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Title
Don Quixote and Sancho Panza Prostrate Before Women and Horse
Description
Composition in black tones, yellow, white, gray, blue, green, red, orange and earthy. Colored areas, chiaroscuro effects and dashed. It depicts Sancho Panza and Don Quixote kneeling before three nuns mounted on donkeys. In the foreground, center, Sancho Panza on his back with his arms up, wearing white shirt and black pants. More to the right, Don Quixote, his back slightly turned to the left; it is squalid and is using dark armor suggesting that metal. To his on the right, a white horse, standing well back but with his head down grazing be suggesting. At the bottom of the composition, on the left of center, three nuns wearing habits and mounted on donkeys; two are facing and look toward Sancho Panza and Don Quixote and a back is turned. The floor and the bottom, where is The scene are represented by dashed yellow with projections to the right of geometrical shadows. The sky in the upper on the right corner of the composition, sun in shades of orange and yellow.
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Candido PortinariPerson
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Artwork Function Description
Illustration for the book Don Quixote, by Cervantes, which was never published
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DrawingArtFormType
Art Medium
colored pencilArtMediumType
Artwork Surface
cardboardArtworkSurfaceType
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Collection
Dimensions
Height
29
Width
31.5
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Unsigned and undated
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