Category
Drawing-WatercolorMedium
PencilType of Artwork
Original artworkSignature
lower rightSize of the artwork
15 x 11 cm(5.91 x 4.33 in)
Condition
excellentArtwork description
Jules BASTIEN-LEPAGE
(1848-1884)
Study for Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt(1979)
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This study for Bastien-Lepage’s celebrated ‘Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt’, lauded at the 1879 Salon and won him the cross of the Legion of Honour, is the only known pencil study of the work. Bernhardt was the greatest star of her era and the first real global superstar. ‘The Divine Sarah’ was renowned as much for her breath-taking performances as her colourful personal life.