#sarah bernhardt

[eirene]

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

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Sarah Bernhardt, Émile Tourtin, 19th century

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

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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

[thepaintedroom]

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

[fuckyeahalphonsemucha]

Sarah Bernhardt posters for Medee and Hamlet

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Sarah Bernhardt on a vintage postcard, mailed in 1905

[mairithetree]

Frida & Sarah by mairithetree

Today for bi visibility day 💗💜💙, celebrated in France and in many other countries, I wanted to share with you a special piece I worked on for the last few days.

Sarah Bernhardt (1844 - 1923) in her Hamlet costume and Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954) in masculine clothes side by side, two bisexual women who marked art history in different eras. It's a hommage to art nouveau as well and to Mucha who portrayed Sarah Bernhardt in many illustrations. Most of the flowers represented as patterns are flowers Frida had worn in her hair 💖💕

Here are the refs that inspired me for that piece : link, link

I cherish this illustration very deeply because this is how I strongly connect with my bi/pansexuality visually speaking : it's intricate, fluid, and colorful.

Going to see exhibitions about Sarah Bernhardt and Frida Kahlo this year had marked me and helped me a lot with the proccess of defining myself. That's why I wanted to draw them together 💖

Happy bi visibility day 🌈

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Mini Poll!

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Sarah Bernhardt in the dramatic tragedy play 'Phèdre', photographed by Nadar, c. 1874

[eirene]

Hamlet, 1899 Alphonse Mucha

[federer7]

Médée (Sarah Bernhardt), 1898

Poster design by Alphonse Mucha

[lubentina]

Georges Clairin (French, 1843-1919)

Sarah Bernhardt dans le rôle de dona Maria de Neubourg dans «Ruy Blas» de Victor Hugo, 1879

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Skull presented to Sarah Bernhardt by Victor Hugo, c. 1877

It was inscribed with verses on the theme of death that he had composed in her honor:

Squelette, qu'as tu fait de l'àme? Lampe, qu'as tu fait de la flame? Cage déserte, qu'as tu fait? De ton bel oiseau qui chantait? Volcan, qu'as tu fait de la lave? Qu'as tu fait de ton maître, esclave?

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Skeleton, what have you done with the soul? Lamp, what have you done with the flame? ...

Ophelia, Sarah Bernhardt, 1880

[thesobsister]

Charles Baudelaire, Sarah Bernhardt, Franz Liszt photographed by Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon), who was quite a remarkable innovator, being, inter alia, the first man to photograph from the air, in a balloon, and also underground, in Paris’ Catacombs.

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