Don Quixote Tilting at Windmills, from “Don Quixote in Grotesques”
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- Object
- Don Quixote Tilting at Windmills, from “Don Quixote in Grotesques”
- Accession number
- 2014.567
- Date
- ca. 1674–76
- Makers
- Unknown Designer
- Francis Poyntz
- Medium
- Wool, silk and precious metal-wrapped threads
- Dimensions
- Overall: 124 13/16 × 131 1/2 in. (317 × 334 cm)
- Classification
- Textiles-Tapestries
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Purchase, Louis V. Bell, Harris Brisbane Dick, Fletcher, and Rogers Funds and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest and Annette de la Renta and Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Chilton Jr. Gifts, 2014
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- House
- —
- Garment family
- other
- Era
- pre-1800
- Season
- —
- Material family
- silk
- wool
- metal_stone