Don Quixote and Sancho Panza Entertained by Basil and Quiteria
Gustave Doré
1863?
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
36 1/4 x 28 3/4 in. (92.1 x 73 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Mrs. William A. McFadden and Mrs. Giles Whiting, 1928
Accession Number
28.113
Tags
MenWomenInteriorsDon Quixote
About the Artist
Gustave Doré · 1832–1883
Gustave Doré (1832–1883) was a French artist who became the most celebrated and prolific illustrator of the nineteenth century, creating iconic visual interpretations of world literature that remain definitive to this day. Born in Strasbourg, he showed extraordinary precocious talent, publishing his first lithographs at age fifteen and securing a contract with a Paris publisher while still a teena...