Sand2023

10. The Walled City (La ville fortifiée) Ink wash on paper 2¼ x 3¼ in. (6 x 8.5 cm)

literature: Bernadac, p. 178, no. 267 (illustrated)

This ink drawing references the style of another writer-draughtsman, Victor Hugo, whose speech calling Sand the “Great woman of the Romantic Age” was read at her funeral on June 12, 1876 by Paul Meurice, a writer and close friend to Hugo. In this century that has as its mission the end of the French Revolution and the beginning of the human revolution, gender equality being part of the equality of men, a great woman was needed. . . . George Sand will be one of the prides of our century and our country.