L'Allée des Alyscamps

Recently the painting L'Allée des Alyscamps by Vincent van Gogh was auctioned in New York. The new Asian owner was prepared to pay 66,3 million dollar (about 59 million Euro). The landscape painting dates from 1888.
Alychamps is a necropolis near the centre of Arles. Originally Roman along the Via Aurelia, but in use untill late medieaval times.
It's interesting to see how the painting compares to a photo from about the same period. And then compare the place to how it looks in our days. So that's what I tried to find out.

left L'Allée des Alyscamps by Vincent van Gogh (Wikimedia commons), right present Alyscamps (Wikipedia Hawobo)

The following photo of the L'Allée des Sarcophages des Alyscamps was taken between 1859 and 1910.

L'Allée des Sarcophages des Alyscamps (Wikimedia commons, Bibliothèque de Toulouse, domaine public)

With growing pilgrimages to Santiago de Compostela it became more important. It's the starting point for the Via Tolosana, one of the four main routes to Santiago de Compostela in France as mentioned in Aimeric Picaud's Codex Calixtinus (Via Aegidia).

Via Tolosana