Mercury Fountain
by VRIES, Adriaen de, Bronze
From 1595 to 1602 de Vries worked in Augsburg, where he produced the works for which, apart from the Mercury and Psyche group, he is probably best known: the bronze Mercury Fountain (1599) and the bronze Hercules Fountain (1596-1602), both of which are in Maximilianstrasse in Augsburg. Typologically, the more ornately executed Hercules Fountain represents a development of late 16th-century Florentine fountain designs.