French stage actress, painter and sculptor (1844–1923)

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

Medical insurance ephemera. Box 7.

Love + marriage = death : and other essays on representing difference / Sander L. Gilman.

A girl and Death. Lithograph by Sarah Bernhardt, 1879.

A young lady and Death. Etching by Léon Gaucherel after Sarah Bernhardt, 1880.

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Sarah Bernhardt

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A girl and Death. Lithograph by Sarah Bernhardt, 1879.

A young lady and Death. Etching by Léon Gaucherel after Sarah Bernhardt, 1880.