CHARLES ADRIEN PROSPER D’EPINAY (1836–1914)
Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt as Hermione
About the artwork
Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt as Hermione is an artwork by CHARLES ADRIEN PROSPER D’EPINAY, dated c. 1903. The work is executed in Terracotta. Its recorded dimensions are 58 cm (22 ¾ in.) high 78 cm (30 ¾ in.) high, overall Length: 30 cm. View the artwork and contact Colnaghi for further information.
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Provenance
Private collection, South of France, until 2019.
Literature
F. Thiébault-Sisson, ‘L’art élégant. Prosper d’Epinay’, in La Nouvelle Revue, 49, (1887): pp. 830-849.
C. Vento, ‘Prosper d’Epinay’, in Les Peintres de la femme, Paris 1888, pp. 213-228.
P. Roux-Foujols, ʻProsper d’Epinay (1836-1914) sculpteurʼ PhD diss. (Université Paris IV) 1994.
P. Roux-Foujols, Prosper d’Épinay, un sculpteur mauricien à la cour des princes, Mauritius 1996.
A. Blühm,
ʻ“Une beauté Sauvage” Prosper d’Epinay’s Head of Medusaʼ
, in Van Gogh Museum Journal (1996): pp. 133-144.
N. Guibert, Portrait(s) de Sarah Bernhardt, catalogue de l’exposition Sarah Bernhardt ou le divin mensonge, exh. cat. Paris
(Bibliothèque nationale de France) 2000.
J. Lorcey, Sarah Bernhardt: l’art et la vie, Biarritz 2005.
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