Louis-Ernest Barrias

Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1890, vol. 2, p. 65; S. Lami, Dictionnaire des Sculpteurs de l'École Française, au Dix-Neuvième Siècle, Paris, 1914, vol. 1, p. 5

Overall in good condition, with the usual minor hairline scratches consistent with age and touching. Very impressive in grand scale.
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A similar example sold at Sotheby's, London, on June 27, 2007 for 38,400 GBP

Barrias's charming figure of the Jeune Fille de Bou-Saada was inspired by a painting by Achille Guillaumet entitled La Careuse de Laine de Bou-Saada of 1885 (Musée des Beuax-Arts, Rouen). La Jeune Fille de Bou-Saada was exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1890 as a wax model, and later at the Exposition centennale in 1900. Barrias has given his figure a far greater Romanticism than the humble realism of Guillaumet; while the painter shows the girl in a dejected mood in a plain shawl, the sculptor dresses his girl in fine clothes and ornaments.

The Susse foundry offered the model in various sizes and degrees of elaboration. There is a marble and bronze example in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris. The present cast has a particularly subtle varied patina and is the largest size.