Caption

The Dying Lion of Thorwaldsen is the famous Lucerne Lion Monument, a sculpture carved into a rock that commemorates the Swiss guardsmen who died in Paris in the Tuileries Storm of 1792, Bertel Thorvaldsen designed the memorial depicting the death of soldiers for their oath of loyalty, authentic, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th-century original, exact date of depiction unknown, historical

Date

Jan 20, 2026

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Sunny Celeste

Reference

BRK26B84_007

Model release

No

Property release

No

License type

Royalty free

Available size

28.4Mb (4.8Mb) / 13.3in x 8.3in / 4000 x 2485 (300dpi)

Keywords

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