SAND George (1804-1876).

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SAND George (1804-1876).
69 L.A.S. "GS", "George" or "G. Sand", 1834-1862, to Eugène DELACROIX; 143 pages in various sizes, mostly in-8, mounted on tabs and interfoliated with vellum paper, all bound in a small in-4 volume, red half-maroquin with corners and gilded fi lt, spine with 5 nerves adorned with gilded fi lt (Semet & Plumelle). Magnificent correspondence which testifies to the aff ectuous friendship between the novelist and the painter. It was on the occasion of the portrait of George Sand commissioned by François Buloz (acquired in 2016 by the Eugène Delacroix National Museum) that the friendship with her painter Eugène DELACROIX () began, who fi t of her another portrait with Chopin (now dismembered). Delacroix stayed three times in Nohant, and welcomed in his studio Maurice, his friend's son. This friendship only ended with the death of the painter in 1863. Their correspondence was collected in 2005 by Mme Françoise Alexandre (we refer to the number of the letters in this edition, except for 3 letters that were forgotten, by referring to the volume of Sand's Correspondence published by G. Lubin; we follow the chronological order here, which is somewhat different from the order of the letters in the collection). The collection opens with an autograph receipt signed by DELACROIX for his portrait: "I have received from Monsieur Buloz the sum of [800 biff é] ff for a portrait of Me Sand. This 17th March 1835 Eug. Delacroix". Thursday [20 November 1834]. "I am too ill today to go and bore you with my sad fi gure. Would you like us to postpone the meeting until tomorrow? I will try to get you to finish this portrait. It is an opportunity for me to get to know you, and I have long wanted this honour. .... [1] [November-December 1836]. She is happy to do him a favour and to see him again. "I am sending you back your magazine and your paper cloth. Use it as you wish; I know very well what would be the most natural. I'm sorry, these are the jokes of a pig dealer that scandalize the beautiful world. [...] you have in me a devoted comrade, ill-bred, but a good boy. [XXV, S151-152] [November 27, 1839]. Invitation to dinner with Marie Dorval "who is more cheerful, witty and amusing than I am. You will dine better than the first time. There will be parsley around the beef and sugar on the doughnuts"... [15] [2 January 1840]. "Dearest decoration, we count on you to dine at the cabaret today with Chopin, Calamatta, Bignat and Grzym[ala]. - In the evening we will go to Chop's, and the first one who does not enjoy himself will be thrown out of the windows..." [April], inviting the "dear old rascal who is abandoning us" to dinner with Marie Dorval. [May 18], invitation to dine with Theodore Rousseau who "adores you". [December 1], to spend the evening at Pauline Viardot's: "There is no one but us... [14 December], to go with his son Maurice to the Invalides to attend the return of the ashes of Napoleon: "Don't be crushed and have fun if you can"... Invitations to the theatre... [16, 23, 24, 27, 28, 32, 33] [6 February 1841]. Invitation to the "old cat" to a concert at the Conservatoire by Pauline Viardot, "who sings 2 pieces of Handel with chorus, and an aria by Mozart"... [9 ? February], thanking for the beautiful music. She is "up to her ears in publishers", but the next day she will go "to kiss you and bow down before your masterpieces"... [12 ? March]. "Chopin claims that I have done something stupid" by inviting the painter Gudin to dinner with the Marquis de Rancogne, "stupidly according to what Chip-Chip says, who claims that you are badly together. [...] I don't like his painting. But I find him very nice and a good boy. Then Chopin claims that I am mistaken, that you are estranged, that it is not Gudin but Scheff er who is always talking to me about you, that I have no memory, and then I don't know what, so that I don't know anything anymore [...] We will have Michelangelo, to compensate you, and certainly Chopinet will play a little. [24 May], dinner with Papet. [Beginning of June?], about the Companion of the Tour de France: "It is only a poor essay, half missed perhaps, and which is only a preface to other developments"... [Nohant July 8th]. She invites him to Nohant at the same time as Pauline Viardot: "To be in the country between Pauline and Chipchip, that is something. Not to mention that I like you and that it is also something to be loved. Her son Maurice "dabbles all day, and in the midst of his fumbling, it seems to me that he is making progress. She has "gone back to painting watercolours. But I am forced to abstain from this debauchery; for her poor novel must be finished, as it is flapping with one wing and is singularly disturbed by the horse and the dog. Amusing passage about his dog Pistolet, and account of an impressive earthquake. [23 ? August]. She
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