Cervantes

Umberto Romano, artist

1906–1982

Cervantes, 1967

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: oil; canvas

Dimensions:
Canvas/Support (Height x Width x Depth): 127.6 x 101.3 cm
Canvas/Support (Height x Width x Depth): 50 1/4 x 39 7/8 in

Credit line: Gift of U. R. Romano

Accession number: 1994.0095

Not on display

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This portrait by Italian-born American artist Umberto Romano depicts Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616), the famed author of Don Quixote. Unlike the neighboring painting by Pierre Daura, which celebrates Cervantes’s work, Romano sought to capture the magnificence of the man himself. This work was made as part of Romano’s Great Men series, which represented the faces of great men in history painted in bold, dark colors and abstracted styles on a large scale.