Alfred Boucher French, 1850-1934

Boucher's 1896 Salon exhibit Volubilis was the begining of several variations on the theme of the female body emerging from a roughly carved surround which the sculptor made over many years. The idea was developed in the following year in his figure entitled Aux Champs and further elaborated in the half-length, La Rêve, of 1912. The present version is undated, but the turn of the head is closest to the 1896 marble. 

RELATED LITERATURE
Alfred Boucher 1850-1934, p.51, no.45 &  p.6, no.62