Drawings for the great fountains of Rome and Paris

Magazine Antiques, Sept, 1998 by Marilyn Symmes

15 The first fountain in Saint Peter's square was designed by Carlo Maderno in 1614. In 1667 it was moved and remodeled by Gian Lorenzo Bernini when he was redesigning the square. Between 1668 and 1678 another fountain was constructed to match the flint and create a symmetrical and ordered approach to the church.

16 Schneider, The Works and Doctrine of Jacques Ignace Hittorff, vol. 1, p. 392.

17 See Massounie, "1830-1848: L'Essor des fontaines monumentales," pp. 172, 298. For another description of the iconography, see Schneider, The Works and Doctrine of Jacques Ignace Hittorff, vol. 1, pp. 400-401. The sculptors were Auguste Hyacinthe Debay (1804-1865), Atlantic and Mediterranean; Antoine Desboeufs (1793-1852), fishing for coral and fish; Achille Joseph Valois (1785-1862), fishing for shells and pearls; Isidore Hippolyte Brion (1799-1863), genii of maritime navigation, astronomy, and commerce; Jean Francois Theodore Gechter (1796-1844), Rhone and Rhine; Francois Gaspard Lanno (1800-1871), gatherers of flowers and fruit; Honore Jean Husson (1803-1864), harvesters of wheat and grapes; and Jean Jacques Feuchere (1807-1852), genii of river navigation, industry, and agriculture. The Tritons and Nereids were by Jean Jacques Elshoecht (1791-1856), Louis Parfait Merlieux (1796-1855), and Antonin Marie Moine (1796-1849). The other decorative sculpture was by Franz Hoegler (1802-1855).

18 Schneider, The Works and Doctrine of Jacques Ignace Hittorff, vol. 1, p. 397.

MARILYN SYMMES is the curator of drawings and prints in charge of the Drue Heinz Study Center for Drawings and Prints at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, New York City.