Margaret Stewart (Margaret Stewart )

Margaret Stewart was a twelve year old girl from Vancouver that Troubetzkoy met during his return to America. This present portrait had been reproduced next to the photograph of the girl on the New York American the 18th of January 1912. Another article, published the same day on the New York Herald, tells the circumstances in which the portrait had been created. According to Stefania Frezzotti (2017) it is likely that the present bust had been exhibited at the first Secessione Romana exhibition in 1913, as a n. 12 “Signorina Stuart”, which is reported on the official exhibition catalogue. Another version in plaster had been created in 1922 by Troubetzkoy (inv. T. 306).

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. 163

M. de Beaufort,"Art can't be taught. Troubetzkoy bad sculptors but good masons" in New York American, 18/1/1912;
"Prince Troubetzkoy makes wax bust of little girl while at sea", in New York Herald, 18/1/1912 ;
J. Grioni,"Paul Troubetzkoy. A forgotten celebrity" in Apollo, vol. 87, 1968 p. 459 ripr.;
J. Grioni,"Nelle sue sculture vive il suo tempo" in Le vie d'Italia e del mondo, n. 6, 1969, p. 501 ripr. (Principessa Borghese, 1908);
S. Frezzotti, in exh. cat. Paolo Troubetzkoy, 1990 p. 205 n. 163;
Paolo Troubetzkoy, La Collezione del Museo del Paesaggio, Palazzo Viani Dugnani, Verbania, 2017, p. 174