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This is an albumen print done in warm brown tones. It is a bust-length portrait of the French author George Sand.  Her shoulders and head are turned slightly to the viewer’s right. Her voluminous curly hair is parted in the middle and poufs out at the sides.  She wears dangling earrings.  Her clothing consists of a collarless robe or jacket in brown and cream thin stripes over a black dress with a lacy collar and a string bow tie.

George Sand, 1864

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

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Accession number

P27w82

Primary Creator

Full title

George Sand

Creation Date

1864

Object Case

French Authors Case

Provenance


Entered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection at an unknown date.

Marks

Printed in red (lower left): Nadar
Printed in red (lower right): Rue d'Anjou St Hre 51 / (Hôtel Privé)
Inscribed in ink (lower center): G. Sand
Printed in red (verso): Médaille d'Or / Exposition Universelle. / 1878 / Nadar / Rue D'Anjou St. Honoré, 51 / à l'Angle de la Chapelle Expiatoire B.t Haussmann / Hotel Privé - Ascenseur - Téléphone / Paris / Anciennement Boulevart des Capucines / H. & F. Paris

Dimensions

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

Display Media

Albumen print

Web 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.

Permanent Gallery Location

Long Gallery

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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.