#sarah bernhardt

[chic-a-gigot]

L'Art et la mode, no. 8, vol. 24, 21 février 1903, Paris. Au Theatre Sarah-Bernhardt. Andromaque. Mme Sarah-Bernhardt dans le rôle d'Hermione. Cliché P. Boyer. Bibliothèque nationale de France

[eirene]

Jeanne d’Arc-Sarah Bernhardt, 1889-1894 Eugène Grasset

[neshamama]

sarah bernhardt, "self-portrait as a chimera," c.1880, bronze

[ghw-archive]

Sarah Bernhardt, the famed Parisian actor, adored the posters Mucha made for her performances, such as this poster for Hamlet (1899). Bernhardt is one of a handful of women who have played the male hero in Shakespeare’s Hamlet

[zegalba]

Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923), Ophelia (detail).

[agelessphotography]

Sarah Bernhardt, Émile Tourtin, 19th century

[random-brushstrokes]

Walford Graham Robertson - The Actress Sarah Bernhardt in Her Salon (1889)

[thepaintedroom]

Marie-Desiree Bourgoin (French, 1839–1912) • Sarah Bernhardt Sculpting in Her Studio • 1879 • Watercolor and gouache over graphite • Metropolitan Museum of Art

[postcard-from-the-past]

Sarah Bernhardt on a vintage postcard, mailed in 1905

[fuckyeahalphonsemucha]

Sarah Bernhardt posters for Medee and Hamlet

[nancydrewwouldnever]

Alphonse Mucha, Médée [Medea], 1898, lithograph (National Gallery of Australia, Canberra)

[eternal--returned]

Alphonse Mucha ֍ La Tosca (1899)

[eirene]

Hamlet, 1899 Alphonse Mucha

[artschoolglasses]

Photographs of Sarah Bernhardt as Hamlet, 19th Century

From the Victoria & Albert Museum

[vintagestagehotties]

Mini Poll!

[sassafrasmoonshine]

Alphonse Mucha (Czech, 1860 - 1939) • Sarah Bernhardt as La Princesse Lointaine • Poster for La Plume magazine • 1897