Undoubtedly the best-known of the Russian Animaliers, Troubetzkoy spent much of his working life in Italy and France, where he was influenced by the leading Impressionist sculptors, particulary Rodin. From artists such as the latter, Troubetzkoy learned the technique of capturing the fleeting attitudes of the moment, which he successfully translated to his own oeuvre with a looseness of style and absence of heavy detail. The present study of a bloodhound also recalls the work of Emmanuel Frémiet (d.1910), whose sympathetic and tender treatment of his subject matter is echoed in the sad and endearing expression captured by Troubetzkoy.