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This unfinished work is one of several paintings Daumier created based on the story of the idealistic knight Don Quixote, written by the seventeenth-century Spanish novelist Miguel de Cervantes. The scene preserves the humour and tragic nobility of the original story, in which Don Quixote’s blind idealism is contrasted with the common sense of his servant, Sancho Panza. A renowned caricaturist, Daumier used the horse and the donkey to express these differing personalities.

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

London

Title

Don Quixote and Sancho Panza

Date

1868–1872

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 100 x W 81 cm

Accession number

P.1932.SC.86

Acquisition method

gift from Samuel Courtauld, 1932

Work type

Painting

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