Onyx and polychrome marbles from Algeria, with a terrace of grey granite, malachite scarab and lapis lazuli ribbon.
Quadrangular granite base signed on the right-hand side E. BARRIAS.
H. 102 cm. (40 ¼ in.).
PROVENANCE: executed in 1903 for Monsieur Watel in Paris.
LITERATURE: Georges Lafenestre, L’œuvre de Ernest Barrias, Paris, 1908, p. 105, cat. n° 41; Albert Soubies, E. Barrias, 1841-1905, Notes biographiques, Paris, 1905, p. 16.
