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Image 1746-LaHaye-Hondt-01-045 
Illustration No. 1     
Illustrator Charles-Antoine Coypel (copied after) 
Engraver Bernard Picart 
Lithographer  
Title Caption Don Quichotte et Sancho montes sur un cheval de bois s'imaginent traverser les airs pour aller vanger Doloride 
Title Supplied  
Part Part II, Madrid 1615  
Chapter Chapter 41 
Subject 41.1 Adventure of Clavileño
41.2 DQ and SP fly on Clavileño
 
Illustration Type Chapter illustration
 
Technique Burin engraving
 
Color Black and white 
Volume
Page Number f.p. 170 
Image Dimension 195 x 154 
Page Dimension 267 x 215 
Commentary Don Quixote and Sancho mounted on Clavileño while several servants simulate its flight with a pair of bellows and torches; one of them has lighted its fuse.
The Duke and Duchess observe the scene.
Set in a Versailles like garden (baroque architectures, hedges, one terminus...).
Well-known composition since Savery (Dordrecht: Savery, 1657), but now it has been enriched.
Light and shadow effects are remarkable.
Excellent drawing and engraving. 
Notes 1 - Although Picart signs as "del. et sculp.", this is a copy after Coypel's illustration (Paris: Surugue, c. 1728-30).
2 - The composition has been turned and the format now is vertical, so Picart has enlarged the trees and the sky.
3 - Picart died in 1733, so the plate was engraved in this year or before.