A Tale of Two Women

Don Quixote

Nigel Bruce

Jul 31, 2023 • 1 min read

Jules David: illustration from Histoire de Don Quichotte (1887)

Don Quixote and Sancho Panza were Cervantes' extremely popular but rather less than successful heroes. Below are some celebrated images of the pair:

Picasso-Don-Quixote — Pablo Picasso in 1955

Daumier-Don-Quixote — Honoré Daumier in 1850

Jose-Jimenez Aranda: Don Quixote arrives at an inn thinking it's a grand castle, where he hopes to rescue two "noble maidens." Circa 1900

This Pedro de Urdemales image from lower down in another sidebar page, is in fact Don Quixote, by Gustave Doré in 1863. Below is a clever commemorative poster for the 400-year anniversary of Don Quixote of La Mancha as a Las Meninas pastiche, in 2005.