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Image 1945-Paris-Cotinaud-03-038 
Illustration No. 1   2    
Illustrator Jacques Touchet / watercolored by Maurice Beaufumé 
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Title Caption  
Title Supplied Don Quixote and the lion 
Part Part II, Madrid 1615  
Chapter Chapter 17 
Subject 17.2 Adventure of the lion
 
Illustration Type Head vignette
 
Technique Process / Photomechanical technique
 
Color Watercolored 
Volume III 
Page Number 108 
Image Dimension 93 x 121 
Page Dimension 240 x 190 
Commentary Don Quixote standing ready to fight against a lion, but the animal, although the lionkeeper has opened the cage, remains into it and turns about presenting its hind-quarters to don Quixote.
In the right background, Sancho, don Diego de Miranda and the carter moving away at a safe distance.
Well-known scene and composition.
Well-resolved figures and good coloring. 
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