EMILE-ANTOINE BOURDELLE (1861-1929)
Jeune fille sculpteur au travail
signed and titled 'Jeune fille sculpteur au travail EA BOURDELLE' (on the front of the base); stamped with foundry mark and numbered 'ALEXIS RUDIER. FONDEUR. PARIS. II' (on the back of the base)
bronze with dark brown and green patina
Height: 19³⁄₄ in. (50.2 cm.)
Conceived in 1906 and cast by 1914

Rhodia Dufet-Bourdelle, Paris (daughter of the artist, until at least 1960).

I. Jianou and M. Dufet, Bourdelle: deuxième édition avec le catalogue des sculptures complété et numeroté, Paris, 1975, no. 41 (another cast illustrated; titled Femme sculpteur au travail).
P. Cannon-Brookes, Emile Antoine Bourdelle, London, 1984, p. 55, no. 83 (another cast illustrated).
M. Sterckx, "In the Picture: Nineteenth-Century European Women Sculptors Portrayed" in Nordic Women Sculptors at the Turn of the 20th Century, Stockholm, 2022, p. 298 (another cast noted).

Venice, XI Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte della Città di Venezia, April-September 1914, p. 196, no. 19 (titled La scultrice al lavoro).
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, L'oeuvre d'Antoine Bourdelle, November 1928-January 1929, p. 5, no 36 (dated 1908).
Paris, Musée de l’Orangerie, Exposition Bourdelle, February-April 1931, p. 53, no. 50 (dated 1908).
Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bourdelle, March 1952.
Kunsthalle Basel, Antoine Bourdelle, Giovanni Giacometti, June-July 1952, p. 27, no. 2 (dated 1907).
Yverdon, Hôtel de ville, Antoine Bourdelle: 100 sculptures, aquarelles et dessins, August-September 1952.
Musée de Valence and Musée de Montpellier, Bourdelle, 1952-1953.
Toulouse, Musée des Augustins, Exposition Bourdelle, March 1953.
Musée d'Albi, Palais de la Berbie, Exposition Antoine Bourdelle, March-April 1953, no. 13 (dated 1907).
Paris, Maison de la Pensée Français, Exposition Bourdelle, March-June 1953.
Saint-Etienne, Musée d'Art et d'Industrie, Cent sculpteurs de Daumier à nos jours, 1960, p. 14, no. 19 (illustrated, fig. 11; dated 1908).