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Image | 1768-Amsterdam-Merkus-03-003 |
Illustration No. | 1   |
Illustrator | Charles-Antoine Coypel (copied after) |
Engraver | Simon Fokke (?) |
Lithographer | |
Title Caption | Don Quichotte trompé par Sancho prend une Paysanne pour Dulcinée. |
Title Supplied | |
Part | Part II, Madrid 1615 |
Chapter | Chapter 10 |
Subject |
10.2 The three labradoras 10.3 SP presents to DQ the enchanted Dulcinea |
Illustration Type |
Chapter illustration |
Technique |
Burin engraving |
Color | Black and white |
Volume | III |
Page Number | f.p. 102 |
Image Dimension | 125 x 77 |
Page Dimension | 166 x 102 |
Commentary | Scene resolved with a basic composition.
Don Quixote and Sancho kneel down before three peasant girls mounted on donkeys. Sancho introduces one of the peasant girls as the enchanted Dulcinea and don Quixote tries to kiss her foot. The three peasant girls are represented as French maidens. Baroque landscape including a lake with fishermen (very different from La Mancha landscape). Well-detailed drawing and engraving. |
Notes | 1 - Copy after Coypel's design (first appeared in Paris: Surugue, c. 1728-30; also copied for La Haye: Pierre de Hondt, 1746).
2 - Same plate first engraved for La Haye: P. Gosse & A. Moetjens, 1744; the references have been changed from Spanish into French and the signatures erased. 3 – Plate XI. |