Landscape with a Fantastic Castle

1865

Not on view

Although best known as an author, Sand made drawings throughout her life and career. Like her contemporary Victor Hugo, a fellow novelist, she used unconventional methods involving chance in her drawing practice. She often, for example, developed compositions from the unexpected forms and textures that resulted from pressing pools of watercolor or ink between two sheets of paper. Characteristic of her Romantic interests, this landscape provokes the imagination with the fantastical ruin at the top of the hill. Two small figures ascend toward it, while seabirds flock overhead. Sand dedicated the work to her son Maurice.

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Title: Landscape with a Fantastic Castle
Artist: George Sand (French, Paris 1804–1876 Nohant)
Date: 1865
Medium: Watercolor and graphite
Dimensions: Sheet: 10 1/4 × 15 1/16 in. (26.1 × 38.3 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Purchase, Charles and Jessie Price Gift, 2013
Object Number: 2013.179
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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