Achille Devéria Illustrates George Sand

Achille Devéria, Illustration for Les Jardins en Italie (Gardens in Italy) by George Sand. From a nineteenth century manuscript copy. 1856

If the date on this is accurate, which seems likely, Achille would have been illustrating this a year before his death. He illustrated Musset's Gamiani in 1848, which was originally published in 1833. Its rumored that Gamiani was partly inspired by Sand, with whom Musset had a brief romance during the early 1830's.

In 1855 Sand rented the Villa Piccolomini in Frascati, Italy from March 31 to April 19, which is presumably where Les Jardins en Italie was written, or at least inspired. She was there with her son Maurice Sand who also illustrated an edition of the text.