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| Image | 1741-Paris-Clousier-et-al-03-004 |
| Illustration No. | 1 |
| Illustrator | Charles-Antoine Coypel (copied after by Bonard) |
| Engraver | Unknown |
| Lithographer | |
| Title Caption | |
| Title Supplied | Don Quixote meets the enchanted Dulcinea |
| 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. 113 |
| Image Dimension | 120 x 70 |
| Page Dimension | 167 x 97 |
| Commentary | Scene resolved with a basic composition.
Don Quixote and Sancho kneel before three peasant girls mounted on donkeys. Sancho introduces one of them as the enchanted Dulcinea and don Quixote tries to kiss her foot. The three peasant girls are represented as French maidens. Baroque landscape. |
| Notes | 1 - Same plate first used for Paris: Compagnie des Libraires, 1732, but re-engraved very clumsily and with little detail.
2 - Turned copy with a new vertical format after Coypel’s illustration (Paris: Surugue, c. 1728-30). |