Costume Design: Daphnis et Chloé

Painting of a woman with her arms raised to the sides so that a wide, circular shawl decorated with a blue, green, white, and black graphic pattern drapes from her arms like wings. Her dark hair is tied with a ribbon and fashioned into narrow parallel braids that fall down her chest to her waist.

Costume Design: Daphnis et Chloé

Description:
Costume Design for a Woman from the Village, for Daphnis et Chloé
Artist:
Léon Bakst
Medium:
Watercolor and graphite on paper
Dimensions:
H. 26 cm; W. 21.6 cm
Date:
ca. 1912
Inventory Number:
2015.787.5
Lender:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Credit:
Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Sallie Blumenthal, 2015
Image copyright © The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Image source: Art Resource, NY