Tapestry showing Don Quixote Guided by Folly, Setting Forth to be a Knight-Errant

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Tapestry showing Don Quixote Guided by Folly, Setting Forth to be a Knight-Errant

1780-1783

Woven at the Gobelins tapestry manufactory, Paris (1662–present) In the workshop of Jacques Neilson (French (born England), 1714–1788) Central composition after a 1716 painting by Charles Antoine Coypel (French (active Paris), 1694–1752)

The central scene of this tapestry follows the composition of one of the twenty-eight paintings Charles Coypel made of subjects from Miguel de Cervantes's novel Don Quixote. In this weaving, loosely based on part 1, chapter 8 of the book, Don Quixote is about to attack a windmill, which he sees as a threatening giant.

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Object Details

Titles:

Tapestry showing Don Quixote Guided by Folly, Setting Forth to be a Knight-Errant
From the seventh series of "The Story of Don Quixote" woven 1762-87 at Gobelins tapestry manufactory

Date:

1780-1783

Artists:

Woven at the Gobelins tapestry manufactory, Paris (1662–present) In the workshop of Jacques Neilson (French (born England), 1714–1788) Central composition after a 1716 painting by Charles Antoine Coypel (French (active Paris), 1694–1752)

Medium:

Wool and silk; woven on a low-warp loom

Dimensions:

12 feet 2 inches × 11 feet 8 inches (370.8 × 355.6 cm)

Classification:

Textiles

Credit Line:

Gift of Mrs. Widener Dixon, 1945

Accession Number:

1945-90-1

Geography:

Made in Paris, France, Europe

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