Sketching with Watercolor at the Medici Fountain in Paris
In Paris last thirty day period I did some sketching at one of my most loved places, the Medici Fountain in the Luxembourg Gardens.
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The statues on the fountain are by Auguste Ottin, and signify the huge cyclops Polyphemus, in bronze, getting the sea-nymph Acis with her human lover, Galatea, in white marble. In the Greek myth, jealous Polyphemus kills Acis, so Galatea transforms her lover into an immortal river spirit.
The fountain and grotto ended up intended for Marie de’ Medici’s Left Bank palace, established in the 1620’s. In 1811 the fountain was restored and moved to its present location, and the statues were extra at that time.
I very first discovered the fountain on my high faculty journey to France, in