Jean Cocteau working on the mural of the Chapelle Saint Pierre. Villefranche-sur-Mer 1956.

In 1956, Jean Cocteau stands on a stepladder, hand on hip, before his vast, unfinished mural in the Chapelle Saint Pierre in Villefranche-sur-Mer. The work in progress, a dynamic scene rendered in bold, black outlines, covers the chapel's arched apse and vaulted ceiling. The space is clearly an artist's worksite, evidenced by a second ladder, a bare lightbulb for illumination, and a low table in the foreground holding a painter's palette and other supplies.

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