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

Portrait of Celestina Barbiera Strzelecki (Ritratto di Celestina Barbiera Strzelecki)

Year:

1894

Dimensions (cm):

41.5 x 26 x 22.5

Dimensions (inches):

16.34 x 10.24 x 8.86

Medium:

Sculptures

Material:

marble

Current location:

Verbania Pallanza, Museo del Paesaggio: inv. T n. 325

Description Provenance Exhibitions Bibliography

The baroness Celestina Barbiera Strzelecki (Venice 1859 – Milan 1893) married in 1889 the writer and publicist Raffaello Barbiera. Barbiera was a regular of the “scapigliati” environments. Following the Baroness’ death, Barbiera commissioned Luigi Conconi to design his wife’s tomb. The small funerary monument is still located at the Cimitero Monumentale of Milan with a medallion depicting the Baroness, designed by Troubetzkoy. The bust in marble is stored at the Museo del Paesaggio in Verbania.

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. 26

S. Rebora, in Paolo Troubetzkoy 1866-1938, exh. cat., Turin, 1990, p. 97-98;
Paolo Troubetzkoy, La Collezione del Museo del Paesaggio, Palazzo Viani Dugnani, Verbania, 2017, p. 62