Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p0480

    p0480

    • ARTIST: James Gillray (U.K., 1756-1815)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Heretofore occupations (Ci-devant occupations)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1805
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
  • p2598

    p2598

    • TITLE OF WORK: Ball house "Hamburger funnel" (Ballhaus "Hamburger Trichter") poster
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Hamburg
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • p3179

    p3179

    • ARTIST: Maurice Denis (France, 1870-1943)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, charcoal and white chalk
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Study for the murals of the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p9940

    p9940

    • ARTIST: Claude Rémusat (France, 1896-1982)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancers (Danseuses)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1935
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s5342

    s5342

    • TITLE OF WORK: From the ballet "Sylphide" - Marie Taglioni
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1832
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballet
  • p9643

    p9643

    • ARTIST: André Masson (France, 1896-1987)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Insects' ballet (Ballet des insectes)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1934
    • DIMENSIONS: 82 x 66 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • KEYWORDS: animal, insect
  • p7253

    p7253

    • ARTIST: Jules Chéret (France, 1836-1932) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers' lover, a modernist novel by Félicien Champsaur (L'amant des danseuses. Roman moderniste par Félicien Champsaur)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1888
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, ballet
    • KEYWORDS: tambourine
  • p4119

    p4119

    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancers of the King of Cambodia. A ballet in the royal palace of Phom-Penh
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1906
    • DIMENSIONS: 30.3 x 49.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for an article on the dancers of the king of Cambodia, by Gervais-Courtellemont; with photographs by Mr Sarceau, to be included in a book under preparation by Mr Martial Dupuy on Cambodia
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Cambodia, France
    • DANCE FORM: court
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • p9362

    p9362

    • TITLE OF WORK: Olga-Polka
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1849
    • DIMENSIONS: 11 x 23 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the musical score
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, polka, couple
    • KEYWORDS: score
  • s2402

    s2402

    • TITLE OF WORK: Graphic motifs 47
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1995
    • KEYWORDS: clip art
  • p6945

    p6945

    • ARTIST: Pierre Carrier-Belleuse (France, 1851-1933)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancer (La danseuse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel on canvas
    • DATE: 1900
    • DIMENSIONS: 71.8 x 43.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated 1900
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p4875

    p4875

    • ARTIST: Johann Wenzel Zinke (Austria, 1797-1858)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A ball in the new garden hall at the Kettenbrücke (Ein Ball auf dem neuen Garten-Saal zur Kettenbrücke)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, copper
    • DATE: 1827
    • DIMENSIONS: 22 x 28 cm
    • COMMENTS: During the waltz craze in Vienna
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • s5194

    s5194

    • ARTIST: Chilo Tulissi (Argentina, 1947-2012)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Without return (Sin vueltas)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 2007
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Argentina
    • DANCE FORM: tango, ballroom, couple
  • s1429

    s1429

    • ARTIST: Valério (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Bosnian dancer (Danseuse bosniaque)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1869
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.5 x 16 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Souvenirs d'un voyage chez les Slaves du sud" by G. Perrot
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Bosnia, Yugoslavia
    • DANCE FORM: solo, traditional
    • KEYWORDS: music
  • s5548

    s5548

    • ARTIST: Adolphe Rouargue (France, 1810-1870)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Granada: water bearers and bohemians
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1860
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Granada
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • p0310

    p0310

    • TITLE OF WORK: Festival. Bal du Moulin Rouge
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1973
    • COMMENTS: Choreography by Doris Haug. With the Doriss Girls, Les Belles du Moulin and Les Gar*cons de la Rue
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p5950

    p5950

    • ARTIST: Denis Boissier
    • TITLE OF WORK: The abduction (L'enlèvement)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1984
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p0816

    p0816

    • TITLE OF WORK: Allegory of the Upper Jerusalem, detail
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mural
    • DATE: 1500
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Israel, Corfu
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p5822

    p5822

    • ARTIST: A. Prévost (drawing); H. Linton (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The festival of San-Isidro in Madrid (La fête de San-Isidro, à Madrid)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1860
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 32 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Madrid
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s4446

    s4446

    • ARTIST: Valentin Serov (Russia, 1865-1911)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Ida Rubinstein
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, détrempe and charcoal on canvas
    • DATE: 1910
    • DIMENSIONS: 145.5 x 231.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: nude, portrait
  • s0065

    s0065

    • ARTIST: Francisco Bayeu y Subías (Spain, 1734-1795) (attributed to)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Village dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on panel
    • DATE: 1775
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 26 x 35.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p2495

    p2495

    • ARTIST: Joseph Bouvier (after a print by); Haguental & Fagonde (lithograph)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Carlotta Grisi and Jules Perrot in the ballet "La polka"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1844
    • DIMENSIONS: 31 x 23 cm
    • COMMENTS: London, Her Majesty's Theatre, 1844
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., France, Italy, London
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, polka
  • s1989

    s1989

    • ARTIST: Lucien Fontanarosa (France, 1912-1975)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer standing, making up (Danseuse debout, se maquillant)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel, postcard
    • DATE: 1957
    • DIMENSIONS: 65 x 45 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s3247

    s3247

    • ARTIST: George Heriot (U.K., 1759-1839)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance in the Saint Louis castle (Danse au Château Saint-Louis)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor and pencil
    • DATE: 1801
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Canada
    • DANCE FORM: court, round, circle
  • p9846

    p9846

    • ARTIST: Tommaso Borgonio (Italy, 1620-1683)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "The tobacco ballet", the Indians' chorus ("Il tabacco baletto", il choro de gl'Indiani)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1650
    • COMMENTS: "Il tabacco balletto", alle dame l' ultimo giorno di Carnevale, primo di Marzo, mille sei cento cinquanta. Ballato in Torino (A ballet presented in Turin on 01/03/1650, last day of Carnival). The Toba
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Torino, Turin, Venezuela
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6364

    p6364

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Quadrille, figure 4: La Trénise
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1825
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Scotland
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, popular
  • p0335

    p0335

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Study of a dancer (Etude de danseuse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, charcoal
    • DATE: 1868
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p5631

    p5631

    • ARTIST: Miguel del Pino (Spain, 1890-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of the ribbons (El baile de las cintas) Detail
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p8576

    p8576

    • TITLE OF WORK: Berchten dancers (Berchtentänzer)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving
    • DATE: 1896
    • DIMENSIONS: 7 x 8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Münchner Oktoberfest (Octobre Festival in Munich)
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Bavaria, Munich
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s2416

    s2416

    • ARTIST: Giorgio de Chirico (Italy, 1888-1978)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Design for a ballet (Bozzetto per un balletto)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor and gouache, laid down
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 24.1 x 31.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed al lower right
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: theatrical
  • s0175

    s0175

    • ARTIST: Josef von Wodzinski (Germany, 1859-1918?) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A children's costumed ball (Ein Kinder-Costümball)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1892
    • DIMENSIONS: 34.8 x 43.9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, popular, couple
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • s5351

    s5351

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer Qajar (Danseuse Qajar)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas in ogival form "rentoilée"
    • DATE: 1600
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 162x92 cm dia. Frame 169x98 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Persia, Iran, Orient
    • DANCE FORM: solo, Oriental
  • p6467

    p6467

    • ARTIST: Eugène Delacroix (France, 1798-1863)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Faust and Wagner in "Conversation in the countryside"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1820
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Dance scene in the background
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Germany,
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p1882

    p1882

    • TITLE OF WORK: Two Spanish dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, flamenco, Spanish dance
  • s5659

    s5659

    • ARTIST: Nikosthenes Painter (attributed); Pamphaios (potter)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Three Satyrs and three Maenads dancing. Pottery: red-figured kylix vase
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pottery, red-figured kylix vase
    • DATE: -510
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.43 cm height; 30.48 diam.
    • COMMENTS: Made in Attica, found in Vulci, Viterbo, Italy.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Athens
    • KEYWORDS: Maenad
  • s4070

    s4070

    • TITLE OF WORK: Greek dance (Ellinikos choros)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, drawing, color
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 10.5 x 13.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Athens
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
  • s4669

    s4669

    • ARTIST: M. Clément (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: 2e Grand Ball de l'Opéra. Parfumé par Rimmel, 9, Bd des Capucines
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color, card
    • DATE: 1925
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Perfume card
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: couple, court
  • p9365

    p9365

    • ARTIST: Wilhelm Kuhnert (Germany, 1865-1926) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: From the Industrial Exhibition in Berlin: The dance of the Togo negroes in the Colonial Exhibition (Aus der berliner Gewerbe-Ausstellung: Der Tanz der Togoneger in der Colonialausstellung)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1896
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.8 x 23 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Togo, Germany, Berlin, Africa
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s1592

    s1592

    • ARTIST: Rex Whistler (U.K., 1905-1944)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Cover design for Souvenir Booklet. Reopening of the Asembly Rooms, Bath
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1938
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Bath
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p1722

    p1722

    • TITLE OF WORK: Silene and maenad dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, silver, gilt
    • DATE: 620
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 25.7 cm diameter
    • COMMENTS: Plate made in Constantinople. Found in the region of Perm in 1878. Former collection Stroganov. On the reverse two stamps of the reign of Heraclius (610-641).
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Byzantium, Ancient, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: duo
    • KEYWORDS: religion, divinity
  • p2348

    p2348

    • ARTIST: Otto Dix (Germany, 1891-1969)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of the dancer Anita Berber (Bildnis der Tänzerin Anita Berber)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, tempera on wood
    • DATE: 1925
    • DIMENSIONS: 120 x 65 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p5988

    p5988

    • ARTIST: Denis Boissier
    • TITLE OF WORK: Like birds (Tels des oiseaux)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, acrylic and oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1984
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s5089

    s5089

    • ARTIST: Balázs Szigetvári Csöbör (Hungary, 15??-15??)
    • TITLE OF WORK: An Ottoman dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Manuscript illumination, miniature
    • DATE: 1570
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: This is from a miniature done in 1570 by, a Hungarian in the Ottoman Empire
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ottoman, Turkey, Hungary
    • DANCE FORM: Ottoman dance
  • p1817

    p1817

    • ARTIST: Tatiana Bruni (Russia, 1902-2001) & Gueorgui Korchikov (Russia, 1899-1942)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Bolt": The Young Communist Olga
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor and gouache
    • DATE: 1931
    • DIMENSIONS: 38.8 x 27.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Music by D. Chostakovitch, choreography by F. Lopoukov. Academic Theater for Opera and Ballet, Leningrad 1931.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s3689

    s3689

    • TITLE OF WORK: French Opera House. Season 1919-1920. New Orleans Grand Opera Company
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1919
    • COMMENTS: Program cover
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., Louisiana, New Orleans
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, solo
  • p7289

    p7289

    • ARTIST: Rex Whistler (U.K., 1905-1944)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "The rake's progress", original production: The Rake
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1935
    • COMMENTS: Ballet first produced by the Vic-Wells Ballet Company at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, on 20/05/1935
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p8894

    p8894

    • ARTIST: Victor Coindre (France, 1816-18??)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Carlotta Grisi and Lucien Petipa in the pas de deux of act 1 of the ballet "Giselle"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6130

    p6130

    • ARTIST: Jean-Léon Gérôme (France, 1824-1904)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Recreation in the camp. Souvenir of Moldavia (Récréation au camp. Souvenir de Moldavie)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1855
    • DIMENSIONS: 59 x 101 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated at lower left
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Moldova, France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: military
  • s4729

    s4729

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of the Mevlevi dervishes at Konya (Danse des Mevlevîs de Konya)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature
    • DATE: 1650
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Tcherkes Aghâ Yûsuf Pâshâ, Safarnâme, Iraq, Bagdad, XVIIe siècle
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey, Konya
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p5808

    p5808

    • ARTIST: A. Van Pers (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A dance of the Ronggings in the interior of Java (Une danse de Ronggings dans l'intérieur de Java)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1862
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 22.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Java, Indonesia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional

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