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Image courtesy of the Museo del Paesaggio, Palazzo Viani Dugnani, Verbania

Anatole France (Anatole France)

Year:

1908

Dimensions (cm):

50 x 20 x 24

Dimensions (inches):

19.69 x 7.87 x 9.45

Medium:

Sculptures

Material:

Plaster

Current location:

Verbania Pallanza, Museo del Paesaggio: inv. T n. 161

Description Provenance Exhibitions Bibliography

The portrait of writer and Nobel prize winner for Literature Anatole France (1844-1924) was likely to be completed by Troubetzkoy at the start of 1908, as a photograph depicting the artwork was published on the Magazine L’Art et les Artistes of 1908 (Frezzotti, 2017).

Paul Troubetzkoy (1866-1938), Italy, until 1938;
By descent to the heirs, Rhoda Muriel Marie Somerwell and Luigi Troubetzkoy;
Donated to the Museo del Paesaggio, 1938-1939

Le Cinquante expositions des gravures originales, Gallery Georges Petit, Paris, 1908;
The American Numismatic Society at the Hispanic Society of America, New York 1911 (march) n. 14;
Catalogue of Sculpture by Prince Paul Troubetzkoy . The Art Institute, Chicago 1912 (february) n. 14;
A Collection of Sculpture by Prince Paul Troubetzkoy, City Art Museum of St. Louis 1912 (march), n. 14;
Exhibition of Sculpture by Prince Paul Troubetzkoy. The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo (USA) 1912 (april), n. 14 ;
Prima Esposizione Nazionale d'arte della Secessione, Rome 1913, n.14;
Salon de la Societé Nationale des Beaux Arts, Paris 1921 (april-june), n. 1894;
Sculpture by Prince Paul Troubetzkoy, Galleria Colnaghi, London, 1931, n. 7a;
Museo del Paesaggio, Verbania, 1990, n. 121

L'Art et les Artistes, n. 37, aprile 1908, p. 3 ripr.;
A. Alexandre, "Les Petites Expositions" in Le Figaro, 27 maggio1908;
G. Bal, Expositions des oeuvres du Prince Troubetzkoy" in The New York Herald, 27 maggio 1908;
P. Fortuny, "Deux Petites Salons" in Le Matin, 2 maggio 1908;
C.L. Borgmeyer, "Prince Paul Troubetzkoy" in Fine Arts, n.1 , luglio 1911, p. 31;
R. Giolli,1913,p.24;
L'Art et les Artistes n.13, gennaio 1921, p. 169;
G. Laughlin, "Troubetzkoy an interpreter of life" in The American Magazine of Art, n. 10, ottobre 1923, p. 566;
L. Troubetzkoy- R. Giolli, s.d. (1952) n. 11;
J. Grioni,"Le sculpteur Paul Troubetzkoy Parisien d'Election" in Gazette des Beaux-Art, n. 1396-97, 1985, p. 207 ripr.;
S. Frezzotti, in exh. cat. Paolo Troubetzkoy 1990 p. 173 n. 121; Paolo Troubetzkoy, La Collezione del Museo del Paesaggio, Palazzo Viani Dugnani, Verbania, 2017, p. 140