Copenhagen

T H E SIGHTS OF COPENHAGEN.

are busts, models of several of the statues, and a copy of the Alex­ ander frieze. In the room s behind it are T h o rv ald ­ sen's statue of

himself (rapt in meditation over his work, the statue of Hope), the Shepherd Boy, the Graces, Adonis, Cupid T riumphant, the idealised statue of Prince Potocki, G anym ede with the Eagle of Jupiter, Lord Byron — all in marble. In the back w ing of the m useum is the Christ Hall, with the beautiful figure of Christ in the background, before him the Apostles, arranged in two rows, and in front of all, a kneeling baptismal angel. Christ is represented as the G od of mercy. “Come unto me, all ye that are weary and heavy laden . . . Learn of me; for I am meek and low ly of heart," is what this speaking figure with the outstretched arms and the beautiful bowed head seems to say. In one of the room s ad jo in ing the Christ Hall are portrait- statues, in the o ther some of the artist’s tomb-reliefs. His bas- reliefs are the simplest, most spontaneous, and most sympathetic of his works. Many of them are like little lyric idyls or ana­ creontics in marble, w ith all the freshness of improvisation about them . And they were, as a matter of fact, p roduced with incredible facility. "N ight" and “Day", for instance, are said to have been modelled in the course of one day. In these reliefs T ho rvald sen ’s natural hum ou r has often found charm ing expression, endow ing them with a life and grace which has made them so popu lar that they are to be found in thousands of rep roduction s all over the world. In the u p p e r story of the museum the corridors are occu­ pied with plaster models of statues and reliefs; but in one of them is to be found a beautiful reproduction in marble of the