Oil paint on canvas
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Robert Vernon
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Sancho Panza in Apartment Duchess
Presented by Robert Vernon 1847
actions: expressive
adults
animals: mammals
architecture
aristocrat
black
chair
characters
column
curtain
de Cervantes, Miguel, ‘Don Quixote’, 1605-1615
dog - non-specific
domestic
domestic
ethnicity
features
fine arts and music
furnishings
group
groups
interiors
leisure and pastimes
literature (not Shakespeare)
literature and fiction
living room
man
mirror
music
music and entertainment
nanny
nationality
objects
people
plants and flowers
rose
royalty and social rank
Sancho Panza
servant
sheet music
society
Spanish
talking
woman
work and occupations
<p>The Romantics prized the Spanish writer, Cervantes, for his celebration of the wisdom of folly in his romance <i>Don Quixote of La Mancha</i> 1605-15. The Don has absurd adventures imitating the deeds of heroes he has read about. He is assisted by his squire, Sancho Panza, who also provides a wry commentary on them.Here Sancho confides his private view of his master to a Duchess: ‘I cannot beat it out of my noddle, but that he is as mad as a march hare.’ This is a second version of a subject Leslie exhibited, to great acclaim, in 1824.</p><p><em>Gallery label, May 2007</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
25 July 2005 – 26 July 2009
2009-07-26
25 July 2005
2005-07-25
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2005-07-25
Romantic Painting in Britain
Collection based display
29 July 2010 – 14 March 2011
2011-03-14
6 August 2010 – 14 March 2011
2011-03-14
2010-08-06
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2010-07-29
Romantics 2
Collection based display
2 September 2011 – 15 April 2012
2012-04-15
2 September 2011 – 15 April 2012
2012-04-15
2011-09-02
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2011-09-02
Romantics
Collection based display
Sancho Panza in the Apartment of the Duchess
support: 1219 × 1524 mm
Presented by <a href="/search?gid=999999978" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Robert Vernon</a> 1847
<p>The Romantics prized the Spanish writer, Cervantes, for his celebration of the wisdom of folly in his romance <i>Don Quixote of La Mancha</i> 1605-15. The Don has absurd adventures imitating the deeds of heroes he has read about. He is assisted by his squire, Sancho Panza, who also provides a wry commentary on them.Here Sancho confides his private view of his master to a Duchess: ‘I cannot beat it out of my noddle, but that he is as mad as a march hare.’ This is a second version of a subject Leslie exhibited, to great acclaim, in 1824.</p>

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actions: expressive adults animals: mammals architecture aristocrat black chair characters column curtain de Cervantes, Miguel, ‘Don Quixote’, 1605-1615 dog - non-specific domestic domestic ethnicity features fine arts and music furnishings group groups interiors leisure and pastimes literature and fiction literature (not Shakespeare) living room man mirror music music and entertainment nanny nationality objects people plants and flowers rose royalty and social rank Sancho Panza servant sheet music society Spanish talking woman work and occupations