Pregnant woman, Bertel Thorvaldsen, 1770-1844, 1803, Drawing, The motif for this drawing is surprising in the Thorvaldsen universe. It has been suggested that he made t his portrait of a heavily pregnant woman for fun, but the reason was perhaps rather that he was simply basically curious as to how to portray this model. She is a quite special figure in Thorvaldsen’s large number of portraits of women. On looking through the paper we suspect that Thorvaldsen was concerned with a motif on the reverse that was considerably more typical of him, the motif of, Ganymede and the Eagle, ., Paper, Coal, Color, Ink, Drawn, Height 183 mm, Width 181 mm, Draftsmanship, Drawing, European, Modernity (1800 - 1914)
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