Having become a close friend of Félix and Ernestine Nadar, George Sand made them her "official" portraitists. She offered Félix advice on how to run both his business and his life, exhorting him to take good care of his family, particularly his wife, who, she reminded him, had always been devoted to him. When she left Nohant for Paris, she sat for him often, as can be seen by all these potraits of her "old snout," as she jocularly said. Nadar even got her disguise herself as a bust of Louis XIV - with a powdered wig and draped cloth - to parody the bust at the Comédie française theatre.