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Image | 1746-Hage-Hondt-01-029 |
Illustration No. | 1   |
Illustrator | Charles-Antoine Coypel (copied after) |
Engraver | Bernard Picart |
Lithographer | |
Title Caption | La Dame Rodrigue s'entretenant de nuit avec Don Quichotte, est surprises par les Demoiselles de la Duchesse |
Title Supplied | |
Part | Part II, Madrid 1615 |
Chapter | Chapter 48 |
Subject |
48.1 Doña Rodríguez visits DQ at night in his room |
Illustration Type |
Chapter illustration |
Technique |
Burin engraving |
Color | Black and white |
Volume | I |
Page Number | f.p. 282 |
Image Dimension | 193 x 153 |
Page Dimension | 272 x 220 |
Commentary | On the left, don Quixote, bandaged and in bed, and doña Rodríguez talking by the light of a candle (accurate to Cervantes' text).
From the right, Altisidora and other Duchess' maidens arrive holding their slippers; one of them is almost catching doña Rodríguez. Extraordinary detailed setting (furniture, canopy, clock...). Coypel has inserted one anecdotal element: a cat observing a mouse. Excellent light and shadow effects; Picart has reinforced these effects with his engraving, getting a tenebrist illustration of great quality. |
Notes | 1 - Plate XXVII (in the French edition, the plates aren't numbered).
2 - Although Picart signs as "del. et sculp.", this is a copy after Coypel's illustration (Paris: Surugue, c. 1728-30). 3 - The composition has been turned and the format now is vertical, so Picart has enlarged the ceiling and the floor. 4 - Picart died in 1733, so the plate was engraved in this year or before. |