Remembering Sarah Bernhardt on her birthday 🎂
📷 Nadar, c.1865
"Her performances were legendary and her affairs lurid, matched only by a prodigious ability to convert both into hard cash."
- Olivia Laing
Manuel Orazi
Coffee with Sarah Bernhardt, c.1895 ☕️
Sarah Bernhardt as Lady Macbeth
📷 Nadar, 1884
Sarah Bernhardt in a carriage in San Francisco after the earthquake & fire of 1906.
Photo: Arnold Genthe
@librarycongress
A French marble relief of Sarah Bernhardt as #Ophelia
@NYPL digital collection
"Her clothes spread wide;
And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up ..."
Another version of the Sarah Bernhardt #Ophelia relief was recently sold @Sothebys for more than £300,000.
"... but long it could not be
Till that her garments, heavy with their drink,
Pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay
To muddy death."
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Sarah Bernhardt, from Portraits of Actors and Actresses, 1898
@MuseumModernArt
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