heard from the sculptor Emil Wolff that Schönborn considers having Bienaimé execute ...
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List of the works by Thorvaldsen that are to be sent to Copenhagen with the corvette Galathea in ...
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List of the works by Thorvaldsen that are to be sent to Copenhagen with the corvette Galathea in ...
H.C. Andersen
H.C. Andersen
Andersen has visited Thorvaldsen’s workshops and seen Psyche in plaster, A26, and George Gordon B...
C.F. Hansen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
At Thorvaldsen’s request, the Building Commission for Christiansborg Palace and the Univers...
Eliza Mary Shaw Stewart
Alexander Hamilton Douglas
Shaw Stewart encloses a receipt with Thorvaldsen’s signature. She invites Hamilton to come ...
Friedrich Stammann
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Friedrich Stammann recommends the Austrian Count Harrach to Thorvaldsen and asks Thorvaldsen to i...
Henrik Hertz
Omnes
Song by Henrik Hertz for the celebration of Thorvaldsen at the party at the Hôtel d’Angleterre in...
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 7th part of 60 in all.
Ludvig Müller
Christian 8.
Müller sends a report to Christian 8. on Danish artists in Rome. He gives a detailed description ...
Jørgen Dalhoff
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Receipt for payment of clay, iron, and iron bands delivered in March, April, and May 1843 for the...
Jørgen Dalhoff
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Receipt for payment of clay, iron, and iron bands delivered in March, April, and May 1843 for the...
Redaktørerne ved Berlingske Tidende
Omnes
The clay model for Aesculapius, cf. the sketch A20, crashes in Thorvaldsen’s studio.
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Plays host to Friedrich Wilhelm IV, who, among other things, is shown several of Thorvaldsen’s wo...
Federico Odorici
Omnes
In his guide to the town of Brescia, Odorici also describes the private collections in the town. ...