Horse resting (Cavallo arabo in riposo o Cavallo del Beduino)

According to Rebora (2017), the present plaster could be linked to the bronze depicting the same subject that Troubetzkoy showed at the 1892 Permanente exhibition : “The Egyptian circus provided both Troubetzkoy and Bazzaro of successful portrayals, the latter with a lady riding a camel and for Troubetzkoy an arab horse” (Apertura, 1892). On the occasion of the Egyptian Exhibition, set up the previous year, Troubetzkoy focused on the animalier genre, which he interpreted in a moderate manner. Troubetzkoy was a specialist in modelling animals, moving from cows, dogs and calves to more complex figures such as horses. With a calm and mulled horse, Troubetzkoy proposes an animal in abandonment, studying its anatomy (A.Z.C 1892).

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 Annuale alla Famiglia Artistica, Milano, 1892, n. 289;
Paolo Troubetzkoy 1866-1938, Museo del Paesaggio, Verbania, 1990, n. 14

A.Z.C., L'esposizione alla Permanente II in "Lega Lombarda", 8-9 May 1892, p. 2;
Beltrami, G., Un Verdetto, in "Il Corriere della Sera", 17-18 February 1892, p.2;
Esposizione Annuale 1892, exh. Cat., Milan, 1892;
L'apertura dell'Esposizione alla Permanente in "L'Italia", 17 April 1892,p. 3;
Macchi, G., Alla Permanente in "La Lombardia", 17 April 1892, p.3;
S. Rebora, in Paolo Troubetzkoy 1866-1938, exh. cat., Turin, 1990, p. 88-89;
Paolo Troubetzkoy, La Collezione del Museo del Paesaggio, Palazzo Viani Dugnani, Verbania, 2017, p. 42