George Sand
photographer
Nadar
(Paris, 1820 - 1910, Paris)
Date1864
Place MadeFrance, Europe
MediumAlbumen print
Dimensions16.5 x 11 cm (6 1/2 x 4 5/16 in.)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberP27w82
eMuseum ID724789
EmbARK ObjectID24286
TMS Source ID8851
Last Updated8/9/24
Status
Not on viewWeb CommentaryIsabella 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.
BibliographyNotesNina Wutrich, "Inside the French Authors Case: Alexandre Dumas," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 19 July 2022, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/inside-french-authors-case-alexandre-dumas
MarksNotesPrinted 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
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
ProvenanceNotesEntered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection at an unknown date.
