Also known as La Danse Sacrée, Danse Guerrière was commissioned in 1903. The marble of 1904, which first stood in the Palais de l'Élysée, is now in the collection of the Musée d'Orsay. Cf. Musée d'Orsay, Catalogue Sommaire Illustré des Sculpteurs, 1986, Paris, pp. 248-250, nos. 2288 and 3686 and Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, La Sculpture Française au XIXe Siècle, 1986, Paris, pp. 226-227 and 243 and P. Kjellberg, Les Bronzes du XIXe Siècle, 1987, Paris, pp. 614-615 for further information on the model