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Sitter: Sarah Bernhardt (stage name), Madame Aristides Damala née Sarah Marie Henriette Bernhardt (1844-1925). |
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Biog: French actress and manager; m. (1881) Aristides Damala, actor (stage name: Jacques Damala) (1855-1889). Role: Hamlet. Mucha, Sarah Bernhardt:
http://websumer.medoc-ias.u-psud.fr/mwww/mucha/sb_ a07_hamlet.htm [The Divine Trilogy of Sarah Bernhardt] Date: June 1899. Occasion: French version, by Eugene Morand and Marcel Schwab, of Shakespeare's "Hamlet", The Adelphi Theatre, 12 June 1899. Location: The Lafayette Studio, 179 New Bond Street, London. Descr: 3/4 L standing, with book. Costume: - Costume Designer: -Costume Supplier: - Jewellery: - Furniture & Props: Painted backdrop.
Photographer: Lafayette Ltd., 179 New Bond Street, London. Evidence of photographer at work: - No of poses: 2 [note published image by Lafayette as a mezzotint cabinet card for which negative does not exist].
Copyright: V&A All images on this site are copyright V&A. For further information on using or requesting copies of any images please contact the V&A Picture Library: vaimages@vam.ac.uk including the URL of the relevant page Provenance: Pinewood Studios; acquired 1989.
References: Biog: S. Bernhardt, My Double Life, London, 1907; The Times, 27 March 1923, p 13f-14c; R. Brandon, Being Divine: A Biography of Sarah Bernhardt, London, 1991. Role: The Era, 17 June 1899, p 13a. Occasion: The Era, 17 June 1899, p 13a. Costume: - Costume Designer: - Costume Supplier: - Jewellery: - Reproduced: St. Paul's, 1 July 1899, p 24; (version) The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, 24 June 1899, p 661; (version) Madame, 24 June 1899, p 225; (version) St. Paul's, 1 July 1899, front page; (version) St. Paul's, 1 July 1899, p 25.
Additional Information: 9 poses of this session have been registered for copyrights (see: PRO Kew, London, Copy 1/440, under the date: 30 June 1899).
Acknowledgements: -
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