Objects

Statuette of a woman dancing wearing a long dress.

Statuette: Dancing Woman

Statuette of a veiled woman, wearing a long dress, dancing.

Statuette: Veiled Dancing Woman

Painting of a woman in a blue dress dancing. A graphite sketch of a large, billowing scarf trails behind her. The image is annotated with pencil in French.

Costume Design: Daphnis et Chloé

Squat black-and-red oil jug with a painting of winged Eros playing a tambourine-like instrument. A woman wearing a long, sleeveless dress faces him, dancing.

Squat Lekythos: Eros and a Woman

A yellow, sleeveless dress for a woman with painted green ivy leaves in a vertical pattern.

Costume: Narcisse

Photograph of a woman wearing a sleeveless dress and a long, shawl over her head and draped over one shoulder and arm. She raises the other hand above her head as she gazes up and to the side.

Photograph: Lubov Tchernicheva in Narcisse

Incomplete painting on brown paper with black and yellow paint for a man in a flat, wide hat and a flowing, sleeveless garment that reaches his knees. A pencil annotation reads: NARCISSE: BEUTHIEN.

Costume Design: Narcisse

A tapered, shouldered ceramic vessel with two handles and narrow neck, glazed in black, orange, and red. A central panel depicts bearded soldiers. The shoulder depicts a row of four dancers, each with a raised leg, facing the flute player. Two of the dancers are clearly female; the other two appear to be male figures wearing women's clothing and animal ears.

Hydria: Chorus, Flute Players and Dancers

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

Costume Design: Phèdre

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

Two-handled, tapered vessel glazed in orange and black that depicts a woman in a long dress, with a large circular shawl draped over her outstretched arms like wings. She wears an ivy or grape-leaf crown and a leopard skin tied by the paws around her neck. She faces a nude, bearded male figure with a tail. He also wears an ivy or grapeleaf crown and plays a double-flute.

Amphora: Maenad and Satyrs

Ceramic figurine in the stylized shape of the Greek letter "Psi" with brown wavy vertical stripes.

Female "Psi Idol" Figure

Ceramic figurine in the stylized shape of the Greek letter "Phi" with brown vertical stripes from the midpoint of the figure up.

Female "Phi Idol" Figure

White terracotta plate with decoration in reddish-orange and black. Eight young women dressed in long robes are shown dancing with interlocking hands. One plays a double flute. A fire burns on an altar and other decorative or ritual objects are depicted.

Libation Bowl: Girls Dancing and Playing Double Pipe

Painting of a long and geometric daybed with claw feet and a brown and black triangle pattern. French annotations and a height measurement appear in now-smudged pencil.

Prop Design: Daybed for Cléopâtre

Painting of an upright loom with a half-competed weaving and threads in blue, white, and red. The frame of the loom is also decorated with blue and red geometric figures. Measurements and other notations appear in pencil.

Prop Design: Loom for Hélène de Sparte?

Painting of a brazier on a three-legged stand and a vessel with a long neck, pointed foot, and two handles at the shoulder. Both are brightly decorated with a graphic pattern in blue, red, green, and black. Annotations appear in pencil.

Prop Designs: Brazier and Amphora for Phèdre

A painted jar with a long neck, tapered foot, and two handles at the shoulder. It is decorated with an abstract design in blue, red, black, and white.

Painted Jar: From Tomb

Painting of a black post with a yellow double-axe and red bird perched on top.

Prop Design: Victory Pole for Phèdre

Costume Design: Hélène de Sparte