Giovanni Boldini (Giovanni Boldini)
The subject depicted is Giovanni Boldini (1842-1931). The bust of Boldini had been exhibited for the first time at the Secessione in Rome in 1913, but the version in plaster was likely to have been done in Paris in 1912, when Troubetzkoy exhibited at the French portrait exhibition of the XIX century. It is very likely that the dating of the present plaster is 1912-1913, as there are great similarities in style with Boldini’s self portrait, aged 69, in 1911 (Ferrara, Museo Boldini).
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
Prima Esposizione Nazionale d'arte della Secessione, Rome 1913, n. 86;
Museo del Paesaggio, Verbania, 1990, n. 167
L. Troubetzkoy, R. Giolli, Paolo Troubetzkoy nel Museo di Pallanza, (1952) tav. 13;
R. Bossaglia, P. Castagnoli, L. Troubetzkoy, Paolo Troubetzkoy scultore, 1988, pp. 122-125 (1908);
S. Frezzotti, exh cat., Paolo Troubetzkoy, 1990p. 208 p. 167 ;
Paolo Troubetzkoy, La Collezione del Museo del Paesaggio, Palazzo Viani Dugnani, Verbania, 2017, p. 178