Portrait of Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

The present subject depicts Russian writer Leo Tolstoy on horseback. Many bronze casts of the sculpture exist. One bronze cast is kept at the Musee’ d’Orsay in Paris, another one is held at the Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Milan and others were acquired by numerous Russian museums and galleries. A plaster version is also kept at the Museo del Paesaggio in Verbania (inv.T n. 17).