Angel playing a lute, Cl. 12848 © GrandPalaisRmn / Jean-Gilles Berizzi

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Angel playing a lute, Cl. 12848 © GrandPalaisRmn / Jean-Gilles Berizzi

Angel playing a lute, Cl. 12848 © GrandPalaisRmn / Jean-Gilles Berizzi

Angel playing a lute, Cl. 12848 © GrandPalaisRmn / Jean-Gilles Berizzi

Angel playing a lute

Description

Not on display

15th century

Late Middle Ages

The very small angel was probably taken from a polychrome wooden altarpiece. He wears a robe and a cope with a glass cabochon as a clasp. On the back, the hood has two oblique notches where the little musician’s wings were once attached. He plays the lute, a plucked string instrument. He was probably part of a group of angels celebrating a religious scene.

This small sculpture was donated to the museum in 1891 by Marie Peyrat, Marquise Arconati-Visconti (1840 – 1923), a notable figure in Paris who was a friend of art historians and a patron of numerous institutions.
 

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