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Sarah Bernhardt

Sarah Bernhardt was a French Badass Female Artist born on September 25, 1844. Bernhardt contributed to the Academic movement and died on March 26, 1923. Get notified when Sarah Bernhardt's biography is complete:

William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Creating beauty by the rules

1825-1905

Alexandre Cabanel

Favorite of the salon, a classical painter with an erotic edge

1823-1889

Cristóbal Rojas Poleo

A childhood introduction to death leads to success, at a price

1857-1890

1801 2000

The soul of Impressionism

Berthe Morisot

Archeologist, painter, scientist, orphan

Osman Hamdi Bey

Realism is not always nice

Ilya Repin

The unflinching embrace of motherhood

Mary Cassatt

Painting dreams with a child's brush

Henri Rousseau

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Sarah Bernhardt

Hermione

After the Storm

Ophelia

Self-Portrait as a Sphinx

Funerary Portrait of Jacques Damala