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Image | 1916-1918-Kristiania-Swanstrom-01-002-f |
Illustration No. | 1   |
Illustrator | Honoré-Victorin Daumier |
Engraver | |
Lithographer | |
Title Caption | DON QUIJOTE og SANCHO PANZA sovende |
Title Supplied | |
Part | Part I, Madrid 1605 |
Chapter | 02. Frontispiece |
Subject |
02.2 Quixote illustration |
Illustration Type |
Frontispiece Vignette |
Technique |
Offset |
Color | In color |
Volume | I |
Page Number | f. title page |
Image Dimension | 145 x 113 |
Page Dimension | 285 x 200 |
Commentary | Maybe a reference to chapter 66:2; Don Quixote and Sancho spend the night in the fields in the open air; "Aquella noche la pasaron amo y mozo en mitad del campo, al cielo raso y descubierto" (66:2). |
Notes | 1 - Don Quixote and Sancho Panza Resting beneath a Tree by Honoré Daumier (1865, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen).
2 - One of Daumier’s favorite themes was Don Quixote, whose life continually fascinated him. At the time of his death, Daumier had completed 49 drawings and 29 paintings of Don Quixote. The themes of Don Quixote, those of inventiveness, quick thinking, and deception, permeated society, and have been used by many other artists and musicians, including Picasso and Strauss, including Daumier. Perhaps in Don Quixote Daumier was able to find himself in a literary hero, as he saw himself in a quixotic struggle with the society which he so loved to satirize. |