Art and Science 



Chamonix and the Canton Valais, but a larger 

 and clearer reproduction of such an extraordi- 

 nary work is greatly to be desired. The small 

 wooden statues above the triptych, as also 

 those above its modern companion in the 

 south transept, are not less admirable than the 

 triptych itself. I know of no other like work 

 in wood, and have no clue whatever as to who 

 the author can have been beyond the fact that 

 the work is purely German and eminently Hol- 

 beinesque in character. 



I was told of some chapels at Rarogne, five 

 or six miles lower down the valley than Visp. 

 I examined them, and found they had been 

 stripped of their figures. The few that re- 

 mained satisfied me that we have had no loss. 

 Above Brieg there are two other like series 

 of chapels. I examined the higher and more 

 promising of the two, but found not one single 

 figure left. I was told by my driver that the 

 other series, close to the Pont Napoleon on 

 the Simplon road, had been also stripped of 

 its figures, and, there being a heavy storm at 

 the time, have taken his word for it that this 

 was so, 



175 



