Cleveland Museum of Art
Funerary Monument for the Marquis de Tourney (for the Chapel of the Château de la Falaise)
François-Nicolas Delaistre
- Date
- 1787–1793
- Medium
- marble
- Culture
- France, Paris
- Department
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
The Marquis Gallyot de Tourney commissioned this sculpture to serve as his funeral monument. It depicts a young woman gesturing with one hand toward an urn bearing the inscription Voilà ce coeur qui nous a tant aimé (Here is the heart that loved us so). The marquis specified that the figure should be a rosière , a virtuous woman of humble circumstances, a choice likely informed by the writings of Enlightenment philosophers, especially Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who championed greater social equality and democratic reform.
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