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)
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
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.
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)
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.
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