Dulcinea del Toboso
1839
oil
panel
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
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Charles Robert Leslie
Charles Robert Leslie (1794–1859) was an artist, born in London.
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oil
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From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dulcinea del Toboso is a 1839 oil by Charles Robert Leslie, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting depicts a woman with dark hair, dressed in a red corset and white blouse. Her hands are raised to her head, and she sits in a chair with her back to a wall. The background is a dark, muted color. The woman's attire and hairstyle suggest a historical or period setting. The artist's use of color and lighting creates a sense of depth and dimensionality in the painting. The painting is held at the Victoria and Albert Museum. If you're interested in learning more about the artist's technique, you might want to look up chiaroscuro.
Dulcinea del Toboso is an oil painting by the American-British artist Charles Robert Leslie, from 1839. It portrays the fictional character of Dulcinea del Toboso from Miguel de Cervantes's classic novel Don Quixote.
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Leslie was known for his paintings based on scenes from popular literature. The painting was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1839 at the National Gallery. One critic objected to the title of the painting was a "misnomer" as it was in fact "a very carefully painted picture of a buxom country wench", overlooking the fact that this was exactly what Dulcinea del Toboso was outside the delusions of Don Quixote. Leslie does, however, depart from the novel's description of Dulcinea as "golden-haired", and elected to depict her with dark or reddish hair. Today the work is in the…
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Source: wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Charles Robert Leslie (1794–1859) was an artist, born in London.
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