C. Tardieu, ‘La Peinture au Salon de Paris,’ L'Art, vol. XVII, Paris, 1879, pp. 146-148, as Portrait de Mlle Sarah Bernhardt .
A. Baignères, 'Le Salon de 1879,' Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Paris, vol. XIX,1June 1879, p. 558, illustrated with the engraving, vol. xxxiv, 1 December 1879, as Portrait de Mlle Sarah Bernhardt.
E. Guillaume, ‘Le Salon de 1879,’ Revue des Deux Mondes, vol. xxxiv, Paris, 1 July 1879, p. 197.