Louis-Ernest BARRIAS Young girl from Bou Saâda - model created circa 1890 Bronze print with medallic and gilded patina, onyx base Signed "E. Barrias" on the right-hand side and bearing the founder's stamp "Susse fres édts Paris" on the terrace Subject alone: 31.5 × 26.5 × 27 cm Base: 7 × 31.5 × 28 cm History : This sculpture is a reproduction of a model made for the tomb of the painter Gustave Guillaumet in Montmartre cemetery. The artist exhibited the wax model at the Paris Salon in 1890, then at the Universal Exhibition in 1900. Bibliography: Maurice Albert, "Le Salon des Champs-Élysées", Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1 July 1890, volume 4, p. 9 for a mention of the model at the Paris Salon. Pierre Kjellberg, Les bronzes du XIXème siècle, Paris, Éditions de l'Amateur, 1989, p. 51 for a similar example Stéphane Richemond and Denise Grouard, Les Orientalistes: dictionnaire des sculpteurs, XIX-XXème siècles, Paris, Éditions de l'Amateur, 2008, p. 37 for a similar example A patinated bronze "Jeune fille de Bou Saâda" by Louis-Ernest Barrias, signed and stamped with the foundry mark - model designed circa 1890 Without the base: 12.40 × 10.43 × 10.62 in. With the base: 2.75 × 12.40 × 11.02 in. Louis-Ernest BARRIAS