Auguste Rodin
Maker
Prince Paolo Troubetzkoy
(Italian, 1866 - 1938)
Datecirca 1906 - 1914
MediumCast bronze
DimensionsOverall: 20 × 13 × 13 1/2 in. (50.8 × 33 × 34.3 cm)
Credit LineThe Joel Starrels, Jr. Memorial Collection
Object number1974.144
Status
Not on viewBorn in Italy to a Russian father and an American mother, Paul Troubetzkoy trained as a sculptor in Milan. In 1897 he came to Russia and developed a friendship with Leo Tolstoy. Troubetzkoy’s portrait of Tolstoy is what helped him to earn a first prize at the 1900 Paris Universal Exposition—a prize he shared, however, with Auguste Rodin. Rodin was therefore both a friend and a rival. Apart from Rodin, Troubetzkoy’s roster of artistic sitters includes Anatole France, Giacomo Puccini, and George Bernard Shaw.
