The Archangel Saint Michael

This Saint Michael defeating the devil embodies the triumph of good over evil in a Précieuses way as it should in the second half of the 18th century. A venerated saint during medieval times, his cult had decreased until the Counter-Reformation period in which he acquired a new drive to testify the Catholic church's triumph over Protestantism. The composition is very dynamic; Saint Michael appears almost flying, resting in one leg and with open wings, the head turned opposing the torso and arms movement, that hold the sword and the shield, with his clothes stirring, blazing in the wind. Under the figure of the devil, a being half-human, half-dragon, that seems to produce his last death rattles, is a plinth with an infernal scene, full of weird and grotesque characters in the middles of flames that reach Lucifer