Set Design Sketch for the Ballet "Swan Lake" by Tamara Starzhenetskaya, 1978

The set design sketch for Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet "Swan Lake" was created by Tamara Georgievna Starzhenetskaya in 1978. It is painted in tempera; the card lists the materials as wood and canvas.

The foreground shows a group of dancers in white dresses. Tree branches on the left and right rise upward and frame the upper part of the image. In the middle ground lies the smooth surface of a lake, and on the right stands a castle of fanciful outline. The colour scheme is grey-blue.