This late nineteenth-century albumen photograph by prominent French studio photographer Félix Bonfils captures the arid, rocky landscape of Bethphage on the eastern slopes of the Mount of Olives near Jerusalem. In Christian biblical tradition, Bethphage is renowned as the staging point from which Jesus mounted a donkey for his Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. The high-angle composition highlights the austere limestone terrain crisscrossed by low dry-stone boundary walls and tracks. Within a walled compound stand simple stone structures representing the monastic sanctuary and village dwellings. Several local inhabitants in traditional attire, accompanied by working donkeys, populate the foreground path and enclosure, providing scale against the undulating hills of Judea.