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Ole Woldbye
Ole Woldbye
  • Bertel Thorvaldsen 1770-1844

Venus and Cupid

  • Presumably 1800
  • Sculpture > Statuette
  • Location

    • Not on display
  • A13
  • A13
  • Thorvaldsen's Art > Thorvaldsen's Sculptures (A)

Motif / Theme

  • Human > God > Erotes > Eros / Cupid
  • Human > Goddess > Aphrodite / Venus
  • Human > Goddess > Psyche
  • General Subject > Greek and Roman mythology
  • Theme > Emotion > Infatuation

    • Plaster
    • Cast
  • Original Model

Dimension

  • Height 53.5 cm
  • Sculpture
  • European > Modernity (1800 - 1914)
    • Neoclassicism
    • Thorvaldsens Museum
    • Bequest from Bertel Thorvaldsen
    • March 24, 1844
  • https://kataloget.thorvaldsensmuseum.dk/en/A13

Sources / Literature

    • Ludvig Müller: Fortegnelse over Thorvaldsens Værker i Thorvaldsens Museum (A), 1848, 13
    • Mario Krohn, Thorvaldsens første Romertid, 1916
    • Laila Skjøthaug: Catalogue of Bertel Thorvaldsen's Works, Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844), 2015, 59.a

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