Study for the monument of Giuseppe Garibald (Bozzetto per il monumento a Giuseppe Garibaldi)

The small plaster is a study for the 4th competition for the monument to Garibaldi in Milan. Even if the competition was won by Ettore Ximenes, the plaster was highly appreciated by critics, including Gustavo Macchi (1888) which stated that the simplicity with which Troubetzkoy sculpted his Garibaldi, placing him on a common horse, “was a logical reaction to the magniloquence of monumental art”. Giolli (1913) affirms that when Troubetzkoy participated at the 1892 competition in Naples, he modified the monument by adding on each side of the base of the monument a marble lion and wide bas-reliefs in bronze in order to balance the proportions of the monument.

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 dei bozzetti per il monumento a Garibaldi, Brera, Milano 1888, n. 22;
Paolo Troubetzkoy 1866-1938, Museo del Paesaggio, Verbania, 1990, n.4

Il nuovo concorso per il monumento a Garibaldi. L'Esposizione dei Bozzetti in "La Lombardia", 16 october 1888, pp.2-3;
I nuovi bozzetti del monumento a Garibaldi, in "L'Italia" 16 october 1888, p. 3;
Macchi G., A Brera. Esposizione Annuale di Belle Arti. Per il premio Principe Umberto in "La Lombardia", 6-7 September 1888, p. 3;
Melani, A., Progetto per il Monumento a Garibaldi, III, in "Il Popolo", 20-21 october 1888 p. 2;
Sutor, I bozzetti per il monumento a Garibaldi, in "Il Corriere della Sera" 26-27 october 1888, p. 1;
Terzo concorso per il monumento a Giuseppe Garibaldi in "Guerin Meschino", 28 october 1888, p. 2;
R. Giolli, Paul Troubetzkoy, Milan, 1913, pp. 16,22;
S. Rebora, in Paolo Troubetzkoy 1866-1938, exh. cat., Turin, 1990, pp.78-80;
Paolo Troubetzkoy, La Collezione del Museo del Paesaggio, Palazzo Viani Dugnani, Verbania, 2017, p. 34