Comptine, Installation artwork in Tuileries Garden, France.
Comptine is a 1999 installation by French artist Anne Rochette in a flowerbed of the Tuileries Garden in Paris. It consists of four small polychrome bronze sculptures: a central fountain and three coloured objects, set among the beds of a kitchen garden enclosed by a wavy iron fence. One sculpture has a flattened, bumpy dome on a twisted stem.
Comptine was made by French artist Anne Rochette, born in 1957, and dates from 1999. It was a public commission from the French state and was installed in the Tuileries Garden in 2000, on the site of one of the garden's flower beds. The work consists of four small polychrome bronze sculptures: a central fountain and three coloured objects, set among the beds of a kitchen garden enclosed by a wavy iron fence.
Comptine is the French word for a children's rhyme, and the work takes the form of a small kitchen garden: a central fountain and three coloured objects set among the vegetable beds. The plot is tended and enclosed by a wavy iron fence, so the piece reads as a rhyme told in garden form.
The work stands in a flowerbed of the Tuileries Garden, in the 1st arrondissement, within a kitchen garden kept up by gardeners and enclosed by a wavy iron fence. Look for the bronze fountain and the three coloured objects set among the vegetable beds; the fence keeps visitors from walking among them.
Comptine is a public commission from the French State, created by Anne Rochette in 1999 and installed in the Tuileries in 2000. The work sits in a maintained kitchen garden, a vegetable plot bordered by a wavy iron fence, among the flowerbeds.
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