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Helle Nanny Brendstrup
Thorvaldsens Museum
  • Bertel Thorvaldsen 1770-1844

Female figure with a Phrygian cap. Sketch for the Monument "Freedom" or to a Monument to the Victory by Tripoli (?)

  • 1805 - 1806
  • Drawing
  • Location

    • Not on display
  • C6r
  • C6r
  • Thorvaldsen's Art > Thorvaldsen's Drawings (C)

Motif / Theme

  • Human > Woman

      • Paper
      • Color > Ink
      • Color > Graphite
      • Color-washed
      • Drawn

Dimension

  • Height 222 mm
  • Width 201 mm
  • Draftsmanship / Drawing
  • European > Modernity (1800 - 1914)
    • Neoclassicism
    • Thorvaldsens Museum
    • Bequest from Bertel Thorvaldsen
    • March 24, 1844
  • https://kataloget.thorvaldsensmuseum.dk/en/C6r

Sources / Literature

    • Just Mathias Thiele: Thorvaldsen i Rom, 1805-1819, Efter den afdøde Kunstners Brevvexlinger, egenhændige Optegnelser og andre efterladte Papirer, 1852, p. 48-49
    • Harald Olsen: Thorvaldsen og to monumentale Arbejder i de forenede Stater, Meddelelser fra Thorvaldsens Museum, 1947, p. 48-49
    • Ursula Peters: Ergänzungen und Korrekturen, Künstlerleben in Rom, Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844), Der dänische Bildhauer und seine deutschen Freunde, 1991, p. 363-365
    • Katharina Bott: [Ukendt titel], Anzeiger der Germanischen Nationalmuseums, 1994, p. 53
    • Stig Miss: Thorvaldsens Tegninger, 2021, p. 90-93

Related Artworks

Female Figure with a Phrygian Cap, possibly the Victory by Tripoli

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