Marie d'Agoult
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Marie Catherine Sophie, Comtesse d'Agoult, was a French romantic author and historian, known also by her pen name, Daniel Stern.
Marie d'Agoult (1843), painting by Henri Lehmann
Liszt at the Piano by Josef Danhauser, 1840.
Portrait of d'Agoult by Théodore Chassériau (Musée du Louvre)
George Sand
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Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil, best known by her pen name George Sand, was a French novelist, memoirist and journalist. Being more renowned than either Victor Hugo or Honoré de Balzac in B
Marie d'Agoult
…Rome. During these travels, she became close to Liszt's circle of friends, including Frédéric Chopin, who dedicated his 12 Études, Op. 25 to her, and George Sand. D’Agoult's relationship with Sand began as friendship, with Sand acting as a mentor for the less experienced D’Agoult, but soured over the years amid…
1864 portrait
Portrait of George Sand by Thomas Sully, 1826
Casimir Dudevant, Sand's husband, in the 1860s
Sand sews while Chopin plays piano, in a hypothetical reconstruction of Delacroix's 1838 painting, Portrait of Frédéric Chopin and George Sand.