Fontaine du Fellah

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Fontaine du Fellah, Paris, Rue de Sèvres № 44
The statue of Antinous in the costume of Osiris

The Fontaine du Fellah is a fountain in the 7th arrondissement of Paris , right next to the entrance of the Vaneau metro station .

history

The fountain was built in 1806 according to plans by the architect and engineer Jean-François Bralle. It is one of the so-called Fontaines du décret de Saint-Cloud . The decree of May 2, 1806 provided for 15 street wells to be built in Paris to improve the general water supply for the Parisian population. Of the 15 wells, 10 were mostly demolished as part of Haussmann's redesign measures.

The work was carried out by Pierre-Nicolas Beauvalet, a student of Augustin Pajou . However, today's statue is a replica, made by Jean-François Gechter. The original did not withstand the weather. In terms of art history, the fountain can be classified in the neo-Egyptian style that emerged in France after Napoleon's Egyptian campaign.

The part of the name Fellah (Arabic fallāḥ "ploughman") is reminiscent of the Egyptian tribe of Fellach , but the statue represents a youth named Antinous , who was the favorite of the Roman emperor Hadrian . The figure was obviously modeled after an ancient statue that was discovered in the emperor's magnificent villa near Tivoli , then transported to France as looted art and is now exhibited in the Vatican Museum .

The building has been registered as a historical monument since July 25, 1977 under the heading “Egyptian Fountains”. The well has not been in operation since 2005, as water penetration was detected in the underground shaft below.

description

The fountain is surrounded by a kiosk, which in turn has been set into a wall that runs parallel to the street. In a niche there is a life-size statue in the Egyptian style, in each hand an amphora, from which water usually flows. At the foot of the statue, the water is collected in a semicircular basin. The water then flows over the bottom into a septic tank after it has passed a bronze lion head. The gable of the kiosk is decorated with an eagle with spread wings in memory of the colonial power France.

literature

  • Marie-Hélène Levadé, Hugues Marcouyeau: Les fontaines de Paris: l'eau pour le plaisir. Paris 2008

Web links

Commons : Fontaine du Fellah  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Les fontaines du décret de Saint-Cloud. Retrieved March 27, 2018 .
  2. ^ Marie-Hélène Levadé, Hugues Marcouyeau: Les fontaines de Paris: l'eau pour le plaisir. Paris 2008, p. 229
  3. ↑ http://www.antinoos.info/antin7b.htm
  4. ↑ Fontaine du Fellah in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 55.3 "  N , 2 ° 19 ′ 16.3"  E