Quentin Durward and the Disguised Louis XI (recto); Study of male figure (verso) 1825-26 Richard Parkes Bonington British Working in Paris, Bonington established new standards for watercolor, and here uses the medium to describe an episode near the start of Sir Walter Scott's "Quentin Durward" (1823). That novel dramatizes a fifteenth-century power struggle between Louis XI and Charles, Duke of Burgundy, and proved more popular in France than Britain when first published. The title character, standing here at right, is a young man of good family who travels to Plessisles-Tours in France to seek employment in the king's band of Scottish archers. After nearly drowning while fording a flooded river, Durward upbraids two onlookers who failed to warn him of the danger. Dressed as merchants, they are in fact Louis XI and Tristan l'Hermite, Marshall of France. The king-calling himself Maître Pierre and sporting red hose-admires the young man's spirit, conveyed in the drawing through his asser

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Quentin Durward and the Disguised Louis XI (recto); Study of male figure (verso) 1825-26 Richard Parkes Bonington British Working in Paris, Bonington established new standards for watercolor, and here uses the medium to describe an episode near the start of Sir Walter Scott's "Quentin Durward" (1823). That novel dramatizes a fifteenth-century power struggle between Louis XI and Charles, Duke of Burgundy, and proved more popular in France than Britain when first published. The title character, standing here at right, is a young man of good family who travels to Plessisles-Tours in France to seek employment in the king's band of Scottish archers. After nearly drowning while fording a flooded river, Durward upbraids two onlookers who failed to warn him of the danger. Dressed as merchants, they are in fact Louis XI and Tristan l'Hermite, Marshall of France. The king-calling himself Maître Pierre and sporting red hose-admires the young man's spirit, conveyed in the drawing through his asser

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