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Don Quixote
Pichakhchi Sergey- Technique
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 110 × 100 cm
- Year
- 2017
Half-length portrait of a gaunt, elderly knight in rusted armor and red cloak, sword in hand, before an arid hilltop village.
- Style
- Realism
- Mood
- Melancholic
- Themes
- Portrait · Men · History
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- Packing
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About this work
An elderly man with wild grey hair, a drooping moustache and pointed beard fills the center of the canvas, his worried eyes looking out. He wears a battered metal breastplate over a white shirt with a ruffled collar, a heavy crimson cloak draped over both shoulders, and gauntlets; his hand rests on the hilt of an upright sword. Behind him a dry, ochre landscape stretches to small hilltop settlements under a darkening sky.
Warm flesh tones and burnished metal play against the deep crimson cloak and a near-black upper background, while distant terrain is rendered in muted greens and ochres. Smooth, tightly blended brushwork models the armor's dents and the deeply lined face, giving the figure a weary, melancholic dignity.
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