Landscape with a Fantastic Castle

George Sand

1865 · Watercolor and graphite · Drawings and Prints

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.

Artist

George Sand

Date

1865

Medium

Watercolor and graphite

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Purchase, Charles and Jessie Price Gift, 2013