LOT DETAILS

Materials:

gilt bronze, Carrara marble and lapis lazulis

Measurements:

29.72 in. (75.50 cm.) (height)

Markings:

signed E. Barrias, inscribed Susse Fres Ed trs. Paris. and with the Susse foundry seal.

Literature:

Romantics to Rodin, exh.cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1980, p.118-120, no. 10 for a similar model.; Pierre Cadet, Susse Frères: 150 Years of Sculpture 1837-1987, Paris 1992, p.52, (for an image of the model in the collection of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs)