Fontaine Pierre Joseph Redouté - Saint-Hubert

Pierre Joseph Redouté, born on July 10, 1759, died in Paris on June 19, 1840. He was a famous painter and the most glorious child of Saint-Hubert.

In July 1845, the city council decided to erect a fountain bearing the bust of the great floral painter, but it was not completed until around 1868.
The fountain is built of carved stone and is topped by a bronze bust of Pierre-Joseph Redouté. There are also four reclining sphinxes and attributes of the painting. It was restored and stabilized in 2006.d. On either side of this column, a mascaron with a lion's head lets the water escape.

The famous painter was born in Saint-Hubert in 1759. At the age of 23 he left his native city and moved to Paris. There he painted plants and flowers as an illustrator for the best-known botanists of the time: L'Héritie and Candolles. In 1783 he was involved in the realization of the print room of the French king. This collection will later become part of the Museum « d'Histoire Naturelle ». Among his many pupils he counted Queen Marie-Antoinette, Empress Joséphine, wife of Napoleon, and Princess Louise-Marie d'Orléans, later wife of King Leopold I of the Belgians. Despite his great fame, Pierre-Joseph Redouté died in 1840, forgotten and in great poverty. He was buried in the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris.

Willem Vandenameele