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BERNHARDT, SARAH
Neg. No: [00035]
Neg. Size: 15"X12"
Neg. Date: [1899]

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Sitter: Sarah Bernhardt (stage name), Madame Aristides Damala née Sarah Marie Henriette Bernhardt (1844-1925).

Biog: French actress and manager; m. (1881) Aristides Damala, actor (stage name: Jacques Damala) (1855-1889).

Role: Hamlet.

Mucha, Sarah Bernhardt:
Hamlet (1899)

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.

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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].

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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.

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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).

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