Muses1.0130_Thorvaldsen

Bertel Thorvaldsen, 1770-1844, "The Dance of the Muses on Helicon" (with Apollo and the Graces), marble relief, modeled 1804 and revisted by the artist and his workshop; Copenhagen, Thorvaldsensmuseum A705. The work shown at right (A705) is Thorvaldsen's own work, comissioned by Herman Schubart and produced in 1806-1807.

Related are
A341 (plaster original model, 1816),
A340 (marble finished by C. Freund, post 1844),
and other copies in Cologne, Berlin's Alte Nazionalgallerie, and elsewhere.

Thorvaldsen also engaged the imagery of the Muses in other works:

      "Euterpe" and "Terpsichore", a pair of statues = Muses1.0129_Thorvaldsen
      "The Procession to Parnassus" = Parnassus1.0135_Thorvaldsen
      "Triumphant Muse and Cupid" twice excuted plaster casts = Muses1.0131_Thorvaldsen
      series of roundel reliefs of the 9 Muses and Mnemosyne = Muses1.0132_Thorvaldsen