Portrait of a Man, c.1680 (marble)

The sitter for this portrait has yet to be identified, although his collar indicates he is a lawyer. The sculptor's identity also remains contested. However, the animated drapery, fleeting facial expression, and energetic turn of the head point to a Roman sculptor in the mid to late 1600s, working after Gian Lorenzo Bernini. For many years, the work was connected to Ercole Ferrata, a student of Bernini to whom much Roman sculpture of this period is attributed. The curator proposes Domenico Guidi because of the broad, easy handling of marble, more characteristic of this artist.