Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p4850

    p4850

    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance supervisor (Der Tanzordner)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • s1418

    s1418

    • TITLE OF WORK: The tarantella in Italy (La tarantelle en Italie)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 8 x 12 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: tarantella, traditional, couple
    • KEYWORDS: castanets, tambourin, mandolin
  • s1424

    s1424

    • ARTIST: Henri-Théophile Hildibrand (1824-1897) (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Abyssinians' dance (La danse des Abyssins)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1870
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 24.1 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration form an article
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Abyssinia, Ethiopia, Erythrea
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: drum
  • p7627

    p7627

    • ARTIST: Paul Colin (France, 1892-1985)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Josephine Baker dancing the charleston (Joséphine Baker dansant le charleston)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1927
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, charleston, solo
  • s2522

    s2522

    • TITLE OF WORK: Forioso - Country dance on four strings (Forioso - La contredanse sur quatre cordes)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, monochrome, from a print
    • DATE: 1904
    • DIMENSIONS: 8.2 x 10.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: contredanse, couple
  • s4738

    s4738

    • TITLE OF WORK: Crait, supplier of the Opera (Crait, fournisseur de l'Opéra)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1954
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: pas de quatre, classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: advertisement
  • p5527

    p5527

    • ARTIST: Charles Joseph Staniland (U.K., 1838-1916) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Keeping himself warm
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1880
    • DIMENSIONS: 30.1 x 23.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s2557

    s2557

    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer with crotales
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture
    • DATE: -475
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Etruria, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: music, crotales
  • s4513

    s4513

    • ARTIST: Aubusson workshops (France, 1743-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Hunting and dancing (Chasse à courre et danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Tapestry
    • DATE: 1685
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 280 x 480 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: Popular, round, circular, circle
  • p1172

    p1172

    • TITLE OF WORK: Three women dancing, a fourth woman playing a small drum
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1050
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From an illuminated copy of the Pentateuch
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Byzantium, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p0271

    p0271

    • ARTIST: Réné Gruau (Italy, 1909-2004)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ball of the Moulin Rouge. Lisette Malidor. The 40 Doriss Girls. (Bal du Moulin Rouge. Lisette Malidor. Les 40 Doriss Girls.)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1980
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • s1012

    s1012

    • ARTIST: Elizabeth Forbes (Canada, 1859-1912) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A minuet
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1892
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.1 x 11.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: minuet, ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: child, piano
  • p7090

    p7090

    • ARTIST: Jean-Pierre Norblin (France, 1745-1830)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance in a cabaret in Poland (Danse au Cabaret en Pologne)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1780
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s0194

    s0194

    • TITLE OF WORK: The state of Ireland: Making the most of it
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1879
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.4 x 48.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ireland, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • s1188

    s1188

    • ARTIST: Franz von Stuck (Germany, 1863-1928) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer (Tänzerin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1907
    • DIMENSIONS: 29.9 x 21.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Spain
    • DANCE FORM: solo, stage, Spanish dance
  • p0215

    p0215

    • ARTIST: Benjamin Roubaud (France, 1811-1847)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Moorish festival in the outskirts of Algiers (Fête mauresque aux environs d'Alger)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1845
    • DIMENSIONS: 13.5 x 17 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Algeria, Algiers
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, solo, Oriental
  • p9824

    p9824

    • ARTIST: Gino Severini (Italy, 1883-1966)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Pas de deux
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1952
    • DIMENSIONS: 52.1 x 38.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and numbered.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
  • s0574

    s0574

    • ARTIST: Hennessy
    • TITLE OF WORK: Life in Russia - A Georgian nobleman's family at home
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1874
    • DIMENSIONS: 20 x 22.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Georgia, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: popular, solo
    • KEYWORDS: tambourine
  • p1256

    p1256

    • TITLE OF WORK: Tempe
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, copper
    • DATE: 1590
    • DIMENSIONS: 36 x 47.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Thessaly, Tempi
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s0348

    s0348

    • ARTIST: Antoni Clavé (Spain, 1913-2005)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Revanche" (Revenge), act 3: Un Buffon (A Buffoon)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, gouache, ink wash, white chalk, collage of papers on black paper
    • DATE: 1951
    • DIMENSIONS: 49.5 x 32.4 cm
    • COMMENTS: From the collection of Ruth Page
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, Spanish dance?
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p8530

    p8530

    • TITLE OF WORK: Return of "Devil's Pill" to the Chatelet Theatre. The golden fly (Reprise des "Pilules du Diable" au Théâtre du Châtelet. La mouche d'or)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1880
    • DIMENSIONS: 26 x 22 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, music-hall, acrobatic
    • KEYWORDS: acrobat
  • p5494

    p5494

    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Arthur Saint-Léon
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1845
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.5 x 8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Auf dem hamburger Stadttheater
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • s0694

    s0694

    • TITLE OF WORK: Military career of H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught. "Evening at ease"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1879
    • DIMENSIONS: 8.4 x 16.1 cm
    • COMMENTS: Sketches of cadet life at Woolwich Academy
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: royalty, military
  • p3981

    p3981

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancer Jules Perrot (Le danseur Jules Perrot)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, charcoal and black stone, heightened with white
    • DATE: 1874
    • COMMENTS: Compare with his color drawing P0354
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: instruction
  • s1225

    s1225

    • ARTIST: Troy Kinney (U.S.A., 1871-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Roshanara in her Nautch of India, Ratan Devi accompanying
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, etching
    • DATE: 1924
    • DIMENSIONS: 8.7 x 13.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: From an exhibition at the Greatorex Gallery, London
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: stage, solo
  • p5718

    p5718

    • TITLE OF WORK: Orsa polka (Orsapolska)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1860
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sweden
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p5466

    p5466

    • ARTIST: Pietro Fabris (Italy, 1740-1792)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tarantella dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on paper laid down on canvas
    • DATE: 1770
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 39 x 44 cm
    • COMMENTS: One of a pair of paintings
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: tarantella, couple, popular
    • KEYWORDS: music, violin
  • p4710

    p4710

    • TITLE OF WORK: Gaillarde
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1400
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Renaissance
  • p9416

    p9416

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The rehearsal (La repétition)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1954
    • DIMENSIONS: 50 x 65.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France
    • KEYWORDS: nude, mask
  • s4892

    s4892

    • TITLE OF WORK: The tango in the ball-room, as letters in the papers from amateur social reformers would have us imagine it… and as we have actually seen it
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, sketch
    • DATE: 1913
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: tango, couple, ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • p3909

    p3909

    • ARTIST: Carl Milles (Sweden, 1875-1955)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze
    • DATE: 1917
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sweden
    • DANCE FORM: duo
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • s0483

    s0483

    • ARTIST: A. Lewin (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Figures of the gavotte-quadrille (Die Touren der Gavotte-Quadrille): Moulinet et tour de main gauche
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1894
    • DIMENSIONS: 8.5 x 11.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, gavotte, quadrille
  • p6623

    p6623

    • ARTIST: Amirault (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: At ball given for His Majesty the king of Cambodia (Bal donné à S. M. le roi de Cambodge)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1865
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 12.3 x 18 cm
    • COMMENTS: A ball given in Saigon, at the Governmanet Palace
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Vietnam, Indochina
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • p2130

    p2130

    • ARTIST: Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov (Russia, 1881-1964)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Study for the ballet "Renard" (2)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil
    • DATE: 1921
    • DIMENSIONS: 28.3 x 20 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s5271

    s5271

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dead man drumming for a dance of dead warriors
    • TYPE OF WORK: Pottery, stirrup-spouted jar
    • DATE: -100
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: 100 B.C. - 80 A.D.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Peru
    • KEYWORDS: dead man
  • s0939

    s0939

    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance of Valencien (La danse du Valencien)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1847
    • DIMENSIONS: 4 x 5.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traitional, popular, Spanish dance
  • p4811

    p4811

    • ARTIST: Emil Limmer (Germany, 1854-1931)
    • TITLE OF WORK: National Dance in the restaurant "In green water" on the island of Helgoland as folkloric performance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1891
    • DIMENSIONS: 23 x 34.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: The North Sea German island Helgoland was a popular tourist resort around 1900, especially for Berliners.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p7375

    p7375

    • ARTIST: Renato Guttuso (Italy, 1912-1987)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Boogie-woogie
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1953
    • DIMENSIONS: 169.5 x 205.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, popular, couple
  • s0983

    s0983

    • TITLE OF WORK: And dance in the evening as if there were no toothaches in the world… (Und tanzen Abends, als gäbe es gar keine Zahnschmerzen in der Welt...)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1859
    • DIMENSIONS: 10 x 6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • s3481

    s3481

    • TITLE OF WORK: Reine Marguerite. Campanule, Fuchsia, Pied d'Alouette, Muguet, Licron
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, hand-colored
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: stage
  • p9979

    p9979

    • ARTIST: David Teniers the Elder (Flanders, 1582-1649) (manner of)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A village feast (Une fête villageoise)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on panel
    • DATE: 1640
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 68.5 x 111 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • p6025

    p6025

    • ARTIST: Katsushika Hokusai (Japan, 1760-1849)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Japanese dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Japan
  • p8060

    p8060

    • ARTIST: Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov (Russia, 1881-1964)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Serge Diaghilev
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and ink
    • DATE: 1929
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 27 x 21 cm
    • COMMENTS: Initialed.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: management
  • s2826

    s2826

    • ARTIST: Parys (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Salome, a lyrical pantomime by Mr. Armand Silvestre and Mr. Meltzer, music by Mr. Pierné, presented at the Comédie Parisienne
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1895
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.9 x 30.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, France, Paris,
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, solo, theatrical, Oriental
    • KEYWORDS: Salome, religion, Bible
  • p1645

    p1645

    • ARTIST: Paul Rudolf Henning (Germany, 1886-1986)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance of Charlotte Bara (Der Tanz der Charlotte Bara) - 2
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, terracotta
    • DATE: 1918
    • DIMENSIONS: 36 cm height
    • COMMENTS: A three-part work
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • p1514

    p1514

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Belle Otero at the Follies-Bergère (La Belle Otéro aux Follies-Bergère)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1894
    • DIMENSIONS: 31 x 26.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Cover illustration.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris, Spain, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: Otero
  • s0965

    s0965

    • TITLE OF WORK: Amusements at the People's Palace, Mile End Road - a subscription dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1890
    • DIMENSIONS: 30.4 x 22.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: quadrille, ballroom, popular, couple
    • KEYWORDS: shoes, toilet
  • p4370

    p4370

    • ARTIST: Valentine Gross Hugo (France, 1887-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer, from "Le sacre du printemps"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1913
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p4151

    p4151

    • ARTIST: Gustave Moreau (France, 1826-1898)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance of Salome
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1875
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • KEYWORDS: Salome, religion, Bible
  • p2181

    p2181

    • ARTIST: Jacques Cancaret (France, 18??-19??)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer (Danseuse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France

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