Prince Paul Troubetzkoy

bronze, signed and dated Paul Troubetzkoy, 1894, 1915, and stamped Roman Bronze Works N.Y.

Jacob and Rosa Stern, San Francisco (until 1927)
William Haas, by descent from the above (his grandparents), until 1943
Madeleine Haas Russell, by descent from the above (her grandparents), until 1999 [please note that Fannie Marie Stern Haas, Jacob Stern's daughter, and William and Madelein's mother, died in 1920]
Thence by descent from Madaleine Haas Russell to the present owners
                                                                                            

San Francisco, The California Palace of the Legion of Honor, July 1928 to February 2007 (on loan)

Excellent Cast. Greenish-brown patina.
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This likeness of prominent divisionist Italian painter Giovanni Segantini was modeled in 1894 during Troubetzkoy's early stay in Milan when Segantini visited his studio. Troubetzkoy was then in his late 20's and would soon leave for Russia. The two met through the Bugatti family as Giovanni Segantini was related to the young Rembrandt Bugatti who was then a pupil of Troubetzkoy. This portrait bust is an especially notable example of Troubetzkoy's early work, modeled in the late nineteenth century, before he achieved fame in the twentieth century as a fashionable society portrait artist. This present cast was executed in 1915 during Troubetzkoy's  American sojourn, specifically for his personal exhibitions in the United States, by Bertelli's Roman Bronze Works, then established in Brooklyn,  New York.