Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p1877

    p1877

    • TITLE OF WORK: Spanish dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, flamenco, Spanish dance
  • p8231

    p8231

    • ARTIST: Albert von Kötzler (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Religious festival at Metz (Fête patronale bei Metz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1884
    • DIMENSIONS: 13.1 x 21.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple
  • s0532

    s0532

    • ARTIST: Georges Rochegrosse (France, 1859-1938) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Salome dances before king Herod (Salome tanzt vor dem König Herodes)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1888
    • DIMENSIONS: 28.5 x 46.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, France, Israel
    • DANCE FORM: solo, stage, Oriental
    • KEYWORDS: Salome, religion, Bible
  • p8465

    p8465

    • ARTIST: Ph. Blanchard (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Persian court dancers at Tchekhmakly (Bayadères persanes à Tchekhmakly)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1857
    • DIMENSIONS: 17.5 x 23 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Persia, Iran
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s4085

    s4085

    • TITLE OF WORK: The three Hours dancing round a circular altar
    • TYPE OF WORK: Mosaic
    • DATE: 175
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From a mansion at Kissamos, Crete
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Byzantium, Greece, Crete, Kissamos, Ancient
    • DANCE FORM: trio
  • p5836

    p5836

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance on 5,000 meticals banknote
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1990
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 8 x 16.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Mozambique
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p6475

    p6475

    • TITLE OF WORK: Poster for the ballet-comedy "Bouton d'or" - Detail
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1893
    • COMMENTS: Loïe Fuller
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p6691

    p6691

    • TITLE OF WORK: The carnival in Corfu (Der Karneval in Korfu)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1866
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.5 x 22 cm
    • COMMENTS: Copy of another engraving
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: Carnival, disguise
  • p9192

    p9192

    • ARTIST: Kees van Dongen (Netherlands, 1877-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Belly dance (La danse du ventre)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gasoline on board
    • DATE: 1905
    • DIMENSIONS: 78 x 58 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed; dated 1905 on the reverse
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, France, Holland,
    • DANCE FORM: stage, solo, Oriental
  • p5414

    p5414

    • ARTIST: Chenard
    • TITLE OF WORK: Théodore Dauberval, born in Paris (Théodore Dauberval, née à Paris)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1790
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6951

    p6951

    • ARTIST: Jean Le Pautre (France, 1618-1682)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Masked male opera dancer with castanets
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1675
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p0699

    p0699

    • ARTIST: Alfred Quesnay de Beaurepaire (France, 1830-1897) (sketch)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A ball given in the hall of the Legion of Honour
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1884
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.5 x 27.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Bal de la Société amicale de secours des anciens élèves de l'Ecole Polytechique, donné dans le
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • p4936

    p4936

    • ARTIST: Valias Semertzidis (Greece, 1911-1983)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance in the Island of Rhodes (Rodotikos choros). Detail
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mural on dry plaster
    • DATE: 1965
    • DIMENSIONS: 300 x 450 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Dodecanese, Rhodes
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
  • s5137

    s5137

    • TITLE OF WORK: Lola Montez at about age 40 (Lola Montez im Alter von etwa 40 Jahren)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1860
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Foto Nationalbibliotek Wien
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • KEYWORDS: Lola Montez
  • s4641

    s4641

    • ARTIST: Georges de Podegaieff (Russia, 1897-1971)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Russian Ballets of colonel W. de Basil (Ballets Russes du colonel W. de Basil) 2
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache
    • DATE: 1935
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 43.5 x 32.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: One of two studies auctioned together
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, duo
    • KEYWORDS: corps de ballet
  • p8012

    p8012

    • ARTIST: A. Claxton (drawing); Godart (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Happy Xmas. We feel jolly and well, thanks to Eno's Fruit Salt
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1885
    • DIMENSIONS: 18 x 15.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: advertisement, publicity
  • p8565

    p8565

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Kirghis and Tartar caravans at the Oktoberfest of Munich - Folk dance (Die Kirgisen- und Tatarenkarawane auf dem Münchener Oktoberfest - Volkstanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving
    • DATE: 1899
    • DIMENSIONS: 12 x 13 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ukraine, Siberia, Russia, Germany, Kazakhstan
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p1458

    p1458

    • ARTIST: Thanassis Spyropoulos (Greece, 1931-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Oriental dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1968
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p5465

    p5465

    • TITLE OF WORK: Ladies and gentlemen dancing in front of King Charles the 7th and the Queen
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1450
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • s1444

    s1444

    • TITLE OF WORK: Vaudeville Theatre - A scene from "The Moroccans" (Théâtre de Vaudeville - Une scène des "Marocaines")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1844
    • DIMENSIONS: 13.5 x 14.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Morocco
    • DANCE FORM: stage
    • KEYWORDS: theater, weapon
  • s4857

    s4857

    • ARTIST: Alexandre Lacauchie (lithograph)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Caroline Lassiat in "Paquita", ballet by Joseph Mazilier
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1846
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: solo, classical ballet
  • p3401

    p3401

    • TITLE OF WORK: Moorish dance (Moriskentanz). Lid from a box.
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, wood
    • DATE: 1425
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s0254

    s0254

    • TITLE OF WORK: Views from China. Theater performance (Ansichten aus China. Theatervorstellung)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1889
    • DIMENSIONS: 11 x 15.3 cm
    • COMMENTS: Aus Ferdinand Hirt's Geographische Bildtafeln, Breslau, Ferdinand Hirt, königliche Universitäts- und Verlagsbuchhandlung
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: China
    • DANCE FORM: stage
    • KEYWORDS: theater
  • s2175

    s2175

    • ARTIST: Alice Huertas (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Be Bop
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color, postcard
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Combier Imp. Macon 11
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: couple, bebop
  • p7465

    p7465

    • ARTIST: Louis Vallet (France, 1856-1940)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Mid-Lent (Mi-carême)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and watercolor
    • DATE: 1890
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 36 x 27 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, solo
  • s4771

    s4771

    • ARTIST: Bhola
    • TITLE OF WORK: Weighing of Shah Jahan on the occasion of his 42nd birthday (Pesée de Shah Jahan à l'occasion de son 42e anniversaire)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, color
    • DATE: 1635
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From the "Padash-nama". Moghol school.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
  • p5222

    p5222

    • ARTIST: Arthur Hopkins (U.K., 1848-1930)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Visit of Lady Frances Balfour to Mansford Street Board School, Bethnal Green
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1897
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.9 x 31.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: The Children's Happy Evenings Association
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • s4087

    s4087

    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer among plants
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mural, fresco
    • DATE: 625
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Byzantium, Jordan
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • p3750

    p3750

    • ARTIST: Darío de Regoyos y Valdés (Spain, 1857-1913)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Aurresku. San Sebastian
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel
    • DATE: 1905
    • DIMENSIONS: 55 x 75 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Basque
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, folk, Spanish dance
  • p5817

    p5817

    • ARTIST: Godefroy Durand (France, 1832-1920) (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Allegorical dance at the returm from the war (Danse allégorique au retour de la guerre)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1860
    • DIMENSIONS: 12 x 19 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Découvertes dans l'Amérique Centrale" by Léon de Pontelli
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Guatemala
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: military
  • p7963

    p7963

    • TITLE OF WORK: "Coral fishermen". Sire the only brother of the King… ("Pescheurs de corail". Monsieur frere unique du Roy...)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1700
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Costume for the ballet
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • p5423

    p5423

    • ARTIST: Niklaus Manuel (Switzerland, 1484-1530)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Macabre dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mural
    • DATE: 1517
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Switzerland
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p3618

    p3618

    • ARTIST: P. M. Russel (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Village feast near Moscow
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1855
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 35.5 x 53 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p4809

    p4809

    • ARTIST: Ludwig Richter (Germany, 1803-1884)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Saltarello
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1825
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: popular, saltarello
  • p2449

    p2449

    • ARTIST: August Macke (Germany, 1887-1914)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer (Tänzerin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1911
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.6 x 10.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • p4619

    p4619

    • TITLE OF WORK: Two comic dancers; Bacchus and fiddler on a wagon
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1650
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From Augsburg
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Germany,
    • KEYWORDS: humor, comic
  • p6329

    p6329

    • TITLE OF WORK: Theater of the Ambiguous. "Heavens and Hell", 5th act. Final scene: flying women (Théâtre de l'Ambigu. "Le Ciel et l'Enfer", 5e acte. Tableau final: les femmes volantes)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1854
    • DIMENSIONS: 18.2 x 22.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s5202

    s5202

    • TITLE OF WORK: Male dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze statuette
    • DATE: -460
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: 584. No provenience
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Etruria, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: solo male
  • p1604

    p1604

    • ARTIST: Fortunato Depero (Italy, 1892-1960)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Figurines for the "Balli Plastici" - Reconstruction of 1981
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, wood
    • DATE: 1918
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
  • p6365

    p6365

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Quadrille, figure 5: La Finale
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1825
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Scotland
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, popular
  • s3753

    s3753

    • TITLE OF WORK: Entertainment for a young couple
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature
    • DATE: 1825
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 26.5 x 21.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Qajar style
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Persia, Iran, Orient, Turkey, Ottoman,
    • DANCE FORM: solo, traditional
  • p6261

    p6261

    • ARTIST: Abdulcelil Levni (Ottoman Empire, ?-1732)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing girl (?engi)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1720
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s2816

    s2816

    • ARTIST: Eugène Ronjat (1822-1912) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Kriss and stick dance (Danse des kriss et des bâtons)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1880
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 9.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Six semaines à Java"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Java, Indonesia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, armed
    • KEYWORDS: stick
  • p7273

    p7273

    • ARTIST: Franz Seitz
    • TITLE OF WORK: Lola Montez on the the shoulders of captain Bauer on the way to hell. The fallen angel (Der Engelsturz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1848
    • COMMENTS: In heavens are shown students and professors of the University of Munich. Lola Montez was lover of King Ludwig I of Bavaria
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Ireland, Germany, Bavaria
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • p8687

    p8687

    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from the Christmas pantomime of "Yankee Doodle on his little pony", at Astley's - Appearance of Britannia
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1849
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 15 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: pantomime
  • s2576

    s2576

    • ARTIST: Gustave Doré (France, 1832-1883) (drawing); Fournier (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Improvised dance - Seguidilla manchega (La danse improvisée -seguidilla manchega)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1867
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 24 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Voyage en Espagne" by Gustave Doré and Ch. Davillier, 1862
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Sevilla
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: tambourine
  • s4051

    s4051

    • TITLE OF WORK: Satyrs and women dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, vase
    • DATE: -100
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
  • p6291

    p6291

    • ARTIST: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, 1880-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Acrobatic dancer surpassing herself (Sich überschlagende akrobatische Tänzerin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 42 x 62 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • p3469

    p3469

    • 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
  • p3993

    p3993

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Fan: The Farandole (Eventail: La Farandole)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache on silk, applied on carton, with touches of silk and gold paint
    • DATE: 1879
    • DIMENSIONS: 30.7 x 61 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed "Degas". La Farandole is a ballet in three acts on music by Théodore Dubois, whose première took place in the Paris Opéra in December 1885. Degas saw the ballet on 03/06/1885, together with the
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, farandole

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