Image

Honoré Daumier

Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, 1865-1867

Description

Maker

Title

Don Quixote and Sancho Panza

Year

1865-1867

Medium

Pen and ink, brush and ink, and watercolor over graphite on wove paper

Materials/Techniques

Supports

Dimensions

14.8 x 28 cm (5 13/16 x 11 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed at LL, in ink: h. Daumier.

Type

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Murray S. Danforth

Object Number

42.208

Projects & Publications

Publications

Selection V

French Watercolors and Drawings, ca. 1800-1910

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

From Dürer to Van Gogh

June 5 - October 26, 2008

The Realist painter and famed cartoonist of 19th-century France, Honoré Daumier, made several illustrations for Miguel de Cervantes’s novel, Don Quixote (1605/1615), which was Daumier’s favorite book. The Don and his squire Sancho Panza ride upon what must be more properly donkeys than horses. The hesitancy and gait of the animals is crucial to relaying the reckless uncertainty, delusion, and humor of the story.

Use

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