Elin Troubetzkoy in Japanese costume (Elin Troubetzkoy in costume giapponese)
Among the numerous portraits which depict Troubetzkoy’s wife Elin in different stages of her life, the present plaster shows Elin Troubetzkoy in kimono. This sculpture could be associated to the one of Elin with her son Pierre, which had been executed in Paris around 1906-1907. Frezzotti (2017) states that even if difficult to determine the circumstances in which the sculpture was made, the passion for Japanese culture had been vibrant France at the start of the 1900s. Therefore, this should help in dating the sculpture at the start of the 20th century, when Troubetzkoy was in Paris.
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. 94
S. Frezzotti in Paolo Troubetzkoy , exh. cat., 1990, p. 152, n. 94;
Paolo Troubetzkoy, La Collezione del Museo del Paesaggio, Palazzo Viani Dugnani, Verbania, 2017, p. 122