JACQUES DUPONT (1909–1978) Three costume designs for Maurice Ravel’s ballet ‘Daphnis et Chloé’

i) costume design for the First Shepherd in ‘Daphnis et Chloé’ signed ‘J Dupont’ (lower left), titled ‘First Shepherd/Daphnis et Chloé’ (lower right) watercolour and pencil on paper 40.5 x 30.5 cm (à vue) ii) costume design for the First Nymph in ‘Daphnis et Chloé’ signed ‘J Dupont’ (lower left), titled ‘Hammons/ First Nymph//Daphnis et Chloé’ (lower right) watercolour and pencil on paper 41 x 31 cm (à vue) iii) costume design for four Nymphs in ‘Daphnis and Chloe’ signed ‘J Dupont’ (lower left), titled ‘Daphnis and Chloe’ (lower right) watercolour, pencil on paper 30.6 x 48 cm (à vue) Jacques Dupont was a costume and set designer renowned for his dreamlike inspirations and his work on early 20th-century Russian ballets. Close to Yves Saint-Laurent, André Barsacq and Jean Cocteau, he produced a great many works in the 1960s and 1970s.