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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