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Dendritic Landscape

after 1860
Not on view
The celebrated novelist George Sand made drawings throughout her life and career. Beginning in the 1860s, she developed unconventional methods of creating compositions from the unexpected forms and textures that resulted from pressing watercolor pigments between two sheets of paper. Describing her own technique, she wrote, "This pressing produces veins that are sometimes strange. With the aid of my imagination, I see in them woods, forests or lakes, and I accentuate these vague forms produced by chance." This landscape with its rocky surfaces and tree roots emerging from shallow soil beautifully demonstrates how the artist transformed her "dendrites" into geological and vegetal forms.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Dendritic Landscape
  • Artist: George Sand (French, Paris 1804–1876 Nohant)
  • Date: after 1860
  • Medium: Watercolor and gouache
  • Dimensions: Sheet: 4 3/4 × 6 1/8 in. (12 × 15.5 cm)
  • Classification: Drawings
  • Credit Line: Purchase, Harvey Salzman Gift, 2026
  • Object Number: 2026.429
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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