Sancho's Entry into Barataria, Don Quixote - Engraving by Tardieu
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Antique line engraving titled Entree de Sancho dans l'Isle de Barataria: Sancho Panza is carried shoulder-high by two men into the village square amid courtly mockery. Engraved by Nicolas Henri Tardieu after Charles-Antoine Coypel and published in Paris by Louis Surugue. Signed in the copper.
Antique line engraving titled Entree de Sancho dans l'Isle de Barataria: Sancho Panza is carried shoulder-high by two men into the village square amid courtly mockery. Engraved by Nicolas Henri Tardieu after Charles-Antoine Coypel and published in Paris by Louis Surugue. Signed in the copper.
It belongs to the set of Don Quixote prints engraved from the cartoons Coypel designed for the Gobelins tapestries, one of the most widely circulated visual readings of the novel in 18th-century Europe. Tardieu (1674-1749) was engraver to King Louis XV.
Medium: Copper engraving (burin), on laid paper
Artist / after: Charles-Antoine Coypel (1694-1752)
Engraver: Nicolas Henri Tardieu (1674-1749)
Date: About 1723-1724
Source: The Don Quixote set after Coypel, ed. Louis Surugue, Paris
Dimensions: 13.8 x 11.4 in (35 x 29 cm)
Condition: Good for its age. Two small round worm holes at the left side, barely noticeable; margins trimmed, with the loss of the line of lettering below, and toning consistent with age.
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Antique line engraving titled Entree de Sancho dans l'Isle de Barataria: Sancho Panza is carried shoulder-high by two men into the village square amid courtly mockery. Engraved by Nicolas Henri Tardieu after Charles-Antoine Coypel and published in Paris by Louis Surugue. Signed in the copper.