Costume Design: Phèdre

Painting of an old woman dressed in a purple and and pink gown, wrapping herself in a black and grey scarf with an ivy pattern. Annotations in pencil read: Aetra. Bacte. (Mdme. Moreno). BAKST.

Costume Design: Phèdre

Description:
Costume Design for Madame Moreno as Aethra, for Phèdre
Artist:
Léon Bakst
Medium:
Watercolor, metallic paint, and graphite on paper, mounted on board
Dimensions:
H. 32.7 cm; W. 24.4 cm
Date:
1923
Inventory Number:
TL1998.61
Lender:
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
Credit:
Gift of Robert L. B. Tobin
Image courtesy of the McNay Art Museum