Alexandre BENOIS | Mourning costume for Albrecht

Alexandre BENOIS
designer Russia 1870 – France 1960
to Paris, France 1926

producer 1909 – 1929

Mourning costume for Albrecht c.1910
tights: silk; trunks: silk pile velvet, plastic buttons; doublet: silk pile velvet, cotton lace and lining, metal fasteners; cape: silk satin, wool lining, cotton ground, silk pile ribbon
tights: Woven into top right C.T.L.
Purchased 1973
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
NGA 1973.270.66.A-D
© Alexandre Benois/ADAGP. Licensed by Viscopy




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