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Photo, Print, Drawing Sarah Bernhardt: Puzzle in Ten Postcards Depicting Sarah in Her Different Roles. Sarah Bernhardt: puzzle de dix cartes postales représentant Sarah dans ses différents rôles

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Title

  • Sarah Bernhardt: Puzzle in Ten Postcards Depicting Sarah in Her Different Roles.

Other Title

  • Sarah Bernhardt: puzzle de dix cartes postales représentant Sarah dans ses différents rôles

Summary

  • Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) was a French stage actress who was arguably the most famous actress of the 19th century. She deliberately cultivated an aura about herself using every form of media, earning such titles as "the Divine Sarah" and the "Sacred Monster." In France and other countries, her image was endlessly circulated in paintings, engravings, photographs, statues, posters, advertisements, and satirical drawings. This puzzle, consisting of ten postcards, displays her silhouette in her most famous roles, female and male, tragic and dramatic. Throughout her career, Bernhardt reinterpreted many classic roles, such as in the title role in Phèdre by Jean Racine (1639-99), but she also played many roles that contemporary authors created just for her, for example in such plays as The Passer-By (1869) by François Coppée (1842-1908), Frou-Frou (1883) by Henri Meilhac (1831-97) and Ludovic Halévy (1834-1908), Theodora (1884) by Victorien Sardou (1831-1908), and The Eaglet (1900) by Edmond Rostand (1868-1918).

Names

  • Boyer, Paul Photographer.
  • Manuel, Henri Photographer.
  • W. & D. Downey Photographer.

Created / Published

  • Paris : [publisher not identified], 1906.

Headings

  • -  France--Île-de-France--Paris
  • -  1862 to 1910
  • -  Actors
  • -  Bernhardt, Sarah, 1844-1923
  • -  Postcards
  • -  Puzzles

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  Original resource extent: 10 postcards, photomechanical prints in color, 9 x 14 centimeters (each image).
  • -  Original resource at: National Library of France.
  • -  Content in French.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021669888

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Boyer, Paul Photographer, Henri Photographer Manuel, and W. & D. Downey Photographer. Sarah Bernhardt: Puzzle in Ten Postcards Depicting Sarah in Her Different Roles. Paris Île-De-France France, 1906. [Paris: Publisher Not Identified] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021669888/.

APA citation style:

Boyer, P. P., Manuel, H. P. & W. & D. Downey Photographer. (1906) Sarah Bernhardt: Puzzle in Ten Postcards Depicting Sarah in Her Different Roles. Paris Île-De-France France, 1906. [Paris: Publisher Not Identified] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021669888/.

MLA citation style:

Boyer, Paul Photographer, Henri Photographer Manuel, and W. & D. Downey Photographer. Sarah Bernhardt: Puzzle in Ten Postcards Depicting Sarah in Her Different Roles. [Paris: Publisher Not Identified] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021669888/>.