John Singer Sargent
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney in a Leon Bakst costume
Dated: 1914

Léon Bakst helped revolutionize the role of sets and costumes design in dance.

Notes: 

Special thanks to Matt Davies, of Kansas City, a friend of the JSS Gallery, for sending me notes regarding this image. 

Exhibitions

John Singer Sargent, An Exhibition -- Whitney Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago 1986-1987

This drawing was reproduced in The "Whitney Women and the Museum They Made: A Family Memoir," by Flora Miller Biddle, New York: Arcade Publishing, 1999.

Also reproduced in John Singer Sargent, Whitney Museum, Patricia Hills, 1887

Sourse: Natasha Wallace Contributor: igrkio