Smiling angel in walnut carved in the round with traces of p - Lot 18

Smiling angel in walnut carved in the round with traces of polychromy. He is standing in a long-bodied figure, wearing a belted tunic with a simple neckline, blousante at the waist and a cloak with a front flap around the left arm; superimposition of hollow and broken folds on the cloak; face with a particularly kind expression, with eyes tapering to the temples, a mouth with upturned corners and a sharp chin; medium-length hair with curly ends held back by a fine headband; molded monoxyle terrace; vice-shaped hole at the top of the skull. Île-de-France, last third of the 13th century H. 79 cm (a few missing parts, including the right hand, the attribute and the wings, worm holes and a crack on the face) Books consulted : - Exposition Paris 1998, L'Art au temps des rois maudits - Philippe le Bel et ses fils 1285 - 1328, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, catalog, p. 62-71. - F. Baron, "Lorsque les anges passaient - Décors d'autel aux XIIIe et XIVe siècles" in L'Estampille-l'Objet d'art, n°323, April 1998, pp. 62-69.