With leather-covered head, brown glass eyes with articulated eyelids, inset bone teeth, black hair wig, painted metal hands holding a guitar, going-barrel movement in the torso playing two short airs as the figure turns and inclines his head to the left and right, blinks and strums, dressed in green silk tunic with metal-thread trim, matching hat and burgundy silk cloak, on velvet-covered plinth base with brass plaque engraved: "Mexicain Joueur de Mandoline, Roullet & Decamps, Circa 1890", ht. 30 ½ in. (78 cm), including hat, neck of guitar restored. With steel key. A dramatic example of an automaton musician from the Jean Roullet/early Roullet et Decamps period. – Literature: Bailly, "Automata, the Golden Age", p. 295. No. 190 in Roullet et Decamps catalog.