Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • s0335

    s0335

    • ARTIST: Pierre-Louis Richard (France, 1810-1886)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The little dancers (Les petits danseurs)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1885
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 44 x 56 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed "P. Louis Richard"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p0876

    p0876

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Design for the zodiac signs in the ballet "Mercure" (Mercury), scene 1
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1924
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 20 x 24 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s6091

    s6091

    • TITLE OF WORK: Arcade with dancers and birds. Coptic fabric 6th to 8th century
    • TYPE OF WORK: Textile, linen and wool
    • DATE: 650
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 19 x 36 cm
    • COMMENTS: Egypt, Coptic, period: 6th-8th century
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Egypt, Coptic
  • p8462

    p8462

    • ARTIST: Antoine Watteau (France, 1684-1721) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The country ball (Le bal champêtre)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1857
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.2 x 20.4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court, couple
  • p4115

    p4115

    • TITLE OF WORK: Marriage festivities at Berlin: Fackel-tanz or Torch dance at the Royal Wedding
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1881
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.5 x 30 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for an article
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • s2697

    s2697

    • ARTIST: Millie Hill
    • TITLE OF WORK: Shoshone Ghost dance - 1924
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sketch, pencil, color
    • DATE: 1960
    • COMMENTS: Shoshone tribe Naraya dance has been described by Emily Hill
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p5403

    p5403

    • TITLE OF WORK: West Point Cadets Camp Polka, danced under the direction of Mr Flasko, composed by Emil Ganther
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1852
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, polka
  • s1341

    s1341

    • ARTIST: Mars (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The queen's passe-pied - 2 (Le passe-pied de la reine -2)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1890
    • DIMENSIONS: 33 x 23.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustrations for an article by Monsieur de Soria, of the Paris Opera
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, passepied de la reine, couple
    • KEYWORDS: instruction, figures
  • s0215

    s0215

    • TITLE OF WORK: Pancha Tantra - Winning of Friends. Indian National Theatre presents Little Ballet Troupe
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1954
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.5 x 28.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Program cover: Pancha Tantra - Winning of Friends. Program of the Little Ballet Troupe. Bombay, 1954.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India, Bombay, Andheri
    • DANCE FORM: stage, duo
  • s2349

    s2349

    • TITLE OF WORK: Furyu dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1600
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Japan
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s4255

    s4255

    • ARTIST: Jacques Baugnies (France, 1874-1925)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance in a coffee shop at Cairo (Danse dans un café au Caire)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 98.5 x 71.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed at lower right
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Egypt, Cairo, France,
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, Oriental, solo
    • KEYWORDS: musical instrument, zurna, narguileh
  • s5572

    s5572

    • ARTIST: Valentine Gross Hugo (France, 1887-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan and 'The faun'
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on cardboard
    • DATE: 1925
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
  • p2785

    p2785

    • ARTIST: H. Hornualle (?)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The manfarine or manfarina of Taranto (Tarentaise, la manfarine ou manfarina)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1960
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: folk, tarentaise, la manfarine, manfarina
  • p5231

    p5231

    • TITLE OF WORK: Hungarian national dance (Ungarischer Nationaltanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1844
    • DIMENSIONS: 8.5 x 7.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Das wiener Kinderballett in der k. Akademie für Musik zu Paris (The Children's Ballet of Vienna in the Royal Academy of Music in Paris)
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary, Austria, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • s3727

    s3727

    • ARTIST: Henri (de) Gissey (France, 1621-1673) (after)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Ballet of the night": The Demon ("Ballet de la nuit": Démon (Demon))
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen, wash and gouache
    • DATE: 1653
    • DIMENSIONS: 40 x 26 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, court
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p3842

    p3842

    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance (La danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Tapestry
    • DATE: 1500
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 220 x 319 cm
    • COMMENTS: Tenture de la Noble Pastorale. Legs Edouard Larcade, 1945.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p7616

    p7616

    • ARTIST: Paul Colin (France, 1892-1985)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The twin Dolly Sisters, Rosika and Yansci
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1927
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • s3982

    s3982

    • TITLE OF WORK: Mr and Mrs Vigano. A picture (M. et Me Vigano. Tableau)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1793
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Dancing a pas de deux at the imperial court of Vienna
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Austria, Vienna
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, duo
  • p9440

    p9440

    • ARTIST: Pieter Brueghel the Younger (Flanders, 1564-1638)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A wedding feast with peasants dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on panel
    • DATE: 1630
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 73 x 105.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Holland, Flanders
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • p4604

    p4604

    • ARTIST: Franz Karl Zoller (Germany, 1748-1829)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance at the grape harvest (Tanz zur Weinlese)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1780
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 22 x 16.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: The location is the park of the baron Laszy in Dornbach near Vienna.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p5374

    p5374

    • TITLE OF WORK: Musicians and dancers entertaining Sultan Ahmed III
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1740
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey, Ottoman
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p3249

    p3249

    • ARTIST: Maurice Tassart
    • TITLE OF WORK: Roland Petit
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s5966

    s5966

    • ARTIST: Reza Abbasi
    • TITLE OF WORK: Banquet. Female dancer surrounded by glass bottles
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on paper
    • DATE: 1800
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 29.8 x 19.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Persia
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: bottles
  • p3119

    p3119

    • TITLE OF WORK: Vaslav Nijinsky and Anna Pavlova in "Le pavillon d'Armide"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1909
    • COMMENTS: Announcement of the first season of the Ballets Russes in Paris, in 1909
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3181

    p3181

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan dansant (Isadora Duncan dancing)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • s1828

    s1828

    • TITLE OF WORK: Cesare Negri
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1601
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, court
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p0803

    p0803

    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from a café-concert
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, colored
    • DATE: 1870
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
  • s1689

    s1689

    • ARTIST: Léon Fauret (France, 1863-1955) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "The Firebird" - under the tree with golden apples: Prince Ivan (Mr. Fokine) abducts the Bird (Miss Karsavina)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1910
    • DIMENSIONS: 29 x 21 cm
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, duet
  • p9761

    p9761

    • ARTIST: Jean-Baptiste Huet (France, 1745-1811)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Pastoral landscape
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas, en brunaille
    • DATE: 1790
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 55 x 65 cm
    • COMMENTS: One of a pair. Formerly attributed to Jean-Baptiste Le Prince.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: couple, popular
  • s1773

    s1773

    • ARTIST: Franca Squarciapino (Italy, 1940-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "La bayadère"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1992
    • COMMENTS: "La bayadère", ballet by the Paris Opera, choreography by Rudelf Noureev, 1993
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, India, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s5472

    s5472

    • ARTIST: John Held Jr. (U.S.A., 1889-1958)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Teaching old dogs new tricks - Charleston dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1945
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: couple, charleston,
  • s1086

    s1086

    • ARTIST: P. G. Mathews (sketch)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Grief: "The dance of Ase's death" (Maud Allan)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1909
    • DIMENSIONS: 10.5 x 6 cm
    • COMMENTS: Another dance from Grieg, in a graver key than the Anitra and Gnome dances, but exceedingly expressive
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: stage, modern, solo
  • p1023

    p1023

    • ARTIST: Fernand Léger (France, 1881-1955)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance (La danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil on paper
    • DATE: 1942
    • DIMENSIONS: 183 x 154 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • p9200

    p9200

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Russian dancers (Danseuses russes)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel
    • DATE: 1895
    • DIMENSIONS: 54 x 71 cm
    • COMMENTS: From a troupe of Russian dancers who performed at the Folies Bergère in 1895
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: folk, traditional, stage
  • s5221

    s5221

    • TITLE OF WORK: Lola in Boston. Lola. Ladies and Shentlemans? I tank you from the bottom of my heart
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, monochrome
    • DATE: 1852
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Lola Montez was lover of King Ludwig I of Bavaria
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., Boston
    • DANCE FORM: flamenco, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: humor, politics, caricature, Lola Montez
  • p1444

    p1444

    • ARTIST: Edouard Manet (France, 1832-1883)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Monsieur Camprubi and Mademoiselle Serral in the Bolero
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1834
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: Spanish dance
  • p1759

    p1759

    • ARTIST: Otto von Klenze
    • TITLE OF WORK: View of Capri (Ansicht von Capri)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1860
    • DIMENSIONS: 82 x 108 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p2351

    p2351

    • ARTIST: Marie Laurencin (France, 1883-1956)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The elegant dance or The dance in the country (Le bal élégant, ou La danse à la campagne)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1913
    • DIMENSIONS: 112 x 144 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • p8633

    p8633

    • ARTIST: Fülöp Ö. Beck (Hungary, 1873-1945)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer (Tàncosnö)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze
    • DATE: 1914
    • DIMENSIONS: 24 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • p7564

    p7564

    • ARTIST: John Collet (U.K., 1725?-1780) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Grown gentlemen taught to dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1769
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: humor, instruction, caricature
  • p5893

    p5893

    • ARTIST: Charles Borromée Antoine Houry (France, 1823-1898) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Backstage (Dans le coulisses)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1883
    • DIMENSIONS: 10.7 x 7.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3452

    p3452

    • ARTIST: Abraham Walkowitz (U.S.A., 1878-1965)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Study of Isadora Duncan dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1913
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p5082

    p5082

    • TITLE OF WORK: Mirages. A film by A. Ryder; with Jeanne Aubert, Michel Simon, Jean-Louis Barrault, Arletty, La Revue des Folies-Bergère.
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, poster
    • DATE: 1939
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: cinema
  • p5229

    p5229

    • TITLE OF WORK: Marie Taglioni as Sylphide (Marie Taglioni als Sylphide)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1844
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 10.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Performimg in Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s6007

    s6007

    • TITLE OF WORK: Naked female dancer with castanets
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, figurine, copper alloy
    • DATE: -460
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 11 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Egypt
  • p8191

    p8191

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Le tricorne"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1919
    • COMMENTS: Ballet "Le tricorne"; first performed at the Alhambra Theatre, London, on 22/07/1919. Distribution: Léonide Massine (The miller), Tamara Karsavina (The miller's wife), Léon Woizikowsky (The corregidor
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, Spain, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s4715

    s4715

    • ARTIST: Amadeo Preziosi (Malta, 1816-1882)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Hora dance, Arges
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1869
    • COMMENTS: Annotated 26 June 1869
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Romania
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, Hora, round
  • s2054

    s2054

    • ARTIST: Elli Solomonidi-Balanou (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Illustration for the poem "Gypsy" by Costas Varnalis
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and black ink
    • DATE: 1999
    • DIMENSIONS: 21 x 29.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental
  • p0317

    p0317

    • ARTIST: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (France, 1864-1901)
    • TITLE OF WORK: La Goulue, waltz for piano. A. Bosc (La Goulue, valse pour piano. A. Bosc)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, olive-green
    • DATE: 1894
    • DIMENSIONS: 29.5 x 23 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, waltz
  • p0741

    p0741

    • ARTIST: Egill Jacobsen (Denmark, 1910-1998)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Grasshopperdance (Graeshoppedans)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1941
    • DIMENSIONS: 91.3 x 116.1 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Denmark
    • KEYWORDS: abstract

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