The Nymph and Danaid Fountains
In the remote north-western and north-eastern corners of the flower beds there are semicircular white-marble benches executed in the Pompeian style in 1853-56 after Andrei Stackenschneider's designs. The architect placed marble fountain bowls on tall cylindrical pedestals behind them. In the centre of each bowl stands a shining gilded female figure. A copy of the Classical statue of Nymph stands near the western bench, and its counterpart on the eastern side is a copy of Christoph Daniel Rauch's Danaid representing a woman filling her vessel with water.
The Danaid Fountain.
Architect A. Stackenschneider.
1854. Sculptor I. Vitali
(after Rauch's original)
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The Nymph Fountain.
Architect A. Stackenschneider. 1854.
Copy from a Classical original.
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