Quentin Durward and the Disguised Louis XI (recto) ; Study of male figure (verso), 1825 or 1826, Watercolor over graphite, sheet: 5 3/4 x 4 1/4 in. (14. 6 x 10. 8 cm), Drawings, Richard Parkes Bonington (British, Arnold, Nottinghamshire 1802?1828 London), 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