drawing
- Museum number
- 2007,7033.1
- Description
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The Persian commander Mazaeus and his five children pleading for mercy, after Thorvaldsen's 'Alexander frieze'; five figures seen in profile proceeding to the right. 1814
Graphite
- Production date
- 1814
- Dimensions
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Height: 206 millimetres
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Width: 375 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Thorvaldsen commissioned Overbeck in 1814 (CHECK) to make drawings of his stucco relief frieze of 'Alexander the Great's entry into Babylon' (1812) in the Palazzo Quirinale in Rome. For the frieze, see G.Bott and H. Spielmann, 'Küstlerleben in Rom, Bertel Thorvaldsen ...und seine deutschen Freunde', exh.cat Nürnberg, 1992, p.280, pl.1, p.407, no.2.47.
For an early drawing (1818) of his wife, Nina, as a study for the figure of Ruth, see Mitchell B. Frank, 'Central European Drawings from the National Gallery of Canada' Ottawa, 2008, no. 37.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2007
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2007,7033.1
