Thorvaldsen's Works, not at Thorvaldsens Museum
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Bertel Thorvaldsen
J.L. Lund
Thorvaldsen thanks Lund for having assisted him in a financial matter but asks him not to give an...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Charlotte Schimmelmann
Thorvaldsen informs Schimmelmann that the baptismal font, cf. A555,1, A555,2, A555,3, A555,4, whi...
Charlotte Schimmelmann
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schimmelmann is happy that the baptismal font, cf. A555,1, A555,2, A555,3, A555,4 is finished. Sh...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Charlotte Schimmelmann
Thorvaldsen is grateful for Schimmelmann’s praise of the baptismal font, cf. A555,1, A555,2, A555...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Charlotte Schimmelmann
Thorvaldsen is grateful for the precious agraffe that Schimmelmann has sent him through her broth...
Christian Daniel Rauch
Caroline von Humboldt
Rauch regrets that Thorvaldsen has not yet finished the statues of Cupid Holding a Butterfly to H...
Christian Daniel Rauch
Caroline von Humboldt
Thorvaldsen looks well in spite of his severe pains. He is working on the frieze Alexander the Gr...
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...
John Russell
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Russell informs Thorvaldsen that he has sent the first half of the payment for a relief, and that...
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 ...
Mary Bentinck
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bentinck asks Thorvaldsen to pack and deliver the marble portrait busts of Edward Pellew and Will...
Edward Pellew
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Pellew requests that his portrait bust in marble, cf. Edward Pellew, A260, be sent immediately to...
John Russell 2.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
John Russell, son of the 6th Duke of Bedford by the same name, asks Thorvaldsen to complete the p...
Hans Carl Knudtzon
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Knudtzon reminisces about his journey to Rome and hopes to see Thorvaldsen the following year dur...
John Russell
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Russell asks Thorvaldsen to complete two reliefs, Briseis and Achilles, cf. A490, and Priam Plead...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Jørgen Knudtzon
Thorvaldsen writes that he has been very busy working and showing his workshop to English visitor...
Spiridion Naranzi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Naranzi writes that Dionisio Bulzo himself will visit Thorvaldsen and answer all the sculptorR...
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Giovanni Raimondo Torlonia
Sommariva authorizes his banker to pay Thorvaldsen a total of 14,000 scudi in instalments of the ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Contract between Thorvaldsen and G.B. Sommariva regarding the marble version of the frieze Alexan...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Copy of the contract between Thorvaldsen and G.B. Sommariva concerning the marble version of the ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
List of Sommariva’s payments to Thorvaldsen for the marble version of Alexander the Great’s Entr...
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 misses hearing news from Thorvaldsen and asks about the progress of the marble version ...
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Luigi Sommariva
Sommariva wants to tell his son in person about his commission for a marble version of Thorvaldse...
Dionisio Bulzo
Bertel Thorvaldsen
At Thorvaldsen’s request, Bulzo explains the meaning of the subject for the relief which is...
Vincenz Rüttimann
Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Rüttimann reports that he has been in contact with Thorvaldsen regarding the monument in Lucerne ...
Spiridion Naranzi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Naranzi has forwarded Thorvaldsen’s questions about the monument to Thomas Maitland, cf. t...
John Russell
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Russell has heard that two reliefs, which he has commissioned from Thorvaldsen, Briseis and Achil...
Vincenz Rüttimann
Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Despite the prospect of only a modest payment, Thorvaldsen has agreed to execute a model for the ...
Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Description of the rock wall in Lucerne where the monument to the Swiss Guard is to be placed, Dy...
Jørgen Koch
Jonas Collin
Koch writes about Thorvaldsen’s works and commissions. The sculptor has completed Mercury a...
Vincenz Rüttimann
Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Thorvaldsen has not yet made the promised draft of the monument to the fallen Swiss Guards, cf. D...
Spiridion Naranzi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Naranzi presses Thorvaldsen for an answer to his letter of 27.4.1818 and repeats the contents of...
John Russell
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Russell refers to his letter of 1.5.1818 regarding the shipment of the two reliefs that he has co...
Francesco Barberini
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Barberini has heard that the marble version of Monument to over Anna Maria Porro Serbelloni, cf. ...
Vincenz Rüttimann
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Before leaving Rome, Rüttimann wants to visit Thorvaldsen in order to discuss the monument Dying ...
Vincenz Rüttimann
Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Thorvaldsen has finished a drawing for the monument to the members of the Swiss Guard, cf. Dying ...
Vincenz Rüttimann
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Rüttimann is grateful that Thorvaldsen has agreed to execute a model of Dying Lion (The Lucerne ...
Vincenz Rüttimann
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Rüttimann reiterates some questions that he wants Thorvaldsen to answer concerning the monument D...
Heinrich Keller
Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Keller sends a drawing of the monument Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. A119. He fears that the...
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 reports that Thorvaldsen has begun work on the model for Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf...
Heinrich Keller
Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Keller regrets that work on the model for Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. A119, is so slow and...
Heinrich Keller
Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Keller informs Pfyffer von Altishofen that Thorvaldsen is delighted at the idea of having the mon...
Heinrich Keller
Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Keller informs Pfyffer von Altishofen that Thorvaldsen has been ill and therefore has not begun w...
Christian Daniel Rauch
Caroline von Humboldt
Rauch has received requests from Poland to supervise the bronze casting and the shipment of Thorv...
Heinrich Keller
Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Keller writes that the model for Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. A119, is much admired. He is ...
Heinrich Keller
Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Keller reports that the model for Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion) , cf. cast A119, is nearly finish...
Heinrich Keller
Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Keller reports that Thorvaldsen wants to visit Lucerne in order to see the execution of the monum...
Heinrich Keller
Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Keller expresses a hope that, in spite of the price, an accomplished Italian sculptor will be cho...
Heinrich Keller
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Keller presses Thorvaldsen for the completion of the model for Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf....
Heinrich Keller
Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Keller complains that it is difficult to get Thorvaldsen to complete his work on the model for Dy...
Heinrich Keller
Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Keller writes that the model for Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. A119, has been completed and ...
Heinrich Keller
Omnes
Review of the planned monument Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. cast A119, in commemoration of ...
Heinrich Keller
Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Keller reports that the small model for the monument to the Swiss guards in Lucerne, cf. Dying Li...
Heinrich Keller
Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Keller is pleased that Thorvaldsen, contrary to expectations, has visited Lucerne on his journey ...
Heinrich Keller
Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Keller reports that both models of the monument Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. A119, have be...
Heinrich Keller
Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Keller gives instructions concerning measurements and special circumstances in connection with th...
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Bertel Thorvaldsen
Workshop accounts for carving the marble version of Monument to Stanislaus Chaudoir’s Wife, cf. A...
Redaktørerne ved Nyeste Skilderie af Kjøbenhavn
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Nicolai Holten, Adam Wilhelm Moltke
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Moltke writes that 4000 species have been collected for carving marble versions of the two bas-re...
Stanislaus de Chaudoir
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Chaudoir inquires whether Thorvaldsen has had time to think about the commissioned monument to hi...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Tekla Potocka
This contract establishes the conditions for the execution of the funerary monument to Włodzimier...
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Sommariva has heard that Thorvaldsen has returned to Rome after his trip to Denmark and congratul...
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian (8.) Frederik and Caroline Amalie have visited Sommariva’s villa by Lake Como. Th...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Giovanni Edoardo De Pecis
Thorvaldsen writes to De Pecis to thank him for the portrait of Appiani made by the Milanese scul...
Tidligst 10.8.1821, senest ultimo 1822
Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Pfyffer von Altishoffen sends Thorvaldsen some material regarding the monument Dying lion (The Lu...
Jørgen Conrad de Falsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Writing on an envelope, Falsen reminds Thorvaldsen that he has promised to make a sepulchral monu...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Describes the inauguration of the monument Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. A119, in Lucerne, w...
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Sommariva writes to Thorvaldsen from Paris, where he has met Christian (8.) Frederik. They have h...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Giovanni Edoardo De Pecis
Thorvaldsen writes to De Pecis about the two reliefs Day, cf. A902, and Night, cf. A901 executed ...
Philip Hunt
Omnes
Texts about three of Thorvaldsen’s works: Briseis and Achilles, cf. A490, Priam Pleads with...
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Sommariva reminds Thorvaldsen to send the marble busts of Christian (8.) Frederik and Caroline Am...
Franz Erwein von Schönborn
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schönborn writes that he has already paid 1,000 scudi, and that Thorvaldsen can draw the remainde...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
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Bertel Thorvaldsen
Franz Erwein von Schönborn
Contract signed by Thorvaldsen concerning Schönborn’s commission of the statue Shepherd Boy, cf. ...
Rudolf Emanuel Wettstein
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Wettstein asks Thorvaldsen for a recommendation of the Swiss painter Hieronimus Hess. He has hear...
Franz Erwein von Schönborn
Johann Martin von Wagner
Schönborn has heard that Thorvaldsen will execute another Anacreontic relief as a companion piece...
Jollage & Hopfgarten
Franz Erwein von Schönborn
The bronze founders Jollage and Hopfgarten acknowledge receipt of payment for casting a bronze la...
Luigi Chiaveri
Bertel Thorvaldsen
On behalf of John Russell, Duke of Bedford, and through his brother William Russell, Chiaveri sen...
Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Pfyffer von Altishofen sends a reproduction of Thorvaldsen’s monument Dying lion (The Lucer...
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Sommariva has received a letter from de Sanctis stating that a large part of the frieze Alexander...
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Sommariva is pleased that the frieze Alexander the Great’s Entry into Babylon, cf. A505, will be ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Luigi Sommariva
Thorvaldsen responds to Sommariva’s letter of complaint regarding his father Giovanni Battista So...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Luigi Sommariva
Thorvaldsen explains that G.B. Sommariva wanted to be portrayed at full length together with Thor...
Louise Salvage de Faverolles
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Copied excerpt of a letter from Salvage de Faverolles to one of Thorvaldsen’s aquaintances, who i...
Democrito Gandolfi
Rodolfo Vantini
Gandolfi describes an accident regarding a marble version of the sculpture Cupid with the Lyre, e...
Paolo Tosio
Paolo Tosio
Folder containing documents concerning, among other things, Democrito Gandolfi and his marble ver...
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Bertel Thorvaldsen
Studio account of the work on the marble relief Venus, Mars and Cupid in the smithy of Vulcan, cf...
Pietro Antonio Bienaimé
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bienaimé states that the sculptor Andrea Bardi has worked for 47 days on the marble version of Th...
Frederik Ferdinand Friis
Just Mathias Thiele
Thorvaldsen’s own comments to the manuscript of J.M. Thiele’s first biography of Thorvaldsen.
Franz Erwein von Schönborn
Ludwig Schorn
Schönborn has read that Thorvaldsen is in Munich, and therefore he would like Schorn to ask the s...
Rembrandt Peale
Omnes
Peale describes his impression of Thorvaldsen, his works, and his studio practice. He is critical...
Carlo Carli
Paolo Tosio
Carli writes to Tosio on behalf of Marquise Parravicini. He informs him that the marquise’s last ...
Maria De Pecis
Paolo Tosio
Maria de Pecis acknowledges receipt of Paolo Tosio’s payment for the marble reliefs of Day,...
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Marble versions of Day, cf. A902, and Night, cf. A901, gilt-framed, have been sold by Maria de Pe...
Carlo Carli
Paolo Tosio
The notary Carli writes to Tosio in order to confirm that he may buy two marble reliefs Day, cf. ...
Paolo Tosio
Paolo Tosio
The document was used as cover for the papers regarding Toiso’s purchase 21.3.1831 of the m...
Anastasie de Circourt
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Anastasie de Circourt recommends the Swiss sculptor Raphael Christen to Thorvaldsen.
Maria De Pecis
Paolo Tosio
Maria de Pecis writes regarding the two marble versions of Day, cf. A902, and Night, cf. A901, th...
Maria De Pecis
Paolo Tosio
Maria de Pecis agrees to let Paolo Tosio have two letters from Thorvaldsen. The letters were writ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Thorvaldsen expresses his gratitude for two letters from the Building Commission for Christiansbo...
C.F. Hansen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hansen hopes to see Thorvaldsen and his works for Christiansborg Palace and the Church of Our Lad...
Redaktørerne ved Kunst-Blatt
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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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First part of a list of the works by Thorvaldsen that are to be sent to Copenhagen with the corve...
H.C. Andersen
H.C. Andersen
Andersen visits the cemetery Campo Santo in Pisa, where he sees Thorvaldsen’s relief Monument to ...
Sala Alessandro
Omnes
In his guide to works of art in the town of Brescia, Alessandro Sala mentions Thorvaldsen’s...
H.C. Andersen
H.C. Andersen
H.C. Andersen sees Thorvaldsen’s monument to Eugène de Beauharnais, cf. A156.
Hermann Ernst Freund
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Elisa Paulsen’s dowry has been arranged through Jonas Collin. Among Thorvaldsen’s artworks transp...
Presumably after 1836, before 1841
F. Alleyne McGeachy
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Alleyne McGeachy recommends his wife’s younger brother to Thorvaldsen, hoping that the sculptor w...
Alexander Grant
Bertel Thorvaldsen
With the bearer of the letter, Grant sends Thorvaldsen 100 scudi to be deducted from Charles Bowy...
Adam Oehlenschläger
Caroline Amalie, Christian 8.
Poem to King Christian 8. and Queen Caroline Amalie on the occasion of their silver anniversary 2...
C.F. Wilckens
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thorvaldsen’s valet reports to Thorvaldsen, who is in Rome, what is happening in Denmark. H...
Det islandske litterære selskab
Bertel Thorvaldsen
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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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Johann Scholl
Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo
Scholl testifies that the version of the relief The Graces Listening to Cupid’s Song , A602 that ...
Redaktørerne ved Fædrelandet
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Federico Odorici
Omnes
In his guide to the town of Brescia, Odorici also describes the private collections in the town. ...
Tidligst 1878, senest 1905 (1835-1836)
Charles Bowyer Adderley
Omnes
Adderley describes his stay in Rome in 1835-36, when he stayed with Thorvaldsen for a time. He wa...