My Wife (Mia moglie)

This is the only life size plaster depicting the Troubetzkoy’s wife. A bronze version of the plaster was executed in Paris and cast in 1911 in Milan from fondeurs Faruffini and Ottolina and bought from the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna of Rome. The prototype of this portrait, where the young woman is standing, consists of a statuette which is signed and dated St. Petersburg 1904 (plaster, 40 x 21 x 27 cm, reproduced in La mostra di quadri dell’unione degli artisti a Mosca, Moscow, 1905 p. 13, and in P.P. Troubetzkoy 1866-1938), Leningrad 1966. In the second version of the plaster, which could be dated 1909, the woman has her left hand supported on her hips. In this last version, her hat and dress are more simplified. After the sculpture was exhibited in Rome in 1913, it received great recognition among critics (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

The Art Institute, Chicago 1912 (february) n. 34;
A Collection of Sculpture by Prince Paul Troubetzkoy, City Art Museum of St. Louis 1912 (march), n. 34;
Prima Esposizione Nazionale d'arte della Secessione, Rome 1913 (n. 15 o 70);
Museo del Paesaggio, Verbania, 1990, n. 152

"Prince's wife and his statue of her"Chicago Daily Tribune 1 febbraio 1912 ripr.;
S. Frezzotti, exh. cat., Paolo Troubetzkoy, 1990 p. 196 n. 152;
Paolo Troubetzkoy, La Collezione del Museo del Paesaggio, Palazzo Viani Dugnani, Verbania, 2017, p. 166