The work was shown at the Exposición Universal de Barcelona (1888), where it won a gold medal, the highest award given by the international jury for sculpture.

The original became the property of the City Council, in return for the modest amount of the grant (3,600 pesetas) and it can now be seen in the Barcelona square named after the count.

Almost at the same time Llimona won a competition for a statue of Ramon Berenguer the Elder, which, cast in bronze, is amongst the monuments which stand in the Saló de Sant Joan in Barcelona, and in spite of sending in his work late, he won a resounding moral victory in the competition held in Reus (Tarragona) for an equestrian statue of general Joan Prim i Prats.

Josep Llimona also sculpted a large number of works in other genres, including Desconsol, shown in the international fine arts exhibition held in Barcelona in 1907 and acquired for the city's municipal museum; Idil·li, in a private collection in Argentina; the funerary monument of Señora de Chopitea (Buenos Aires); the group Amor a la infància, in the Bosc Schools on Montjuïc, and the great monument to Doctor Robert, originally placed in the Plaça de la Universitat in Barcelona and now in the Plaça Tetuan.

Notable examples in this area are the crosier for the bishop of Vic, a coffee service that was to be offered as a gift for a royal wedding, and various pieces of jewellery whose artistic value exceeds the intrinsic value, although the latter is still considerable.