Western European Sculpture

Singing Moorish Woman from Algiers (Mauresque d'Alger)

    Singing Moorish Woman from Algiers (Mauresque d'Alger)

    France

    1856

    Charles Cordier

    Bronze, marble (base); casting, chasing, patinating, gilding, mounting

    Height 52.5 cm

    Signed by the author: Ch. CORDIER

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    Shoulder bust of a girl with almond-shaped eyes and a slightly open mouth, her head turned three-quarters to the left, hair covered by a attire with large pendant at the neck. The bust on a partly draped fabric pedestal is mounted on black marble columnar plinth. Executed in dark patinated bronze; Selected elements of the clothing and the headpiece are gilded.

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    4798MC2848/ИЗО