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Dudley Hardy
English, 1867–1922
Sarah Bernhardt
1889
Image Caption
Dudley Hardy, Sarah Bernhardt, 1889, oil on panel. Clark Art Institute, 1955.760
Medium
oil on panel
Dimensions
9 1/2 x 6 1/2 in. (24.1 x 16.5 cm)
Frame: 18 1/2 x 15 1/4 x 2 in. (47 x 38.7 x 5.1 cm)
Object Number
1955.760
Acquisition
Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status
Off View
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Munich: Glaspalast.. Münchener Jahresausstellung von Kunstwerken aller Nationen.. 1893..
Ostini, Fritz Freiherrn von. Die Galerie Thomas Knorr in München. Munich: Galerie Thomas Knorr, 1901.
. Farbige Gemäldewiedergaben [Color Reproductions of Art].. Leipzig.. 1927.. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1972. Feeney, Maura. A La Mode: Women's Fashions in French Art, 1850-1900. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1982. Wildenstein & Co., New York.. Sarah Bernhardt and Her Time. Nov. 12-Dec. 28, 1984. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984. Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992. Ockman, Carol and Kenneth E. Silver. Sarah Bernhardt: The Art of High Drama. The Jewish Museum, December 2, 2005- April 2, 2006. New York: The Jewish Museum and New Haven: Yale University Press. 2005. Lees, Sarah, ed. Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven and London: distributed by Yale University Press, 2012.Provenance
Galerie Thomas Knorr, Munich (by 1901, possibly until c. 1918); Madame P., Paris;¹ [Knoedler, Paris, sold to Clark, Nov. 1935]; Robert Sterling Clark (1935–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.
1. The invoice from Knoedler to Clark quotes a letter from a Madame P., who they call a former owner of the painting; her letter describes some of the painting’s provenance.