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Fontaine de Fellah 
(Fountain of the Water-bearer), 1806-09 
(statue replaced by a copy in 1844). 

42, rue de Sèvres. 7^th arrondissement. 
Metro: Vaneau

You have to do it! Maura, walking like an Egyptian.
Photo: Phillip Townsend and Maura Gleeson

This fountain was built soon after Napoleon Bonapartre returned to France in 1799 from a military campaign in Egypt. (The campaign was actually a disaster, but since there was no CNN, the failure was kept under wraps for years.) All things Egyptian became wildly in style. Thus, this fountain on the rue de Sèvres looks like an Egyptian gateway, or pylon, with a concave "cavetto cornice" at the top—much like the pylon/gateway of the Temple of Dendur shown in this nineteenth-century watercolor by Frederick Arthur Bridgman and now in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Temple of Dendur, showing the Pylon. 

Slyly, the eagle of Napoleon—with its wings outstretched—occupies the space normally filled by the winged sun disk of the sun god, Horus. 

Photo: Phillip Townsend and Maura Gleeson

At the bottom of the fountain, on the outside of the basin, is a head of a lion with a spout, giving access to the water. Water also poured from the pitchers held by the bare-chested figure wearing an Egyptian nemes, or headdress. 

Photo: Phillip Townsend and Maura Gleeson

But this is not a French copy of an ancient Egyptian statue. It is a French copy

of an ancient Roman statue carved in the style of Ancient Egypt. The figure in the fountain duplicates an ancient Roman sculpture made during the reign of the Emperor Hadrian (76-138 CE), like this example that was exhibited in Paris at the time of the Fountaine de Fellah's creation and is now in the Vatican Museum in Rome. 

The original shows Antinous, a favorite of Hadrian’s, who drowned in the Nile River. 

Phillip and Maura felt like cognoscenti when they spotted this version (one of a pair) by Pierre-Nicolas Beauvallet, c. 1807, now in the Musée Marmottan. 

Unfortunately, the construction of the Metro so close to the fountain has made for continual problems and sadly it was decided recently to turn off the water. 

Photo: Phillip Townsend and Maura Gleeson