Close Up of Fontaine des Fleuves
Fountain of Rivers; with figures representing the rivers Rhône and the Rhine, as well as Wheat and Grape harvests.
The figures above the vasque who support the cap represent the spirits of River Navigation, Agriculture and Industry.
The fountains, from 1840, were designed by Jakob Ignaz Hittorff (1792-1867), reworking an original plan from 1829 that had four fountains involved; the revised plan was for two fountains.
The statues on the fountains were:
Jean-François-Theodore Gechter - The Rhône and the Rhine
François-Gaspard Lanno - Flowers and Fruit
Honoré-Jean Husson - Wheat and Grapes
Jean-Jacques Feuchère - River Navigation, Industry and Agriculture
Jean-Jacques Elshoecht, Louis-Parfait Merlieux, Antonin-Marie Moine - tritons and neriads
Place de la Concorde was designed in 1755 by Ange-Jacques Gabriel as a moat-skirted octagon between the Champs-Élysées and the Tuileries Gardens. The Place was originally called Place Louis XV, but renamed Place de la Révolution during the French Revolution, with a guillotine erected here (where the Luxor Obelisk now is). The name changed once again to Place de la Concorde under the Directory (1795-99), renamed to Place Louis XV under the Bourbon restoration, and then to Place Louis XVI in 1826. Following the July Revolution of 1830, there was another renaming, bringing it back to Place de la Concorde.
Close Up of Fontaine des Fleuves
Fountain of Rivers; with figures representing the rivers Rhône and the Rhine, as well as Wheat and Grape harvests.
The figures above the vasque who support the cap represent the spirits of River Navigation, Agriculture and Industry.
The fountains, from 1840, were designed by Jakob Ignaz Hittorff (1792-1867), reworking an original plan from 1829 that had four fountains involved; the revised plan was for two fountains.
The statues on the fountains were:
Jean-François-Theodore Gechter - The Rhône and the Rhine
François-Gaspard Lanno - Flowers and Fruit
Honoré-Jean Husson - Wheat and Grapes
Jean-Jacques Feuchère - River Navigation, Industry and Agriculture
Jean-Jacques Elshoecht, Louis-Parfait Merlieux, Antonin-Marie Moine - tritons and neriads
Place de la Concorde was designed in 1755 by Ange-Jacques Gabriel as a moat-skirted octagon between the Champs-Élysées and the Tuileries Gardens. The Place was originally called Place Louis XV, but renamed Place de la Révolution during the French Revolution, with a guillotine erected here (where the Luxor Obelisk now is). The name changed once again to Place de la Concorde under the Directory (1795-99), renamed to Place Louis XV under the Bourbon restoration, and then to Place Louis XVI in 1826. Following the July Revolution of 1830, there was another renaming, bringing it back to Place de la Concorde.