Gil Blas and Donna Maria Escaping from the Robber's Cave, (painting).

Gil Blas and Donna Maria Escaping from the Robber's Cave, (painting).

Glass, James William, 1825-1855, painter.

Gil Blas and Donna Maria Escaping from the Robber's Cave, (painting).

39 7/8 x 25 1/2 in. (75.9 x 64.8 cm).

Depiction taken from the Spanish romance "The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane (1715-1735) by Le Sage. Scene showing Gil Blas leading a horse out of a cave, with Donna Maria clutching his arm.

Literature -- Le Sage -- The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane

Literature -- Character -- Gil Blas

Literature -- Character -- Donna Maria

Landscape -- Phenomenon -- Cave

Animal -- Horse

Wadsworth Atheneum, 600 Main Street, Hartford, Connecticut 06103 Accession Number: 1856.1

Wadsworth Atheneum, 1974.

Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin, "American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum," New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1996, pg. 412.

Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin, "American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum," New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1996, fig. 242.

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