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Pernille Klemp
Pernille Klemp
  • Bertel Thorvaldsen 1770-1844

Hercules

  • Strength, Health, Justice, and Wisdom
  • 1839
  • Sculpture > Statuette
  • Location

    • Denmark > Copenhagen > Thorvaldsens Museum > Basement > Room 63
  • A16
  • A16
  • Thorvaldsen's Art > Thorvaldsen's Sculptures (A)

Motif / Theme

  • Human > God > Heracles / Hercules
  • Object > Weapon > Club
  • Object > Attire > Skin > Lion's skin

    • Plaster
    • Cast
  • Original Model

Dimension

  • Height 59 cm
  • Sculpture
  • European > Modernity (1800 - 1914)
    • Neoclassicism
    • Thorvaldsens Museum
    • Bequest from Bertel Thorvaldsen
    • March 24, 1844
  • https://kataloget.thorvaldsensmuseum.dk/en/A16

Sources / Literature

    • Ludvig Müller: Fortegnelse over Thorvaldsens Værker i Thorvaldsens Museum (A), 1848, 16
    • 20.2.1844 from Jørgen Dalhoff to Bertel Thorvaldsen
    • Sommer 1839, Julen 1841 & 1844 from Christine Stampe to Omnes
    • Juli-september 1839 from Christine Stampe to Omnes
    • 28.11.1843 from Jørgen Dalhoff to Bertel Thorvaldsen
    • Laila Skjøthaug: Catalogue of Bertel Thorvaldsen's Works, Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844), 2015, 603.a

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