Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • s4357

    s4357

    • TITLE OF WORK: Love rules the World (L'Amour tient le Monde en Etat)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Textile, fabric, damasc, linen, towel
    • DATE: 1785
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 95 x 78 cm
    • COMMENTS: Made in Courtrai. Probably ordered by Thierry de Ville d'Avray for the House of the King (Marguerite Prinet, Le damas de lin historié, 1982, p. 150)
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular, round
  • p9305

    p9305

    • ARTIST: Pierre Carrier-Belleuse (France, 1851-1933)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A ballet dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel
    • DATE: 1895
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 84.5 x 114 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s1214

    s1214

    • ARTIST: Ferdinand Opitz (Czech Republic, 1885-1956)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A dancing girl
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, pear-wood
    • DATE: 1926
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Czechoslovakia
    • DANCE FORM: stage, solo
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • p4290

    p4290

    • TITLE OF WORK: Mythological angel dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, ivory
    • DATE: 1750
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Japan
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • s1447

    s1447

    • TITLE OF WORK: The elegant people - the balls (Le monde élégant - les bals)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1844
    • DIMENSIONS: 22 x 5.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • p7007

    p7007

    • ARTIST: Michel or Mikhail Fokine (Russia, 1880-1942)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sketches for the ballet "Narcisse"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil
    • DATE: 1911
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes, Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: Choreographer
  • p9990

    p9990

    • TITLE OF WORK: The sultan's favourite
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1890
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 75 x 125.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: Inscribed "M Fortuny"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: castanets
  • s3793

    s3793

    • ARTIST: Sigurd Leeder (Germany, 1902-1981)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ludmila Mlada in "Figura tragica" by Sigurd Leeder, 1956
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, charcoal
    • DATE: 1956
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
  • p9788

    p9788

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers at the barre (Danseuses à la barre)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pastel and crayon on buff paper laid down on card
    • DATE: 1884
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 32 x 52 cm
    • COMMENTS: Stamped with the Atelier mark. Lemoisne catalogue number 758
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p5148

    p5148

    • ARTIST: Henry Charles Seppings-Wright (U.K., 1850-1937) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A fatigue party employed in brickmaking executing a "fantasy", or impromptu dance, in honour of the arrival of the gun-boats
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1896
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.6 x 23.4 cm
    • COMMENTS: From the article "The advance towards Dongola"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sudan
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s5306

    s5306

    • ARTIST: Nicolas Bertin (France, 1668-1736)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Bacchanal
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1715
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 36,9 x 46 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: drinking
  • p4814

    p4814

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Sudanese in the Egyptian café (Les Soudanais au café égyptien)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1889
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.3 x 21.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sudan, France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s3337

    s3337

    • ARTIST: Clément Massier (France, 1844-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer (Danseuse )
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, faience et lustre métallique
    • DATE: 1898
    • DIMENSIONS: 20 x 9.4 x 6.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: Inspired by the dances of Loïe Fuller
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • p8651

    p8651

    • ARTIST: Georges Barbier (France, 1882-1932)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tamara Karsavina
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1914
    • DIMENSIONS: 25.4 x 20.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s2663

    s2663

    • TITLE OF WORK: Saint John's festival at Honfleur (Fêtes de la Saint Jean, à Honfleur)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1858
    • DIMENSIONS: 14.9 x 17.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for an article by A.V.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Honfleur
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round, popular
  • p2472

    p2472

    • ARTIST: Friedrich August von Kaulbach (Germany, 1850-1920)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer - Rosario Guerero (Guerrero) (Danseuse - Rosario Guerero (Guerrero))
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 86 x 49 cm
    • COMMENTS: Painted in Munich, before 1905
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Spain
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, solo, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • s0683

    s0683

    • TITLE OF WORK: Tooting's kilt. His first and last reel
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1884
    • DIMENSIONS: 9 x 11.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Scotland
    • DANCE FORM: reel, traditional, popular, ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • s3325

    s3325

    • ARTIST: Jean-Léon Gérôme (France, 1824-1904)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Loïe Fuller
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1893
    • DIMENSIONS: 45.5 x 38.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Study for a larger work, which later disappeared
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, solo
    • KEYWORDS: light, veils, drapery
  • p5185

    p5185

    • ARTIST: Félix Comte (France, 1919-1991)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of the Béarn
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1963
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Béarn
    • DANCE FORM: folk,
  • s2753

    s2753

    • ARTIST: G. Vallon
    • TITLE OF WORK: Exercise (Exercice)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, fusain
    • DATE: 1950
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 13 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p4805

    p4805

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance scene in Hungary
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p2114

    p2114

    • ARTIST: Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov (Russia, 1881-1964)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Serge Diaghilev clipping a rose at Ouchy
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and China ink
    • DATE: 1915
    • DIMENSIONS: 28 x 22 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p4388

    p4388

    • ARTIST: Pierre Millan (after Rosso)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Druids' reel (Ronde de Dryades)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1549
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
  • s0984

    s0984

    • TITLE OF WORK: Kchoda dances before Richard (Kchoda tanzt vor Richard)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1859
    • DIMENSIONS: 12 x 18.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for a novel
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, solo, popular
    • KEYWORDS: tambourine
  • s5814

    s5814

    • ARTIST: Brygos Painter (Greece, active about c. 490-470 BC) (attributed)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Woman running to right with her head turned back. Attic red-figure cup Type B
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, red-figure cup
    • DATE: -480
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 8.7 x 28.4 x 21.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: I: Woman running to right with her head turned back. She wears a zig-zag patterned sakkos and a billowing himation over her chiton. She holds a net-bag in her left hand. Meander pattern around the ton
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Athens
  • s1608

    s1608

    • ARTIST: Yves Saint Laurent (France, 1936-2008)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Maldoror"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1962
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p3673

    p3673

    • ARTIST: Paul Destez (France, 1851-1919) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from "Le coeur de Paris"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1887
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 17 cm
    • COMMENTS: Théâtre de l'Opéra Comique - "Le coeur de Paris", revue en un acte et un prologue, par M. le marquis de Massa.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • KEYWORDS: theater
  • p9567

    p9567

    • TITLE OF WORK: Madle. Fanny Elssler in La Tarentule
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1843
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., Austria
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, solo
  • p1760

    p1760

    • ARTIST: A. Charlemagne
    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from the ballet "Esmeralda"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil and watercolor on paper
    • DATE: 1849
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.5 x 30.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: Ballet "La Esmeralda" on music by C. Pugni. Fanny Elssler as Esmeralda, Pierre Gringoire, Jules Perrot. Grand Theatre, Saint Petersburg, 1849.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p5333

    p5333

    • TITLE OF WORK: Death dance (Dödsdansen)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mural
    • DATE: 1490
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sweden
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • s3931

    s3931

    • ARTIST: Alexander Magilewsky
    • TITLE OF WORK: Movement study - Sakharoff (Bewegungsstudie - Sacharoff)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil and rose wash on paper
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ukraine, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • p8423

    p8423

    • ARTIST: Jeanne Mammen (Germany, 1890-1976)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Before the performance (Vor dem Auftritt)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1960
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: off-stage
  • s1392

    s1392

    • ARTIST: Alexandre Yevgenievich Jacovleff (Russia, 1887-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A study of the "Gan'za", a ritual dance in Equatorial Africa
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1927
    • COMMENTS: The painter went to Central Africa with a French motoring expedition
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Central Africa, Mali, Tchad
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: nude, helmet
  • s2829

    s2829

    • ARTIST: Louis Bombled (France, 1862-1927) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Small sailors. "A full tilt", riding and boating magazine by Messrs Surtac and Alévy (Les petits marins. "A fond de train", revue équestre et nautique de MM. Surtac et Alévy)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1892
    • DIMENSIONS: 5.2 x 13.9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: navy, sea
  • p8397

    p8397

    • TITLE OF WORK: Ball on board H.M.S. Royal Alfred, the flagship of admiral Sir R. Mundy, at Barbadoes
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1868
    • DIMENSIONS: 24 x 34.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Barbados
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: military, navy
  • s5487

    s5487

    • ARTIST: Bernard Daydé (France, 1921-1986)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Claire Sombert, "Prométhée", ballet de Pierre Rhallis, Festival de Lyon
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1956
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p0231

    p0231

    • ARTIST: Janet-Lange or Ange-Louis Janet (France, 1811-1872)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Smugglers", a Spanish ballet at the Theatre of Varieties ("Les contrebandiers", ballet espagnol - Théâtre des Varietés)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1847
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 12 x 15 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, Spanish dance
  • p2823

    p2823

    • ARTIST: Elli Solomonidi-Balanou (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dora Stratou introducing the dance of the "Boules"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, black ink on paper
    • DATE: 1975
    • COMMENTS: The Boules are men in disguise dancing in the carnival of the town of Naoussa, Macedonia, Northern Greece. Athens, Philopappou Theater, August 1975.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: folk
  • s5593

    s5593

    • ARTIST: The Inscription Painter (attributed)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Men dancers on a terracotta one-handled drinking cup
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, terracotta, black-figure vase
    • DATE: -515
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.7 height; 8.2 diameter
    • COMMENTS: Greek Chalkidian culture
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece,
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: musician
  • s5970

    s5970

    • TITLE OF WORK: Seated aulos player, student dancer with krotala, teacher. Attic red-figure vase
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, red-figure vase
    • DATE: -510
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 28.5 x 22.5 cm diam.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: student, instruction, education
  • s2293

    s2293

    • TITLE OF WORK: National dances (Danses nationales)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1897
    • DIMENSIONS: 7.8 x 11.1 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for an article on the Niger Valley in Central Africa, by Ned Noll
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Niger, Ouagadougou, Mossi
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
  • p9099

    p9099

    • ARTIST: Raoul Dufy (France, 1877-1953)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Moulin de la Galette. The dancers (Le Moulin de la Galette, Les danseurs)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on panel
    • DATE: 1943
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 32.5 x 24 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dedicated "à Yvonne et Pierre Nicolau, l'ami Raoul Dufy"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p5305

    p5305

    • ARTIST: Johannes Flintoe (Denmark, 1787-1870)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Seterliv under Skagastoelstindene
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache
    • DATE: 1824
    • DIMENSIONS: 75 x 103 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sweden
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • s0502

    s0502

    • ARTIST: John Piper (U.K., 1903-1992)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing figures
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 25.5 x 51 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p6727

    p6727

    • ARTIST: Katsushika Hokusai
    • TITLE OF WORK: From "How to teach yourself the solo dance" (Odori hitori geiko)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1810
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.5 x 15.7 cm each
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Japan
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: instruction, martial arts, arms
  • p4505

    p4505

    • ARTIST: Markos Zarikos (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ballos dance in Andros Island (Ballos stin Andro)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, tempera
    • DATE: 1993
    • DIMENSIONS: 70 x 100 cm
    • COMMENTS: From the series "Ta choreftika", published in a booklet for the New Year 1993
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, Ballos Greek dance
  • p9878

    p9878

    • ARTIST: Linder (drawing); Régnier (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Uneasy foot, at the Palais de Paris (Le pied qui remue, au Palais de Paris)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p7085

    p7085

    • ARTIST: Aristide Maillol (France, 1861-1944)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vaslav Nijinsky
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil on paper
    • DATE: 1913
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland, Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, modern
  • p9377

    p9377

    • ARTIST: Anton Fernkorn (Austria, 1813-1878) (sculpture)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance (Tanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1851
    • DIMENSIONS: 12.6 x 6.3 cm
    • COMMENTS: From a group of sculptures representing the folk arts, executed for the library of Queen Victoria, and presented in the Industrial Exhibition, London
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., England, London
  • s3865

    s3865

    • ARTIST: Alexej von Jawlensky (Russian, 1864-1941)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Alexander Sacharoff dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil on paper
    • DATE: 1912
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ukraine, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern

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