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Funerary Monument for the Marquis de Tourney (for the Chapel of the Château de la Falaise)
1787–1793
(French, 1746–1832)
Overall: 170 x 85.4 x 49.5 cm (66 15/16 x 33 5/8 x 19 1/2 in.)
Location: 218 European Sculpture
Description
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.- Commissioned by the Marquis Gallyot de Tourny (La Falaise, France), 1787-93.M. de Salvert, sale, Galerie Georges Petit, May 6-7, 1887, lot 31.Alain Moatti (Paris, France), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 2002.
- Cleveland Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisitions Press Release,” June 25, 2002, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. Published as: Figure of a Young Girl. archive.org"Major Acquisitions 2000-2005." Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 45, no. 6 (July/August 2005): 6-17. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 16 archive.orgClark, Alvin L., ed. Tradition & Transitions: Eighteenth-century French Art from the Horvitz Collection. [Boston, Massachusetts]: The Horvitz Collection, [2017]. Reproduced: P. 370, fig. 1
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2002.53