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

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