International studio (60.1916/1917)

Gobelin and Beauvais Tapestries of the Morgan Collection


SANCHO’S DEPARTURE FOR BARATARIA
who had been baptized by him, confirmed by
him and married by him, and who the following
year, June n, 1775, was crowned by him at
Rheims. Only two years after the coronation,
the Cardinal died at the age of eighty and the
furnishings of his home were sold in Paris.
The other tapestry of the five originally be-
longed to the Prince of Hesse-Darmstadt, having

GOBELIN TAPESTRY DESIGNED BY CHARLES COYPEL
been presented to him by the Emperor Napoleon
in 1810. This is the only one of the five which
was woven on a low-warp loom. It is No. 1 in
the descriptive list given below.
The subjects of the five Don Quixote tapestries
of the Morgan collection are:
I. Don Quixote Guided by Folly. II. Don
Quixote Mistakes a Peasant Girl for Dulcinea

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