Bertel Thorvaldsen's SELF-PORTRAIT ROYAL COPENHAGEN c.1850.Royal Copenhagen late 19thC copy of Bertel Thorvaldsen's The Artist Leaning Against the Godess of Hope (1839). The petition to copy was made by RC in 1848 and is still in the company's archives. Actually this is the selfportrait of Bertel Thorvaldsen during his work on atypical in its idiom sculpture "The Goddess of Hope" (1817), inspired by sculpture of the Archaic period and executed during the years when, for Ludwig I, Thorvaldsen was reconstructing an Archaic group of figures from the Temple of Aphaia at Aegina.Condition: specimen is lacking a hammer in the artist's right hand and a chisel in his left one. otherwise great. Creation Year: ca. 1850-90 Size/measurements in CMs: H 35 Style: CLASSICISM Technique: BISQUE Inscription: 3 blue waves mark, impressed "ENERET. N" Creator: B.THORWALDSEN / Royal Copenhagen Manufacture Nationality: DANISH.

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