1863
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Sancho Panza is a 1863 by Gustave Doré, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
A chubby man in a wide-brimmed hat leans forward, hands on knees, peering at something just out of view. His round belly strains against a simple tunic, and his face is all curiosity. This is Sancho Panza, sidekick to Don Quixote in Cervantes’ famous novel. Doré drew him for an 1863 illustrated edition—one of over 300 pictures he made for the book. The small, round shape of the image makes Sancho feel like a living comic-strip panel. If you like how Doré turns words into pictures, look up *chiaroscuro*—the way he uses light and shadow to give his drawings depth.
This image is one of a large group of illustrations that French artist Gustave Doré made for an 1863 edition of Miguel de Cervantes’s novel Don Quixote , originally published in 1605. It depicts Sancho Panza, the humorous sidekick of the novel’s hero. Placed at the end of a chapter in the book, this vignette emphasizes Sancho’s stocky form and curiosity, as he looks forward attentively.
This drawing is one of almost 400 that Gustave Doré created to illustrate Don Quixote.
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Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré was a French printmaker, illustrator, painter, comics artist, caricaturist, and sculptor.
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