Thorvaldsen's Workshop Practice
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Bertel Thorvaldsen
Kunstakademiet, København
Thorvaldsen informs the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts that he has sent two samples of his wor...
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...
Nicolai Abildgaard
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Abildgaard is happy about Thorvaldsen’s success in Rome. He has received the busts Thorvaldsen se...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Herman Schubart
Thorvaldsen thanks Schubart and his sister Charlotte Schimmelmann for the efforts they are making...
Efter 16.7. og senest 6.8.1804
Bertel Thorvaldsen
J.L. Lund
Thorvaldsen asks Lund to take care of his studio while he is gone. He thanks him for having assis...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
J.L. Lund
Thorvaldsen thanks Lund for having assisted him in a financial matter but asks him not to give an...
J.L. Lund
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Lund thanks Thorvaldsen for his letter and looks forward to their reunion in Rome. He informs Tho...
C.F.F. Stanley
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanley teases Thorvaldsen because he has not heard from him for a long time, but suddenly a lett...
C.F.F. Stanley
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanley has received a letter from the mayor of Copenhagen concerning Gotskalk Thorvaldsen’...
C.F.F. Stanley
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanley ironically describes his amazement at having received two letters from Thorvaldsen. He al...
Camillo Landini
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanley has given Landini a letter from Thorvaldsen, who is at Montenero, and asks for news about...
C.F.F. Stanley
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanley’s health is tolerable. Anna Maria Uhden is also well, as is Thorvaldsen’s dog...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart hopes that Thorvaldsen has arrived safely in Rome. He mentions the mortally ill Caspar B...
Camillo Landini
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Landini signs for the payment received from Thorvaldsen for the carving of Bacchus.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Conrad Rantzau
Thorvaldsen tells Conrad Rantzau how work on his commissions is progressing. The portrait bust, c...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
C.F. Hansen
Thorvaldsen has received his advance for the works for Christiansborg Palace and Copenhagen town ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Charlotte Schimmelmann
Thorvaldsen informs Schimmelmann that the baptismal font, cf. A555,1, A555,2, A555,3, A555,4, whi...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Herman Schubart
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Camillo Landini
Bertel Thorvaldsen
After a few weeks in Florence, Landini has reached Carrara. He tells Thorvaldsen that he is grate...
Christian Daniel Rauch
Caroline von Humboldt
Rauch writes that Thorvaldsen has finished Cupid Holding a Butterfly to Hurt it with an Arrow and...
Antonio Moglia
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Receipt for payment of Antonio Moglia’s marble work on the relief Venus, Mars and Cupid in ...
Christian Daniel Rauch
Caroline von Humboldt
Like Thorvaldsen, Rauch intends to have his portrait statue roughhewn by his assistants. He state...
George Hayter
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The british painter Hayter asks Thorvaldsen for a very small portion of clay.
Redaktørerne ved Athene, Rasmus Emil Bruun
Christian Molbech, NN
The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.
NN
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Workshop accounts presumably for the last week of February 1817.
Caroline von Humboldt
Christian Daniel Rauch
Thorvaldsen has completed Goddess of Hope, A47, which Caroline von Humboldt greatly admires. The ...
Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom
Erik Gustaf Geijer
The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.
NN
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Workshop accounts concerning work on the clay bozzetto for The Graces, cf. A30, the clay model fo...
Herman Schubart
Christian 8.
Schubart assures the concerned Christian Frederik that the Alexander Frieze for Frederik 6.’s new...
NN
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Workshop accounts for the week of late September-early October 1818.
Stanisław Mokronowski
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Mokronowski writes that since his last letter to Thorvaldsen he has collected all the pictures of...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Workshop accounts for one or several weeks in November 1818.
NN
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Workshop accounts for one week in the first half of March 1819, probably the second week.
Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Scavenius and Brøndsted called on Thorvaldsen, but they did not speak to him as he was busy worki...
Rud Bay
Gottlieb Schønheyder
Rud Bay describes his frequent visits to Thorvaldsen’s studio and his fascination when watching h...
P.O. Brøndsted
Andreas Christian Gierlew
Brøndsted thanks Gierlew for his letter. He is currently editing his investigations from his expe...
Heinrich Keller
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Keller presses Thorvaldsen for the completion of the model for Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf....
NN
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Accounts for payment of wages to Thorvaldsen’s assistants for the marble carving of Dancing Girl,...
NN
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Accounts of payments of wages to Thorvaldsen’s assistants for work on: Two marble copies of Wi...
Heinrich Keller
Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Keller writes that the model for Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. A119, has been completed and ...
NN
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Accounts for payment of wages to Thorvaldsen’s assistants for work on Jurij Aleksándrovitj Golóvk...
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...
P.O. Brøndsted
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Brøndsted blames Thorvaldsen for not travelling to Denmark by the route recommended to him. Brønd...
NN
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Workshop accounts for carving the marble version of Monument to Stanislaus Chaudoir’s Wife, cf. A...
Redaktørerne ved Nyeste Skilderie af Kjøbenhavn
Omnes
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Redaktørerne ved Fyens Stiftstidende
Omnes
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Hermann Ernst Freund
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Freund tells Thorvaldsen about the progress of work in the workshop in Rome. He mentions the work...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Pietro Tenerani
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Christian Molbech
Omnes
Molbech’s account of his visit to Rome, in which he compares Thorvaldsen and Canova and describes...
Hermann Ernst Freund
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Freund tells Thorvaldsen about the accident that took place 8.11.1820 in one of Thorvaldsen’s wor...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Thorvaldsen and Rudolf Schadow model and others draw the beautiful Vittoria Caldoni, whom August ...
NN
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Accounts of repairs on a marble version of Cupid Triumphant, cf. A22, which had been damaged in t...
Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom
Erik Gustaf Geijer
The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.
NN
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Accounts of expenses for live models at Thorvaldsen’s studio.
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound
Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound
The Earl of Minto describes a visit to Thorvaldsen’s and Canova’s workshops and compa...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Alexander 1.
A note that two busts of the Tsar have been shipped from Rome. Thorvaldsen swears that each strok...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Alexander 1.
A note that two busts of the Tsar have been shipped from Rome. Thorvaldsen swears that each strok...
P.O. Brøndsted
Jens Møller
Brøndsted describes a trip he has made in the company of Thorvaldsen and his assistant, Tenerani....
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Nicola Maria Nicolai
Thorvaldsen asks Nicolai to help him settle a legal matter for his assistant Pietro Tenerani. A b...
Frederico Gürtler
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Gürtler informs Thorvaldsen that he has packed and sent the young Baron Unico von Dörnberg’s deat...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Luigi Sommariva
Thorvaldsen responds to Sommariva’s letter of complaint regarding his father Giovanni Battista So...
Johan Gunder Adler, Hermann Ernst Freund
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Adler writes to the Building Commission for Christiansborg Palace, quoting a letter dated 30.6.18...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hermann Ernst Freund
Thorvaldsen requests information about the execution of the figure of Christ in Carrara. Freund i...
Hermann Ernst Freund
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
H.W. Bissen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bissen recounts his journey on foot to Florence and mentions that he has seen Thorvaldsen’s Chris...
Pietro Antonio Bienaimé
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Pietro Antonio Bienaimé
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bienaimé states that the sculptor Andrea Bardi has worked for 47 days on the marble version of Th...
Redaktørerne ved Kjøbenhavnsposten
Omnes
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Luigi Bienaimé
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this account is not available at the moment.
Luigi Bienaimé
Giovanni Domenico Anguillesi
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Rembrandt Peale
Omnes
Peale describes his impression of Thorvaldsen, his works, and his studio practice. He is critical...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
For unknown reasons, the letter has been severely damaged. See instead the draft of the letter fo...
Luigi Bienaimé
Franz Erwein von Schönborn
Bienaimé has heard from the sculptor Emil Wolff that Schönborn considers having Bienaimé execute ...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian (8.) Frederik is looking forward to seeing Thorvaldsen again in Copenhagen in the autum...
Pietro Antonio Bienaimé
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bienaimé is at Carrara, where the marble statue of Crist, cf. A82, has been ready for shipment to...
Redaktørerne ved Kjøbenhavnsposten
Omnes
The art lovers of Copenhagen are told what the reasons are why it has not yet been possible to ex...
Ludwig von Hofer
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hofer acknowledges receipt of payment for work on the marble versions of the reliefs Pan and a Sa...
Marie Lehmann
Marie Lehmann
Marie Puggaard describes her and her parents’ first visit to Thorvaldsen. He surpasses all their ...
Redaktørerne ved Allgemeine Zeitung
Omnes
The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.
Wilhelm Fredric A. Dalman
Omnes
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Bertel Thorvaldsen
Just Mathias Thiele
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
H.P. Holst
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Poem presented to Thorvaldsen together with a modelling tool, a “Pousseerstok”. The French word “...
Redaktørerne ved Berlingske Tidende
Omnes
The clay model for Aesculapius, cf. the sketch A20, crashes in Thorvaldsen’s studio.
Johann Scholl
Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo
Scholl testifies that the version of the relief The Graces Listening to Cupid’s Song , A602 that ...