New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-02-19
S sKETcHEs OF ARTISTS.


Mon cher Cotone1-I begin to-day with pic
ture Of George Sand, the celebrated French au-
thoress, and hope it will please you and your kind
readers.
AS every one knows, George Sand is only the
pseudonym or the nom De guerre" of beauti-
fol authoress. Onr heroine selected this name,
because it is the first syllable of Sandeau the name
of her lover, respectable author, who, notwzth-
standing, couldn't become as celebrated with the
whole OF his name as lis e9ee ami with half of IT,
The true name Of George Sand is Aurora DudeYant,
like that of her legitimate husband, who is really
not myth as many believed, but hona'fde
noblenan from the province of Berry. 10 his
credit may it be said that he lived on the best terms
with his divorced wife, and was not a rare visitor
at her house on the Quai Votaire. he was the pos
SCISSOR of common, everyday face, which
expressed neither afability nor bad temperament.
Yet one looking at it could easily understand that
such q damp, sober physiognomy like his, with
porcelain eyes and monotonous bearing, might
amuse well enough an everyday sort OF woman,
but that in the Of time it was sure to become
horrible to woman ike George Sand.
The family name of Sand is Dupin. She is. the
daughter of of moderate circumstances,
whose mother was once the celebrated danseuse
Dupin This danseuse Dupin, it is said, was an IL
legitimate daughter of the duke Maurice de sake,
who was himself an ulegitimate son of the Elector
| Of SAKE. The mother Of Maurice de Sake was1
caiEcd Aurora de Koenigsmark, aid Aurora Dude
| yant who was named after her ancestor, named
| her own son Maurice. He and an only daughter.
married to the celebrated sculptor Cessinger-are
| the only children Of George Sand. She was always
good mother, and took great pride in giYing ller
| children frst-rate education at her own hands.
George Sand, the great authorcss, is Il beautiful
| woman-a beauty of tie first water. Like the
genius that adorns her works, her soul eHllfehs
| her face. Her features are of regular Grecian
shape The cut Of her face ia of matchless beauty,
and relieved by a certain sentimentahty Which
spreads over it like o vail. Her forehead Is not
high and her exquisite chesnut brown mar, parted,
fallsin graceful rnglets down to her shoulder. her
eyes are little dim, at least not brilliant, or may
| be their brliaucy has vanished in consequence Oh
the tears they have she'd gone over to her works.
| to charm mankind.
At the same fine the author of Leila has soft,
loving eyes, which neither remind you OF Sodom
nor Gonorrah She has neither an emancipated
eagle nor an independent pug nose, but a very
ordinary straight nose A goodhumored smile
generally plays around her mouth though it is not
attractive. Her downhaDging chin betrays a
| plSSeu stuaitiFtlSSaJ luouSh AoH4" ~''@ H-S'J
proportioned. Her shoulders are beautiful-nay,
even exquisite. Also her arms, hands, and feet.
The charms of her bust Ill leave to other cotem
poraries to describe. for confess that am unequal
to the task. The other portions of her body are 0
little too big-at least too short. Only her heaG
bears the stamp of genius and deaity, and remind:
one of the noblest remnants of Grecian &rt. Ii
that respect one of her friends was right when he
compared the beautiful woman to a marble statue
of the Venus of Milo which stands in the Sale DE-
} Louvre. Yes, George Sand is as handsome as tht
!, Venus de Milo, nay, even handsomer, for she il
, younger. The physiognomists who assert that th
voice of men generally bespeak their character
would indeed be astonshed to judge the extra
!. ordinary soul and sentiment of George Sand b.
her voice. for the sound Of it is neither musical no
d what she utters brilliant
: She possesses none Of that bnbbling esprit Of be
e country women, nor any of their talhatiyenes
| She loves the society of celebrated men. Alfre
}. de Musset and Frederic Chopin, the great piani
and musician, were for long time her Cavalier
u Servante. Though she had great many enemie
:, among the knights of the church, of politics an
the holy matrimonial rights yet even her bitteres
G enemies agree that her works are full of geniu
II nature, taste. beauty, harmony and certain e!
. thusiastic ideality in which one ever surpasse
n her.
| FERGUSON.