FRANCE - SARAH BERNHARDT - ACTRESSES - BUSINESS CARDS - CABI - Lot 316

FRANCE - SARAH BERNHARDT - ACTRESSES - BUSINESS CARDS - CABINET CARDS Album featuring portraits of actresses, including 48 portraits of Sarah Bernhardt, 1865-1895. Photographs. Album comprising approximately 135 albumin prints and 9 citrate prints mounted on cardboard in carte-cabinet (12) and carte-de-visite (132) formats, including 17 by Nadar, 14 by Reutlinger, 20 by Downey, 25 by Tourtin, 16 by Melandri, 8 by Mulmer, 6 by Pugnet, 4 by Braun, 3 by Liebert and 2 by Petit. Stamp "Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt. Place du Châtelet. Paris." on the first and last pages of the album. Portraits of Sarah Bernhardt: in bust, on an armchair, in François Coppée's "Le Passant" in 1869, in Victor Hugo's play "Ruy Blas" in 1872, painting in her studio and wearing the outfit made for her by couturier Charles Frederick Worth (dedicated and dated 1878 by Sarah Bernhardt in ink on the back), as well as many others, 4 portraits of the Prince Imperial by Nadar, portraits of : Jeanne Bernhardt, Émilie Broisat, Maria Legault, Mesdemoiselles Dudlay and Lloyd, Blanche Barretta in various costumes, notably Norman, Sophie Croizette, Jeanne Samary. Album: 29.3 x 23.3 cm; images: 9.4 x 5.8 cm to 13.8 x 9.6 cm