Set Design: Daphnis et Chloé

Painting of cattle and sheep with a shirtless male figure on one side, grasping a ram by the horn, and on the other side a standing female figure wearing a diaphanous dress and gesturing with one hand toward the man.

Set Design: Daphnis et Chloé

Description:
Landscape with Shepherds, Set Design for Daphnis et Chloé
Artist:
Léon Bakst
Medium:
Watercolor on paper
Dimensions:
H. 33.3 cm; W. 50.2 cm
Date:
1911
Inventory Number:
22.226.2
Lender:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Credit:
Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Sir Joseph Duveen, 1922
Image copyright © The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Image source: Art Resource, NY