Pedestal: H: 125 cm, W: 70 cm; sculpture: H: 102 cm; medallion: H: 45 cm, W: 34 cm; grave site: 120 x 340 cm

[CONCESSION À PERPÉTUITÉ NO 99,071

Location: Div. 11, row 1 from ch. Denon, gr. 35 from ch. Talma.

On the tombstone an effigy (profile) of F. Chopin in a medallion of white marble.

AMP MD div. 11, no. 28: deceased Frédéric Chopin, 17 October 1849; grave site: pierre cavau grille, dimensions 1.7 × 2.29 m and 1.57 × 0.81 m, total 5.16 m², no. 99071.

Concession no. 553 of 18 October 1849 was purchased by Herbault on behalf of the heirs of the deceased, residing at 22 rue Rochechouart, perpetual. The location of the grave site was determined by Frédéric Chopin himself, who wanted it to be between the graves of Cherubini and Bellini.

An hourglass in French addressed to 'Mr le Prince Ladislas Czartoryski', announcing his death: "De la part de Mme Jendrzejewicz (née Chopin) sa soeur".

According to the B.C. Burial Register: Chopin Frédéric Françoise, 39 years old, domiciled in the 2nd arrondissement, buried on 29 October 1849, death certificate number in the mortuary 5853, general number 99165.

Jean-Baptiste Auguste Clésinger (1814-1883), sculptor and painter, husband of Solange Dudevant, daughter of George Sand, created a marble tomb sculpture of Frédéric Chopin in 1850. The work depicts an allegorical figure of Music, seated, draped in the antique style, holding a harp, with her head crowned with a wreath of verbena and expressing deep sorrow. The sculpture is signed 'Clésinger, 1850'. On the front of the base is an oval marble medallion with an image of Chopin, signed 'Clésinger, 1850'. According to Henry Jouin (1898), the height of the figure is 107 cm and the dimensions of the medallion are 45 x 32 cm.

The tombstone was criticised by C.K. Norwid, who wrote: "You can reach the highest lyricism, but you have to walk in sandals or barefoot and with a stick, or else the dryads will burn you and erect a shamefully carved monument to you, pretending to be a woman crying with a lyre in her hand! That's the kind of statue that was erected for Frederick, that woman who cries there...".

The tomb was restored in 1889, through the efforts of the piano-building firm Erard; in 1932 [actually 1934], the 'Chopin Music Lovers Society ' [Fryderyk Chopin Institute ], when its president was August Zaleski covered the cost of restoring the monument (BPP dep. TOZ syg. 33); in 1995. the restoration of the tombstone was carried out by Andrzej Koss and Janusz Smaza , commissioned by the Ministry of Culture and Art in Warsaw through the Centre for the Protection and Conservation of Public Collections; Andrzej Koss, Janusz Smaza, Abbreviated conservation documentation of the tombstone of Fryderyk Chopin at the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris, France, The work was carried out by visual artists-conservators of works of art prof. Andrzej Koss, Assistant Professor Janusz Smaza , Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Department of Conservation and Restoration of Works of Art, 1995, pp. 1-40, ATOZ syg. 21.

Morisse-Marin, Restauration et Conservation des Oeuvres d'Art, Nice, Rapport documentaire des travaux de restauration du monument funéraire à Frédéric Chopin (Cimetière du Père-Lachaise, Paris XX), Maître d'oeuvre: M. Daniel Imbert , Conservateur en chef. Service de restauration des oeuvres d'art religieuses et civiles de la maire de Paris, janvier 2000 (ATOZ syg. 21) Tombstone of F. Chopin on cm. Père-Lachaise, contract 26 August 2014 appendix a: detailed description of the terms of reference; Tomb of F. Chopin at cm. Père-Lachaise, contract of 25 June 2015 appendix a: Application for the allocation of Polish funds in 2015. (ATOZ syg. 9/29). Restoration work carried out in 2018; conc. under the care of the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Paris and the TOZ (2007); tombstone entered in the register of French monuments by decree of 1 April 2008. (Liste des monuments historiques de France).

On the occasion of the bicentenary of Chopin's birth in 2010, the curator of the Chopin Year in France, Alain Duault, proposed moving Chopin's remains to the Pantheon.

Born in Poland, he died on 17 October 1849. A musician whose work is imbued with a charming melancholy (Mazurkas). Melody, in the form of a young girl, leans her forehead towards the mausoleum. Her hands, overwhelmed by pain, barely support the lyre.

• M. A. Henry, „Le Père Lachaise historique, monumental et biographique”, 1852, s. 16.
• „La sculpture dans les cimetières de Paris”, 1878, s. 121, 153.
• Théophile Astrié, „Guide dans les cimetières de Paris”, 1865, s. 121-122.
• H. Jouin, „Monuments ou statues érigés par l'État, par la Ville, ou à l'aide de souscription et sépultures historiques entretenues par par la Ville dans les cimetières de Paris”, „Inventaire des richesses d'art de la France ”, 1902, t. 3, s. 216.
• Jules Moiroux, „Le cimetière du Père-Lachaise”, 1908, s. 106.
• Andrzej Koss, Janusz Mróz, „Konserwacja nagrobka Fryderyka Chopina na cmentarzu Père-Lachaise w Paryżu (1995-2018)”, „Rocznik Chopinowski”, t. 26.

Lipkowski, pp. 201, 251.

Russkij Nekropol, 1915, p. 97.

Inventaire gén., p. 216.

Prosper, 1853, pp. 45-46.

Hoesick, p. 124.

Bart., p. 95.

BXXCz. syg. 6982, vol. 2, p. 315.

Recueil, p. 125.

PSB, vol. 3, pp. 420-426.

Plan du cimetière du Père-Lachaise, 1875.