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Jakob Faurvig
Thorvaldsens Museum
  • Bertel Thorvaldsen 1770-1844

Psyche

  • No earlier than September 1806 - No later than November 1806
  • Sculpture > Statue
  • Location

    • Denmark > Copenhagen > Thorvaldsens Museum > Upper Floor > North Corridor
  • A26
  • A26
  • Thorvaldsen's Art > Thorvaldsen's Sculptures (A)

Motif / Theme

  • Human > Goddess > Psyche
  • Object > Container > Vase
  • Theme > Quality > Beauty

    • Plaster
    • Cast
  • Original Model

Dimension

  • Height 131.7 cm
  • Sculpture
  • European > Modernity (1800 - 1914)
    • Neoclassicism
    • Thorvaldsens Museum
    • Bequest from Bertel Thorvaldsen
    • March 24, 1844
  • https://kataloget.thorvaldsensmuseum.dk/en/A26

Sources / Literature

    • Ludvig Müller: Fortegnelse over Thorvaldsens Værker i Thorvaldsens Museum (A), 1848, 26
    • 4.2.1809 from Bertel Thorvaldsen to Herman Schubart
    • 23.6.1810 from Redaktørerne ved Nyeste Skilderie af Kjøbenhavn to Omnes
    • Januar 1815 from Friederike Brun to Omnes
    • 10.5.1817 from NN to Bertel Thorvaldsen
    • 25.1.1819 from NN to Bertel Thorvaldsen
    • Sommer 1820 from Christian Molbech to Omnes
    • 7.11.1833 from H.C. Andersen to H.C. Andersen
    • 11.1.1835 from H.C. Andersen to Omnes
    • 6.3.1806 from Nicolaus Jac. Stuhr to Bertel Thorvaldsen
    • Laila Skjøthaug: Catalogue of Bertel Thorvaldsen's Works, Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844), 2015, 97.a

Related Artworks

Psyche With the Jar of Beauty

A821

Psyche Opens the Jar

C55

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