Costume Design: Cléopâtre

Painting of a brightly colored, slightly abstracted costume of a woman facing forward, with her head turned to the right. She wears an elaborate vulture headdress and a geometric dress.

Costume Design: Cléopâtre

Description:: Costume Design for the Title Role of Cléopâtre

Artist:: Sonia Delaunay

Medium:: Watercolor, metallic paint, and graphite on paper

Dimensions:: H. 47 cm; W. 32.7 cm

Date:: 1918

Inventory Number:: 2007.49.36

Lender:: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Credit:: Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of William S. Lieberman, 2005

Image copyright © The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Image source: Art Resource, NY