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Jakob Faurvig
Thorvaldsens Museum
  • Bertel Thorvaldsen 1770-1844

Elisabeth von der Recke

  • Presumably 1805 - 1806
  • Sculpture > Bust > Portrait Bust
  • Location

    • Denmark > Copenhagen > Thorvaldsens Museum > Main Floor > North Corridor
  • A852
  • A852
  • Thorvaldsen's Art > Thorvaldsen's Sculptures (A)

    • Stone > Marble
    • Carved
  • Marble Version

Dimension

  • Height 69.3 cm
  • Colossal
  • Sculpture
  • European > Modernity (1800 - 1914)
    • Neoclassicism
    • Thorvaldsens Museum
    • Purchased from a private owner
    • 1920
  • https://kataloget.thorvaldsensmuseum.dk/en/A852

Exhibition History

  • Face to Face. Thorvaldsen and Portraiture, Thorvaldsens Museum, March 8, 2020 - December 30, 2020

Sources / Literature

    • Else Kai Sass, Om nogle Portrætbuster i Thorvaldsens Museum, 1938
    • 8.8.1806 from Bertel Thorvaldsen to Herman Schubart
    • 11.8.1810 from Elisa von der Recke to Bertel Thorvaldsen
    • Laila Skjøthaug: Catalogue of Bertel Thorvaldsen's Works, Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844), 2015, 91
    • Jane Fejfer, Kristine Bøggild Johannsen: Face to Face. Thorvaldsen and Portraiture, 2020

Related Artworks

Elisabeth von der Recke

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Elisabeth von der Recke

A879

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