Label
(from 2016.Klassics for Kids)
Erté
Russian, 1892-1990
Gauthier, 1936
gouache
Erté, whose birth name was Romain de Tirtoff, was a famous costume designer in Paris in the early part of the twentieth century. This costume is for Gauthier, the Pope’s servant in L’auberge du chat coiffé (The Hotel of the Cat with a Cap), a 1936 comic operetta set in the fourteenth century.
Animals and humans wear decorations. Design a fancy costume for you and your pet.