Bronze Beauty! (Troubetzoy Exhibition/2025-26)

On now through January 11, 2026, the iconic bronze sculpture of the Marchesa Casati by Prince Paul Troubetzkoy (1866-1938) is displayed at the Musée D’Orsay for the exhibition Paul Troubetzkoy Sculpteur (1866-1938), Paul Troubetzkoy Sculpteur (1866-1938) | Musée d'Orsay, curated by Edouard Papet, General Curator of Sculpture, Musée d’Orsay; Anne-Lise Desmas, Senior Curator and Head of the Department of Sculpture and Decorative Arts, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; and Cécilie Champy, Curator and Director of the Musée Zadkine, Paris.

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Following here is an excerpt on the Casati Troubetzkoy bronze from Infinite Variety: The Life and Legend of the Marchesa Casati, the official biography of La Casati by Scot D. Ryersson and Michael Orlando Yaccarino:

While still trapped in the confines of his Parisian debtor’s prison at the Hôtel Meurice, Gabriele D’Annunzio met the Russian Prince Paul Troubetzkoy. The young man was living in the French capital and continuing an already illustrious artistic career as a sculptor. Such society friends as Boldini, Montesquiou, Leo Tolstoy, and soon D’Annunzio himself commissioned his bronze statuettes and busts. Even Rodin arranged for a sitting. Luisa too posed in 1913. The finished piece, one of Troubetzkoy’s most noted, shows her standing in a short-sleeved dress, adorned on one shoulder with a large flower, while caressing the muzzle of one of her greyhounds.

Bronze sculpture of the Marchesa Luisa Casati by Paul Troubetzkoy, 1914 (Collection of Lucile Audouy)

(Images: Courtesy of Anne-Lise Desmas, Senior Curator and Head of the Department of Sculpture and Decorative Arts, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles)