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

Study for the monument of Zar Alexander II (Bozzetto per il monumento allo Zar Alessandro II))

Year:

1910

Dimensions (cm):

59 x 52 x 20

Dimensions (inches):

23.23 x 20.47 x 7.87

Medium:

Sculptures

Material:

Plaster

Signature:

signed and dated:1910-Paul Troubetzkoy

Current location:

Verbania Pallanza, Museo del Paesaggio: inv. T n. 21

Description Provenance Exhibitions Bibliography

The subject depicted is the Zar Alexander II (1818-1881), well known for initiating a process of political, social and economic transformation in Russia. The plaster is a study for the monument to Alexander II. Troubetzkoy participated in the competition, with the bronze (56 x 63 x 19 cm) signed and dated Paul Troubetzkoy 1910, with the Valsuani foundry mark, which is today kept at the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. The board eventually declined the sculpture, and Troubetzkoy, saddened, left for Jasnaja Poliana (Gavrilovich, 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

The American Numismatic Society at the Hispanic Society of America, New York 1911 (march) n. 2;
Catalogue of Sculpture by Prince Paul Troubetzkoy . The Art Institute, Chicago 1912 (february) n. 2;
A Collection of Sculpture by Prince Paul Troubetzkoy, City Art Museum of St. Louis 1912 (march), n. 2;
Exhibition of Sculpture by Prince Paul Troubetzkoy. The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo (USA) 1912 (april), n.2;
Museo del Paesaggio, Verbania, 1990, n. 138

A. Benua, "Chudozestvenneye pis'ma"in Rec', 9 aprile 1910;
R. Giolli, 1913, p. 23;
V. Bulgakov,"Paolo Trubeckoj" 1978, p. 373;
J. Grioni,"Due Monumenti russi di Paul Troubetzkoy" in Verbanus, n. 3, 1982;
D. Gavrilovich, in exh. cat. Paolo Troubetzkoy, 1990, pp. 186-187, n. 138;
Paolo Troubetzkoy, La Collezione del Museo del Paesaggio, Palazzo Viani Dugnani, Verbania, 2017, p. 158