Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p5679

    p5679

    • ARTIST: Armand-Gustave Houbigant (France, 1790-1863)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Russian dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1835
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p5059

    p5059

    • TITLE OF WORK: "Song of the stars". Lyrics by Louis Lemarchand, music by Hugo Hirsch (La chanson des étoiles. Paroles de Louis Lemarchand, musique de Hugo Hirsch)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, cover of a music score
    • DATE: 1927
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • s3850

    s3850

    • TITLE OF WORK: Jewish dancers celebrating Purim
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1650
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Israel, Jews,
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, solo
  • s3789

    s3789

    • ARTIST: Sigurd Leeder (Germany, 1902-1981)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ludmila Mlada in "Dance suite" by Sigurd Leeder, 1955
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, charcoal
    • DATE: 1955
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
  • p4389

    p4389

    • ARTIST: Rostan (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A ball given on board the "Magenta" by the admiral Jurien de la Gravière (Alger. Bal donné à bord dy "Magenta", par l'amiral Jurien de la Gravière, à la suite des grands manoeuvres de l'escadre)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1869
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 22.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Algeria
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: marine
  • p9736

    p9736

    • ARTIST: Louis-François Cassas (France, 1756-1827) (attributed to)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The temple of Jupiter Olympius with the Parthenon, Athens
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pen and black ink and watercolor
    • DATE: 1820
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 38.5 x 60 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Athens, France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
  • p9915

    p9915

    • ARTIST: Salvatore Clemente
    • TITLE OF WORK: The café terrace
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1890
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 59.5 x 44.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and inscribed "Sevilla" at lower left
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Sevilla
    • DANCE FORM: popular, solo, flamenco, Spanish dance
  • p6489

    p6489

    • TITLE OF WORK: Loïe Fuller in the "Serpentine dance"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1896
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Loïe Fuller (?)
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • s0881

    s0881

    • ARTIST: Marguerite Mackain-Langlois (France, 1896-1979)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Antonia Argentina - "Tango andalou" - Bailaora
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1928
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.8 x 11 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: tango, traditional, popular, stage, solo, Spanish dance
  • s0499

    s0499

    • ARTIST: John Byam Liston Shaw (U.K., 1872-1919)
    • TITLE OF WORK: At the theatre
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on panel
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.8 x 30.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: theater
  • p2211

    p2211

    • ARTIST: Pierre Vidal (France, 1849-1913)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing over the rooftops of Paris
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1899
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • p4556

    p4556

    • ARTIST: Artus Gheerdinck (Netherlands, 1564-1624)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Round dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on wood
    • DATE: 1605
    • COMMENTS: Painted lid of a virginal made in Amsterdam in 1605
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s5311

    s5311

    • ARTIST: Ksawery Jan Kaniewski (Poland, 1805-1867)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of the sisters Carolina and Anne Strauss, ballet dancers of the Grand Theatre
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1853
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 107 x 79 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland
    • DANCE FORM: ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait, off-stage
  • p4992

    p4992

    • TITLE OF WORK: Mexican Ballet. Mexican Academy of the Dance (Ballet Mexicano. Academia de la Danza Mexicana)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, poster
    • DATE: 1952
    • COMMENTS: For the performance at the Palacio de Bellas Artes of Mexico City, in 1952.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Mexico
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s1246

    s1246

    • TITLE OF WORK: A masque of Wimbledon
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1931
    • COMMENTS: Illustrations for the article "A masque of Wimbledon" by Eleanor and Herbert Farjeon
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • KEYWORDS: tennis
  • s3695

    s3695

    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, terracotta figurine, ceramic statuette
    • DATE: -250
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 12.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Greco-roman aart
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • p4094

    p4094

    • ARTIST: Cl. P. Berghem
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance in the open
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1665
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular
  • s2243

    s2243

    • ARTIST: Erwin Lang (Austria, 1886-1962) (drawing & engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Grete Wiesenthal - 1
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood engraving
    • DATE: 1921
    • DIMENSIONS: 7.4 x 7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern, duo
  • s4225

    s4225

    • ARTIST: Alfredo Bortoluzzi (Germany, 1905-1995)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ballet figurine (Ballett-Figurine)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, monochrome
    • DATE: 1938
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, France
    • DANCE FORM: solo, ballet, court
  • s1655

    s1655

    • ARTIST: François Lafon (France, 1846-1920)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Bacchante
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1911
    • COMMENTS: Exhibited at the Paris Salon de l'Ecole Française of 1911
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
  • p5984

    p5984

    • ARTIST: Denis Boissier
    • TITLE OF WORK: Pause in white (Pause en blanc)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, acrylic and oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1984
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s6110

    s6110

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora - The Dance, 1912 (Isadora - La Danse, 1912)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and brown ink wash on paper
    • DATE: 1912
    • DIMENSIONS: 26.3 x 18 cm
    • COMMENTS: Study for the relief at the Théâtre des Champs-Elyssées
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • s2920

    s2920

    • ARTIST: Jean Bérain the Elder (France, 1638-1711) (drawing); J. Le Pautre (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Hall of the ball given at the court during the Carnival of 1683 (Salle du bal donné à la cour pendant le Carnaval de 1683)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1683
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, theatrical, stage, court
    • KEYWORDS: royalty, Carnival,
  • s3410

    s3410

    • ARTIST: The Michigan Painter (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Three young men dancing, one is playing the lyra
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, olpe vase
    • DATE: -515
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 21 cm height; 8.5 cm dia.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Dodecanese, Rhodes
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: lyra, musical instrument, crotals
  • p6019

    p6019

    • ARTIST: Edward Seago (U.K., 1910-1974)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Argentinita
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1938
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Argentina
    • DANCE FORM: stage, flamenco, Spanish dance
  • p0031

    p0031

    • ARTIST: Marie Laurencin (France, 1883-1956)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Spanish dancers (Danseuses espagnoles)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1940
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 150 x 95 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France
    • DANCE FORM: popular, traditional, Spanish dance
  • p0220

    p0220

    • TITLE OF WORK: Festival of the Seine - the ball (Fête de la Seyne - Le bal)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1845
    • DIMENSIONS: 10 x 14 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • p0579

    p0579

    • ARTIST: André Levasseur (France, 1927-2006)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for Josephine Baker
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1969
    • COMMENTS: Costume designed for the gala performance for the Red Cross in Monte Carlo.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Monaco, Monte Carlo
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p6504

    p6504

    • TITLE OF WORK: We are the Brothers Loïe Fuller (Nous sommes les Frères Loïe Fuller)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1894
    • COMMENTS: Vaudeville show inspired by the serpentine dance
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: humor, theater, comedy
  • p6371

    p6371

    • ARTIST: Philibert-Louis Debucourt (France, 1755-1832)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The ball at Sceaux (Le bal de Sceaux)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1804
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s3718

    s3718

    • ARTIST: Henri (de) Gissey (France, 1621-1673) (workshop of)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Ballet of the night". 2nd veille. The Court of Miracles (La Cour des Miracles) ("Ballet de la nuit". 2nd veille. La Cour des Miracles)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen, wash and gouache
    • DATE: 1653
    • DIMENSIONS: 28 x 41 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, court
  • p4168

    p4168

    • ARTIST: Friedrich August von Kaulbach (Germany, 1850-1920)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1902
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan, portrait
  • p8714

    p8714

    • TITLE OF WORK: Grand entertainment on board H.M.S. "Prince Regent", at Cork
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1852
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.2 x 23.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: navy, military
  • p9167

    p9167

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Le tricorne"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1919
    • COMMENTS: "Le tricorne", ballet in one act by the Ballets Russes, in Paris. Music by M. de Falla, composed for the pantomime by Martinez-Sierra. Scenario by Serge Diaghilev after the play "Le tricorne" by Alarc
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Spain
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, Spanish dance?
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p7311

    p7311

    • TITLE OF WORK: The young men in the ballet "Der Bauer als Milionär" by Raimund
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1870
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3728

    p3728

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Daphnis and Chloé", scene 1
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor on paper
    • DATE: 1912
    • DIMENSIONS: 94 x 122 cm
    • COMMENTS: Music by Maurice Ravel
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • s2056

    s2056

    • ARTIST: Elli Solomonidi-Balanou (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Illustration for the poem "Rich girl at the dance" by George Athanas
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and black ink
    • DATE: 1999
    • DIMENSIONS: 21 x 29.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
  • s2183

    s2183

    • ARTIST: Theophilos Hadjimichail (Greece, 1867-1934)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance (?)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Lesbos
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
  • p8830

    p8830

    • TITLE OF WORK: Arab dancer in Khartoum (Arabische Tänzerin in Chartum)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1882
    • DIMENSIONS: 12 x 8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sudan, Khartoum, Arab
    • KEYWORDS: portrait, Arab
  • s0932

    s0932

    • TITLE OF WORK: Lady Di "does her bit" in a sweet little dance...
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1918
    • DIMENSIONS: 11 x 9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: stage, solo
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • p0205

    p0205

    • ARTIST: Paul Gavarni or Guillaume Sulpice Chevalier (France, 1804-1866)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The waltz mazurka, called the Cellarius, by Gavarni, and the Mazurka, by Gavarni (La valse mazurka, dite la Cellarius, par Gavarni. La Mazurka, par Gavarni)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1847
    • DIMENSIONS: 13.5 x 23 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, waltz, mazurka, Cellarius
  • p4670

    p4670

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance in Venice
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1620
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: The dance illustrated is probably a courante
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p1534

    p1534

    • ARTIST: Claude-Théodore Caruelle d'Aligny (France, 1798-1871)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance in front of the temple of Zeus Olympian
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 111 x 75 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Athens
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p6988

    p6988

    • TITLE OF WORK: Marie Taglioni, Fanny Cerrito, Carlotta Grisi, Lucile Grahn in "Le pas de quatre"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1845
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., France, Italy, Denmark
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p5443

    p5443

    • ARTIST: Eugène Boudin (France, 1824-1898)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Round dance at Quimper (Ronde à Quimper)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1688
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Britanny, Bretagne
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s0141

    s0141

    • TITLE OF WORK: Youth - joy (Jugend Lust)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on panel
    • DATE: 1990
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 38.1 x 28.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: circke, modern
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • p2685

    p2685

    • ARTIST: Egon Schiele (Austria, 1890-1918)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1913
  • s2909

    s2909

    • TITLE OF WORK: "Ballet d'Armide" - Third entry
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, colored
    • DATE: 1617
    • COMMENTS: Danced by king Louis XIII in 1617.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, theatrical, stage
    • KEYWORDS: royalty, court,
  • p7862

    p7862

    • ARTIST: Gösta Adrian-Nilsson, called GAN (Sweden, 1884-1965)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Design for the ballet "La mer glaciale" by Gösta Nystroem for the Ballets Suédois
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, ink
    • DATE: 1923
    • DIMENSIONS: 35.3 x 24.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Ishavsbaletten, Paris, Nov. 1923
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sweden
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1672

    p1672

    • ARTIST: Fernand Léger (France, 1881-1955)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "La création du monde"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1923
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Suédois
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • KEYWORDS: costume

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