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Head of a Woman in Profile (George Sand)
About the Artwork
David d'Angers aimed to create a series of portraits in sculpture that would capture all of the outstanding men and women of his time. This drawing relates to a medallion portrait of the writer George Sand, the pseudonym adopted by a woman named Amandine-Aurore-Lucile Dupin so that she could publish her work. David d'Angers captured his sitter's independence sympathetically, as she stares forward and upward, as if seen in thought.
Inscriptions
signed?, lower left, in brown ink: David d'Angers [first name underlined]
Provenance
?-2000: (Galerie Chantal Kiener, Paris, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH) 2000-: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
David d'Angers (1788-1856): Making the Modern Monument. Frick Collection, New York, NY (organizer) (September 17-December 8, 2013).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Pierre-Jean David d'Angers (French, 1788–1856)
- Date
- 1833
- Medium
- graphite
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 20.6 x 15.8 cm (8 1/8 x 6 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of the Painting and Drawing Society of The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession no.
- 2000.40
More by Pierre-Jean David d'Angers in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00011560
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