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 put it. Nadar even got her dress up as a bust of Louis XIV - with a powdered wig and draped cloth - to parody his bust at the Comédie française theatre.