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Jakob Faurvig
Thorvaldsens Museum
  • Bertel Thorvaldsen 1770-1844

Alexander I

  • 1821
  • Sculpture > Bust > Portrait Bust
  • Location

    • Denmark > Copenhagen > Thorvaldsens Museum > Main Floor > Room 12
  • A883
  • A883
  • Thorvaldsen's Art > Thorvaldsen's Sculptures (A)

Motif / Theme

  • Human > Man > Alexander 1.

    • Stone > Marble
    • Carved
  • Marble Version

Dimension

  • Height 67.8 cm
  • A. Thorwaldsen F. 1821.
  • Inscription
  • Sculpture
  • European > Modernity (1800 - 1914)
    • Neoclassicism
    • Thorvaldsens Museum
    • Purchased
    • 1946
  • https://kataloget.thorvaldsensmuseum.dk/en/A883

Exhibition History

  • Canova | Thorvaldsen. La nascita della scultura moderna, Gallerie d’Italia, October 24, 2019 - June 28, 2020

Sources / Literature

    • 24.5.1822 from Bertel Thorvaldsen to Alexander 1.
    • 10.1.-26.6.1824 from Luigi Bienaimé to Bertel Thorvaldsen
    • Februar - december 1824 from NN to Bertel Thorvaldsen
    • Mellem 1832 og 1836 from Dorota Barbara Czartoryska to Bertel Thorvaldsen
    • Sommer 1839, Julen 1841 & 1844 from Christine Stampe to Omnes
    • 24.5.1822 from Bertel Thorvaldsen to Alexander 1.
    • Sigurd Schultz, Nyerhvervelser 1942-1959, 1959
    • Laila Skjøthaug: Catalogue of Bertel Thorvaldsen's Works, Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844), 2015, 266.

Related Artworks

Alexander I

A246

Alexander I

A715

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