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Goujon's most celebrated and most mature works date from the years about the middle of the 16th century. They are the decorations on the Fontaine des Innocents and the work executed with Lescot at the Louvre.
The Fontaine des Innocents was built and decorated during the years 1547-9. In its original form it was a rectangular building on a corner, presenting facades of two bays on one street and one bay on the other. At the end of the eighteenth century, however, it was reconstructed as a free-standing square block. Its sculptured decoration, most of which is now in the Louvre, consisted of six tall, narrow reliefs of nymphs, three long reliefs with nymphs and tritons, three more with puttie and, finally, Victories filling the spandrels.
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