BERNHARDT SARAH: (1844-1923)
BERNHARDT SARAH: (1844-1923) French stage actress. A good vintage signed cabinet photograph by Bernhardt, the sepia albumen print by Nadar of Rue d´Anjou, Paris, depicting the actress seated in a full-length pose in costume as the celebrated opera singer Floria Tosca, wearing a long floral patterned dress with a dark silk sash tied around her waist, and a hat upon her head, as she holds a long, slender cane in her hands, from the five-act drama La Tosca (1887). At her side an artist's wooden paint box lies open with brushes and sketchbooks scattered loosely on the floorboards. Signed by Bernhardt with her name alone in dark fountain pen ink to the lower mount. With the photographer´s imprint to the lower mount and verso. A couple of very slight, minor surface marks to the image and a small chip to the lower right corner, otherwise about VG
Victorien Sardou´s play La Tosca was first performed at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin in Paris on 24th November 1887 with Bernhardt performing in the title role. Despite negative reviews from the Paris critics at the opening night, it became one of Sardou's most successful plays and was toured by Bernhardt throughout the world in the years following its premiere. The drama would later serve as the basis for Giacomo Puccini´s celebrated opera Tosca (1900).
Nadar (1820-1910) Gaspard-Felix Tournachon. French photographer, caricaturist and balloonist, the first person to take aerial photographs (1858).
BERNHARDT SARAH: (1844-1923) French stage actress. A good vintage signed cabinet photograph by Bernhardt, the sepia albumen print by Nadar of Rue d´Anjou, Paris, depicting the actress seated in a full-length pose in costume as the celebrated opera singer Floria Tosca, wearing a long floral patterned dress with a dark silk sash tied around her waist, and a hat upon her head, as she holds a long, slender cane in her hands, from the five-act drama La Tosca (1887). At her side an artist's wooden paint box lies open with brushes and sketchbooks scattered loosely on the floorboards. Signed by Bernhardt with her name alone in dark fountain pen ink to the lower mount. With the photographer´s imprint to the lower mount and verso. A couple of very slight, minor surface marks to the image and a small chip to the lower right corner, otherwise about VG
Victorien Sardou´s play La Tosca was first performed at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin in Paris on 24th November 1887 with Bernhardt performing in the title role. Despite negative reviews from the Paris critics at the opening night, it became one of Sardou's most successful plays and was toured by Bernhardt throughout the world in the years following its premiere. The drama would later serve as the basis for Giacomo Puccini´s celebrated opera Tosca (1900).
Nadar (1820-1910) Gaspard-Felix Tournachon. French photographer, caricaturist and balloonist, the first person to take aerial photographs (1858).
