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Jakob Faurvig
Thorvaldsens Museum
  • Bertel Thorvaldsen 1770-1844

Hovering Woman and the Genius of Death

  • Presumably June 12, 1818 - July 14, 1819
    • Sculpture > Monument > Tomb
    • Sculpture > Relief
  • Location

    • Denmark > Copenhagen > Thorvaldsens Museum > Main Floor > North Corridor
  • A625
  • A625
  • Thorvaldsen's Art > Thorvaldsen's Sculptures (A)

    • Plaster
    • Cast
  • Original Model

Dimension

  • Height 125 cm
  • Width 100 cm
  • Sculpture
  • European > Modernity (1800 - 1914)
    • Neoclassicism
    • Thorvaldsens Museum
    • Bequest from Bertel Thorvaldsen
    • March 24, 1844
  • https://kataloget.thorvaldsensmuseum.dk/en/A625

Sources / Literature

    • Ludvig Müller: Fortegnelse over Thorvaldsens Værker i Thorvaldsens Museum (A), 1848, 625
    • Kira Kofoed, Anima beata, 2016
    • Kira Kofoed, Om genier og engle i Thorvaldsens kunst, 2017
    • Tidligst 1818 from Bertel Thorvaldsen to Bertel Thorvaldsen
    • 12.6.1818 from Stanislaus de Chaudoir to Bertel Thorvaldsen
    • Sommer 1820 from Christian Molbech to Omnes
    • Laila Skjøthaug: Catalogue of Bertel Thorvaldsen's Works, Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844), 2015, 220.b

Related Artworks

Monument to Aloisia de Chaudoir

C168r

Woman Ascending to Heaven, above the Genius of Death

D151

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