Don Quixote and Sancho Panza Witness the Attack on Rocinante

Jean-Honoré Fragonard1780s

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Title: Don Quixote and Sancho Panza Witness the Attack on Rocinante
Creator: Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Date Created: 1780s
Physical Dimensions: overall: 42.1 x 28.7 cm (16 9/16 x 11 5/16 in.)
Provenance: Probably Baron Dominique-Vivant Denon, Paris, by 1795, one of 19 Don Quixote drawings by Fragonard owned by him (sale, Paris, 1826, no. 728 [the group]); to Delaunay. Lt. Col. E. W. Blunt Mackenzie, Castle Leod, Strathpeffer, Scotland (sale, Sotheby's, London, 26 July 1933, no. 97); Hon. Irwin Boyle Laughlin, Washington, D.C. (not in Lugt), 1933; his wife, Therese Iselin Laughlin, Washington, D.C., 1941; their daughter, Gertrude Laughlin Chanler, New York, 1958; gift to NGA, 2000.
Rights: CC0
Medium: black chalk with gray and brown wash on laid paper

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