“Story of Don Quixote” told in eighteenth-century French Tapestries. Photo in a 1952 magazine article.
“The Story of Don Quixote,” who tilted with windmills and succored damsels in distress, was told in a series of 28 tapestries designed about 1714 and woven at the Gobelin tapestry works before the French Revolution. Here two have been sewn together and hung above chairs and sofa covered with tapestry of the same period.
“The scene at left shows Don Quixote and his friends discovering a young woman named Dorothea who is dressed in boy’s clothes and who had been deserted by her husband. At right, Don Quixote and his squire, Sancha Panza, are astride a wooden horse while pranksters wave flaming torches at them.” [Description accompanying the photo]
“Story of Don Quixote” told in eighteenth-century French Tapestries. Photo in a 1952 magazine article.
“The Story of Don Quixote,” who tilted with windmills and succored damsels in distress, was told in a series of 28 tapestries designed about 1714 and woven at the Gobelin tapestry works before the French Revolution. Here two have been sewn together and hung above chairs and sofa covered with tapestry of the same period.
“The scene at left shows Don Quixote and his friends discovering a young woman named Dorothea who is dressed in boy’s clothes and who had been deserted by her husband. At right, Don Quixote and his squire, Sancha Panza, are astride a wooden horse while pranksters wave flaming torches at them.” [Description accompanying the photo]