Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p3774

    p3774

    • ARTIST: Diana Coomans (Belgium, 1861-1952)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Bacchants (Bakchanki)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1915
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Russia,
  • p8760

    p8760

    • ARTIST: George Dalziel (U.K., 1815-1902) (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The country dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood engraving
    • DATE: 1848
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.5 x 22.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: country, ballroom, couple, popular
  • p3075

    p3075

    • ARTIST: William Hogarth (U.K., 1697-1764)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Analysis of Beauty. Plate Two
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1753
    • DIMENSIONS: 37.3 x 49.6 cm
    • COMMENTS: In the center, the subject is a country dance derived from the ball in the painting "The Happy Marriage". The couple on the left are separated a little to elucidate their elegance in contrast with the
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p2731

    p2731

    • ARTIST: C. Wilhelm or William John Charles Pitcher (U.K., 1858-1925)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the revival of "A dream of butterflies and roses": Serge Litafkin
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1915
    • COMMENTS: A ballet by Adeline Genée. London Coliseum 22/03/1915.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p5132

    p5132

    • ARTIST: Katherine "Kay" Ambrose, (U.K., 1914-1971)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Hans Zullig in the ballet "Bosquet"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1940
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s6018

    s6018

    • ARTIST: Amasis Painter (Greece, active ca. 550-510 BC)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A satyr between two maenads, a maenad between two satyrs. Band-cup vase
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, band-cup vase
    • DATE: -540
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 14.4 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Attica, Athens
    • KEYWORDS: satyr, maenad
  • p5490

    p5490

    • TITLE OF WORK: Costumes from the ball of the archduke of Oldenburg (Costüme vom Balle des Erbgrossherzogs von Oldenburg)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1847
    • DIMENSIONS: 13 x 23 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p8312

    p8312

    • TITLE OF WORK: Fanny Cerrito in the "Menuet de la cour"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1843
    • COMMENTS: No. 11 in the series "The Star of the Ballet"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, minuet
  • s1653

    s1653

    • ARTIST: Clémentine-Hélène Dufau (France, 1869-1937)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Song to Beauty (Chant pour la Beauté)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1909
    • COMMENTS: Exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1909
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: nude, violin, solo
  • p6272

    p6272

    • TITLE OF WORK: Ecstatic dance by a Maya lord transformed to "uayob", his shamanic self
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on vase
    • DATE: 1000
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Found at the Altar de Sacrificios, a site on Pasi?n and Usumacinta rivers. Codex style. Maya painting og the classical period.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Mexico
    • KEYWORDS: therapy, religion
  • s0061

    s0061

    • 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: "La création du monde", a ballet by Blaise Cendrars for the Ballets Suédois. Music by Darius Milhaud; curtain, sets and costumes by Fernand Léger; sets painted by Marcel Guérin; choreography by Jean B
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s3121

    s3121

    • ARTIST: Crevédinus
    • TITLE OF WORK: Spring dance around a may tree (Branle de printemps autour de l'Arbre de mai)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1600
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
    • KEYWORDS: tree, maypole
  • p4111

    p4111

    • ARTIST: Ernest Clair-Guyot (France, 1886?-1938) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A scene from the first act of "L'atelier de Palmyre"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1910
    • DIMENSIONS: 10.3 x 19.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Palmyre (Sirède), Mimi (Zambelli), La Duchesse (A?da Boni), Les Ouvroères (Mouret, M. Lequien, G. Laugier), La Suivante (Belsaux)
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s3073

    s3073

    • ARTIST: Christian Bérard (France, 1902-1949)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Serge Lifar
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1942
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Inscribed "Cher Serge, Je me souviendrai toujours de ta création de Gisèle, je connais très bien l'époque de ces ballets, Christian Bérard"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, solo
  • p5684

    p5684

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing to horn and pipe
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination
    • DATE: 1400
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p7149

    p7149

    • ARTIST: Charles Vernier (France, 1813-1892) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: La bourrée d'Auvergne dance (La bourrée d'Auvergne)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1862
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Auvergne
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p3283

    p3283

    • ARTIST: Yannis Tsarouchis (Greece, 1910-1989)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Naked dancer, 27-2-78
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, tempera on craft paper
    • DATE: 1978
    • DIMENSIONS: 182 x 71 cm
    • COMMENTS: Unfinished study, dated 27/01/1978.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p4384

    p4384

    • ARTIST: Achille Mollica (Italy, 1832-1885)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Greek dance (Danse grecque)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1910
    • COMMENTS: Salon de Paris 1910
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Greece, France
  • p0438

    p0438

    • ARTIST: Philibert-Louis Debucourt (France, 1755-1832)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Amusements at the Halles on 21 January 1782 (Réjouissances aux Halles, le 21 janvier 1782)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1782
    • DIMENSIONS: 89.5 x 116.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, France, Paris,
    • DANCE FORM: popular, Oriental
  • s0496

    s0496

    • ARTIST: Giulio Carpioni (Italy, 1613-1678)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Nymphs and satyrs
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1665
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 95 x 73.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: tambourine
  • p6781

    p6781

    • TITLE OF WORK: Indians dancing in front of a procession. Costumes of Quito (Indiens dansant devant une procession. Costumes de Quito)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1853
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 10.5 x 23.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ecuador
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p1570

    p1570

    • ARTIST: Emil Nolde (Germany, 1867-1956)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Still life and Burma dancer (Stilleben und Birmatänzerin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1915
    • DIMENSIONS: 88 x 73 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Burma
  • s5025

    s5025

    • ARTIST: Bernard Buffet (France, 1928-1999)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancer Bonnefous
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mixed technique on vegetal paper, pen, watercolor, gouache
    • DATE: 1968
    • DIMENSIONS: 78 x 56 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated 69 on upper left
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p1865

    p1865

    • ARTIST: Roger Wild
    • TITLE OF WORK: Carmen Amaya (?)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1890
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, flamenco, Spanish dance
  • p0249

    p0249

    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from the opéra-comique "La Camargo": Pont-Calé and La Camargo in Mandrin's place
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1878
    • DIMENSIONS: 20 x 25 cm
    • COMMENTS: "La Camargo", opéra-comique en trois actes, de MM. Vanloo et Le Terrier, musique de M. Lecocq
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s2915

    s2915

    • ARTIST: Nicolas Poussin (France, 1594-1665) (after)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Offering flowers to Hymeneus (Offrande de fleurs à Hymenée)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1700
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Greece, France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: religion, deity,
  • s4373

    s4373

    • TITLE OF WORK: Girl at the barre
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1997
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Belarus
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: instruction, exercise
  • p9895

    p9895

    • ARTIST: Franz von Stuck (Germany, 1863-1928)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer (Tänzerin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze
    • DATE: 1898
    • DIMENSIONS: 63 cm height, including base
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • p3453

    p3453

    • ARTIST: Abraham Walkowitz (U.S.A., 1878-1965)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Study of Isadora Duncan dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1912
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p5534

    p5534

    • ARTIST: lieutenant Martin (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Afgan War: Tullochgorum Reel in the camp of the 72nd Haighlanders, at Kohat
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1879
    • DIMENSIONS: 13.9 x 21.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Scotland, Afghanistan
    • KEYWORDS: military
  • p2159

    p2159

    • TITLE OF WORK: Sketch of a ball at Almack's
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1815
    • COMMENTS: Regency dandy Beau Brummell is pictured in Almack's, London's fashionable assembly room
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • s4755

    s4755

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing couple
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch, print, postcard
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Serie V.1-23
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Romania
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple, ballroom
  • p3637

    p3637

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Cléopâtre" (Cleopatra)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor and gouache on paper
    • DATE: 1909
    • DIMENSIONS: 21 x 29.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Music by Anton Arensky and other Russian composers
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p4075

    p4075

    • ARTIST: Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne (Netherlands, 1589-1662)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Joyfull company in the open (Fröhliche Gasterei im Freien)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1645
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • s4868

    s4868

    • ARTIST: Komala Varadan (India, 19?-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Mohiniyattam
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1988
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • DANCE FORM: Mohiniyattam, Indian traditional, solo
  • s1685

    s1685

    • TITLE OF WORK: Margaret Leighton as Ariel
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1952
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: solo, ballet
  • p5168

    p5168

    • TITLE OF WORK: Courtiers with grotesque masks dancing in the court of Louis XII
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1700
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p6665

    p6665

    • TITLE OF WORK: Devils make four ladies dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1310
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Matfré Ermengau, a franciscan monk from Béziers who died in 1322, illustrates how the devils lead to sin. They lead the knights to banquet avec the ladies, then to joust for them, to dance, to tell th
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p8351

    p8351

    • TITLE OF WORK: The minuet de la cour (danced by Fanny Elssler and Dumilâtre)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1843
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 14 cm
    • COMMENTS: At Her Majesty's Theatre, London
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., France, Austria
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, minuet, duo
  • p3439

    p3439

    • ARTIST: Abraham Walkowitz (U.S.A., 1878-1965)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Study of Isadora Duncan dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1913
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p7327

    p7327

    • ARTIST: Maurice Biais (France, 1872-1926) (design)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Saharet
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1902
    • DIMENSIONS: 136.5 x 93 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: poster
  • p4633

    p4633

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance lesson
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1703
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • KEYWORDS: instruction
  • s4330

    s4330

    • ARTIST: Gino Severini (Italy, 1883-1966)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Blue dancer (Ballerina blu) - 2
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas with sequins
    • DATE: 1912
    • DIMENSIONS: 61 x 46 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
  • p9969

    p9969

    • ARTIST: Wilfredo Lam (Cuba, 1902-1982)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Abaloches dance for Dhambala, god of unity (Les abaloches dansent pour Dhambala, dieu de l'unité)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1972
    • DIMENSIONS: 210 x 270 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Cuba
    • KEYWORDS: religion, deity,
  • p6963

    p6963

    • ARTIST: William Hogarth (U.K., 1697-1764)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Eva Maria Violette Weigl
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1749
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Attributed to Hogarth
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Germany
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: theater
  • s4754

    s4754

    • ARTIST: Charles Spindler (Germany, 1865-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Hop, dance! (Saute, danse!)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, print, postcard
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Art alsacien Nr. 14
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular, traditional, couple, folk
  • p6939

    p6939

    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture
    • DATE: 150
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Oman
  • p9301

    p9301

    • ARTIST: Alice Rose Binet (France, 19??-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A portrait of a Spanish dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 53 x 63.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, solo, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p1181

    p1181

    • ARTIST: Camille Claudel (France, 1864-1943)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The wave (La vague)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, onyx and bronze
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 62 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Several bronze copies were cast in the 1990s from this work.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • s2382

    s2382

    • TITLE OF WORK: Graphic motifs 27
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1995
    • DANCE FORM: flamenco, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: clip art

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