Collection Online

Browse by artist name

a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
Costume design for the Directress of the Convent

Costume design for the Directress of the Convent
(La Directrice du Couvent)
 (1939)
from the ballet Graduation Ball, no. 1 in Perpetuum Mobile sequence, Ballets Russes, Sydney, 1940

Medium
pen and ink and watercolour over pencil on buff paper
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented by Colonel W. de Basil, 1940
© Alexandre Benois/ADAGP, Paris. Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia
Reproduction requests
Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Medium
pen and ink and watercolour over pencil on buff paper
Measurements
31.9 × 24.1 cm irreg. (sheet)
Accession Number
1069-4
Department
International Prints and Drawings
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Presented by Colonel W. de Basil, 1940
© Alexandre Benois/ADAGP, Paris. Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Reproduction requests
Gallery location
Not on display
Subjects (general)
Advertising, Communication and Graphic Design Costume
Subjects (specific)
blue colours bonnets (hats) brown colours conceptual drawings costume design dresses (garments) women (female humans)

Explore the collection

Costume design for Andromache Yolanda SONNABEND Social Party Dresses UNKNOWN Muff, handkerchief and mask Wenceslaus HOLLAR Morning Dress UNKNOWN 1 of 3 costume studies(acc.1804.1-3/5) UNKNOWN Walking Dress UNKNOWN Costume design for two male characters Yolanda SONNABEND Costume design for the actress Geraldine Page as Marcelline MOTLEY THEATRE DESIGN GROUP, London Untitled UNKNOWN; Pierre Louis GREVEDON (after) Costume design for Orfeo Yolanda SONNABEND Frybourg F.W. KONIG Costume design for a female character Yolanda SONNABEND Costume design for the female chorus Michael ANNALS Costume design for the Directress of the Convent Alexandre BENOIS Costume design for the actress Iris Lockwood Norman HARTNELL Public Promenade Dress UNKNOWN Evening Dress UNKNOWN Costume design for Palmyra Nicholas GEORGIADIS Jane, Duchess of Gordon UNKNOWN; Joshua REYNOLDS (after) Costume design for the actress Geraldine Page as Marcelline MOTLEY THEATRE DESIGN GROUP, London The Curtain (fan design) George SHERINGHAM Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara Dosso DOSSI; Battista DOSSI (attributed to) Still life with a group of muffs, a pair of gloves and two kerchiefs Wenceslaus HOLLAR Lady in grey John LONGSTAFF Langham study of a Spanish peasant Charles Samuel KEENE Costume design for Bunny Girl Yolanda SONNABEND Costume design for the actress Hermione Gingold Freddy WITTOP Ball Dress UNKNOWN Costume design for a female character Yolanda SONNABEND Marchand De Puree(Russie) Gottfried ENGELMANN