La fontaine d'amour is a painting by the Belgian academic painter Herman Jean Joseph Richir (1866-1942).
This triptych evokes the legend of the Fountain of Love, an allegory that represents a young couple falling in love.
The story of the Garden of Love, an allegory of the nature and progress of love that has its origins in the poetry of classical antiquity and the Middle Ages, centers on this Fountain of Love.
In nearly every period, artists have painted this romantic motif.
During the 1700s, artists came to treat the Fountain of Love almost as a genre subject, with lovers in contemporary dress flirting in a garden around a decorative fountain.
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