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- Their paths crossed in 1836 at a social gathering. A few months later the couple began to meet openly, and at the end of 1838 they travelled to Majorca with Aurore's children as a family. There, Chopin composed at least two dozen preludes and other musical pieces while Sand began work on a new novel.
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It’s one of the most romanticized love affairs in music history: dashing cross-dressing woman novelist George Sand becomes obsessed with, and then seduces, the sickly consumptive pianist-composer Frédéric Chopin.
Aug 1, 2019 · Sand claimed they had sailed to the Balearics seeking solitude, where she could write and Chopin compose. They were likely also fleeing from the scandal their love affair had caused in Paris.
- Natalia Nowakowska
Aug 1, 2019 · Sand wrote her novel Spiridion in the monastery, and Chopin composed a number of pieces at Valldemossa. But the romantic happy-ever-after which the most gossiped-about couple of 19th-century...
- The Painting Was Never Completed in The Late 1830s
- The Two Depicted People Were Famous Artists Themselves
- The Painting Was Cut Up Into Two Pieces After The Artist Passed Away
- Sand and Chopin Were Lovers at The Time It Was Painted
- Delacroix Borrowed A Large Attribute But Never Included It
- Cutting Up The Work Makes Sand Look Rather Awkward For A Particular Reason
- How Big Are The Portraits of Frédéric Chopin and George Sand by Delacroix?
- Where Are The Paintings Located Today?
The Portrait of Frédéric Chopin and George Sandis a fascinating work of art by the French master of the Romantic era Eugène Delacroix. He worked on it in the late 1830s and nothing is known about the circumstances in which he painted it. We don’t know whether it was commissioned or intended to be a gift. Delacroix was approaching his forties when h...
The painting depicts the famous Polish composer of the Romantic era Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) to the right. Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin (1804-1876), a French novelist better known by her pen name “George Sand,” can be seen to the left. Chopin became a world-famous composer and virtuoso pianist and is considered to be one of the most renowned mus...
The view of the painting above is a hypothetical image of how the painting might have looked upon completion. Delacroix completely stopped working on it in 1838. Equally remarkable is the fact that it never left the artist’s studio for the following 25 years. It was still in its unfinished state in his studio when he passed away in 1863. Shortly af...
George Sand was an independent woman and a remarkable character in the 19th century. She didn’t shy away from wearing men’s clothes, had affairs with numerous men, and loved to smoke the pipe. She was the one who introduced Chopin to Delacroix after meeting him for the first time in 1836. Sand and Chopin started a troubled relationship in 1838 whic...
Although we can’t see it in the painting, Delacroix borrowed a piano and had it installed in his studio. He did so because he wanted to complete the painting inside of his studio. He never managed to accomplish this and most strikingly, never included the piano in the unfinished painting.
The portrait of Frédéric Chopin looked fairly normal after the painting was cut into two pieces. George Sand looks rather strange. That’s because Delacroix painted her in such a way that she appears to be enjoying the music that her lover Chopin is playing while she is sewing, a hobby of hers. Chopin’s cut only consists of his head, while Sand’s po...
Because the painting was cut up in such a brutal manner, we don’t know exactly how bi the double portrait of both artists was. We do know that the oil on canvas painting of Frédéric Chopin has dimensions of 46 x 38 centimeters (18.1 x 14.9 inches). The Portrait of George Sand is significantly larger as it has dimensions of 81 × 56 centimeters (31.8...
It would have been great if both portraits would hang next to each other, but unfortunately, that’s not the case. Just like the relationship between Chopin and Sand, which ended 2 years before the composer passed away in 1849, the paintings got separated. The portrait of Chopin is part of the collection of the Louvrein Paris, while the Portrait of ...
After the first few months of their love affair in Paris, George Sand and Chopin decided to go on a trip to Mallorca in October 1838. They spent the summer together away from prying eyes and...
Aug 2, 2019 · Sand and Chopin sailed from Barcelona on a cargo ship, its hold full of hogs. Arriving in the capital of Palma, to their shock the couple could not find a functioning hotel.
Portrait of Frédéric Chopin and George Sand by Eugène Delacroix. Lucrezia is 30 and Prince Karol 24, the same ages as Sand and Chopin at the beginning of their affair. The Prince has recently lost both his mother and fiancée, and mysteriously succumbs to an unnamed illness.
