Sällskapsstycke. Motiv ur Don Quijotes leverne
Uppfodrad duk 126 x 130 cm. Samtida skuren och förgylld ram.
Bukowski Auktioner, auktion 392, 4-7 april 1973, kat nr 141.
Charles-Antoine Coypel painted this scene from the story of Don Quixote’s travels in 1751. It completed a famous series of twenty-eight cartoons for tapestries made by the Manafacture Royale des Gobelins. Commissioned in 1715 by the Bâtiments du Roi (the Royal Household) Coypel painted the majority of the cartoons between 1725 and 1740. The Histoire de Don Quichotte represented the first and most important commission of Coypel’s working career.