Hippolyte Lecomte
(1781 - 1857)
 

Hippolyte Lecomte was a French painter best known for large scale historical paintings and ballet designs. His wife, born Camille Vernet, was the sister of the painter Émile Jean-Horace Vernet. His son, Émile Vernet-Lecomte, was also a noted painter. The caricaturist Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard, better known as "J.J. Grandville", worked in Lecomte's studio.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippolyte_Lecomte

The Return of Don Quixote
1829
Oil on canvas
27.5 x 38.5 cm
Private collection
Sold by Dorotheum, Vienna on 16-10-2012
https://www.dorotheum.com/en/l/5493780/