Life size bust (1856 ?)
Possibly in pair with «Mauresque noire, buste grandeur nature»
Bronze, gilt and silvered patina.
H : 74 cm, L : 46 cm, D : 27 cm
Signed under the shoulder "Cordier", four examples currently iden- tified including this one (3 bronzes reproduced in the catalogue raisonné, 6 marbles including the one at the Musée de l’Homme, and 7 half size bronze reductions).
Before 1870
Provenance : Former Claude Nicolas Edouard Tassard collection (1807-1888, judge closed to Baron Hausmann) then by descendance.