ÉMILE-CORIOLAN-HIPPOLYTE GUILLEMIN | BUST OF AN ALGERIAN WOMAN

Émile-Coriolan-Hippolyte Guillemin was one of the most prolific and successful French Orientalist sculptors, specializing in figurative works, and was inspired by the Middle and Far East. He went to great lengths to ensure the ethnographic accuracy of the costumes and physiognomies of his busts. His representations of Indian falconers, Turkish, Kurdish, and Algerian maidens, as well as Japanese courtesans firmly established his reputation as one of the foremost Orientalist sculptors from the mid-1870s.