Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p8933

    p8933

    • ARTIST: Alexander Nikolaevich Benois (Russia, 1870-1960)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Giselle", act 1
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache on carton
    • DATE: 1910
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p9514

    p9514

    • ARTIST: Félix-Armand-Marie Jobbé-Duval (France, 1821-1889)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Bacchanal - The mysteries of Bacchus (Bacchanale - Les mystères de Bacchus)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1873
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 107 x 163.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
  • p1831

    p1831

    • ARTIST: Millicent Hodson (U.S.A.)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The leap of the old woman. Reconstruction of "The sacre of spring"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1987
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1212

    p1212

    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancers (Los danzantes) III
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, stone
    • DATE: 300
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 200 cm height approximately
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Mexico
    • KEYWORDS: Monte Alban, Aztec
  • p1758

    p1758

    • TITLE OF WORK: The New Opera. The dance foyer (Le Nouvel Opéra. Le foyer de la danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1870
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p9770

    p9770

    • ARTIST: Johannes Lingelbach (Netherlands, 1622-1674)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Peasants dancing outside an inn in a hilly southern landscape
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1665
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 109 x 90 cm
    • COMMENTS: Another painting by LIngelbach, in the Mauritshuis, The Hague, has a similar subject
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: couple, traditional
  • s3700

    s3700

    • ARTIST: Amasis Painter (Greece, active around 550-510 BC)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Three groups of three women dancing to double flute and cithare
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on vase
    • DATE: -560
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: Detail on shoulder of Attic lekythos, black-figured vase, decorated with a scene of a wedding procession
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Attica
    • DANCE FORM: round, circular, circle
  • p8273

    p8273

    • ARTIST: Edward Henry Corbould (U.K., 1815-1905) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Mummers at Christmas in the olden time
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1866
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.9 x 34.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: disguise
  • p9321

    p9321

    • ARTIST: John Reinhard Weguelin (U.K., 1849-1927) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Spring
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1890
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.7 x 5.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: From "Sketches from the picture exhibition", on the annual exhibition of fine arts in the Salon of the Palais de l'Industrie, Champs Elysées, Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular, solo
  • p2217

    p2217

    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancing lesson
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1780
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court
    • KEYWORDS: instruction
  • s4315

    s4315

    • TITLE OF WORK: Ladies' whims (Au caprice des dames)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, chromolithograph, color, card
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: duo
  • p8381

    p8381

    • TITLE OF WORK: The young flageolet player
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1844
    • DIMENSIONS: 10.5 x 7.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the novel "The young flageolet player" by Louisa Stuart Costello
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p9821

    p9821

    • ARTIST: Henri Matisse (France, 1869-1954)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer (Danseuse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1925
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 32.5 x 50 cm
    • COMMENTS: Plate 96 from the series "Dix danseuses", published by Galerie d'Art Contemporain, Paris, 1927.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p8506

    p8506

    • ARTIST: Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (France, 1827-1875)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Eugénie Fiocre
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bust, plaster
    • DATE: 1870
    • DIMENSIONS: 83 x 51 x 37 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p1420

    p1420

    • ARTIST: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, 1880-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer (Tänzerin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, charcoal and watercolor
    • DATE: 1930
    • DIMENSIONS: 50 x 39 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • s5316

    s5316

    • ARTIST: Wim. M. Chase
    • TITLE OF WORK: Carmencita
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1890
    • DIMENSIONS: 177.5 x 103.8
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: woman
  • p9625

    p9625

    • ARTIST: Laura Knight (U.K., 1877-1970)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Practice session
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, black chalk and wash
    • DATE: 1960
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 26 x 36 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: practice
  • p2214

    p2214

    • ARTIST: Joseph Sheppard (U.S.A., 1930-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Rock and Roll
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1970
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: popular, rock and roll, rock n' roll
  • p5537

    p5537

    • TITLE OF WORK: The cotillon
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1785
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • s1262

    s1262

    • TITLE OF WORK: West and East hold Christmas
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1926
    • DIMENSIONS: 6.2 x 10.6 cm
    • COMMENTS: An illustration from a little play, "The broken cup", in the volume "Blackie's children's annual"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • s1642

    s1642

    • TITLE OF WORK: Nymphs dancing around an altar, Apollo, Hermes and Pan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, marble
    • DATE: -100
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 39 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: round, procession
    • KEYWORDS: musical instrument, Pan flute, cithara
  • s5160

    s5160

    • ARTIST: Jean-Léon Gérôme (France, 1824-1904)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tanagra (female dancer) (Danseuse Tanagra)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze. Epreuve en bronze à patine mordorée.
    • DATE: 0
    • DIMENSIONS: 7,5 x 6,5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed. Fonte d'édition ancienne de Siot Paris, marque de fondeur et no 464 B.
    • KEYWORDS: female dancer, ancient
  • p8812

    p8812

    • ARTIST: Wilhelm Gause (Austria, 1853-1916) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from the 1st act of the romantic-comic opera "Muzzedin", by S. Bachrich (Scene aus dem 1. Act der romantisch-komischen Oper "Muzzedin" von S. Bachrich)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1883
    • DIMENSIONS: 14.4 x 22.6 cm
    • COMMENTS: Drawn at the first performance, at the City Theater of Vienna
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria, Vienna
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: opera
  • s5096

    s5096

    • TITLE OF WORK: Soufis dancing the Sama in front of cheikh Nizam al-Din Awliya
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor, manuscript illumination,
    • DATE: 1485
    • DIMENSIONS: 25.3 x 16.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: From the work of Amir Khustro Dehlavi entitled Khamse (set of five)
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ottoman, Turkey, Persia, Iran
    • DANCE FORM: sema, sama, whirling
    • KEYWORDS: religion, music
  • p6896

    p6896

    • ARTIST: Georges Lepape (France, 1887-1971)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The tango. Study
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, gouache on pencil, sketch
    • DATE: 1914
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: tango, ballroom, couple
  • p2036

    p2036

    • ARTIST: Theyre Lee-Elliott (U.K., 1903-1988)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tamara Toumanova and dancers in "Cotillon"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1947
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7620

    p7620

    • ARTIST: Paul Colin (France, 1892-1985)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Spanish dancer, perhaps Vincente Escudero
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1927
    • COMMENTS: Colin did a poster of Escudero in 1925
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, Spanish dance
  • p5103

    p5103

    • ARTIST: Réné Gruau (Italy, 1909-2004)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Lido, Champs-Elysées, Paris. Pour vous
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1961
    • COMMENTS: Champagne revue by Pierre Louis Guerin and Réné Fraday, directed by Donn Arden, costumes by Folco
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p6382

    p6382

    • ARTIST: Jakob Placidus Altmutter (Austria, 1780-1820)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tanz der Zillertaler im Freyen
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1800
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p9756

    p9756

    • ARTIST: Carlo Coppedè (Italy, 1868-1952)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A bacchanalian scene
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1907
    • DIMENSIONS: 92 x 129 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed, dated "1907" and inscribed "Firenze"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Italy, Firenze, Florence
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p4311

    p4311

    • ARTIST: Valentine Gross Hugo (France, 1887-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Some of the movements of the ballet "Le sacre du printemps"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1913
    • COMMENTS: With musical scores by Igor Stravinski
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3102

    p3102

    • TITLE OF WORK: Salvatore Vigano
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1793
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p8551

    p8551

    • ARTIST: Charles Vacher (U.K., 1818-1883) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Italy - The saltarella (La saltarella)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood, engraving
    • DATE: 1851
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 21.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: Exhibition of the New Society of Painters in Water-Colours, in Pall-Mall, London
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • p3240

    p3240

    • TITLE OF WORK: Antelope dance headdress, female "Chi wara", Bambara people
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, wood
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 54 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Mali
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: Bambara
  • p3035

    p3035

    • ARTIST: Josep Clarà i Ayats (Spain, 1878-1958)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing and watercolor
    • DATE: 1913
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 28 x 20 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France, Spain
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • s3249

    s3249

    • ARTIST: Edmond-Joseph Massicotte (Canada, 1875-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A night party of yore (Une veilée d'autrefois)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1915
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Canada
    • DANCE FORM: couple
  • s5842

    s5842

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing Silenus. Lebes vase on base
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, black-figure vase
    • DATE: -530
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 48 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Found in Caere (Cerveteri) Italy
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Eastern
    • KEYWORDS: satyr
  • s1212

    s1212

    • ARTIST: Marcelin Delechaux (France, 1821-1902) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Review of theaters. "Sicilian vespers". The nymph and the faune - The telegraph step (Revue des théâtres. "Les vêpres siciliennes". La nymphe et le faune - pas du télégraphe)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1855
    • DIMENSIONS: 7.1 x 7.4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, stage, duo
    • KEYWORDS: humor, opera, theater, caricature
  • p9534

    p9534

    • ARTIST: Frans Vinck (Belgium, 1827-1903)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Entertainment in the courtyard
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on panel
    • DATE: 1861
    • DIMENSIONS: 59 x 85.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental, solo, traditional, stage
  • p6822

    p6822

    • ARTIST: Spyros Vassiliou (Greece, 1902-1985)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Digenis leads the dance (O Digenis serni to choro)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1948
    • DIMENSIONS: 3.9 x 10.4 cm
    • COMMENTS: Dighenis is a hero of Greek folk ballads, a defender of the borders against invaders
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, folk
  • s0367

    s0367

    • ARTIST: Antoni Clavé (Spain, 1913-2005)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Suzanna and the Barber": Rosine
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, gouache and wash on tan paper
    • DATE: 1956
    • DIMENSIONS: 47.6 x 32.1 cm
    • COMMENTS: From the collection of Ruth Page. The ballet "Suzanna and the Barber" on music by Rossini arranged by Isaac Van Grove, choreography by Ruth Page and decors and costumes by Antoni Clavé, was first prod
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, Spanish dance?
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p4479

    p4479

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vaslav Nijinsky - "Carnaval"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1911
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p1955

    p1955

    • ARTIST: Theyre Lee-Elliott (U.K., 1903-1988)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Margot Fonteyn and Celia Franca in the balet "The Quest"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1947
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1916

    p1916

    • TITLE OF WORK: Spanish dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, bolero, Spanish dance
  • s5689

    s5689

    • TITLE OF WORK: Nude girl dancing and playing a tambourine. From Egypt
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, bone
    • DATE: 350
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 8 x 4.7 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Egyptian artist
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Hellenistic, Egypt
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: tambourine
  • p3351

    p3351

    • ARTIST: George, George
    • TITLE OF WORK: Frederick Ashton in "Cinderella"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1969
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s2888

    s2888

    • ARTIST: Daniel Vierge (Spain, 1851-1904) (drawing) (drawing); Dick (sketch)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A Turn-Séverin le jour de la Saint-Georges - Le Hora, danse nationale
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1877
    • DIMENSIONS: 21 x 31.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Serbia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, Kolo, round
  • s3840

    s3840

    • ARTIST: Georges Wolinski (France, 1934-2015)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Municipal Theatre, Tuesday 25 july at 21:30, the Charles Créance Company in "Noir salle" -1) (Théâtre Municipal, mardi 25 juillet, 21H30, Compagnie Charles Créance "Noir salle" -1)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1989
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Arles
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p1230

    p1230

    • ARTIST: Sonia Delaunay (France, 1885-1979)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Bal Bullier dance hall. (Le Bal Bullier.) Detail
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1913
    • DIMENSIONS: 97 x 390 cm
    • COMMENTS: The "Bal Bullier" was a fashionable dance-hall on the Boulevard Saint-Michel, Paris.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
  • p2720

    p2720

    • ARTIST: F. Visca?
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancing lesson
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1915
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France

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