Sir Errazuriz with his daughter Josefina (Il signor Errazuriz con la figlia Josefina)

Matias Errazuriz Ortuzar (1866-1953) was the descendant of an important chilean family. During his diplomatic activity, he married Josefa Alvear, which came from an important argentinian family. Troubetzkoy executed two portraits of Errazuriz in Paris in 1909. The present plaster, with the daughter Josefina dated in 1909; a bronze which was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires in 1978 (cfr. Bueno Aires 1978 n. 4, coll. priv.); another plaster kept at the Museo del Paesaggio (inv. T n. 204). A second portrait, seated, was exhibited in Rome in 1913 (cfr. Rome, Secessione, 1913, n. 66 o 76: Errazuris); Buenos Aires 1978 (n. 9, bronze, private collection). In the exhibition catalogue of 1990 of the Museo del Paesaggio, the portrait of Errazuriz was wrongly identified with the portrait of Albert Besnard. Both portraits have been cast in bronze, which can be found in south American private collections (Frezzotti, 2017).

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

Troubetzkoy, Galleria Dedalo, Milano 1936;
Troubetzkoy, Museo de Arte Moderna, Bueno Aires, 1978, n. 4;
Museo del Paesaggio, Verbania, 1990, n. 111

S. Frezzotti, in exh.cat. Paolo Troubetzkoy, 1990 p. 165, n. 111;
Paolo Troubetzkoy, La Collezione del Museo del Paesaggio, Palazzo Viani Dugnani, Verbania, 2017, p. 150