Original sentence: After the death of Marie de' Medici, the Palace and fountain went through a series of owners.By the middle of the 18th century,  when the fountains of Versailles and the Garden à la française  were in fashion, the Medici Fountain fell into disrepair.The old arcades behind the fountain had already been destroyed in 1855.The two original statues at the top of the fountain, by the sculptor Pierre Biard, two nymphs pouring water from pitchers, had disappeared, and the wall of the Orangerie, against which the fountain was placed, was crumbling