Monday, March 31, 2025

 I would like to end this Quixotic month with a portrait of the creator of this phenomenon, but recently (since 1950) none of the available portraits are considered authentic. 
This is the portrait attributed to Juan de Jáuregui.

Juan de Jáuregui
1583- 1641)
 
Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar was a Spanish poet, scholar and painter in the Siglo de Oro.

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


(Possibly) Cervantes. Attributed to Juan de Jáuregui
Circa 1600
Oil on panel
60 x 49.4 cm
Royal Academy of History, Madrid, Spain
 
Portrait of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra commonly said to be that which, according to the prologue to Cervantes' "Exemplary Novels", was painted by Juan de Jáuregui. Modern scholarship does not accept this, or any other graphic representation of Cervantes, to be authentic, nor is there any documentation for Jáuregui having painted this portrait.

Sunday, March 30, 2025

Louis Anquetin
(1861 - 19329)
 
Louis Émile Anquetin was a French painter. In 1882 he came to Paris and began studying art at Léon Bonnat's studio, where he met Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. The two artists later moved to the studio of Fernand Cormon, where they befriended Émile Bernard and Vincent van Gogh.

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


Don Quixote and Sancho Panza
1893
Lithograph
62.1 x 46 cm (sheet)
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
https://emuseum.mfah.org/objects/54552/don-quixote-and-sancho-panza

Saturday, March 29, 2025

Dominicus van Wynen
(1658 - 1700)
 
Domenicus van Wijnen was a Dutch Golden Age painter. 
In 1674 he was a pupil of Willem Doudijns in The Hague. He lived in Rome from 1680–90. According to Houbraken he joined the Bentvueghels, an association of Netherlandish artists in Rome, with the nickname "Askaan". According to the RKD his bentname was "Ascanias".
He was a painter of historical allegories and conversation pieces. Several of the dozen or so paintings firmly attributed to him depict scenes of witchcraft. His painting The Temptation of Saint Anthony is in the National Gallery of Ireland.


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


Don Quixote in the inn
C. 1690
Oil on canvas
73 x 93.5 cm
Museum of Fine Art, Budapest
https://www.mfab.hu/artworks/9126/

Friday, March 28, 2025

Honoré Daumier
(1808 - 1879)
 
Honoré-Victorin Daumier  was a French painter, sculptor, and printmaker, whose many works offer commentary on the social and political life in France, from the Revolution of 1830 to the fall of the Second French Empire in 1870. He earned a living producing caricatures and cartoons in newspapers and periodicals such as La Caricature and Le Charivari, for which he became well known in his lifetime and is still remembered today. He was a republican democrat (working class liberal), who satirized and lampooned the monarchy, politicians, the judiciary, lawyers, the bourgeoisie, as well as his countrymen and human nature in general.

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


Don Quixote in the Mountains
c. 1850
oil on panel
31 x 39 cm.
Artizon Muzeum, Tokyo
https://www.artizon.museum/collection/art/19500

Thursday, March 27, 2025

Marcel Pajot
(b. 1945)

Marcel "Nino" Pajot, born February 24, 1945 in Vergt, Dordogne, is a French painter and illustrator. Since 2010, he has been a full member of the Academy of Letters and Arts of Périgord.

https://plus.wikimonde.com/wiki/Marcel_Pajot


Soleil blanc (White Sun)
Technique mixte sur papier
121 x 73 cm
Private collection

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

 Gustave Doré
(1832 - 1883)
 

Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré was a French printmaker, illustrator, painter, comics artist, caricaturist, and sculptor. He is best known for his prolific output of wood-engravings illustrating classic literature, especially those for the Vulgate Bible and Dante's Divine Comedy. These achieved great international success, and he became renowned for printmaking, although his role was normally as the designer only; at the height of his career some 40 block-cutters were employed to cut his drawings onto the wooden printing blocks, usually also signing the image.

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

Don Quixote and Sancho Panza Entertained by Basil and Quiteria
1863
Oil on canvas
92.1 x 73 cm
The MET
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436207

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

William Frederick Lake Price
(1810 - 1896)
 
William Frederick Lake Price was an English watercolourist and an innovator in mid-nineteenth-century photography.
Lake Price was trained as a topographical and architectural artist by the architect Augustus Charles Pugin. Lake Price exhibited his paintings and watercolours at the Royal Academy and the Royal Watercolour Society. In the 1850s he joined the London Photographic Society and the Photographic Exchange Club of London. In 1858, many of his photographic portraits were published in Portraits of Eminent British Artists.


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

Don Quixote in His Study
1857
Albumen silver print from glass negative
31.9 x 28 cm
The MET
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/271528

 
This carefully staged tableau was among the most widely admired Victorian photographs. Price self-consciously sought to elevate the still-new medium to the level of "high art" by emulating the ambitious literary subjects, expressive gestures, and period details of grand history painting. Although this approach was largely overshadowed in subsequent years by one that championed qualities unique to photographic vision, theatrical staging has found renewed relevance in the work of many contemporary artists.

Monday, March 24, 2025

 Valero Iriarte
(1680 - 1753)
 

Valero Iriarte was a Spanish Baroque painter; specializing in portraits.

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

Don Quixote in his Battle with the Wineskins
C. 1720
Oil on canvas
160 x 220 cm
Fundación Banco Santander, Boadilla del Monte, Spain

Sunday, March 23, 2025

 José Moreno Carbonero
(1860- 1942)
 
José Moreno Carbonero was a Spanish painter and decorator. A prominent member of the Málaga School of Painting, he is considered one of the last great history painters of the 19th century. He was a celebrated portrait painter who enjoyed the patronage of Madrid's high society. He also created genre scenes and some landscapes, vedutas and still lifes.

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


Sancho Panza recovers his lost donkey
1894
oil on canvas
48 x 78 cm
The Prado, Madrid
https://www.museodelprado.es/en/the-collection/art-work/sancho-panza-recovers-his-lost-donkey/c04968b4-f104-4df7-b3d1-6a35d7466c4b?searchid=9ea63e98-b2a9-f7b3-d409-2502e43d2c6c

Saturday, March 22, 2025

Ignacio Merino
(1817 - 1876)
 
Ignacio Merino Muñoz was a Peruvian painter notable for historical and costumbrista works, and considered the founder of the Peruvian school of painting. Beginning at age 6, he spent much of his life in Paris.

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


Reading Don Quixote
1861
Oil on canvas
162 x 130.5 cm
Colección Museo de Arte de Lima, Peru

Friday, March 21, 2025

Mario Pérez Orona
(1929)
 
Mario Pérez Orona was an American painter born in 1929 in Miami, U.S.A.


El Caballero de la Mancha
1983
Mixed art materials on canvas
60 x 50 cm.
Fundación Universidad de las Américas Puebla, Mexico
https://spacesforart.net/catalogo_udlap/?language=es&search=El%20Caballero%20de%20la%20Mancha

Thursday, March 20, 2025

Sofía Bassi
(1913 - 1998)
 
Sofía Bassi  was a Mexican painter and writer noted for her surrealist work as well as her personal life, which included five years in prison for murder. She maintained an active career despite incarceration, painting her first mural in prison in Acapulco, with the assistance of Alberto Gironella, José Luis Cuevas, Rafael Coronel and Francisco Corzas. This mural can now be found at the municipal building of the city.

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



La Quijota
1997
Printmaking
64 x w-48 cm
Fundación Universidad de las Américas Puebla, Mexico
https://spacesforart.net/catalogo_udlap/?language=es&search=La%20Quijota

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Octavio Ocampo
(b. 1943)
 
Octavio Ocampo was born in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico. He grew up in a family of designers, and studied art from early childhood. At art school, Ocampo constructed papier mache figures for floats, altars, and ornaments that were used during carnival parades and other festivals. In high school, Ocampo painted murals for the Preparatory School and the City Hall of Celaya. Ruth Rivera, daughter of artist and muralist Diego Rivera, and Maria Luisa Mendoza encouraged him to attend the School of Painting and Sculpture of the National Fine Art Institute.

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

Visions of Quixote
1989
Oil on canvas

110 x 90 cm.
Specific information regarding the current ownership or exhibition location of the original 
"Visions of Quixote" painting is not readily available.

Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Seiji Yamauchi

Born in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture. Received numerous art awards from the age of four. Studied painting, sculpture, conceptual art, and environmental art at the Diploma of Art at TAFE University in Australia. Studied figure drawing at James Cook University. Obtained permanent residency in Australia in 2002 and has exhibited photo exhibitions, painting exhibitions, and original performance art around the world.

https://www.seiji-yamauchi.com/


Flying Don Quijote
2017
Oil on canvas
10 x 12 cm
Imago Mundi, Treviso, Italy

Monday, March 17, 2025

Beatriz de Bartolomé Díaz
(b. 1971)
 
Beatriz de Bartolomé was born in Madrid in 1971. A lifelong lover of painting since childhood, she began her career at just 9 years old as a student of the famous José Lamiel and later consolidated her foundation in drawing, painting from life with the important master Ricardo Nouvilas. She graduated in Pharmacy from the University of Alcalá de Henares, which allowed her to research the use of different techniques and materials and integrate them into her works.

https://www.beatrizdebartolome.com/sobre-mi


The extrange case of Don Quijote ande the lappost of 9 eyes
2015
Watercolour on paper
100 x 70 cm
AEPE - Asociación Española de Pintores y Escultores

Sunday, March 16, 2025

 Anatoly Zverev
(1931 - 1986)
 
Anatoly (Anatoli) Timofeevich Zverev was a Russian artist, a member of the non-conformist movement and a founder of Russian Expressionism in the 1960s. He spent all of his life in Moscow.

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


Don Quixote
1971
Acrylic on paper, laid on board,
42.5 x 52.5 cm.
Private collection (sold on Dec 3, 2009)
https://macdougallauction.com/en/catalogue/view?id=3851

Saturday, March 15, 2025

 Candido Portinari
(1903- 1962)
 
Candido Portinari was a Brazilian painter. He is considered one of the most important Brazilian painters as well as a prominent and influential practitioner of the neo-realism style in painting.

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



Don Quixote
1961
Oil on canvas
80 x 65 cm
Projeto Portinari, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
https://www.portinari.org.br/en/archive/artwork/16348/don-quixote

Friday, March 14, 2025

Cesare Agostino Detti
(1848 - 1914)
 
Cesare Agostino Detti, or Cesare-Auguste Detti ,was an Italian painter, best known for his historical genre scenes, largely from the 17th and 18th centuries, inspired by the Troubadour style.

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


Don Quixote and Sancho Panza
 Oil on panel
58.4 x 54.3 cm
Private collection (sold on Dec 8, 2017)
https://fineart.ha.com/itm/paintings/cesare-auguste-detti-italian-1847-1914-don-quixote-and-sancho-panzaoil-on-panel23-x-21-3-8-inches-584-x-543/a/5333-69040.s

Thursday, March 13, 2025

Joaquín Sorolla
(1863 - 1923)
 
Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida was a Spanish painter. Sorolla excelled in the painting of portraits, landscapes, and monumental works of social and historical themes. His most typical works are characterized by a dexterous representation of the people and landscape under the bright sunlight of Spain and sunlit water.

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


Stopping along the Way, Scene from Don Quixote
1887
Oil on canvas
84 cm × 132 cm
Private collection

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Ricardo Balaca
(1844 - 1880)
 
Ricardo Balaca y Orejas-Canseco  was a Spanish painter and illustrator who specialized in battle scenes. His brother, Eduardo, was also a well-known painter.
Ricardo Balaca and José Luis Pellicer provided illustrations for a deluxe edition of "Don Quijote de la Mancha" published by Montaner y Simón in 1930. This two-volume folio edition is renowned for its high-quality paper, superior printing, and the inclusion of 44 full-page chromolithographs by Balaca and Pellicer, along with 252 woodcut headers and tailpieces by master engravers such as J. Gómez, Smeeton, Tilly, Sadurní, and Martí. Notably, Balaca passed away before completing all the illustrations, with only half finished at the time of his death.

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


Don Quixote Cap05
Before 1880
Chromo lithographic illustration
Published 1930 by Montaner y Simón 

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

 Wilhelm Marstrand
(1810–1873 )
 
Nicolai Wilhelm Marstrand, painter and illustrator, was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, to Nicolai Jacob Marstrand, instrument maker and inventor, and Petra Othilia Smith. Marstrand is one of the most renowned artists belonging to the Golden Age of Danish Painting.

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


Don Quixote and Sancho Panza at a Crossroads
After 1847
Oil on canvas
85 x 125 cm
The Nivaagaard Collection, Denmark
https://nivaagaard.dk/en/the-collection/marstrand-wilhelm-26/

Monday, March 10, 2025

 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/

Sunday, March 9, 2025

Adrien Louis Demont
 (1851–1828)
 

Adrien Louis Demont was a French landscape painter; associated with the artists' colony at Wissant. 


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


Don Quixote

1893
Oil on canvas
111.0 × 156.0 cm
The National Gallery of Victoria
https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/work/3910/


In nineteenth-century France the reading of popular fiction was thought to carry particular risks. The perils of falling prey to romantic delusions were hilariously illustrated by ‘Don Quixote de la Mancha’, the anti-hero of Miguel de Cervantes’ 1615 novel. Enraptured by stories of knights Don Quixote decides to abandon his role as a country gentleman to embark on a life of adventure. Demont here reinforces Quixote’s delusional state by painting a virtual cavalry in the clouds, a vision Quixote shares with the viewer, but perhaps not his squire Sancho Panza, and his horse who quietly grazes undisturbed by the charging forces above.

 

Saturday, March 8, 2025

Peter Baumgartner
(1834 - 1911)
 

Peter Baumgartner was a German painter.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Baumgartner_(Maler)

Don Quixote erklärt der Dulcinea seine Liebe
(Don Quixote declares his love for Dulcinea)
1811
Oil on cardboard.
49 x 60 cm.
Private collection
Sold by Neumeister on 26. September 2018
https://www.neumeister.com/kunstwerksuche/kunstdatenbank/ergebnis/415-208/Peter-Baumgartner/

Friday, March 7, 2025

William Stewart Watson
(1800 - 1870)
 

William Stewart Watson was born in 1800 and died in Edinburgh in 1870. His style seems based on the work of his contemporary Sir William Allan, a successful Royal Academy painter. Stewart Watson is said to have practised for some years in America, but he was in Rome in 1840 and in London between 1843 and 1847, after which he settled in Edinburgh where he remained for the rest of his life. The artist's favourite subjects were portraits and history paintings. In addition to painting, Stewart Watson often used other techniques and materials such as ink, watercolour, chalk and charcoal. He is also known as a miniature painter.


https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/artists/william-stewart-watson


Don Quixote Tilting at a Windmill
Before 1832
68.60 x 92.10 cm
National galleries of Scotland
https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/5558

Thursday, March 6, 2025

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
(1796 - 1875)
 
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot or simply Camille Corot, was a French landscape and portrait painter as well as a printmaker in etching. A pivotal figure in landscape painting, his vast output simultaneously referenced the Neo-Classical tradition and anticipated the plein-air innovations of Impressionism.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste-Camille_Corot


Don Quixote
1868
Oil on canvas
189.9 × 138.1 cm
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio.
https://www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org/art/explore-the-collection?id=18352350
 
This one needs a closer look I think…
 

 


Wednesday, March 5, 2025

José Moreno Carbonero
(1858– 1942)
 
José Moreno Carbonero was a Spanish painter and decorator. A prominent member of the Málaga School of Painting, he is considered one of the last great history painters of the 19th century. He was a celebrated portrait painter who enjoyed the patronage of Madrid's high society. He also created genre scenes and some landscapes, vedutas and still lifes.

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


Don Quixote e Sancho Pança
1911
Oil on canvas
48.5 x 67.5 cm
Pinacoteca de São Paulo, Brazil
https://acervo.pinacoteca.org.br/online/ficha.aspx?ns=201000&id=19019&lang=BR&IPR=4094

Tuesday, March 4, 2025

Eugène Delacroix
(1798 - 1863)
 
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix  was a French Romantic artist who was regarded as the leader of the French Romantic school.

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

Don Quixote in His Library
1824
Oil on canvas
40 x 32 cm
Tokyo Fuji Art Museum
https://www.fujibi.or.jp/en/collection/artwork/01264/

Monday, March 3, 2025

Charles-Antoine Coypel
(1694 - 1752)
 
Charles-Antoine Coypel was a French painter, art critic, and playwright. He became court painter to the French king and director of the Académie Royale. He inherited the title of Garde des tableaux et dessins du roi (Keeper of the paintings and drawings of the king), a function which combined the role of director and curator of the king's art collection. He was mainly active in Paris.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles-Antoine_Coypel



Don Quixote served by the girls at the inn
After Charles-Antoine Coypel, 18th Century
18th century
Oil on canvas
80.7 x 98.7cm
Private collection (Sold at Bonhams, Fevbruary 2024)
https://www.bonhams.com/auction/30152/lot/25/after-charles-antoine-coypel-18th-century-don-quixote-served-by-the-girls-at-the-inn-framed-1058-x-1249cm/
 
Work after Coypel's original, which was part of a series of cartoons that were to be executed in tapestry at the Gobelins factory, and now in Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris.

Sunday, March 2, 2025

Pablo Picasso
(1881 - 1973)
 
Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) and the anti-war painting Guernica (1937), a dramatic portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by German and Italian air forces during the Spanish Civil War.

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


Don Quixote
1955
Sketch
 
Don Quixote is a 1955 sketch by Pablo Picasso of the Spanish literary hero and his sidekick, Sancho Panza. It was featured on the August 18–24 issue of the French weekly journal Les Lettres Françaises in celebration of the 350th anniversary of the first part, published in 1605, of the Miguel de Cervantes novel Don Quixote. Made on August 10, 1955, the drawing Don Quixote was in a very different style than Picasso’s earlier Blue, Rose, and Cubist periods.

Saturday, March 1, 2025

Adolf Schrödter
(1805 - 1875)
 
Adolf Schrödter or Adolph Schroedter was a German painter and graphic artist; associated with the Düsseldorf school of painting. He is considered to be one of the pioneers of German comics. 

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


Don Quichotte, in an armchair reading
1834
Oil on canvas
54,5 x 46 cm
Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/CM42MX2XZ5R6LT2LLZBAGZDOUA4EAFRG?lang=en

Eva Gonzalès (1849 - 1883)   Eva Gonzalès was a French Impressionist painter. She was one of the four most notable female Impressionists in ...