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Albert Bertel Thorvaldsen

New York, United States of America

Bertel Thorvaldsen with the Statue of Hope is a self-portrait by Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen, created as a plaster model in his studio at Nysø Manor in 1839 and executed in marble posthumously by Herman Wilhelm Bissen in 1859. In 1894, a bronze cast was erected in Central Park, New York City.

Bissen's marble sculpture is on display in the Thorvaldsen Museum in Copenhagen.

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