Masterpieces

VAN NOST, John the Younger (attributed to)

London, circa 1712 - Dublin, 1780

Portrait d'homme
Portrait of a man

vers 1750

Bust, white marble, green marble base

H. 0. 374 m; W. 0. 485 m D. 0. 215 m

Paris, musée du Louvre, Département des sculptures

RF4232

Sculpture

Formerly attributed to Louis-François de Roubiliac (1702/1705-1762), sir Edward Walpole (1706-1784).
Acquired with an hypothetic attribution to Henry Cheere.
Attributed in 1992 by Malcom Baker to John Van Nost le Jeune and dated circa 1750.
Collection F. Leverton Harris; saled, London, Christie's, Manson and Woods, 7th June 1928, n°42
Acquired by Stettmer
Collection Camoin
Paris, commerce d'art.
Acquired in 1989

18th century

Bibliography

Esdaile, 1928, p.25-26, pl. V (Roubiliac)

Gunnis, 1953, p. 282

Catalogue des nouvelles acquisitions, 1988-1991, 1992, n°21, p.71-74, notice par Malcom Baker

Geneviève Bresc-Bautier (sous la dir.), Les sculptures européennes du Musée du Louvre, Paris: Somogy édition- Musée du Louvre éditions, 2006