TOMASSO II

After Vincenzo Camuccini

Portrait of the sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770–1844)

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October 19, 04:54 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

After Vincenzo Camuccini

Portrait of the sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770–1844)

oil on canvas

unframed: 73.6 x 60.9 cm.; 29 x 24 in.

framed: 86.8 x 73 cm.; 34⅛ x 28¾ in.

Erling Schroeder (1904-89), by 1945;
Sale, Copenhagen, Bruun Rasmussen, 1950, lot 106a (as Studio of Camuccini);
Anonymous sale, Copenhagen, Bruun Rasmussen, 17 September 2019, lot 888-4 (as Attributed to Camuccini).

V. Winkel and Magnussen (eds), Kunst i Privat Eje, Copenhagen 1945, vol. II, p. 187, reproduced.

This painting is derived from the portrait by Camuccini, painted for the Accademia di San Luca in Rome in 1808, and today in a Roman private collection, in which Thorvaldsen is depicted standing with his right arm resting on a stone sill.¹Thorvaldsen and Camuccini were friends at the beginning of the 19th century, and in return for Camuccini's portrait, Thorvaldsen sculpted a bust of the painter in 1810. Their amity later dissolved, however, and the exchange of likenesses never took place. Thorvaldsen's bust of Camuccini resides today in the Thorvaldsens Museum, Copenhagen, having come directly as part of the sculptor's personal effects.

¹ https://arkivet.thorvaldsensmuseum.dk/personer/camuccini-vincenzo