Name: Fontaine de l'Observatoire dans le Jardin de Marco Polo in Paris
Brand: Ulisse Caputo
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Fontaine de l'Observatoire dans le Jardin de Marco Polo in Paris

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About the Item

Caputos oil painting shows the famous french fountain "Fontaine de l'Oberservatoire" in Paris. The picture shows a very realistic scene with the fountain in the focus. Some people are walking in the jardin de Marco Polo and the background is filled with magnificent buildings. The artwork is signed in the right bottom corner. FONTAINE DE L'OBSERVATOIRE: The Fontaine de l'Observatoire is a monumental fountain located in the Jardin Marco Polo, south of the Jardin du Luxembourg in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, with sculpture by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux. It was dedicated in 1874. It is also known as the Fontaine des Quatre-Parties-du-Monde, for the four parts of the world embodied by its female figures, or simply the Fontaine Carpeaux. The fountain was first proposed in 1866 as part of the creation of the new grand avenue du Luxembourg, one of the major projects of the plan of Baron Haussmann for the reconstruction of Paris. The project was under the direction of Gabriel Davioud, the director of the Service of Parks and Plantations of the Prefecture of Paris. Davioud was a trained classical sculptor, and he was responsible for the design of the Paris fountains, squares, gates, lamp-posts, benches, pavilions and other architectural details during the Second French Empire. Ensemble setting The avenue du Luxembourg project called for the creation of two new squares, with ornamental lamps and columns, statues, and a fountain. The fountain was located on the tree-lined axis between the Observatoire de Paris and the Palais du Luxembourg. The sculpture of the fountain was supposed to be related to the observatory, and instructions of Davioud to the sculptor were simply not to block the view of the domed observatory or the palace. The sculptor chosen, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827–1875), had been a pupil of François Rude, the sculptor who had made the most famous group of sculptures on the Arc de Triomphe. Carpeaux won the Prix de Rome in 1854. In 1869 he made the sculptures of La Danse on the facade of the Paris Opera which had caused a scandal because of the free expression of the sculpture and the unrestrained emotions on the faces of the statues, much different from the calm expressions of neo-classical statues. Emmanuel Frémiet's horses The first studies Carpeaux made were of four standing female figures representing the four points of the compass holding a celestial sphere over their heads, but Carpeaux was dissatisfied with the immobility of the figures. In his next models he transformed the women into representatives of the four parts of the world, Europe, Asia, Africa and America, twisting their bodies to turn the sphere, giving the sculpture motion. The sculptor Eugène Legrain (1837–1915), a student of Carpeaux, was commissioned to make the sphere, and the sculptor Emmanuel Frémiet, the nephew and pupil of the sculptor François Rude, made the horses in the basin around the statue. Louis Villeminot created the garlands of seashells and aquatic plants which decorated the basin, and Legrain designed the zodiac band around the sphere. The project received one correction from the Director of the Observatory, who noted in 1872 that the signs of the zodiac on the band around the equator of the sphere should actually be on an ecliptic circle. Source: Wikipedia ARTIST: Ulisse Caputo (1872–1948) was an Neapolitan painter who resided in Paris. He was born in Salerno, studied under Domenico Morelli and was a collaborator of Gaetano Esposito. Caputo first exhibited in the 1900 Venice Biennale. He painted genre subjects, often finely dressed and in intimate familial situations. He also painted oriental subjects. Source: wikipedia

Creator:
Ulisse Caputo (1872-1948, Italian)
Dimensions:
Height: 10.04 in (25.5 cm)Width: 13.78 in (35 cm)Depth: 0.4 in (1 cm)
Medium:
Canvas,Oil
Movement & Style:
Modern
Period:
Early 20th Century
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Wien, AT
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU50831556043

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