Sotheby's, London
Private collection, North Yorkshire

1909: Exhibition of Fair Women. International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, London, ref.no. 292, another cast.
1901: International Exhibition, Glasgow, ref. no. 127.

The Fine Art Society, Gibson to Gilbert: British Sculpture 1840-1914 (London: Fine Art Society, 1992), pp. 53-55, no. 61.
R. Dorment, Alfred Gilbert: Sculptor and Goldsmith, exh. cat. (London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1986), pp. 51, 114, no. 19.
Richard Dorment, New Sculpture (London: Yale University Press, 1985).
Susan Beattie, The New Sculpture ( London: Yale University Press, 1983), illustrated p. 143.
Isabel McAllister, Alfred Gilbert (London: A & C Black Ltd, 1929).
Anon, A Catalogue of the Pictures, Drawings, Prints and Sculptures in the Exhibition of Fair Women arranged by the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers (London: Ballantyne & Co Limited, 1909), p. 46, another cast.
Anon, International Exhibition Glasgow, 1901, Official Catalogue of the Fine Art Section (Glasgow: Watson, 1901), p. 113, another cast.

Alfred Gilbert (1854–1934) was probably the greatest and best known sculptor in pre-20th century British art. Work such as The Shaftesbury Memorial (Eros) located at the southeastern side of Piccadilly Circus, The Alexandra Memorial opposite St James Palace, and The Clarence Tomb at St George’s Chapel, Windsor are just a few of his public monuments.

Gilbert was just nineteen years old when he joined the Royal Academy of Arts, where he was exposed to the influence of Frederic Leighton (1830-1896), and Aimés Jules Dalou (1838-1902)). In 1875 Gilbert moved to Paris, after which he turned his attentions to Rome. This contact with European arts was hugely influential, and the impact of the Italian Renaissance would continue as a thread throughout his career, with inspiration from Donatello's David (c. 1440s) and Cellini's Perseus with the Head of a Medusa (1545-1554) evident in Gilbert's work.

Gilbert’s work is held in major public collections around the world including in the Tate Gallery, London; The Victorian & Albert Museum, London; The Metropolitan Museum, New York; Detroit Institute of Arts and The Musée d'Orsay, Paris.