Louis-Ernest Barrias (1841-1905) Allegory of the Comedy, after The Monument to Émile Augier Bronze with light brown patina Signed "E Barrias" on the left border Bears the founder's mark "Susse Frres Edts", the founder's insert and the letter "P" H: 57 cm of which the base is made of griotte red marble H. 3.5 cm Missing the marble plaque This bronze representing a woman holding a stylus in her right hand and a laurel sprig in her left hand is a reduction of the figure of the Comédie which engraves the name of Emile Augier on the pedestal of the monument erected in homage to the poet and playwright in 1895 at the Place de l'Odéon in Paris.