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1949-Paris-Bordas-01-004 |
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Jean-Honoré Fragonard
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Don Quixote reading chivalric books |
Part I, Madrid 1605
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Chapter 1 |
1.1 DQ at his library reading chivalric novels
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Chapter illustration
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Process / Photomechanical technique
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Black and white |
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f.p. 140 |
143 x 102 |
215 x 135 |
Although traditionally it had been identified as 'Don Quixote reading a chivalric book to one of his neighbors', this drawing refers to Lodovico Ariosto's Roland Furieux: 'Ariosto dedicates his poem to Ippolito d'Este'. |
1 - Preserved at the Louvre Museum: http://arts-graphiques.louvre.fr/detail/oeuvres/2/220562-LArioste-dedie-son-poeme-a-Hippolyte-dEste |