Honoré Daumier, 1864 - Don Quixote and the Dead Mule - fine art print

This 19th century artpiece was created by the realist master Honoré Daumier in 1864. The version of the piece of art was made with the size: 9 3/4 x 18 1/8 in (24,8 x 46 cm). Oil on wood was applied by the European painter as the medium of the piece of art. This artpiece forms part of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection. The modern art work of art, which belongs to the public domain is supplied - courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1909. In addition to that, the artwork has the following creditline: Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1909. Furthermore, alignment of the digital reproduction is in landscape format with a ratio of 16 : 9, meaning that the length is 78% longer than the width. Honoré Daumier was a painter, whose artistic style can be classified as Realism. The artist was born in the year 1808 in Marseilles and passed away at the age of 71 in 1879.

Description by The Metropolitan Museum of Art (© - The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

This work, one of many versions of the subject that Daumier painted after 1864, illustrates a passage from Don Quixote, the epic novel by Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616). The knight, in the company of his squire, Sancho Panza, encounters the body of a dead mule, still saddled and bridled but already half-devoured by wolves and crows.

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