Portrait of Francesco Crispi (Ritratto di Francesco Crispi)

According to Rebora (2017) in the spring of 1892, Troubetzkoy worked on the bust of politician Francesco Crispi (Ribera, 1818 – Naples 1901) whilst in Naples with D’Annunzio. Giolli (1913) reports that Crispi’s bust was taken to the Hotel Cavour. It is unknown whether the bust at the Hotel Cavour was in plaster or bronze, nevertheless the sculpture was presented the following December at the Annual Exhibition of the Famiglia Artistica in Milan, alongside D’annunzio’s portrait. According to Rebora (2017), the style of Francesco Crispi’s bust is typical of that of the last years of the 19th century, similar to portraits of Antonio Durini, Lorenzo Ellero and Luigi Manzotti.

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 Annuale alla Famiglia Artistica, Milano, 1892;
Museo del Paesaggio, Verbania, 1990, n. 17

L'esposizione dei bozzetti pel monumento Cadorna e lo scultore Paolo Troubetzkoy, in "La Voce", a. XXVII, n. 81, 7 october 1892;
S. Rebora, in Paolo Troubetzkoy 1866-1938, exh. cat., Turin, 1990;
Paolo Troubetzkoy, La Collezione del Museo del Paesaggio, Palazzo Viani Dugnani, Verbania, 2017, p. 54