The Swan Princess (painting)
Mikhail Vrubel · 1900
The story
The Swan Princess (Russian: Царевна-Лебедь) is a 1900 oil painting (oil on canvas) by the Russian artist Mikhail Vrubel. It is based on the opera The Tale of Tsar Sultan by Rimsky-Korsakov (which was based on the fairytale of the same name by Pushkin). Vrubel designed the decor and costumes for this opera. The part of the Swan Princess was performed by his wife, Nadezhda Zabela-Vrubel.
- Artist
- Mikhail Vrubel
- Date
- 1900
- Collection
- Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
- Medium
- oil paint, canvas
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