Thursday, August 3, 2023

World of Fountains - V

Marco Marchetti
Design for a Fountain
before 1588
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

Gianlorenzo Bernini
Study for a Fountain with Tritons
ca. 1670
drawing
Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin

Giovanni Battista Falda
Bernini's Fountain of the Moor, Piazza Navona, Rome
1691
etching
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Johann Georg Platzer
Fountain Scene before a Palace
ca. 1730-35
oil on copper
Skokloster Castle, Sweden

Edme Bouchardon
Design for a Fountain with Sea Creatures
ca. 1738
drawing
Musée du Louvre

Francesco Fontebasso
Design for a Fountain with Neptune and his Chariot
ca. 1740-60
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Anonymous Italian Artist
Capriccio with Fountain
18th century
drawing
Harvard Art Museums

Anonymous French Artist
Design for a Fountain
18th century
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Sarah Fairchild
Fountain in Union Park, New York
ca. 1845
watercolor and gouache on paper
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Alphonse Legros
Petite Fontaine - Enfants et Masques
ca. 1883
watercolor on paper
(print study)
British Museum

Isaiah West Taber
Temporary Allegorical Fountain
California Midwinter International Exposition

1894
gelatin silver print
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
(Achenbach Foundation)

Anonymous Printmaker
Fontaine projetée à Rome
ca. 1900
lithograph
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
(Achenbach Foundation)

Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva
Ancient "Horse Tamer" Sculpture Groups with Fountain,
Piazza del Quirinale, Rome

1911
watercolor and gouache
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

Rudolph Ruzicka
Bernini's Fontana del Tritone, Piazza Barberini, Rome
1915
woodcut
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Carl Van Vechten
Fountain in the Alhambra, Granada
1935
gelatin silver print
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Perkins Harnly and Nicholas Zupa
Conservatory Fountain
ca. 1938
watercolor on paper
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Joseph Cornell
Untitled (Yellow Sand Fountain)
ca. 1950-55
glass, wood, paper, sand
Art Institute of Chicago

Sand Picture

I will draw on the sand.  The slender tip
Of my parasol shall draw on the sand
The curve of your cheek and your lower lip,
The spidery web of your hand.

I will draw on the sand.  Each line shall tell,
To the passer-by – each curve shall make him see –
How ugly you are.  If I draw it well
It may be plainer to me.

– Marion Strobel (1926)