The Thorvaldsen Museum, Copenhagen by Hansen in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2011

Thorvaldsens Museum, Copenhagen

Artist: Constantin Hansen (Danish, Rome 1804–1880 Frederiksberg)

Date: 1858

Medium: Oil on paper, laid down on canvas

Dimensions: 12 7/8 x 17 in. (32.7 x 43.2 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: Thaw Collection, Jointly Owned by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Morgan Library & Museum, Gift of Eugene V. Thaw, 2009

Accession Number:2009.400.73

This sketch served as the modello for a finished painting of the same date that now belongs to the Thorvaldsens Museum, whose audacious neoclassical building was erected to house the art of Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770–1844). The sculptor, who spent most of his career in Rome, was celebrated internationally and was a hero to his fellow Danes.

Text from: metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/439381