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Nadar - George Sand, 1864

Nadar (Paris, 1820 - 1910, Paris)

George Sand, 1864

Albumen print , 16.5 x 11 cm (6 1/2 x 4 5/16 in.)

Commentary

Isabella Stewart Gardner admired the work of many women authors and prominently displayed both their publications and their photographic portraits within her museum. Gardner had studied French language and literature as a youth, and she dedicated one of the archival cases in the Long Gallery to the display of French authors, among them the writer Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin, whose pen name was George Sand. This indelible portrait of Sand by French photographer Nadar is a testament to her celebrity in the 1860s.