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

Portrait of Benedetto Junck (Ritratto o Uomo Seduto o Ritratto di Benedetto Junck)

Year:

1888 (circa)

Dimensions (cm):

120 x 78 x 102

Dimensions (inches):

47.24 x 30.71 x 40.16

Medium:

Sculptures

Material:

Plaster, varnished in white

Current location:

Verbania Pallanza, Museo del Paesaggio: inv T. n. 138

Description Provenance Exhibitions Bibliography

The present portrait depicts Benedetto Junck (Turin 1852 – San Virgilio 1903), landowner and amateur musician. In many of the musical evenings hosted by Junck, prominent musicians and artists such as Puccini, Catalani, Giacosa and Conconi were invited, as well as both Pierre and Paul Troubetzkoy. Chirtani (1888a) states that the plaster was exhibited in Brera and was left unfinished, but that the “head was modelled admirably”. The rest of the body instead is an “unrefined work of spatula” leaving behind all the smears left by the plaster when modelling. Rebora (2017) places the artwork during Troubetzkoy’s youth, when, barely twenty-two, he started being recognized as Grandi’s direct follower.

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 di Belle Arti, Brera,Milano, 1888,n.293;
Paolo Troubetzkoy 1866-1938, Museo del Paesaggio, Verbania, 1990, n.5

A Brera in "Il Sole" 27-28 August 1888;
A Brera in "L'uomo di Pietra" 23 September 1888;
BignamiV. A Brera in "Il Secolo", 16-17 September 1888 p.2;
Chirtani L., L'Esposizione di Belle Artia Brera, in "Il Corriere della Sera", 17-18 September 1888;
Chirtani L., L'esposizione di Belle Arti a Brera in "L'illustrazione Italiana", n. 41, 30 September 1888, p. 229;
Esposizione 1888, exh. cat., Milan, 1888, p. 26;
Fontana A.,A Brera. Il Vincitore del Premio Principe Umberto, in "L'Italia" 6-7 September 1888, p.2;
Macchi G., Esposizione di Belle Arti a Brera. Impressioni del Vernissage in "La Lombardia, 27-28 August 1888, p. 2;
Melani A., Esposizione a Brera in "Il Pungolo",29-30 August 1888, p.3;
Melani, A., Il bello dell'Esposizione Annuale di Brera, II, in "Conversazioni della Domenica", 19-20 September 1888, p. 290;
S.V., Uno sguardo alle Esposizioni di Brera, in "L'Italia" 27-28 August 1888,p. 3;
R. Giolli, Paul Troubetzkoy, Milan, 1913, p.12;
S. Rebora, in Paolo Troubetzkoy 1866-1938, exh. cat., Turin, 1990, pp.80-81;
Paolo Troubetzkoy, La Collezione del Museo del Paesaggio, Palazzo Viani Dugnani, Verbania, 2017, p. 32