Media Category: Charles-Marchant-Stevenson

Large Wallace Fountain, in front of Shakespeare & Co. at 37 rue de la Bûcherie, 5th arrondisement, Paris.

Auguste Rodin’s Three Shades (detail), Rodin Museum, Hotel Biron, Paris. Photo: Blick (2016)

Views of each of the four caryatids on the original large model Wallace Fountains. They represent kindness, simplicity, charity and sobriety. The water trickles behind the caryatids, from the center of the dome to a basin; water also comes from a spigot on the side of the pedestal, more convenient for filling large containers. Photos: Coyau, Wikimedia Commons.

Matt Leach in Paris shows the last remaining wall-mounted or applied model (modèle à applique) Wallace Fountain in Paris, on the perimeter wall of the Jardin des Plantes, at Rue Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and Rue Cuvier in the 5th Arrondisement.

Young men gather around a large model Wallace Fountain, Paris, Bastille Day, 1911. Photo: Bibliothèque Nationale de France.

Closeup of a caryatid from a large model Wallace Fountain. Photo: Coyau, Wikimedia Commons.

Large model Wallace Fountain. Photo: inparis

Once there were more small model Wallace Fountains in Paris than any other style, but today there are only eleven. This one is at Place des Invalides, 75007, Photo: Eric Gaba

Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald.

Auguste Rodin’s Three Shades (cast bronze), gift of Alma Spreckels, Palace of the Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.