Nijinski: Afternoon of a Faun
Photographs by
Baron Adolph de Meyer

It is a tableau of incredible pagan sensuality. You will think you are living through a few seconds of mythology.
—Jacques-Émile Blanche

Faune nympharum fugientum amator
Faun, you have a passion for fleeing nymphs!
—Horace

Ces nymphes, je les veus perpétuer.
—Mallarmé