Don Quixote Charging the Sheep

Alexandre Gabriel Decamps (French, 1803–1860)

Medium/TechniqueOil on canvas

Dimensions40.6 x 32.4 cm (16 x 12 3/4 in.)

Credit LineBequest of Josiah Bradlee

Accession number03.738

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ClassificationsPaintings

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InscriptionsLower right: D C

ProvenanceJules van Praet (b. 1806 - d. 1887), Brussels [see note 1]; 1892, sold by the van Praet heirs to Henri Garnier, Paris [see note 2]; January 11, 1893, sold by Henri Garnier to Boussod, Valadon, et Cie., Paris (stock no. 22714); sold by Boussod, Valadon, et Cie. to Josiah Bradlee (b. 1837 - d. 1902), Marblehead, MA and Boston [see note 3]; 1903, bequest of Josiah Bradlee to the MFA. (Accession Date: August 16, 1903)

NOTES:
[1] M. Haulleville, "Jules van Praet," La Revue Générale, vol. 47 (1888): p. 339, as "Don Quichotte combattant un troupeau."

[2] "L'achat de la collection Van Praet, par M. Henri Garnier, et la collection de M. Chauchard," Les Nouvelles de l'Intermediaire, no. 3 (January 30, 1893), pp. 18-20.

[3] See the Getty Provenance Index, Goupil et Cie. Records, stock book 13, no. 22714, p. 122.No date of sale is given.