Albert Bertel Thorvaldsen

Astoria, United States

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.