BIB_ID
440804
Accession number
MA 23834.1
Creator
Sand, George, 1804-1876, sender.
Display Date
Nohant, France, 1847 April 14
Credit line
Gift of Karen B. Cohen.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 20.4 x 13.2 cm
Notes
The letter is undated and has no place of writing. Date and place of writing from the published edition of the correspondence.
Blind-stamped "G.S." in the top lefthand corner.
Labeled "C" and "1860" (or "1840") in pencil in a later hand.
Sand met Rousseau in 1842 through her beloved son, Maurice, who invited the painter to visit their hometown of Nohant in the lush region of Berry. Sandʼs missive urging Rousseau to return was written in 1847, when the writer had orchestrated Rousseauʼs engagement to Augustine Marie Brault, a cousin whom Sand treated as a daughter. The marriage never occurred: Sandʼs biological daughter, Solange, was infuriated by her motherʼs inordinate favoritism of Brault and sent an anonymous letter to Rousseau that thwarted the engagement and irreparably damaged his relationship with her mother. -- Exhibition Label, from "Into the Woods: French Drawings and Photographs from the Karen B. Cohen Gift.
Blind-stamped "G.S." in the top lefthand corner.
Labeled "C" and "1860" (or "1840") in pencil in a later hand.
Sand met Rousseau in 1842 through her beloved son, Maurice, who invited the painter to visit their hometown of Nohant in the lush region of Berry. Sandʼs missive urging Rousseau to return was written in 1847, when the writer had orchestrated Rousseauʼs engagement to Augustine Marie Brault, a cousin whom Sand treated as a daughter. The marriage never occurred: Sandʼs biological daughter, Solange, was infuriated by her motherʼs inordinate favoritism of Brault and sent an anonymous letter to Rousseau that thwarted the engagement and irreparably damaged his relationship with her mother. -- Exhibition Label, from "Into the Woods: French Drawings and Photographs from the Karen B. Cohen Gift.
Provenance
Karen B. Cohen.
Summary
Urging him to come see her soon; mentioning that she couldn't write to Jules Dupré without writing him as well; alluding to a matter that she had discussed with him earlier (a reference to her daughter Solange's engagement to the sculptor Auguste Clésinger); saying that she is pleased with her daughter, and she hopes that she will be well and happy.
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