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Image | 1746-Hage-Hondt-01-013 |
Illustration No. | 1   |
Illustrator | Charles-Antoine Coypel (copied after) |
Engraver | Bernard Picart |
Lithographer | |
Title Caption | Le Bachelier Sanson Carasco, sous le nom du Chevalier des Miroirs, est vaincu par Don Quichotte qui lui ordonne d'aller se jetter aux pieds de Dulcinée |
Title Supplied | |
Part | Part II, Madrid 1615 |
Chapter | Chapter 14 |
Subject |
14.2 DQ defeats the knight of the Mirrors |
Illustration Type |
Chapter illustration |
Technique |
Burin engraving |
Color | Black and white |
Volume | I |
Page Number | f.p. 114 |
Image Dimension | 195 x 153 |
Page Dimension | 272 x 220 |
Commentary | Perfectly-balanced composition.
Don Quixote, with a clemency gesture, orders the Knight of the Mirrors (Sansón Carrasco) to go and prostrate himself at the feet of Dulcinea. His squire, Tomé Cecial (left), takes his fake big nose off to show don Quixote who they really are, amazing Sancho. Well-detailed drawing and engraving (see don Quixote's left hand gesture, clothes, armours). |
Notes | 1 - Plate XI (in the French edition, the plates aren't numbered).
2 - Signature and caption re-engraved. 3 - Copied after Coypel's illustration (Paris: Surugue, c. 1728-30). 4 - The composition has been turned and the format now is vertical, so Picart has enlarged the trees and the sky. 5 - Rocinante and the donkey (right) did not appear in Coypel´s 5lustration; Picart has included them now. 6 - Picart died in 1733, so the plate was engraved in this year or before. |