Chapelle Saint-Vincent-de-Paul (Lazaristes)

The Lazarists, the congregation Saint Vincent de Paul founded in 1625, settled in the rue de Sèvres in 1817. Their chapel was built under the Restoration to receive his relics, which Archbishop de Quelen brought here in 1830; the reliquary stands above the high altar, reached by a staircase. The gallery holds a series of paintings by Frère François, a pupil of Ingres. The photograph looks down the nave under its painted vault, divided into coffers, or sunken panels.