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Thorvaldsens Museum and the National Gallery of Denmark exhibit in Moscow
Constantin Hansen. Portrait of a Little Girl, Elise Købke, with a Cup in front of her, 1850. National Gallery of Denmark.
MOSCOW.-
Art of the Danish Golden Age has in recent years been the subject of
several major exhibitions abroad. Last year it was the national
galleries in England and Scotland that marked the 200th anniversary of
the birth of Christen Købke with a retrospective exhibition of the
artist’s work mounted in collaboration with the National Gallery of
Denmark. Now the Russian public is being given the chance of a more
comprehensive introduction to this flourishing period during which
Danish art acquired a character of its own. Especially Thorvaldsen is a
figure familiar to Russian art history. Among other things, he made a
statue of Czar Alexander I and was commissioned to create various
sculptures and portraits of Russian princes and counts. The Pushkin
Museum in Moscow itself possesses a sculpture of Princess ... More
