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Image | 1905-1908Madrid-06-146 |
Illustration No. | 1   |
Illustrator | José Jiménez Aranda |
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Lithographer | |
Title Caption | Don Quijote los apaleó á todos, y les hizo dejar el sitio mal de su grado,.... |
Title Supplied | |
Part | Part I, Madrid 1605 |
Chapter | Chapter 19 |
Subject |
19.1 Adventure of the dead body |
Illustration Type |
Chapter illustration |
Technique |
Process / Photomechanical technique |
Color | Black and white |
Volume | II LÁMINAS |
Page Number | CAP. XIX. - 11. |
Image Dimension | 150 x 220 |
Page Dimension | 238 x 312 |
Commentary | "Don Quixote assailed them all, and, surely against their will, obliged them to quit the field...".
The ecclesiastics (encamisados) running away after having been attacked by don Quixote, who appears victorious in the foreground. In the middle ground, the bier with a coffin that the ecclesiastics were accompanying and Alonso López, fallen on the ground beside a torch. Jiménez Aranda's drawing skill is masterly; remarkable use of light and shadow contrasts. |
Notes | 1 – Reproduction of the original sketch (Chinese ink and gouache white). Jiménez Aranda meant to paint a more-finished drawing after this sketch using natural sceneries and real models, but he died before completing the project.
2 - "... serie de originalísimos dibujos, en los que Aranda dió muestra de su imaginación. [...] El aspecto fantástico y un tanto pavoroso de tal aventura, el número, confusión y diversidad de hombres y de caballos, y, sobre todo, la valentía pictórica con que están dados los efectos de luz, produciendo la sensación del brillo de las flameantes luces en la obscuridad que á veces, por estar caídos los hachones, alumbran á las figuras de abajo á arriba, avalora notablemente estos dibujos" (José Ramón Mélida: “Don José Jiménez Aranda y su "Quijote"", vol. I TEXTO, p. XLVI). |