Gouache on paper, depicting a performance Die Puppenfee, Anna Pavlova Ballet, Inc, at the Cort Theater, San Francisco, 1915. Verso of frame with a signed label with work information, including that it depicts the dancer Kobeleff, and stating "This painting was painted by my mother, Hildreth Meire. Attested by her daughter, Louise Meire Dunn, April 1984."  Paper measures 7.5 x 5.5 inches (19.1 x 14 cm), and framed to an overall size of 12.75 x 10.625 inches (32 x 27 cm). In overall good condition in a somewhat worn gilt wood frame.

First performed in 1888 at the Vienna Court, Die Puppenfee ("Fairy Doll") was inspired  - like Coppelia - by E.T. A Hoffman’s 1815 tale “The Sandman.” Composed by Joseph Bayer, it is known especially for the pas de trois between the Fairy Doll and two Harlequin Dolls. In the 1920s, Russian prima ballerina Anna Pavlova performed as the Fairy Doll and regularly toured with the work with her troupe. She danced it in San Francisco in 1915 on a program which also included the premiere of her California Poppy as a gift to her West Coast admirers.

Konstantin Kobeleff, first of the Maryinsky and then the Diaghilev Ballets Russes, toured with Pavlova's company through her last North American tour.

American muralist Hildreth Meière was active in the first half of the twentieth century and is especially known for her Art Deco designs. During her 40-year career, she completed approximately 100 commissions, including  the iconographic interiors at the Nebraska State Capitol in Lincoln, the dynamic roundels of Dance, Drama, and Song at Radio City Music Hall, and the decoration of the Great Hall at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C.