Melandri
active ca. 1860-ca. 1883
Sarah Bernhardt at an easel
Paris : Melandri, ca. 1885
Purchased on the Photography Collectors Committee Purchase Fund.
2022.168
Inscriptions/Markings
Recto: printed, upper center, "MELANDRI"; printed, lower edge: "MELANDRI PARIS". Verso: printed, center, "MELANDRI / 19. Rue Clauzel / PARIS"; printed, lower center, "SPECIALITE DE PHOTO-AQUARELLES"
Provenance
Paul Hertzmann.
Summary
Cabinet card with a full-length portrait of French actress and artist Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923) in a white suit, turned to the left and holding a palette as she paints at an easel.
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