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

Portrait of Carlo Agazzi (Ritratto di Carlo Agazzi)

Year:

1897-1898

Dimensions (cm):

57 x 17 x 17

Dimensions (inches):

22.44 x 6.69 x 6.69

Medium:

Sculptures

Material:

plaster, grey patina

Current location:

Verbania Pallanza, Museo del Paesaggio: inv. T n. 82

Description Provenance Exhibitions Bibliography

The plaster depicts the painter Carlo Agazzi (Milan, 1870 – 1922). At the end of the 1800s he attended the Famiglia Artistica, becoming friends with Luigi Conconi. As reported by Giolli (1913), he met Troubetzkoy at the end of the 19th century. We can see the resemblances between the small plaster and a self portrait of Agazzi, today lost, but of which a photograph still exists (Milano, Biblioteca Comunale Centrale, Archivio Roberto Aloi, Agazzi Carlo). By taking into consideration the age of Agazzi, born in 1870, the artwork should be related to the last years of Troubetzkoy’s permanence in Milan. We can also assume that this plaster had been part of the small portraits sent by Troubetzkoy to the exhibition of Turin in 1898.

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. 61

S. Rebora in Paolo Troubetzkoy 1866-1938, exh. cat., Turin, 1990, pp. 127-128;
Paolo Troubetzkoy, La Collezione del Museo del Paesaggio, Palazzo Viani Dugani, Verbania, 2017, p. 92