The Sleeping Lion (designed by Bertel Thorvaldsen)
after Lukas Ahorn (1789 - 1856)
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
Unknown
Materials
Mahogany
Measurements
48 x 102 x 41 mm
Order this imageCollection
Llanerchaeron, Ceredigion
NT 549272
Summary
Sculpture, mahogany, The Sleeping Lion (designed by Bertel Thorvaldsen) after Lukas Ahorn (1789-1856). Carving of a sleeping lion, its head resting on a circular shield with fleur-de-lis, additional circular shield with cross, spears. On a rectangular plinth engraved 'MDCCXCII'. Inscribed - 2196 7/6, MDXXXCII-1792 Haydns Dict Switzerland Swiss guards ordered to quit France.. (sticker). The Lion Monument (German: Löwendenkmal), or the Lion of Lucerne, is a sculpture in Lucerne, Switzerland, designed by Bertel Thorvaldsen and hewn in 1820–21 by Lukas Ahorn. It commemorates the Swiss Guards who were massacred in 1792 during the French Revolution, when revolutionaries stormed the Tuileries Palace in Paris, France.
Provenance
An item from the Pamela Ward Collection, left to the National Trust in the will of Miss Ward in 1994
Marks and inscriptions
2196 7/6, MDXXXCII-1792 Haydns Dict Switzerland Swiss guards ordered to quit France.. (stickers)
Makers and roles
after Lukas Ahorn (1789 - 1856), sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen (Gronnegade 1770 – Copenhagen 1844), designer