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

Bust of Achille Tominetti (Busto di Achille Tominetti)

Year:

1932

Dimensions (cm):

63 x 50 x 35

Dimensions (inches):

24.80 x 19.69 x 13.78

Medium:

Sculptures

Material:

plaster

Signature:

signed and dated: 1932/Paolo Troubetzkoy

Current location:

Verbania Pallanza, Museo del Paesaggio: inv. T n. 315

Description Provenance Exhibitions Bibliography

The bust depicts Achille Tominetti (Milan, 1948 – Miazzina, 1917). Friend of Vittore Grubicy, Tominetti exhibited in London in 1888 at the Italian Exhibition, including artists like Morbelli, Ranzoni, Cremona, Segantini and Pusterla. An inscription is present on the right side of the plaster : “All’Amico Tominetti / Paul Troubetzkoy 1932”. The present bust and the monument dedicated to Tominetti in Miazzina are identical, the only difference appears to be in the signature. At the Museo del Paesaggio is kept another smaller plaster bust of Tominetti (inv. T n. 267), probably sculpted prior to 1932, perhaps just after the death of Tominetti in 1917.

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

Museo del Paesaggio, Verbania, 1990, n. 180

La Gazzetta del Lago Maggiore, n. 68 , mercoledi 24 agosto, 1938, n. 73, sabato 10 settembre 1938, n. 74, mercoledi 14 settembre 1938, n. 75, sabato 17 settembre 1938;
P. Venturoli, in exh. cat. Paolo Troubetzkoy, 1990, p. 218, n. 180;
Paolo Troubetzkoy, La Collezione del Museo del Paesaggio, Palazzo Viani Dugnani, Verbania, 2017, p. 192