From 1830, the royal, imperial and republican 19th century saw the rise of the bourgeoisie. Ministers, town councillors, tradesmen and artists, eminent scientists and explorers gained importance to match that of kings and emperors. The cemeteries - veritable museums of sculpture like Père-La Chaise in Paris - were populated with realistic, weeping figures that embodied eternal sorrow at the foot of the tombs of great men. Some exceptional sculptors emerged such as Auguste Préault (medallion representing Vitellius) and François Rude, whose masterpiece La Marseillaise epitomises the romantic period; the museum has some reliefs by David d'Angers, James Pradier's (Le Printemps) and work by Francisque Duret, to name but a few. During the Second Empire and the first decades of the Republic, an eclectic and abundant production of sculptural art gained momentum. The great period of rebuilding provided work for a number of artists, some of whom have since been forgotten. Among the most well known artists were Falguière, Frémiet and Bartholdi, not forgetting Eugène Guillaume, Aimé Millet, Jouffroy, Chapu, Marqueste and Injalbert. Nearly all are represented in the museum collections. Their works, however, have to be kept in storerooms due to a shortage of space. Like many cities, Toulouse was indelibly marked by the development of commemorative and funereal sculpture in the 19th century (the Terre-Cabade cemetery, place Wilson, the jardin Royal and the jardin des Plantes). Some of the garden sculptures disappeared after 1940 (bronzes were melted down), and some have been replaced by casts. The latter were executed by Mercié, one of the sculptors who, with Marqueste (Vélléda), Ségoffin, Mengue and Seysses among others, belonged to the famous "Toulousains" group, trained in the Beaux-arts in Paris by their idol Alexandre Falguière (Balzac sitting and Diane). The museum presents the original plaster of one of his masterpieces, The Christian martyr Tarcisius, in the monumental staircase in the Viollet-Le-Duc wing (1882), which opens onto the cloister. Several busts by Rodin and a beautiful bronze bust by Camille Claudel complement the collection.