Plate 30: Don Quixote consults the enchanted head at Don Antonio Moreno's house (Don Quichotte consulte la teste enchantée chez Don Antonio Mereno)
Medium
Etching and engraving
Dimensions
Sheet (Trimmed): 8 5/8 × 6 9/16 in. (21.9 × 16.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Estate of Ogden Codman, 1951
Accession Number
51.644.180
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the whimsical world of Cervantes' *Don Quixote* with *Plate 30: Don Quixote consults the head at Don Antonio Moreno house*, an enchanting 1745 etching and engraving by Charles Antoine Coypel andaver Jakob van Schley This intimate interior scene captures the bumbling knight-errant, Don Quixote, alongside his squire Sancho Panza and others, gathered around a mysterious "enchanted" head that spouts cryptic prophecies—a clever hoax orchestrated by the nobleman Don Antonio Moreno to amuse his guests. Coypel, a leading French Rococo artist, infuses the composition with playful elegance, hi...