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There are five terracotta examples, repertoriated.

It is probably the first of Gargallo's known sculptural works, perhaps prior to his precocious and short-lived work as a potter's apprentice. This original plaster was preserved by the artist's family, and his brother Luis, a professional in artistic glass, decided to polychrome it many years later.

The brothers themselves commissioned five terracotta copies, destined for the family environment, but later they donated one of them to Maella, on the occasion of the first acts of tribute to Pablo Gargallo, in May 1959 (his brothers Luis and Francisco, his nephew and godson Pablo, his nephew-in-law Joaquín Ventulà, who would later receive this original from Francisco Gargallo - its previous owner - and donated it to the Zaragoza City Council in 1986), acts that included the unveiling of an identifying plaque in the sculptor's birthplace.

The copy donated to Maella was installed, in a niche with a grill, above the main door of his church of Santa María de Jesús and, since April 5, 1991, it has been part of the artistic and documentary collections exhibited in the restored Birthplace of Pablo Gargallo, inaugurated and open to the public that same day.

From the comparison between this work, or the Portrait of the artist's mother, ca. 1895, both of an almost childish nature, and the high relief entitled En la trough, 1898, which he presented that same year to the IV Exhibition of Fine Arts and Artistic Industries of Barcelona, ​​it is possible to deduce Pablo's exceptional artistic aptitudes and notable learning capacity. Gargallo, considering the short time elapsed between one job and another.