| Bernard? One of a number of late fifteenth-century wall paintings in the chapel of the Chateau de Serres which belonged to the abbots of the nearby Cistercian abbey of Candeil, probably painted during the abbacy of Guillaume de Boisset (1498-1514). On the left side of a window is the figure of a kneeling abbot in a white cowl with his crozier leaning on his shoulder and with his gaze directed up at the figure of another abbot on the right of the window - here shown. The head is missing, but he is also wearing a white cowl. His right hand is raised in blessing the kneeling abbot and in his left hand he holds a crozier and a book. The figure probably represents Bernard.
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