Lot 204
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'The Dinner of Sancho Pança on the island of Barataria', A Literary Tapestry, Brussels workshop, after cartoons by Jan Van Orley (d. 1660), probably from the workshop of Jean-Baptiste Vermillion, from the Story of Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (first published in 1604) circa 1730

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 EUR
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Description

  • 255 by 343cm.
woven within a garden setting, with a dolphin decorated fountain and marble vase surmounting a tall pedestal and elaborate villa behind, with trees between the garden statuary supporting an appliqued swag of velvet draped around the vase, with central figural group with ladies and couples standing overlooking the central figure of Sancho Pança in his bed wielding a knife at an elderly advising doctor who in turn looks down his nose through his spectacles and pushes his wooden stick at a spoon on the bed, young attendants rush around with dishes of food and a young girl collects a jug from a table on the far right of the composition, a gadrooned metal wine cooler with bottles is placed in front of the bed, other figures look on from the balustrade in the background, beyond which extends a formal garden and the sea with a yacht beyond, reduced in width and height; lacking border, with later yellow and blue banded selvedge

Catalogue Note

Orley altered the original cartoons which were painted by Charles-Antoine Coypel (1694-1752) between 1714 and 1718, for weaving at the Royal Gobelins Workshop, Paris. Brussels workshops of Urban Leyniers and Pieter van der Hecke wove the series, based on the Orley cartoons, and the Coypel cartoons respectively.  The Coypel cartoon of this scene has Don Quixote seated at a table, and not in a bed, and the setting is an interior.