Portrait of Cesare Pascarella (Ritratto di Cesare Pascarella)

The present plaster shows the writer and poet Cesare Pascarella (Rome 1858 – 1940). He was known for collaborating with magazines such as Cronaca Bizantina, Capitan Fracassa and Fanfulla della Domenica, where he published some of his sonnets. The year on the plaster helps in identifying the occasion in which Troubetzkoy might have sculpted the portrait. Between 1894 and 1895 the poet was touring around Italy for public lectures on his sonnets, sojourning in Groppello and Milan. Rebora (2017) states that this is one of the rare instances in which Troubetzkoy exaggerated the physiognomy of Pascarella, depicting the subject in a caricatural style. The poet is shown in his natural pose and clothing accessories, such as the hat and the pipe. An additional plaster of the same subject was owned by Luigi Conconi. Another cast was owned by Giuditta Brivio.

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. 33

R. Giolli, Paul Troubetzkoy, Milan, 1913;
Bossaglia R., Castagnoli P., Troubetzkoy L., Paolo Troubetzkoy Scultore, Intra, 1988, pp.164-165;
S. Rebora, in Paolo Troubetzkoy 1866-1938, exh. cat., Turin, 1990, p. 103;
Paolo Troubetzkoy, La Collezione del Museo del Paesaggio, Palazzo Viani Dugnani, Verbania, 2017, p. 68