Because of its disappearance we tend to forget to include the cloister of the abbey among the big buildings of Suger in Saint Denis. However, the elements that we received from it, especially the four capitals kept in the museum, demonstrate the care given to this building whose sculptors also worked at the chevet of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. The double capital of the old Maignan collection presents, on each of its bigger faces, two Harpies facing each other, one with a clean-shaven man’s face, the other a woman’s face. Passing under their bodies, two garlands of foliage, gathered together in the middle by a band decorated with diamond shapes coil around their shoulders and spread out behind them in wide palmettes. More than fantastic iconography, typical of the art of capitals of the first half of the 12th century, it is the fluidity of the figures and the foliage which constitute the exceptional quality of this work.