Anonymous 18th Century Marble bust in Nelson Atkins Museum Kansas City.
Who is this and who is the sculptor?
The coloured marble socle suggests a French or Italian origin.
from the website -
https://vsco.co/gretahay/media/5c6a2b6bd3fddd3d225e6587
Can anyone help?
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Update 20 March 2025.
In partial answer to my own question.
Images below from the Conway Library website.
The bust had formerly been attributed to Roubiliac but the socle does not conform to known models
Here it is attributed to Pierre Legros the younger?
I'm not sure on what basis.
Marble bust of an Anonymous Man.
Anonymous Sculptor
suggested as Italian by the Museum.
Overall: 32 3/4 inches (83.19 cm).
Suggested (perhaps fancifully) as a Bust of Sebastiano Conca (?).
Former Title: Bust of an Artist or Virtuoso.
Provenance - With Lampronti Gallery, London, by 1979.
Purchased from Lampronti Gallery by Heim Gallery, London, stock no. 76/79, as by Louis-François Roubiliac, by April 1979 [1];
[1] Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Special Collection, Heim Gallery Records, box 202, Commission book 1970-1985.
See -
Bust of a Man – Works – The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
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Signore Sebastiano Conca, Neapolitan Painter. ·
by Pier Leone Ghezzi.
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, National Gallery of Art.
Sebastiano Conca (1680 - 1764)
Engraving in the British Museum
Print made by: Silvestre Pomarede
Intermediary draughtsman: Domenico Campiglia