Abstract
This study is devoted to the reflection of the image of Sarah Bernhardt, the greatest French actress of the second half of the 19th - early 20th centuries. Her pictorial, photographic and sculptural portraits are widely known and very well studied. However, the iconography of her image on the pages of the satirical illustrated press in France remains little known. The purpose of the article is to identify and analyze the stable images of Sarah Bernhardt, developed by cartoonists of the Third Republic, viewed through the prism of the anti-Semitic discourse that took place in France at that time, and the use by artists of the principles of zoomorphism in cartoons. Careful selection of the most significant masterpieces of magazine illustration made it possible to identify the main approaches to the image of the great actress, as well as to demonstrate the features of the public and artistic reception of Sarah Bernhardt. This allowed to underline such stable methods in constructing the caricatural image of the actress, as: ridiculing the Jewish origin of Sarah Bernhardt, focusing the viewer's attention on her excessive thinness, zoomorphizing her image, mockering the private, public, theatrical and creative life of the actress.
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