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A poster for the Paris premiere of Jules Massenet's 1910 opera Don Quichotte at the Gaîté-Lyrique. Loosely based on Cervantes' novel Don Quixote, this opera in five acts follows the eponymous knight as he attempts to retrieve a necklace and win the love of the beauty Dulcinée. The opera was scored to a French libretto by Henri Caïn.Poster: Georges Rochegrosse; restoration: Adam Cuerden