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Equestrian Statue of Józef Poniatowski

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7.3.1817

Stanisław Mokronowski

Bertel Thorvaldsen

In his capacity as member of a committee, Mokronowski writes to Thorvaldsen to ask him if he is w...

1.7.1817

Stanisław Mokronowski

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Mokronowski thanks Thorvaldsen for accepting the commission for the equestrian statue of Józef Po...

10.9.1817

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Stanisław Mokronowski

Thorvaldsen notes that his conditions for executing the equestrian statue of Józef Poniatowski ha...

21.10.1817

Redaktørerne ved Leipziger Zeitung

Omnes

This newspaper cutting reports that the Russian Zar and King of Poland Alexander 1. on 6.9.1817 h...

15.12.1817

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Stanisław Mokronowski

Thorvaldsen adds three conditions for accepting the execution of the equestrian statue of Józef P...

15.12.1817

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Stanisław Mokronowski

Thorvaldsen adds three conditions for accepting the execution of the equestrian statue of Józef P...

12.2.1818

Stanisław Mokronowski

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Mokronowski informs Thorvaldsen that permission has been granted by the Emperor Alexander I to er...

8.7.1818

Leon Potocki

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Preliminary contract regarding the equestrian statue of Józef Poniatowski, cf. A123. Thorvaldsen ...

22.8.1818

Jørgen Koch

C.F. Hansen

Thorvaldsen is pleased that his native country now acknowledges his achievements with a large com...

24.10.1818

Stanisław Mokronowski

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Mokronowski writes that since his last letter to Thorvaldsen he has collected all the pictures of...

4.12.1818

Atanazy Raczyński

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Raczyński thanks Thorvaldsen for the drawing of Ganymede and hopes to receive the statue soon, cf...

22.12.1818

Stanisław Mokronowski

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Mokronowski stresses that the committee has complete confidence in Thorvaldsen’s execution ...

26.12.1818

Franciszek Skibicki

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Skibicki tells Thorvaldsen the Countess Felix Potocka, who is on the point of leaving for Italy, ...

9.1.1819

Caroline von Humboldt

Christian Daniel Rauch

Rauch’s friends in Rome are deeply worried about his health and ask for news. Thorvaldsen has com...

1.4.1819

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...

3.4.1819

Christian Daniel Rauch

Caroline von Humboldt

Rauch has received requests from Poland to supervise the bronze casting and the shipment of Thorv...

8.4.1819

Narcyz Makowiecki

Pierre Jullien

Makowiecki asks the banker Jullien to pay Thorvaldsen 50 ecus after the bust of Józef Poniatowski...

15.4.1819

Stanisław Mokronowski

Bertel Thorvaldsen

In this accompanying letter, Mokronowski writes that Count Kossakowski’s journey to Rome h...

15.5.1819

Caroline von Humboldt

Christian Daniel Rauch

Caroline von Humboldt has not demanded an answer from Thorvaldsen concerning Rauch’s possible rol...

17.6.1819

Clemens Metternich

Eleonore von Kaunitz

Thorvaldsen has modelled Metternich’s bust, cf. A234. The artist will pass through Vienna before ...

19.6.1819

Christian Daniel Rauch

Caroline von Humboldt

Rauch thanks Caroline von Humboldt for having acted wisely in connection with Rauch’s possible in...

23.10.1819

Redaktørerne ved Nyeste Skilderie af Kjøbenhavn

Omnes

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

5.10.1820

Redaktørerne ved Allgemeine Zeitung

Omnes

Allgemeine Zeitung reports on Thorvaldsen’s visit to Berlin and Dresden, on his coming visi...

7.10.1820

Redaktørerne ved Dagen

Omnes

A newspaper reports that Thorvaldsen has arrived in Warszaw.

17.-23.12.1820

Christian 8.

Christian 8.

Visits Canova’s workshop and comments on the sculptor’s works. Then he visits Thorvaldsen’s works...

3.2.1821

Stanisław Mokronowski

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Mokronowski has not had news from Thorvaldsen for a long time though he has heard from Stanisław ...

7.5.1821

Redaktørerne ved Kunst-Blatt

Omnes

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

2.6.1821

Stanisław Mokronowski

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Mokronowski refers to his letter of February 3rd with an enclosure concerning the funerary monume...

7.9.1821

Stanisław Mokronowski

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Mokronowski introduces Bernard Potocki, a nephew of Włodzimierz Potocki, who is coming to Rome. H...

15.9.1821

Auguste-Jean-Marie Carbonneaux

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Carbonneaux has been asked by the Polish committee if he will cast the monument to Józef Poniatow...

31.10.1821

Adam Czartoryski

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Czartoryski informs Thorvaldsen that Mokronowski died on October 19th, the very day of Józef Poni...

14.12.1821

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Stanisław Grabowski

Thorvaldsen expresses his grief at the death of Stanisław Mokronowski. He regrets that several pr...

6.1.1822

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Auguste-Jean-Marie Carbonneaux

Thorvaldsen is pleased that Carbonneaux has been chosen to cast the equestrian statue of Józef Po...

12.1.1822

F. Louis Coué

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Coué has received a letter from a Parisian bronze caster who is in contact with Thorvaldsen conce...

20.3.1822

François Léquine

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Léquine has heard that the model for Józef Poniatowski, A123, will soon be finished and reminds T...

6.4.1822

P.O. Brøndsted

J.P. Mynster

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

Omkring 11.5.1822

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Stanisław Grabowski

Thorvaldsen writes a report on his current Polish commissions. The funerary monument to Potocki h...

6.9.1822

F. Louis Coué

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Coué mentions an earlier letter sent through J.G. Schadow and Rudolf Schadow. He supposes that th...

27.3.1824

Leon Potocki

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Potocki urgently requests a definite date of delivery of the moulds for the equestrian statue of ...

5.1.1825

Tekla Potocka

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Tekla Potocka has written to Thorvaldsen from Poland but has not heard from him. She asks if he h...

1826-1827 (1876)

N.C.L. Abrahams

Omnes

Abrahams’ recollections of his stay in Rome 1826-27.

21.2.1826

Stanisław Grabowski, Józef Sierakowski, Walenty Sobolewski

Bertel Thorvaldsen

The committee expresses great concern regarding the equestrian statue of Józef Poniatowski, cf. A...

22.2.1826

Edward Czarnecki

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Czarnecki reminds Thorvaldsen that he signed a contract 30.9.1820 for a statue of Copernicus, cf....

11.4.1826

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Stanisław Grabowski

Thorvaldsen deeply regrets that he has not been able to fulfill the terms of his contract for the...

May 1826

Karl August Böttiger

Omnes

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

1827

Redaktørerne ved Archiv for Psychologie, Historie, Literatur og Kunst

Omnes

Two quotations about Thorvaldsen from German newspapers: from Berlinische Zeitung and a poem by J...

1.10.1827

Anna Potocka

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Potocka wants to know what Thorvaldsen is working on at the moment, and what progress is being ma...

20.2.1828

Anna Potocka

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Anna Potocka mentions that she wrote to Thorvaldsen from Vienna five months ago but received no a...

Juni 1828

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Jakub Tatarkiewicz

Thorvaldsen attests to the efficiency, skill, and diligence of his assistant Jakúb Tatarkiewicz, ...

29.12.1828

Stanisław Grabowski

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Grabowski reports that the plaster model of Józef Poniatowski, A123, has reached Danzig (Gdańsk) ...

1.4.1829

Jakub Tatarkiewicz

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Tatarkiewicz writes that there have been problems with the casting of Nicolaus Copernicus after t...

17.7.1829

Auguste-Jean-Marie Carbonneaux

Bertel Thorvaldsen

The bronze caster writes that an accident nearly cost him his life, and that it has taken him fiv...

17.3.1830

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Omnes

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

15.8.1835

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Franciszek Paszkowski

Thorvaldsen’s receipt for 4,000 piastres deposited in his account. However, he has not touched th...