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| Don Quixote and the Dead Mule |
Artist:Honoré Daumier (French, Marseilles 1808–1879 Valmondois)
Date:after 1864
Medium:Oil on wood
Dimensions:9 3/4 x 18 1/8 in. (24.8 x 46 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1909
Accession Number:09.198
This work, one of many versions of the subject that Daumier painted after 1864, illustrates a passage from Don Quixote, the epic novel by Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616). The knight, in the company of his squire, Sancho Panza, encounters the body of a dead mule, still saddled and bridled but already half-devoured by wolves and crows.
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