Stanley, 1769-1805, Baptismal Font. Hercules and Hebe. Profile portraits of Georg Zoëga and others, Bertel Thorvaldsen, 1770-1844, 1805, Drawing, The drawing differs from by far the greater part of Thorvaldsen’s drawings in that the motifs here are subordinate to an architectural sketch done by someone else. The architect Carl Frederik Stanley was responsible for the elevation of the font with four reliefs on which Thorvaldsen worked from 1805. During the same period, portraits

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