One panel from a series of Gobelins tapestries depicting the story of Don Quixote, based on the novel by Miguel de Cervantes. The scene illustrated is: Sancho Panza despairs at the loss of his donkey (Sancho s'eveille et se desespere de ne plus retrouver son cher crison que Cines de Passamont luy enleve). Sancho Panza is shown sitting on wooden horse with Don Quixote standing by him, within a highly decorative pink ground in imitation of crimson damask (damas cramoisi) decorated with fruit, flowers and trophies. Woven in the workshop of Jacques Neilson after a design by Charles-Antoine Coypel, one of four panels in the Royal Collection from a series of twenty-eight. This series of tapestries was first mentioned in the Gobelins records in 1714, and was repeatedly rewoven throughout the eighteenth century, sometimes with modified borders. The borders eclipse the scenes in importance and the designers of the former were paid correspondingly more than the artist, C. Coypel, who provided the cartoons for the scenes.