Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt as Hermione

Year c. 1903

Medium Terracotta

Dimensions 58 cm (22 ¾ in.) high 78 cm (30 ¾ in.) high, overall Length: 30 cm

Signed and dated Signed to the reverse ‘D’EPINAY’; on a circular ebonised wood socle

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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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