2-995-913 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

"Don Quixote in his Study" - from a painting by Schrödter, 1860. 'M. Schrodter's...influence upon the arts of his country will, doubtless, be considerable, filling as he does the offices of Professor at the Academy at Frankfort and at the School of Dusseldorf. One of...[his] most famous pictures in the Royal Collection at Berlin is that of "Don Quixote in his Study"...In the attitude and expression of the knight of the woful [sic] countenance, in the intentness with which he devours the visionary lore in the old tome which he holds open before him, we discern much of that peculiar tendency to mystic and suggestive treatment which we find in Albert Durer, and which, not unnaturally, is still indulged in by his successors in the same school. The study, which is but faintly lighted through a small, deeply-recessed wall, is strewed with other volumes, together with portions of the knight's armour, in "most admired disorder." Close at his hand is his lance, ready for use on the first chivalrous impulse'. From "Illustrated London News", 1860.