Le Crouzet - Chapelle Sainte-Anne

In 2022 > Geneviève Petermann

In 2016 > Peter Rösel – Fei­gen­blatt, Feuille de figuier

Con­veni­ently loc­ated in the cen­ter of the vil­lage of Crouzet, Sainte-Anne chapel is a small build­ing covered by a gable roof topped by a pin­nacle with an im­per­ial roof. Des­pite some re­pairs car­ried out at the end of the 19th cen­tury, it still presents its prim­it­ive, rus­tic ap­pear­ance. It con­sists of a single, blind nave covered by a bar­rel vault like the choir from which it is sep­ar­ated by a wooden grille serving as a rood screen car­ry­ing Christ on the cross, a statue of the Vir­gin and one of Saint John.
The wall of the apse is ac­com­pag­nied by a tra­di­tional and curi­ous al­tarpiece: 2 twis­ted columns on ped­es­tals around which vine branches and bunches of grapes are pecked by birds sup­port an en­tab­la­ture sur­moun­ted by 3 half-length sculp­tures and lean­ing on cap­it­als with acanthus leaves.
Between these two columns a large paint­ing rep­res­ent­ing the Edu­ca­tion of the Vir­gin by Saint Anne with, at the bot­tom right, a church which may be the Sainte Anne chapel and the date 1692, without sig­na­ture. Cher­ubs ap­pear among the clouds. The whole thing is com­pletely rus­tic and naive and could have been made by a local crafts­man who im­it­ated the al­tarpiece of a nearby build­ing. But the dat­ing re­mains un­cer­tain, the date of 1692 of the al­tarpiece being un­doubtedly only an in­dic­a­tion of the con­struc­tion of the chapel.

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