# Water Terrace with Statues and Fountains in a Park

- By: Isaac de Moucheron (Amsterdam, 1667–1744)
- Date: 1700 - 1744
- Medium: canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: depth 8.5 cm
- Credit line: On loan from the City of Amsterdam
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-C-388--95973cc5e59e9cefbac3578aefa41576)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/d1c6e050853ca9ba24a00c73cf93838f.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

In this idealized, symmetrical garden, your eye is led past a pond with sphinx-shaped spouts and majestic triumphal arches to a fountain with the sea god Neptune seated in his chariot pulled by four horses. The painter De Moucheron created this work for Amsterdam’s Hortus Botanicus. The plants in the foreground near the balustrade are from South Africa and the Canary Islands and could be found as well in the botanical garden.