• Bertel Thorvaldsen

  1770-1844

Giovanni Battista Sommariva

• Production Date

  Presumably 1817 - 1818

• Type of Work / Object

  • Sculpture > Herm
  • Sculpture > Bust > Portrait Bust

• Location

  • Denmark > Copenhagen > Thorvaldsens Museum > Main Floor > Room 7

• Inventory Number

  A273

• Catalogue Number

  A273

• Catalogue Level / Collection

  Thorvaldsen's Art > Thorvaldsen's Sculptures (A)

Explanation

• It was the Italian count, politician and art collector, Sommariva
  (c. 1750-1826), who in 1818 commissioned a marble version of Thorvaldsen’s Alexander Frieze for his villa by Lake Como.

Motif / Theme

• Human > Man > Giovanni Battista Sommariva

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