Tapestry showing Don Quixote Having Sancho Panza Ask the Princess's Permission to See Her

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Tapestry showing Don Quixote Having Sancho Panza Ask the Princess's Permission to See Her

1770-1773

Woven at the Gobelins tapestry manufactory, Paris (1662–present) In the workshop of Michel-Henri Cozette (French, 1744–1822) Central composition after a design of 1716 by Charles Antoine Coypel (French (active Paris), 1694–1752)

The central composition of this tapestry was the second in a series of twenty-eight designs by Charles Coypel, who based the scenes on subjects from Miguel de Cervantes's novel Don Quixote. This one comes from part 2, chapter 30 of the novel.

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Object Details

Titles:

Tapestry showing Don Quixote Having Sancho Panza Ask the Princess's Permission to See Her
From the eighth series of "The Story of Don Quixote" woven 1763-87 at the Gobelins tapestry manufactory

Date:

1770-1773

Artists:

Medium:

Wool and silk; woven on a high-warp loom

Dimensions:

12 feet 3 inches x 11 feet (373.4 x 335.3 cm)

Classification:

Textiles

Credit Line:

Gift of Mrs. Widener Dixon, 1943

Accession Number:

1943-100-1

Geography:

Made in Paris, France, Europe

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