Monument of King Louis XVI of France

Below are four curved steps, interrupted laterally by two pedestals with huge vases, either with a burning candle. The main structure of the monument is a pedestal. It has below two offsets, like parts of an octagon at the front. The second has below mouldings of a base and in the central part the shape of a sarcophagus, supported by two lion feet, and with inscription. The next offset is a smaller pedestal with a rectangular base, which is laterally elongated by obliquely standing cubes. Upon either of them stands a female allegory leaning upon the entablature of the central part of the pedestal. This is decorated with a festoon, a mitre, a crozier, and a cross. In front of the base and the lower part of the central part lies a royal crown upon a cushion. The upper part of the pedestal is a lower part of a column, whose shaft has below a leak calyx and above flutes. On top is a woman with a cross beside her, which she supports her left hand. She carries together with a small angel a medallion with a bust portrait. Laterally are parts of the pillars framing the chapel. Scale and background similar to 1938-88-1288.

Credit: Museum purchase through gift of various donors and from Eleanor G. Hewitt Fund