About This Image

On Bristol Paper with that blind stamp on verso and with the photographer's own blind stamp (name in circle around sun) on recto under photograph. Signed, dated and located in the negative "C. Nègre Arles 1853", lower right corner.

There is a slight variant in the J. Paul Getty Museum. See: Karen Hellman: Real/Ideal, Photography in Mid-Nineteenth-Century France, (Getty Publications 2016), p.102, variation of this print.

Below the procession of the damned, separated by pilasters and columns of dark stone, are statues of saints connected with the history of Arles; on the right, St. Philip, St. James the Just, St. Stephen, St. Andrew, and St. Paul. The bases of the columns are decorated with statues of lions including Daniel in the Lion’s Den.

The outer walls of the present cathedral of St Trophîme are normally assigned to the Carolingian period. The church was reconstructed with a nave and aisles in the Romanesque style during the first quarter of the 12th century, and a new Gothic choir was built in the mid-15th century. The Romanesque sculpture can be divided into four distinct groups: the nave capitals, the façade and the north and east cloister galleries. The nave capitals, which derive from late antique Corinthian forms, have been dated on stylistic grounds to circa 1120.

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