A Danish Dan's De Danmarken Selfie, Strollin' in New Yawk's Central Park

The Danish Dan's selfie, named 'Bertel Thorvaldsen giving a Danish Selfie' was born in his Nysø Manor studio back in 1839 as a lump of plaster. It was later given the marble treatment by Herman Wilhelm Bissen in 1859. Copied in bronze in the 1890s, it landed smack dab in New York City's Central Park in 1894, while the marble version stayed put in the Thorvaldsen Museum in Copenhagen. The statue shows a young Thorvaldsen in a workman's togs, wielding a mallet and chisel, and resting his left arm on a miniature replica of his 1817 statue of Hope.

Initially sculpted on October 1st, 1839 in Thorvaldsen's Nysø Manor. Always the old curmudgeon, Thorvaldsen refused to add a nod to Norse god Thor, a recurring doodle in his early scribbles, in his work. Bronze replicas were bestowed upon New York City by Americans of Danish blood in the 1890s, and the bronze beauty was made in Copenhagen in 1892. The monument was at first placed just north of 59th Street, sandwiched between 6th and 7th Avenues, then moved to a spot near 97th Street (near Fifth Avenue) before shifting to another location in 1940, during the construction of the 97th street transverse. Lastly, the Central Park Conservancy gave the sculpt a spruce-up in 1996.

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