The First Season


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Alexandre Benois (1870-1960). Le Pavillon d’Armide, Scene design for Acts I and III, 1909.  Watercolor, ink, and pencil.  Howard D. Rothschild Collection. pf MS Thr 414.4 (32). Bequest, 1989.

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Alexandre Benois (1870-1960). Le Pavillon d’Armide, Costume design for King, Queen, and Servants, 1909. Watercolor, ink, and pencil. Howard D. Rothschild Collection. pf MS Thr 414.4 (31). Bequest, 1989.

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Alexandre Benois (1870-1960). Le Pavillon d’Armide, Scene design for Armide’s Garden, Act II, 1909. Watercolor, ink, and pencil. Howard D. Rothschild Collection. pf MS Thr 414.4 (33). Bequest, 1989.

Scene and costume designs by Alexandre Benois for Le Pavillon d’Armide.

These three designs were made for Diaghilev’s production of the ballet in Paris in 1909, where it was one of the highlights of the first season of the Russian Ballet.