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Fontaine du Jardin Anglais

Jardin Anglais Fountain

Mathurin Moreau
Val d`Osne (Paris)
1862

Description

Fountain with figures of cast iron. The four seated figures around the central column are:

Poseidon, god of the sea
Amphitrite, nereid.
Acis, spirit of the Acis River in Sicily, lover of Galatea.
Galathée / Galatea, nereid

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Around the upper part are four putti representing sea-faring, fishery, agriculture and unknown.

Annotation

From the workshop of Val d'Osne (Barbezat), and placed in June 1863.

In 1928 Edmond Barde, who interpreted the four figures as the four seasons and called it Fontaine des Quatre-Saisons (Four Seasons Fountain).

Sculptor

Mathurin Moreau (Dijon 1822 - Paris 1912), French sculptor, worked for the Société anonyme des hauts-fourneaux et fonderies du Val d'Osne, anciennes masions J.P.V. André, Barbezat et Cie, Fourment Houille et Cie, J.J. Ducel et fils : Seringe frères et Noailles (short: Val d'Osne). (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Journal de Genève, 7 May 1863 (through Archives Historiques Le Temps).
David Ripoll, La fontaine du Jardin anglais, étude historique, 2007 (PDF on-line).

Location (N 46°12'14" - E 6°9'8")

Item Code: chge027; Photograph: 5 June 2013
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