Saint-Geniès (Dordogne), Chapelle du Cheylard

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René de Gérard, 'Inscription et peintures murales de la Chapelle du Chalard à Saint-Geniès (Dordogne),' Bulletin de la Société historique et archéologique du Périgord, 12 (1885), 188-92 (190).

Gérard p. 188

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Plan by Jean Secret

Eastern bay: Agnus keystone

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Western bay: Saint holding book and palm

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Rafters

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East

West

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north

east

south

west

Diagram of painting subjects by Michelle Gaborit (see below for other interpretations)

North-West

North-East

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Top: Scenes from the Life of the Virgin ?

Top right: youthful figure, king, and another figure: David and Saul and another figure ? (unlikely to be Marriage of the Virgin as Gaborit or David and Synagoga as Michel-Dansac; could be the Magi)

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Bottom: Andrew (left); Michael (right)

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Bottom: Martyrdom of a female saint (left) (unlikely to be Valérie and certainly not Thomas Becket); Peter, detail (right)

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Léo Drouyn (1847)

East

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Henri-Louis Laffillée (relevé, 1898)

Top: Annunciation ? or Virgin and Child ? embrasure: Zodiac

Bottom: St John in oil

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Top: Crucifixion

Bottom: Baptism

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South-East	South-West
©James Austin Léo Drouyn: Flagellation, Warrior Saint (drawing, 1847)	©James Austin
Sun at apex Bearing Cross (left), Flagellation (right) ©James Austin	Passion (l to r): Mocking, Malchus, Betrayal ©James Austin Léo Drouyn: Passion (drawing, 1847) Henri-Louis Laffillée, Passion (relevé, 1898)
Paul with two swords (left), Warrior Saint detail (Theodore ? Maurice ? right) embrasure 18th c. litre with arms of the Fontipou-Massacré family, owners of the chapel ©James Austin	Torture of Katherine (left), George and the dragon (right) Katherine detail 1, detail 2 George detail ©James Austin Léo Drouyn, Katherine and George (drawing, 1849) Henri-Louis Laffillée, Katherine and George (relevé, 1898)