Sylvia
Photograph
1916 (photographed)
1916 (photographed)
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Studio photograph by Dmitri Bystrov of Tamara Karsavina in Sylvia for the Imperial Ballet in Petrograd in 1916.
It was in a new one-act version of Sylvia that Karsavina returned to the stage of the Mariinsky on 24 April 1916 after the birth of her son. The production was arranged by Karsavina and her stage partner Samuil Andrianov and for her costume she asked Doboujinsky to create a variant on the costume he had designed for her for Midas with Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. (The Midas costume is one shouldered and Karsavina wore a blonde wig with it.) The French Ambassador, Maurice Paleogue, described Karsavina as Sylvia as 'the ideal of pagan purity, at once passionate and chaste; she exhaled a kind of heroic and youthful joy, a wild and holy ecstacy.' Further images of Karsavina in Sylvia may be see in Andrew Foster Tamara Karsavina Diaghilev's Ballerina (2010).
It was in a new one-act version of Sylvia that Karsavina returned to the stage of the Mariinsky on 24 April 1916 after the birth of her son. The production was arranged by Karsavina and her stage partner Samuil Andrianov and for her costume she asked Doboujinsky to create a variant on the costume he had designed for her for Midas with Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. (The Midas costume is one shouldered and Karsavina wore a blonde wig with it.) The French Ambassador, Maurice Paleogue, described Karsavina as Sylvia as 'the ideal of pagan purity, at once passionate and chaste; she exhaled a kind of heroic and youthful joy, a wild and holy ecstacy.' Further images of Karsavina in Sylvia may be see in Andrew Foster Tamara Karsavina Diaghilev's Ballerina (2010).
Object details
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| Title | Sylvia (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Photograph mounted on card |
| Brief description | Photograph by Dmitri Bystrov of Tamara Karsavina in Sylvia performed at the Mariinsky Theatre, Petrograd 1916 |
| Physical description | Photograph of Tamara Karsavina in Sylvia - Wearing a tunic decorated with a leaf pattern and a headband Karsavina poses bending back balanced on her left point. |
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| Credit line | Gabrielle Enthoven Collection |
| Summary | Studio photograph by Dmitri Bystrov of Tamara Karsavina in Sylvia for the Imperial Ballet in Petrograd in 1916. It was in a new one-act version of Sylvia that Karsavina returned to the stage of the Mariinsky on 24 April 1916 after the birth of her son. The production was arranged by Karsavina and her stage partner Samuil Andrianov and for her costume she asked Doboujinsky to create a variant on the costume he had designed for her for Midas with Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. (The Midas costume is one shouldered and Karsavina wore a blonde wig with it.) The French Ambassador, Maurice Paleogue, described Karsavina as Sylvia as 'the ideal of pagan purity, at once passionate and chaste; she exhaled a kind of heroic and youthful joy, a wild and holy ecstacy.' Further images of Karsavina in Sylvia may be see in Andrew Foster Tamara Karsavina Diaghilev's Ballerina (2010). |
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| Accession number | S.538-2017 |
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| Record created | August 9, 2017 |
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