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	Image	1746-LaHaye-Hondt-01-035
	Illustration No.	1
	Illustrator	Charles-Antoine Coypel (copied after)
	Engraver	Bernard Picart
	Lithographer
	Title Caption	Don Quichotte est servi par les demoiselles de la Duchesse
	Title Supplied
	Part	Part II, Madrid 1615
	Chapter	Chapter 31
	Subject	31.1 DQ and SP at the Dukes´ palace
	Illustration Type	Chapter illustration
	Technique	Burin engraving
	Color	Black and white
	Volume	I
	Page Number	f.p. 136
	Image Dimension	194 x 151
	Page Dimension	267 x 215
	Commentary	Coypel chose a great number of episodes about don Quixote and the Dukes because these allowed him theatrical, court and baroque compositions. This is one of those great and theatrical illustrations (with rich clothes, many figures, detailed baroque arquitectures, French gardens, curtains...), but the result is not too much accurate to Cervantes' text. Don Quixote was undressed by the Duchess' maidens, but he dressed himself alone, just with Sancho. The maiden who looks at the viewer and points to the scene is very remarkable. Carefully-drawn and engraved gestures (hands); these gestures establish relations between characters.
	Notes	1 - Copy after Coypel's illustration (Paris: Surugue, 1724). 2 - The composition has been turned and the format now is vertical, so Picart has enlarged the vault and the curtain. 3 - Picart died in 1733, so the plate was engraved in this year or before.