Medici Fountain

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The Medici Fountain is a fountain of the Luxembourg Garden in Paris. Its construction, around 1630, was commissioned by Queen Marie de Medici, widow of Henry IV, to Florentine engineer Thomas Francine. Restored after the Revolution by Jean-François Chalgrin, who placed in his central niche a statue of Venus, she was moved in 1862, her basin enlarged and the statue replaced by the statuary group Polyphemy surprising Galatée in the arms of Acis, the work of sculptor Auguste Ottin.