Leon Bakst's designs for Fokine's ballet Le Dieu Bleu were amongst his most elaborate but the ballet was old fashioned in its emphasis on design at the expense of dancing and was not a success. It was created during the 1912 season in Paris and was subsequently danced in London, Monaco, Buenos Aires and Berlin (in 1914). Although images of the ballet appear in the souvenir programmes for the Ballets Russes' tours of the USA it was never performed there.

This design for a young Rajah, a minor character not individually named in the programmes, shows fantastic detail in the feathered turban, pearl decoration and stylised shoes.