Man riding a horse or Portrait of Corrado Cramer (Ritratto a Cavallo o Ritratto di Corrado Cramer))
The small equestrian group depicts Corrado Cramer (Zurich, 1831- Milan, 1918) a chemist of Swiss origins which lived in Milan. An expert horserider, the entrepreneur was portrayed in plaster and was part of the group of sculptures which were sent by Troubetzkoy to the National Exhibition of Turin in 1898. As in other equestrian groups from Troubetzkoy’s Milanese period, the artist is careful at the natural composition, avoiding to choose a rigid and static pose for the sculpture. Instead, he chooses a more spontaneous and relaxed pose for the horse. To highlight the spontaneity of the sculpture, Corrrado Cramer is portrayed as if wanting to reply to a greeting (Rebora, 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
Esposizione Nazionale di Belle Arti, Torino 1898;
Catalogue of Sculpture by Prince Paul Troubetzkoy. The American Numismatic Society at the Hispanic Society of America, New York 1911 (march);
Museo del Paesaggio, Verbania, 1990, n. 54
Esposizione Generale Italiana. Belle Arti, Torino 1898;
R. Giolli, Paul Troubetzkoy, Milan, 1913, pp. 16,27;
S. Rebora in Paolo Troubetzkoy 1866-1938, exh. cat., Turin, 1990, pp. 120-121;
Paolo Troubetzkoy, La Collezione del Museo del Paesaggio, Palazzo Viani Dugani, Verbania, 2017, p. 94