[Sidenote:
_Wool and Silk._
H. 12 _ft._
W. 17 _ft._ 6 _in._
]
SANCHO IS TOSSED IN A BLANKET: _Sancho, following Don Quixote's example,
has refused to pay the innkeeper, as that is against the tradition of
knights-errant and their squires. So the clothmakers of Segovia and the
needlemakers of Cordova who chance to be there toss him in a blanket,
while Don Quixote sits without on his horse cursing lustily._
The piece is one of a set of illustrations of _Don Quixote_ after
David Teniers the Younger. The scene has all the casual and convincing
informality and boisterous good spirits for which Teniers' paintings are
famous. It quite catches the spirit of the romance which it illustrates.
The landscape vista is unusually lovely in color.
[Sidenote: Lent by _P. W. French & Company_.]
David Teniers the Younger (1610-1694) was trained principally under
his father, David the Elder, also famous for paintings of peasant
episodes. In 1633 he became Master of the Guild of St. Lukes, and
thereafter was Dean of the Guild and painter to the governor,
Archduke Leopold William, a position which he continued to hold
under the next governor, Don Juan of Austria. In 1663 he helped form
the Antwerp Academy of Fine Arts. He painted innumerable pictures of
peasant scenes, many of which have been rendered in tapestry.
[Sidenote: 47, 48]