Figure "Cap i Pota". Catalonia, 19th century

Figure "Cap i Pota". Catalonia, 19th century.
Polychrome wood. Vitreous paste eyes.
Presents faults in the polychrome. Some fingers are missing.
Measurements: 50 x 18 x 22 cm.

The "cap i pota" images are figures worked in detail only in the face and hands, on a wooden structure carved to a greater or lesser extent. Although the figures for dress were often used in processions, in this case it is a figure intended for private devotion, given its small size. The visible parts are covered with a thin layer of stucco and polychromed, while the rest is covered by real clothes. They are images that were especially liked for their naturalism, since by wearing authentic clothes a greater degree of realism was achieved than with the simply carved ones, which often did not have enough quality to achieve that degree of naturalism, so sought after in religious art since the Baroque period.