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| Keywords: Nadar, Sarah Bernhardt - Getty Museum.jpg Sarah Bernhardt was about twenty when she posed for Nadar and had barely begun her long and phenomenally successful career Nadar's photograph was probably the first of innumerable images by painters photographers sculptors and graphic artists At a time when Nadar was preoccupied with ballooning and willing to leave most of the portrait work to studio assistants Bernhardt drew him back into the studio to make touching images of her delicate face Here he wrapped her with a great sweep of velvet that bared one shoulder but showed no more of her slender body centering all attention on her head which is seen nearly in profile <br> The young woman with the supple shoulders and the golden voice became an incomparable and indomitable actress famous first in France and then throughout the world for playing heroines-and heroes-in a wide variety of plays Bernhardt's celebrity and the enormous attention she attracted everywhere she went anticipated the phenomenon of late twentieth-century media stars 1864 Gelatin silver print Image 21 1 x 16 2 cm 8 5/16 x 6 3/8 in Mount 33 x 24 1 cm 13 x 9 1/2 in Institution Getty Museum not on display object history exhibition history other versions <gallery> File Sarah Bernhardt 1864 Nadar jpg File Sarah_Bernhardt _par_Nadar _1864 jpg </gallery> 45995 Signed Recto mount signed in ink 48 rue Bassano / Nadar <br> Markings Recto mount imprinted in black ink at center below image Sarah Bernardt sic Verso mount wet stamp Portraits / Paul Nadar / 48 Rue Bassano 48 / Teleph ELYSEES 7654 <br> Inscriptions Verso mount inscribed in pencil Sarah Bernardt sic credit line accession number 84 XM 436 494 PD-old-100-1923 Photographs of Sarah Bernhardt by Nadar 1864 portrait photographs Photographs in the Getty Museum Media contributed by the J Paul Getty Museum | ||||
