Great Fountain, Enville to conceive. This, the large fountain, is on a level with the surface of the lake, and composed of five jets, the central one throwing a column of water 150 feet high; the supply being obtained from a large reservoir on the hill, to which it is first pumped by the united action of two engines, each of thirty horsepower.". The water continued to jet for several minutes, until the water in the reservoir was exhausted. The Great Fountain was the early ancestor of similar fountains located in lakes or bays, such as the Jet d'Eau in Geneva, Switzerland, which
Belle Haleine, Eau de Voilette transforming it by adding a reworked label. 17 November 1999, a readymade by Duchamp, "Fountain" (owned by Arturo Schwarz) was sold at Sotheby's, New York, for $1,762,500 to Dimitris Daskalopoulos, who declared that "Fountain" represented the origin of contemporary art. The price set a world record, at the time, for a work by Marcel Duchamp at public auction. The record has since been surpassed by "Belle haleine–Eau de voilette", sold at Christie's Paris in 2009. The readymade of the empty perfume bottle in its box sold for a record $11.5 million (€8,913,000). Duchamp removed the label from a bottle, then