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Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines
Haut-Rhin
Alsace

Place du Maréchal Foch

Fontaine de la Jeune Fille

Fountain of the Young Woman

Mathurin Moreau
Barbezat & Cie (Paris)
1858

Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines / Fontaine de la Jeune Fille

Description

Octagonal basin, with in the center a sandstone pedestal with a relief of Saint-Odile, topped by a cast-iron statue of a woman with a laurel wreath, representing Le Printemps (The Spring).

Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines - Fontaine Place Foch

Inscription(s)

Signed: (probably) barbezat & cie

Annotation

The statue is identical with model T on plate 571 in the 1880 catalogue of the fonderie du Val d'Osne.

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

Fontaines de France, Fontaine Place Foch.

Locatie (N 48°14'41" - E 7°10'46") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: fral097; Photograph: 16 April 2012
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