#sarah bernhardt

[eternal--returned]

Alphonse Mucha ֍ La Tosca (1899)

[postcard-from-the-past]

French actress Sarah Bernhardt on a vintage postcard

[from-a-spiders-web]

Sarah Bernhardt and Christine Nilsson, 1883 Julius LeBlanc Stewart

[eirene]

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

[agelessphotography]

Sarah Bernhardt, Émile Tourtin, 19th century

[zegalba]

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

[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

[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

[vintagestagehotties]

Mini Poll!

[silent--era]

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

[postcard-from-the-past]

Sarah Bernhardt on a vintage postcard, mailed in 1905

[artschoolglasses]

Photographs of Sarah Bernhardt as Hamlet, 19th Century

From the Victoria & Albert Museum

[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