Two «new» paintings inspired by Don Quixote and belonging to American art collections: Dance Scene (ca. 1656-1658?), anonymous although attributed to Joos van Crasbeeck (Neerlinter, Flanders 1605/1606-Brussels ca. 1660), and Dorothea (1823), by John Quidor (Tappan, New York State 1801-Jersey City, New Yersey 1881)
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https://doi.org/10.3989/anacervantinos.2009.004Keywords:
Don Quixote, Sancho Panza, John Quidor, Joos van Craesbeeck, Flemish art, Dukes of Austria, DoroteaAbstract
This study presents a detailed analysis of two hitherto ignored or poorly understood paintings inspired by Cervantes’ Don Quijote de la Mancha: Dorothea (1823), by the New Yorker John Quidor, and Dance Scene (1656-1658), attributed to the Flemish Baroque master Joos van Craesbeeck. Dorothea is housed in the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and Dance Scene in Philadelphia’s The Rosenbach Museum and Gallery. The novelty of these two works is that Quidor’s is an ingenious and colourful improvement of a widely circulating black and white print, and van Craesbeeck’s miniature captures not only multiple don Quijotes and Sancho Panzas at a masquerade ball, but also the Dukes of Alba, for at the time the Duke was Governor General of the Spanish Netherlands.
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