FRANCISCO PACHECO AND THE PORTRAIT OF MIGUEL DE CERVANTES. AN ANALYSIS THROUGH SEVILLIAN NINETEENTH CENTURY PRESS

Abstract

This study intends to show an image of the most popular personification of Cervantes, from a possible portrait shown in San Pedro Nolasco redeeming captives, painted by Francisco Pacheco. This paper will analyze his figure through the artistic literature developed in Seville during the 19th century and through El Ateneo, Periódico de Literatura Española y Extranjera, Ciencias y Bellas Artes - very valuable source of information for the study of the real portrait of the author of El Quijote. This was possible thanks to his director, Jose Maria Asensio and Antoine de Latour’s articles.