Design sketch
Costume design for “Scheherazade”
Léon Bakst · c. 1910
A costume design for Scheherazade — one of the designs that made the name of the Ballets Russes.
- Object number
- HGO-BT-PT-0004
- Type
- Design sketch
- Collection
- Costume design
- Maker / artist
- Léon Bakst
- Date
- c. 1910
- Place of origin
- Ballets Russes · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Materials & technique
- Watercolour and gouache on paper
- Dimensions
- Digitised copy
- Related production / event
- Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov) — Ballets Russes
- Condition
- Good
- Display status
- In storage — Collection store — basement (illustrative)
Keywords: Design sketch · Ballet · Bakst
The story of the object
The blazing, Orientalist colour of Scheherazade astonished Parisian audiences in 1910 and shaped European fashion for years afterwards.
Record & rights
- Provenance
- CC0 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art via Wikimedia Commons.
- Acquisition
- Sample digital record for this demo
- Digitisation
- High-resolution photography
- Rights
- CC0 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art via Wikimedia Commons
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