Don Quixote and Sancho Panza Entertained by Basil and Quiteria
1863 · oil on canvas
Dimensions 92.1 × 73 cm
Doré, best known as a printmaker and illustrator, often based his paintings on compositions originally created for book illustrations. This picture corresponds to an engraving that he made for an 1863 French edition of Cervantes's Don Quixote. The episode depicted is the visit paid by Don Quixote and his faithful groom to Basil and Quiteria, a young couple who had just been married owing to the knight's intervention.
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Don Quixote and Sancho Panza Entertained by Basil and Quiteria (1863) by Gustave Dore, oil on canvas.
About Gustave Dore
Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré ( 6 January 1832 – 23 January 1883 ) was a French artist, printmaker, illustrator, comics artist, caricaturist, and sculptor who worked primarily with wood engraving. The government of France made him a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in 1861.
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