Gustave Doré, 1863 - Don Quixote and Sancho Panza Entertained by Basil and Quiteria - fine art print

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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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In 1863 Gustave Doré created the piece of art. The version of the masterpiece measures the size: 36 1/4 x 28 3/4 in (92,1 x 73 cm). Oil on canvas was used by the painter as the medium of the painting. The piece of art belongs to the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's art collection, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. With courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Mrs. William A. McFadden and Mrs. Giles Whiting, 1928 (license: public domain). : Gift of Mrs. William A. McFadden and Mrs. Giles Whiting, 1928. The alignment of the digital reproduction is portrait with a ratio of 1 : 1.2, which means that the length is 20% shorter than the width. The painter Gustave Doré was an artist from France, whose style can primarily be classified as Realism. The French artist lived for a total of 51 years - born in 1832 and deceased in 1883.

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