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  • Bertel Thorvaldsen 1770-1844

Hymen

  • Presumably December 1843
  • Sculpture > Relief
  • Location

    • Not on display
  • A731
  • A731
  • Thorvaldsen's Art > Thorvaldsen's Sculptures (A)

Motif / Theme

  • Human > God > Erotes > Hymenaios / Hymen

    • Plaster
    • Cast
  • Original Model (?)

Dimension

  • Diameter 94 cm
  • Sculpture
  • European > Modernity (1800 - 1914)
    • Neoclassicism
    • Thorvaldsens Museum
    • Bequest from Bertel Thorvaldsen
    • March 24, 1844
  • https://kataloget.thorvaldsensmuseum.dk/en/A731

Exhibition History

  • Fortegnelse over de ved det Kongelige Akademie for de skjönne Kunstner offentligen udstillede Kunstværker, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, April 1845, cat. no. 275
  • Fortegnelse over de af det Kongelige Akademie for de skiönne Kunstner i Juni 1845 udstillede Kunstværker, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, June 1845

Sources / Literature

    • Maj-november 1843 from Christine Stampe to Omnes
    • Laila Skjøthaug: Catalogue of Bertel Thorvaldsen's Works, Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844), 2015, 683.a

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Genii of Peace and Freedom. Hymen

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