Thorvaldsen's Works, Commissioning
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Nicolai Abildgaard
Thorvaldsen thanks Abildgaard for his support. He tells him that many of the Roman art collection...
Poul Scheel
Georg Zoëga
Scheel has been allowed to enclose a letter to Zoëga in a letter from Friedrich Münter. After hav...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart has arrived in Naples and invites Thorvaldsen to visit him. He sends travelling expenses...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Irina Vorontsova
Contract between Countess Vorontsova and Thorvaldsen. Thorvaldsen undertakes to make a group depi...
Irina Vorontsova
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Countess Vorontsova asks Thorvaldsen to go to the banker Torlonia in order to draft a contract li...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Herman Schubart
Thorvaldsen writes that he has received a grant of 300 rix-dollars from the Danish King. He thank...
Fyodor Matveyev
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The Russian painter Fyodor Matveyev forwards a letter from Countess Irina Vorontsova, who through...
Irina Vorontsova
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Countess Vorontsova writes that she has not received an answer to her letter asking Thorvaldsen w...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Irina Vorontsova
Thorvaldsen has learned from Countess Vorontsova’s letter that she has not received his answer no...
Theodor von der Ropp
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Ropp repeats in writing his commission for 10 marble busts after antique models and the restorati...
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 reports that Thorvaldsen’s portrait busts of himself and Jacqueline Schubart, A718...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Herman Schubart
Thorvaldsen apologizes for his late answer to Schubart’s letter. He thanks him for the comm...
Nicolai Abildgaard
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Abildgaard recommends the bearer of the letter, Carl Christian Seydewitz, to Thorvaldsen. He comm...
Nicolai Abildgaard
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Abildgaard discusses the payment for the transportation of the crates Thorvaldsen has sent to Cop...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart writes that Charlotte Schimmelmann is satisfied with Thorvaldsen’s sketch of Bapti...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart is pleased with Thorvaldsen’s appointment as professor at the Academy of Fine Arts...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Nicolai Abildgaard
Thorvaldsen informs Abildgaard that the block of marble he has ordered will be sent in the autumn...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Nicolai Abildgaard
Draft: Thorvaldsen informs Abildgaard that the block of marble he has ordered will be sent in the...
C.F.F. Stanley
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanley teases Thorvaldsen because he has not heard from him for a long time, but suddenly a lett...
Nicolai Abildgaard
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Abildgaard is sympathetic to the idea that Thorvaldsen should remain in Rome for the time being b...
Filippo Mazzei
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Mazzei writes to make sure that the price of Thorvaldsen’s sculpture has been given in scud...
Nicolaus Jac. Stuhr
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stuhr has arrived at Leghorn and informed Herman Schubart that his busts of A.P. Bernstorff, A207...
C.F. Hansen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
C.F. Hansen commissions works from Thorvaldsen. For the façade of Christiansborg Palace, he wants...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Conrad Rantzau
Thorvaldsen tells Conrad Rantzau how work on his commissions is progressing. The portrait bust, c...
Laurits Engelstoft
Bertel Thorvaldsen
On behalf of Marcus Gerhard Rosencrone, Engelstoft asks Thorvaldsen to execute a portrait bust in...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Laurits Engelstoft
Thorvaldsen accepts the commission for the portrait bust of Henrik Hielmstierne, cf. A210 and spe...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hans West
Thorvaldsen writes a receipt for payment of a self-portrait bust commissioned by Hans West, Berte...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hans West
Thorvaldsen writes a receipt for payment of a self-portrait bust commissioned by Hans West, Berte...
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...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Peder Malling
Christian 8.
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Anna Maria Uhden
Thorvaldsen has received the two letters from Anna Maria Uhden. Because of Jacqueline Schubart’s ...
Jelizaveta Aleksejevna Osterman-Tolstaja
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Osterman-Tolstaja describes a monument that she wants to erect to her beloved brother, and that s...
Jørgen Knudtzon
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Knudtzon asks Thorvaldsen to complete and send three commissioned marble reliefs as soon as possi...
Anna Potocka
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Countess Anna Potocka describes the excellent qualities of the late Count Włodzimierz Potocki, bo...
Hans Carl Knudtzon
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Knudtzon reminisces about his journey to Rome and hopes to see Thorvaldsen the following year dur...
Luigi Chiaveri
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Chiaveri invites Thorvaldsen to lunch with Nicolaus Esterházy, who wants to make arrangements for...
Guillaume Bertrand-Favre
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bertrand-Favre cancels his commission for two bas-reliefs because they will be placed too high o...
P.O. Brøndsted
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Brøndsted wonders why he has had no answer to the commission for a monument transmitted in his la...
Stanisław Mokronowski
Bertel Thorvaldsen
In his capacity as member of a committee, Mokronowski writes to Thorvaldsen to ask him if he is w...
Between 29.4.1817 og 20.5.1817
John Cam Hobhouse
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Lord Byron is in Rome, and Hobhouse wants Thorvaldsen to portray him. He hopes that Thorvaldsen i...
Paolo Prossalendi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Prossalendi forwards a commission for a monument to the British governor-general Thomas Maitland,...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanisław Mokronowski
Thorvaldsen accepts the commission for an equestrian statue of Józef Poniatowski, cf. A123, and a...
Stanisław Mokronowski
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Mokronowski thanks Thorvaldsen for accepting the commission for the equestrian statue of Józef Po...
Jacob Ludwig Salomo Bartholdy
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanisław Mokronowski
Thorvaldsen notes that his conditions for executing the equestrian statue of Józef Poniatowski ha...
Caroline von Humboldt
Christian Daniel Rauch
Thorvaldsen has finally received a commission for the marble version of the frieze Alexander the ...
Stanisław Mokronowski
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Mokronowski informs Thorvaldsen that permission has been granted by the Emperor Alexander I to er...
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Caroline von Humboldt
Wilhelm von Humboldt is pleased that Caroline has commissioned Goddess of Hope from Thorvaldsen. ...
Vincenz Rüttimann
Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Rüttimann reports that he has been in contact with Thorvaldsen regarding the monument in Lucerne ...
Jørgen Koch
Jonas Collin
Koch writes about Thorvaldsen’s works and commissions. The sculptor has completed Mercury a...
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Frederik 6. commissions the Alexander Frieze and two caryatids for Christiansborg Palace.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Thorvaldsen is grateful for the commission for the Alexander Frieze and two caryatids for Christi...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Det toscanske Hof
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Edward Everett
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Everett has commissioned some copies of the bust of Lord Byron without specifying the material. A...
Elisabeth Chitrowo
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Elizabeth Chitrowo writes to Thorvaldsen in order to persuade him to execute a bas-relief for a f...
Nicolai Holten, Adam Wilhelm Moltke
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Moltke writes that 4000 species have been collected for carving marble versions of the two bas-re...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Thorvaldsen firmly declines the proposal of the Building Commission for Christiansborg Palace tha...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Thorvaldsen’s copy of the letter dated 25.5.1820, see the comments there.
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Describes the inauguration of the monument Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. A119, in Lucerne, w...
Wilhelm Heigelin
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
? (Fru) Butler Claxton
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Mrs. Claxton has visited Thorvaldsen’s workshop and wants to knpw the price of a bust of Lo...
Cecilia Tantini
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Cecilia Tantini writes to convey Conrad Rantzau’s request to send his portrait bust, cf. A211, to...
Franz Erwein von Schönborn
Johann Martin von Wagner
Schönborn has heard that Thorvaldsen will execute another Anacreontic relief as a companion piece...
Paul von Nicolay
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Julie von Dörnberg
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Julie von Dörnberg sends her late son Unico von Dörnberg’s death mask to Thorvaldsen and asks him...
Frederico Gürtler
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Gürtler informs Thorvaldsen that he has packed and sent the young Baron Unico von Dörnberg’s deat...
Aleksander Ivanovitj Osterman-Tolstoj
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Osterman-Tolstoj has commissioned a bust of Zar Alexander 1., cf. A715 or A46, which Thorvaldsen ...
Hermann Ernst Freund
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The crates with Thorvaldsens art works has arrived in Leghorn. They have been reloaded on a Danis...
Mathilde Theresia von Irgens-Bergh
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
John Cam Hobhouse
Bertel Thorvaldsen
In his capacity of chairman of a committee, Hobhouse asks Thorvaldsen if he will accept a commiss...
Alexis de Chateauneuf
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
John Cam Hobhouse
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The subscribers to the monument to Lord Byron have held a meeting. They are grateful that Thorval...
Verein für Schiller's Denkmal
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The Schiller Association commissions a monument to the poet Friedrich Schiller. The Association w...
Verein für Schiller's Denkmal
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The members of the Association are delighted with the news that Thorvaldsen is favourably dispose...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
For unknown reasons, the letter has been severely damaged. See instead the draft of the letter fo...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian Frederik has heard that the Alexander Frieze, cf. A503, and Christ, cf. A82, and John t...
Georg Christian Braun, Gutenberg-kommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Justin Ostrowski
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Ostrowski asks Thorvaldsen to create a monument to a 21-year-old man for the cathedral in Krakow....
Verein für Schiller's Denkmal
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The members of the Association are grateful for the permission to publish the news that Thorvalds...
Helena Ponińska
Bertel Thorvaldsen
A comprehensive corrective to a sketch made by Thorvaldsen, probably A617, for the sepulchral rel...
Helena Ponińska
Bertel Thorvaldsen
On an earlier occasion, Thorvaldsen has expressed his interest in executing a sepulchral monument...
Helena Ponińska
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Ponińska asks Thorvaldsen to send the sketch for the sepulchral relief she has commissioned from ...
Redaktørerne ved Kjøbenhavnsposten
Omnes
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Bertel Thorvaldsen
List of reliefs by Thorvaldsen, probably corresponding to the ones purchased by Wilhelm 1.
Marie Lehmann, Bolette Puggaard, Hans Puggaard
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hans Puggaard has heard that the relief The Graces Listening to Cupid’s Song, A601, is finished a...
Angelo Maria Ricci
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Redaktørerne ved Kunst-Blatt
Omnes
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Just Mathias Thiele
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thiele asks Thorvaldsen to execute a monument to the recently deceased King Frederik 6. He has su...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Thorvaldsen pays tribute to King Christian VIII six weeks after his accession to the throne. Thor...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Sends Just Mathias Thiele to Thorvaldsen with a written request that Thorvaldsen model the revers...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
A written commission for Christian 4.’s monument for Roskilde Cathedral.
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Entry stating that Christian VIII has sent Thorvaldsen a commission for the monument to Christian...
Frederik 6.-kommissionen, J.P. With
Bertel Thorvaldsen
On behalf of the commission for a monument to Frederik 6. on the hill at Skanderborg Castle, , J....
Mathilde von Waldenburg
Bertel Thorvaldsen
von Waldenburg asks for a cast of The Adoration of the Shepherds, A570, and Thorvaldsen’s s...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
The Building Commission for Christiansborg Palace has been asked to commission four marble statue...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
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