id: 162321 accession number: 2002.53 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2002.53 updated: 2022-10-29 16:41:47.700000 Funerary Monument for the Marquis de Tourney (for the Chapel of the Château de la Falaise), 1787–1793. François-Nicolas Delaistre (French, 1746–1832). Marble; overall: 170 x 85.4 x 49.5 cm (66 15/16 x 33 5/8 x 19 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2002.53 title: Funerary Monument for the Marquis de Tourney (for the Chapel of the Château de la Falaise) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1787–1793 creation date earliest: 1787 creation date latest: 1793 current location: creditline: The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund copyright: --- culture: France, Paris, 18th century technique: marble department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: Sculpture type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * François-Nicolas Delaistre (French, 1746–1832) - artist --- measurements: Overall: 170 x 85.4 x 49.5 cm (66 15/16 x 33 5/8 x 19 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Commissioned by the Marquis Gallyot de Tourny (La Falaise, France), 1787-93. date: footnotes: citations: M. de Salvert, sale, Galerie Georges Petit, May 6-7, 1887, lot 31. date: footnotes: citations: Alain Moatti (Paris, France), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 2002. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: The Marquis Gallyot de Tourny 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. wall description: Delaistre created this sculpture for a funeral monument commissioned by the Marquis Gallyot de Tourny for himself and erected in the chapel of his chateau of La Falaise between 1787 and 1793. The young woman gestures with her left hand toward an urn bearing the inscription Voila ce coeur qui nous a tant aimé (Here is the heart which has loved so many of us). The sculpture follows a pattern that had become customary for such monuments in the last quarter of the century, with a single female figure dominating the design. Usually that figure was of an allegorical or religious subject. However, the marquis gave very precise instructions that she should instead be a rosière, a virtuous young woman chosen from the general population and awarded a garland of roses, hence the name given to the honoree. Saint Medard initiated this ceremony in AD 530, but when revived by the marquis in the 1700s, it was seen both as a reward of virtue and a symbol of a growing sympathy for democracy: the rosière was customarily a girl of rather humble circumstances, not an aristocrat. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisitions Press Release,” June 25, 2002, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. Published as: Figure of a Young Girl. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr4457 Clark, Alvin L., ed. Tradition & Transitions: Eighteenth-century French Art from the Horvitz Collection. [Boston, Massachusetts]: The Horvitz Collection, [2017]. page number: Reproduced: P. 370, fig. 1 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2002.53/2002.53_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2002.53/2002.53_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2002.53/2002.53_full.tif