Портрет Фредерика Шопена и Жорж Санд

Delacroix painted this in the late 1830s, and the two people in it were lovers and both his close friends. The composer Frédéric Chopin sat at the piano, playing. To his right, the writer George Sand listened, sewing, which she liked to do. Delacroix never finished it, and it stayed in his studio until he died in 1863. Then something strange happened to the canvas. A dealer cut it in two, on the idea that two pictures would sell for more than one, and a good deal of the painting was simply lost in the process. Chopin's head went one way and now hangs in the Louvre in Paris. What survives here in Copenhagen is George Sand alone, still turned toward a piano that is no longer in the frame.