Prince Paul Troubetskoy I

The Italian sculptor Prince Paul (Paolo) Troubetzkoy (1866–1938) lived in Paris from 1905 to 1914. His works from this period amount to a gallery of sophisticated Parisian society: artists, poets, playwrights, and socialites. Troubetzkoy ran in many of the same cosmopolitan social circles as Anders Zorn, who has captured him here in the creative act of sculpting. During his residence in Paris, 1888 through much of the 1890s, Zorn himself began sculpting small bronzes, which may have enhanced his affinity with "pure" sculptors like Troubetzkoy, Saint-Gaudens, and also Rodin, whom he knew well. By 1908, the year of this etching, Zorn had settled in the remote Swedish province of his birth, Mora, though he did continue to travel widely.