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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 DukesĀ“ palace
 
Illustration Type Chapter illustration
 
Technique Burin engraving
 
Color Black and white 
Volume
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.