Les Tentations de la Bergère
1925
photographic
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1925
photographic
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Les Tentations de la Bergère is a 1925 photographic by S. Georges, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This signed photograph shows a dancer from a famous ballet. It was taken in 1925 for a London production by Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. The ballet premiered in Monte Carlo in 1924, but this photo was signed a year later. The dancer Vera Nemchinova poses in the role of Les Tentations de la Bergère. The ballet’s choreography was by Bronislava Nijinska, set to music by Michel de Montéclair. Look up the Victoria and Albert Museum next.
A signed photograph depicts Vera Nemchinova in *Les Tentations de la Bergère*, a ballet choreographed by Bronislava Nijinska with music by Michel de Montéclair, performed by Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. The image was signed for the 1925 London Coliseum production, though the ballet premiered in Monte Carlo in January 1924. The photograph is part of a collection assembled by Norman McCann, later bequeathed to the Royal Academy of Music and subsequently transferred to the V&A Theatre and Performance collection.
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French illustrator S. Georges focused on fashion and fantasy scenes in the early 20th century. In *Les Tentations de la Bergère* (1925), a dreamy shepherdess in lace and pearls leans into a pastoral scene that feels…
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