The Portraits of George Sand
GEORGE SAND IN MALE ATTIRE
About 1830
From a drawing by Calamatta
are, perhaps, the most numerous and the most amusing to the collector. Besides those by Calamatta. and by Jullien, which we reproduce, there are many others, in morning coats, in riding-habits, in dressing-gowns, to say nothing of the sketches made by her friends and travelling-companions. Alfred de Musset, who was fond of making pen-and-ink portraits verging slightly on caricatures, illustrated his Italian albums with many outline drawings of her who wrung his heart to the
GEORGE SAND
A medallion by David d'Angers, 1851
point of drawing from his lyre the plaintive threnodies of Les Nuits. Mérimée, though we have been unable to find any evidence in support of this hypothesis, must certainly have amused himself at times by satiric renderings of Madame Sand's features, instinct with all the drollery that characterises his pen-and-ink caricatures.
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