Louis-Ernest Barrias

Louis-Ernest Barrias (1841–1905) was a French sculptor of the academic school, winner of the Prix de Rome. His marble-and-onyx allegory "Nature Unveiling Herself Before Science" (1899), now in the Musée d’Orsay, became one of the most reproduced sculptures of the Belle Époque — photographed for journals worldwide, including the Japanese journal this print was taken from.