Remembering Sarah Bernhardt on her birthday π
π· 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
π· 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 βοΈ
Coffee with Sarah Bernhardt, c.1895 βοΈ
Sarah Bernhardt as Lady Macbeth
π· Nadar, 1884
π· Nadar, 1884
Sarah Bernhardt in a carriage in San Francisco after the earthquake & fire of 1906.
Photo: Arnold Genthe
@librarycongress
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 ..."
@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 Β£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."
"... 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
Sarah Bernhardt, from Portraits of Actors and Actresses, 1898
@MuseumModernArt
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