Sketch by Valentine Gross showing Tamara Karsavina in her dressing room making up as the Ballerina for Petruska. She is wearing a jacket to protect her costume and has covered her hair. This is one of a series of sketches of Karsavina makin up for the role. Mikhail Fokine's Petrushka (also transliterated Petrouchka) with dsigns by Alexander Benois was premiered in Paris at Théâtre du Châtelet on 13 June 1911.

This sketch is part of the Valentine Gross Archive (THM/165), held by the V&A contains research material and artwork, including sketches, studies, drawings, pastels and illustrations. Valentine Gross, a.k.a. Valentine Hugo, was a French art student in Paris in the 1910s. She became a ballet enthusiast, illustrator, researcher and painter. Gross witnessed annual seasons of Diaghilev Ballets Russes in Paris and made preminary sketches during performances and rehearsals between 1909 and 1919. She later worked them up into pencil or coloured drawings of various degrees of finish including illustrations and paintings.

Some of the sketches feature in the book Nijinsky on Stage by Richard Buckle, published in London by Studio Vista in 1971. Both sketches, front and back, feature in the book on pages 71 and 72.