Costume design for the Beautiful Fairy in La Belle au Bois Dormant (The Sleeping Princess)

Object detail

Media/Materials

Watercolor, metallic paint, ink, and graphite on paper, mounted on board

Measurements

11 3/8 x 17 3/8in (28.9 x 44.1cm)

Credit line

Gift of Robert L. B. Tobin

Accession number

TL1998.63

Object type

Drawings and Watercolors

Department

Theatre Arts

Location

Not on view

Theatre production

Ballet with music by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Produced at the Hippodrome Theater, New York, 1916, with Anna Pavlova as Aurora.

Documentation

Diaghilev: Costumes and Designs of the Ballets Russes; 1978
Designing Dreams: A Celebration of Léon Bakst; 2016; p. 122, no. 38

Signature & date

Stamped signature, l.c.: Bakst

Associated person

Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (b.1840, d.1893)

Maker

Léon Bakst (Russian, b.1866, d.1924)

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