modelled with wavy hair, incised irises and pupils, clad in a broad-collared coat beneath a cloak.

Evan Gorga Collection, Rome 1911

Private Collection, England

Esposizione Internazionale di Roma, Guida generale delle mostre restropettive in Castel Sant'Angelo, 1911, pp. 235 and 237

RELATED LITERATURE

A. Bacchi (ed.), Scultura  del '600 a Roma, Milan, 1996, pp.829-830.

General wear and surface abrasions. Minor chipping. There appears to have been several breaks in the head and hair and these are well repaired. There is some restoration on the side of his face behind his eyes on his proper left side and some restoration to his nose and chin. There is some restoration to his drapery and collar, all expertly done. There is a grey/beige clay slip applied to the surface. The color of the bust is slightly more grey (not as yellow) in reality. The quality of the modeling his high.
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The handling of the overall composition with the swathe of drapery enveloping the base of the bust and the treatment of the eyes and hair are similar to the work of Paolo Naldini and can be compared with several portrait busts made by him in the 1670s and 1680s. Compare three busts: one of Annibale Carracci made for the Pantheon and now in the Promoteca Capitolina, of which there is a terracotta model in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg; a♉nother bust of James Adam Gibbs in the Pantheon; and the bust of Gapare Maraccioni in S. Maria del Suffragio Rome.

Several terracottas by Naldini from the Gorga collection were exhibited in the Castel Sant' Angelo exhibition of 1911 (see E.B. Di Gioia, Le collezioni di scultura del Museo di Roma, il Seicento, Rome, 2002, p.126); some 𝔍are now in the Museo di Roma and others are in the collection of Palazzo Venezia.