Finely cut silhouette of Thorvaldsen

Height 15.5 cm.

Width 13.5 cm.

Unusually detailed portrait of Bertel Thorvaldsen carved in wood, birch or ash and signed OG 1869.

The picture is hand cut and in a black painted wooden frame. It was carved by the Norwegian artist Olaf Glosimodt, 1821-1901, who specialized in these silhouette portraits with an enormously high degree of detail.

Among other things, he has also carved Ludvig Holberg, Brygger Jacobsen and a large number of Norwegian cultural personalities. In the period 1851-1861 he apprenticed under Herman V. Bissen at the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.

We have never seen such detailed wood carving.