Tuby the younger executed the next two groups in 1703. They represent
(21, 22) the Entry into Jerusalem, whilst the next six are as late as
1714, and are by Simon Arazières. They depict (23) the Agony in the
Garden, (24) the Betrayal, (25) the Trial before Pontius Pilate, (26)
the Scourging of Jesus, (27) the Crown of Thorns, (28) the Crucifixion,
(29) the Virgin gazing at the dead Christ.
Thomas Boudin, again, is responsible for the next four groups
(1611)--(30) the Resurrection, (31) the Holy Women bringing vases of
perfume to the Tomb, (32) Christ and the Disciples of Emmaus, (33)
Christ dispelling the doubts of S. Thomas.
The remaining eight groups are of the same date, and almost of the same
excellence as those by Jehan Soulas at the beginning of the clôture
opposite, and contrast favourably with the cold and Pagan feeling of the
foregoing. They are probably the work of a pupil of that sculptor, and
were made under the supervision, in part, perhaps, with the aid of Jehan
Texier, called De Beauce. An inscription of the plinth beneath explains
the subject of each scene.
(34.) _Comment Jésus-Christ ressuscité apparoist à la Vierge Marie._
Christ appearing to the Virgin and S. John.
(35.) _Comme Nostre-Seigneur monte ès-cieux._ The Virgin and the
Apostles grouped round the stone which bears the imprint of the
Saviour’s feet, look upwards to the sky, where the robe and feet of the
ascending Lord can be seen.
(36.) _Comme le S.-Esprit descent sur les apôtres._ The tongues of fire
descending on the day of Pentecost on the Virgin and the eight Apostles
round her.
(37.) _Comme Nostre-Dame adore la Croix._ The Adoration of the Cross by
the Virgin, accompanied by S. John, Mary Magdalen, Mary Salome.
(38.) _C’est le trépassement de Nostre-Dame._ The Death of the Virgin,
who lies upon a couch, holding a taper, whilst all the Apostles
attend--S. John weeping, S. James the Less taking off his spectacles,
and so forth.
(39.) _Le Portement de Nostre-Dame._ The Virgin is borne on the
shoulders of eight Apostles to the Tomb in the Valley of Jehoshaphat.
(40.) _Le Sépulcre de Nostre-Dame._ Four angels raise the body of the
Virgin from the Tomb, whilst Christ descending between two angels
blesses the body, which has half risen from the grave.
(41.) _Le couronnement Nostre-Dame._ The crowning of the Virgin by the
three Persons of the Trinity is a charming group, worthy to be compared
with the best of the first twelve in the south ambulatory.
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