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Fontaines d'Acis et Galatée et d'Alphée et Aréthuse

Acis-Galatea and Apheus-Arethusa Fountains

Jean Hardy
1684

Chantilly / Fontaines d'Acis et Galatée et d'Alphée et Aréthuse

Description

The fountains and statues were designed by Le Nôtre - the statues were carved by Jean Hardy.

East side:
Chantilly - Fontaines d'Acis et Galatée et d'Alphée et Aréthuse
Fontaine d'Acis et Galatée
The story of the love of Acis and the sea-nymph Galatea appears in Ovid's Metamorphoses (Wikipedia).

Acis,
river god
Galatée / Galatea
see-nymph

West side:
Chantilly - Fontaines d'Acis et Galatée et d'Alphée et Aréthuse
Fontaine d'Alphée et Aréthuse
According to Pausanias, Alpheus was a passionate hunter and fell in love with the nymph Arethusa,
but she fled from him to the island of Ortygia near Syracuse,
and metamorphosed herself into a well, after which Alpheus became a river (Wikipedia).

Chantilly - Fontaines d'Acis et Galatée et d'Alphée et Aréthuse
Alphée / Alpheus
river god
Aréthuse / Arethusa
nymph

Sculptor

Jean Hardy (Nancy 1653 - Versailles 1737), French sculptor (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Joconde, Portail des collections des musées de France, Accueil.
Françoise Marengo, Château de Chantilly, les statues du parc. Bulletin Groupe d'étude des monuments et oeuvres d'art du Beauvaisis 140, 2009 (not available for me).

Locatie (N 49°11'38" - E 2°29'12") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: frpi093; Photograph: 16 October 2017
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