Don Quixote and the Dead Mule, after 1864, Oil on wood, 9 3/4 x 18 1/8 in. (24.8 x 46 cm), Paintings, Honoré Daumier (French, Marseilles 1808–1879 Valmondois), 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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