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Project for a Fountain
Étienne Maurice Falconet1720–30
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Below, a circular base, molded. From its center rises a blossom-like bowl. It is supported at the front by a dancing girl, at the sides by dancing satyrs. In the center is a putto blowing water from a large horn. The entire front is colored light green.
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Details
- Title: Project for a Fountain
- Creator: Etienne-Maurice Falconet
- Creator Lifespan: 1716/1791
- Date Created: 1720–30
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Museum purchase through gift of various donors
- Medium: Charcoal, black and white chalk with brush and blue wash on off-white laid paper
- Provenance: Ex-collection Giovanni Piancastelli, Rome.
- Paper Support: Off-white laid paper
- Markings: Watermark: lily in a circle
- Exhibitions: Phoenix, AZ - The Phoenix Art Museum: Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, and Others. No. 15, reprod., as by Meissonnier.New York, NY - Helene C. Seiferheld Gallery, Inc. May 2 to May 31,1963.
- Dimensions: 27.8 x 20 cm (10 15/16 x 7 7/8 in.)
- Bibliography: Richard P. Wunder, Extravagant Drawings of the Eighteenth Century from the Collection of Cooper Union Museum (New York: Lambert-Spector, Inc., 1962): no. 67.
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