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DOI Heft:
Nr. 237 (November, 1916)
DOI Artikel:
Hunter, George Leland: Gobelin and Beauvais tapestries of the Morgan collection
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: 
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43463#0017

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Gobelin and Beauvais Tapestries of the Morgan Collection


DON QUIXOTE GUIDED BY FOLLY

GOBELIN TAPESTRY DESIGNED BY CHARLES COYPEL

husbands attempt to exercise over their wives.
Sganarelle is the guardian as well as prospective
husband of Isabelle; Artiste, of her sister,
Leonie. Sganarelle, though twenty years younger
than his brother, Artiste, relies upon bolts and
bars; Artiste is a raisonneur who admits the
rights of others, even of a ward or a wife, and is
rewarded in the end by the triumph of his more
human treatment. The part of Sganarelle was
played by Moliere himself, humorously enough
considering his own relations with his own gay
and youthful wife. The scene selected by Oudry
for illustration is the fourteenth in act two. Here
Isabelle hoodwinks Sganarelle deliciously. The
action takes place in a public square of Paris.

The actors are Sganarelle, Isabelle, and Valere.
Valere loves Isabelle and Isabelle loves Valere.
Sganarelle is sure that Isabelle detests Valere and
has brought Valere to Isabelle in order that
Valere may hear from her own lips of her love for
Sganarelle and her desire for marriage with him.
Isabelle uses equivocal language so that Sgana-
relle thinks he is meant as the loved one when
really it is Valere.
She says, ‘‘Let him, without more sighing,
hasten a marriage which is all that I desire, and
accept the assurance which I give him, never
to listen to the vows of another” (pretending to
embrace Sganarelle, while giving her hand to
Valere to kiss).

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