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Image | 1776-1777-Copenhaguen-Forlag-03-040 |
Illustration No. | 1   |
Illustrator | Charles-Antoine Coypel (copied after) |
Engraver | Unsigned (Johan-Jakob-Georg Haas?) |
Lithographer | |
Title Caption | Tugtighed egner en Vandrende Ridder ligesaa meget som Tapperhed |
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 | III |
Page Number | f.p. 280 |
Image Dimension | 126 x 90 |
Page Dimension | 188 x 120 |
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 architecture, 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. Bad drawing and engraving; it lacks the original beauty of the maidens and the charm of that who looks at the viewer. |
Notes | 1 - Copy of Coypel's illustration (Paris: Surugue, 1724) through Picart's copy (La Haye: Hondt, 1746). Both 1746 and 1777 copies with the same vertical format. Both 1724 and 1777 illustrations with the same composition; in 1746 it is turned.
2 - In Cushing's copy, tomes III and IV are bound together (volume II). |