Sarah Bernhardt. And the woman created the star

April 14, 2023 August 27, 2023 Exhibition has ended

More than 600 works of art make up this exhibition that traces the life and career of Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923). The actress was indeed a mythical interpreter of the greatest playwrights such as Racine, Shakespeare or Edmond Rostand. Jean Cocteau said she was a "sacred monster". The opportunity to return to her greatest roles through the presentation of her stage costumes, photographs, paintings, posters ... Her voice, her diction as well as her slender figure, fascinated the public as much as the artistic and literary world that devoted a true cult.

Food

Tea Tin Flavoured green tea - Organic Sarah Bernhardt 100g

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This flavoured green tea - organic with a tin box illustrated with detail of Sarah Bernahrdt's portrait by Georges Clairin (1843-1919), has been created on the occasion of the exhibition "Sarah Bernhardt And the woman created the star" at the Petit Palais from April 14th 2023 to August 27th 2023.

Perfume creation by Augustin Scala from George Cannon

Composition :
Chinese green tea, lemongrass, lemon peel, natural lemon and ginger flavours, ginger, peppermint

Tin box H. 13.5 cm ; Ø 7.7 cm - 100 g

The painter Georges Clairin remained Sarah Bernhardt's official portraitist for fifty years.
This large portrait in a white satin dress, with its studied nonchalance, was one of Sarah Bernhardt's favourites and she kept it all her life.
It heralded the aesthetics of Art Nouveau in 1876 with its sinuous lines, iridescent tones and the magnetism of a female presence that was both seductive and disturbing. When his mother died, Maurice Bernhardt donated it to the Petit Palais, where it continues to serve the myth of this great actress.