Photograph: Lubov Tchernicheva and Vaslav Nijinsky in L'Après-midi d'un Faune

Photograph in a painterly style depicting a woman rejecting the attention of a man wearing an animal print leotard as he walks toward her.

Photograph: Lubov Tchernicheva and Vaslav Nijinsky in L'Après-midi d'un Faune

Description:
Lubov Tchernicheva as a Nymph Recoiling from Vaslav Nijinsky as the Faun from L'Après-midi d'un Faune
Artist:
Adolf de Meyer
Medium:
Platinum print
Dimensions:
H. 15.1 cm; W. 17 cm
Date:
1912
Inventory Number:
(S) *MGZEC 84-819, No. 2004
Lender:
New York Public Library, Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Credit:
Roger Pryor Dodge Collection
Image courtesy of the New York Public Library