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	Image	1746-LaHaye-Hondt-01-055
	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. 219
	Image Dimension	193 x 153
	Page Dimension	267 x 215
	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 - 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 ceiling and the floor. 3 - Picart died in 1733, so the plate was engraved in this year or before.