The Young Girl of Bou-Saada

Description This statuette of an Algerian girl strewing flowers replicates the marble figurine produced by Barrias for the tomb of the orientalist painter G. A. Guillaumet, who spent much of his career in Bou-Saada, Algeria, but who is buried in Paris in the cemetery in Montmartre. This work is from an edition issued by the foundry Susse Frères.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
11/05/1968	Treatment	cleaned
8/19/1982	Treatment	cleaned; examined for condition
8/25/1982	Treatment	cleaned; other
10/22/1991	Treatment	cleaned

Exhibitions

• The Orientalists. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1987-1988.
• From Rye to Raphael: The Walters Story. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2014-2016.

Provenance Susse Frères, Paris; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1900, by purchase after display at the Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1900; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1900