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This is possibly the larger scale version from which the smaller commemorative medallions were worked.
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'SARAH BERNHARDT', A RARE LARGE PLAQUE, CIRCA 1896
Details
RENE LALIQUE 1960-1945
'SARAH BERNHARDT', A RARE LARGE PLAQUE, CIRCA 1896
patinated bronze
18 ½ in. (47 cm.) diameter approx.
signed in cast RL
'SARAH BERNHARDT', A RARE LARGE PLAQUE, CIRCA 1896
patinated bronze
18 ½ in. (47 cm.) diameter approx.
signed in cast RL
Provenance
René Lalique's companion Claudine-Juliette Le Mesnil, thence by descent.
Literature
S. Barten, René Lalique Schmuck und Objets D'Art 1890-1910, Passau, 1977, pp. 566-567, no. 1788, pl. 1788, design sketch illustrated;
W. A. Emboden, Sarah Bernhardt Artist and Icon, Irvine, I992, p. 7, for an example of a similar smaller commemorative medallion.
W. A. Emboden, Sarah Bernhardt Artist and Icon, Irvine, I992, p. 7, for an example of a similar smaller commemorative medallion.
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