The figures and rock formation are closely positioned on a small rectangular bronze base, and the sculpture itself sits on a limestone block.

Nymph and Fawn is typical of the graceful, classical style of figuration that Isidore Konti became known for in the early 1900s.

Beginning at the age of sixteen, he studied art at the Vienna Academy under Edmund von Hellmer, and later continued training at the Meisterschule under Carl Kundmann until 1886.

[7] In the early 1890s, Konti emigrated to the United States and immediately began work in Chicago for the 1893 Columbian Exposition.

[7] By the early 1900s, Konti had established his reputation in the U.S. as an expert modeler through participation in several national expositions.