# (Scene from Don Quixote)

- By: John Ritto Penniman (born Milford, MA 1782-died Baltimore, MD 1841)
- Date: 1816
- Medium: oil on wood
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: 30 x 24 3/4 in. (76.2 x 62.9 cm.)
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. George Viault
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=19533)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/1833d93cf7de6e0ae737f0d60a5f657d.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

This painting shows a scene from the seventeenth-century novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. Inspired by stories of chivalry, Don Quixote traveled “through the world in search of adventures.” He met a young girl who had run away from home disguised in boy’s clothing. Here, she has just been discovered by three of Quixote’s companions, who stare in confusion, aroused by “his” beautiful long legs that appear to be made of “pure alabaster.”