Patinated bronze, 1915, signed at shoulder, with foundry mark of Roman Bronze Works, New York to verso of shoulder.

12 1/2 x 12 x 6 in.

From the Collection of Professor Roberto Severino, Washington, D.C.

Russian artist Paul Troubetzkoy was born a member of the Russian Royal family and was exposed to popular artists and poets of the time from a young age. He spent his initial years in Italy apprenticing under Donato Barcaglia and Ernesto Bazzaro in Milan before joining the Milanese artistic circles. During this time, he exhibited at the Brera Academy, and the Koenig Galerie in Berlin, and participated in competitions for public monuments, while his works were acquired by museums such as the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna in Rome and the Golden Gate Museum in San Francisco. Following the death of his parents in 1898, Troubetzkoy moved to Russia, where he met Leo Tolstoy. He exhibited Leo Tolstoy Riding Delire at the Exposition Universelle in Paris, in 1900, and was awarded the Grand Prix. Afterward, he was appointed a professor of sculpture at the Academy in Moscow, and found success in the circles of the Russian Elite, creating numerous busts of politicians and noblemen.

After the outbreak of the Russian-Japanese war in 1905, Troubetzkoy moved to Paris and joined the Société Nouvelle de Peintres et de Sculpteurs, chaired by Auguste Rodin. He met American clientele through the Vanderbilts and was invited to exhibit in New York in 1911, where he remained until 1921. While in America, he exhibited in San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, Cleveland, and Washington, and won a competition to design the public sculpture of General Harrison Gray Otis in Los Angeles. He returned overseas in 1921, where he spent time between Paris and Italy. He worked in oil paint for the later years of his career until his death in 1938. The plaster casts from his studio were donated to the Museo del Paesaggio in Verbania.

Good estate condition, slight spotting to patina near base.