Description: Red chalk, 193 x 150 mm. Ruled framing lines in brown ink. Laid down. Inscribed in the lower left corner, in pen and brown ink, P. Tanjé fec. Mark of J. G. De la Gardie (Lugt 2722a).

Sancho Panza is keeping vigil in a stable before a holy image, while Don Quixote stands in front of him with a drawn sword. The scene is etched in an illustrated edition of Don Quixote, published in The Hague in 1746: Les principales avantures de l’admirable Don Quichotte, repreésentées en figures par Coypel, Picart le Romain, et autres habiles maitres, avec les explications des XXXI planches de cette magnifique collection, tirées de original espagnol de Miguel de Cervantes. The drawing corresponds to Planche XXVIII (facing p. 237), inscribed Tremolieres pinx and P. Tanjé sculp.

The book contains illustrations by Coypel (25), Boucher (1), Cochin fils (2), Le Bas (1) and Tremolières (2), engraved by Picart (12), Schley (13), Tanjé (5) and Fokke (1). The same illustrations appear in the Liège edition of 1776.

The paper is very thin, almost transparent, and the clean outlines were probably traced from another drawing. As Bartsch observed in his catalogue entry, the drawing was no doubt intended to be transferred to the etching plate. It is in the same direction as the etching, and the dimensions are identical, so it was almost certainly transferred to the plate by the counter-proof method. [Magnusson, Dutch Drawings no. 510]

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