Sarah Bernhardt in the role of La Tosca. Colour lithograph by A. Mucha, 1899.

  • Mucha, Alphonse, 1860-1939.
Date:
[1899]
Reference:
24267i
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Bernhardt as La Tosca in Sardou's play stands holding a cane in her right hand and a bunch of flowers in her left. Another woman stands behind. Decoration in Art Nouveau style luxuriates around the figures

Publication/Creation

Paris : F. Champenois, [1899]

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 105 x 38.8 cm

Lettering

La Tosca. Drame en cinq actes et six tableaux de Mr Victorien Sardou. Théâtre-Sarah-Bernhardt. Mucha 99.

References note

Jack Rennert, Alphonse Mucha: la collection Ivan Lendl, 1989, no. 8
Jack Rennert and Alain Weill, Alphonse Mucha, Paris 1984, no. 57

Reference

Wellcome Collection 24267i

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