Jean-Michel Moreau, called Moreau Le Jeune

On 2 July 1778, the often controversial Swiss-born philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau died suddenly at Ermenonville, in northern France, on the estate of his friend and final patron, Marquis René Louis de Girardin. Some years before, in 1762, Girardin had planned out his park, inspired by Rousseau's principles, and it was on the estate's Île des Peupliers, seen here, that Rousseau's tomb was built. In October 1794, his remains were removed to the Panthéon in Paris, to lie alongside those of Voltaire, but his original rural resting place remained a place of pilgrimage for his many admirers. 

Sold together with an engraving of the same view with inscription: TOMBEAU DE JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU / Vue de L'Isle des Peupliers, dite L'Elisée, partie des Jardins d'Ermenonville, /dans laquelle J.J. Rousseau, mort à l'age de 66. ans, a été enterré le 4. Juillet 1778.