Portrait of Frédéric Chopin and George Sand

The Portrait of Frédéric Chopin and George Sand was an 1838 unfinished oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Eugène Delacroix.

It showed the Polish composer Frédéric Chopin (1810–49) playing the piano while the writer George Sand (1804–76) sits to his right, listening and sewing (a favourite activity of hers).

She became known for behaviour unusual for a woman at the time, including openly conducting affairs, smoking a pipe and wearing men's clothing.

Though their relationship began as physical, Chopin's failing health (described in Sand's autobiographical "Winter in Mallorca"[6]) in time changed her role to that of caregiver.

It was usual in 19th-century bust-sized paintings for the subject to be largely static, but here Sand is shown reacting to the music Chopin is playing, and highly animated and energetic in her emotional response.