LOT DETAILS
Materials:
white marble
Measurements:
20.67 in. (52.50 cm.) (height) by 26.77 in. (68.00 cm.) (width) by 2.76 in. (7.00 cm.) (width)
Exhibited:
Berlin, Alte Nationalgalerie, 1941- before 2003;. Berlin, Alte Nationalgalerie; Stendal, Winckelmann-Museum; Weimar, Kunstsammlungen, . Italia und Germania, deutsche Klassizisten und Romantiker in Italien , 1975-1976, no. 80
Literature:
M. Misserini, . Intera Collezione Di Tutte Le Opere Inventate E Scolpite Dal Cav. Alberto Thorwaldsen.. , Rome, 1831 (Schönborn relief);. H. Le Grice, . Walks Through the Studii of the Sculptors at Rome , Rome, 1841, vol. I, pp. 55, 67 (Schönborn relief);. C. Keisch,. Italia und Germania: Deutsche Klassizisten und Romantiker in Italien , exh. cat. Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Winckelmann-Museum, Stendal; Kunstsammlungen, Weimar, 1975, no. 80;. J. Birkedal Hartman,. Antike Motive bei Thorvaldsen, Studien zur Antikenrezeption des Klassizismus, Tübingen, 1979, p. 59, pl. 14.3;. K. Bott, 'Die Italienreise des Franz Erwein von Schönborn und seine Begegnung mit Thorvaldsen', in. Festschrift für Gerhard Bott zum 60. Geburtstag: 14. Oktober 1987, Darmstadt, 1987, pp. 139-158 (Schönborn relief, the Thorvaldsens Museum relief is illustrated);. K. Bott, Ein Kunstsammler zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts. Franz Erwein von Schönborn (1770-1840), Weimar, 1993;. Laila Skjøthaug, 'Catalogue', in S. Grandesso (ed.), . Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844) , Milan, 2015, no. 329.5
Provenance:
has been confirmed by Laila Skjøthaug, Registrar at the Thorvaldsens Museum, Copenhagen. Traditionally the Schönborn relief was identified as the version in the Landesmuseum Oldenburg (inv. no. LM 014.01). Skjøthaug left open this possibility in the 2015 English version of her catalogue raisonné, but has confirmed in private correspondence that the present marble is in her opinion the Schönborn relief (see Skjøthaug, op. cit, nos. 329.3 and 329.5). The relief was only shipped to Count Schönborn in 1840, this is confirmed by a letter from Johan Bravo to Thorvaldsen dated 29 April 1840 (Thorvaldsens Museum Archives, no. . <!-- [if IE 7]> <![endif]-->. <!-- [if lt IE 9]> <![endif]-->m23 1840, nr. 18). . certainly Henri Israel Hinrichsen (1868-1942), Leipzig, circa 1930s;. confiscated by the German government, 1941;. Antiquitätenhandlung Lange, Berlin, 1941;. Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin, acquired 1941 (inv. no. BI 633);. restituted to the Hinrichsen heirs, 2003;. private collection, Switzerland