Page:Mauprat (Heinemann).djvu/462

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page has been proofread, but needs to be validated.

The Portraits of George Sand


GEORGE SAND
In 1869
From a photograph
suitable to her type, and that she must individualise her costume. In 1851 David d'Angers modelled the medallion here reproduced. The profile is still refined, though the forehead recedes, and the nose is prominent and stubborn. After this, George Sand appears almost exclusively as "The good lady of Nohant," as she was called in that district of Berry in which she lived almost entirely for the rest of her life. This was the final incarnation of the extraordinary "Man of Letters," who was at once so ardently a woman and so truly a "good fellow," from the

GEORGE SAND
In 1866
From a lithograph by Lafosse

424