Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • s4909

    s4909

    • ARTIST: Malvina Hoffman (U.S.A., 1885-1966)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Balinese dancer (Danseuse balinaise)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, polychrome plaster
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 44 cm height
    • COMMENTS: One of two works
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Indonesia, Bali
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, solo
  • s5104

    s5104

    • ARTIST: Miyagawa Choshun (Japan, 1682-1752)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer (detail)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor, ink, gold, silver on paper
    • DATE: 1716
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 94.5 x 55.4 cm
    • COMMENTS: On a hanging scroll
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Japan
    • DANCE FORM: solo, female
  • p2575

    p2575

    • TITLE OF WORK: Nadezhda Bogdanova as Esmeralda in the ballet "La Esmeralda"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1859
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.5 x 15 cm
    • COMMENTS: "La Esmeralda", ballet in two acts by Jules Perrot, music by Cesar Pugni. Imperial Court Theatre, Saint Petersburg, 1859 revival. Printed in Berlin.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, Saint Petersburg
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p5425

    p5425

    • ARTIST: Simon "Soliko" Virsaladze (Georgia, 1909-1989)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the dance "Adjaruli"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1975
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Georgia
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, folk
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p0201

    p0201

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer with tambourine
    • TYPE OF WORK: Mosaic
    • DATE: 100
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 12 x 26 cm
    • COMMENTS: Roman style mosaic initiated either in Greek Sicily or in Hellenistic Egypt, appearing between the 2nd and 6th century
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Rome, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: tambourine
  • p8759

    p8759

    • TITLE OF WORK: He managed to lift her and make her turn, in spite of her resistance (Il parvint à l'enlever, à la faire tourner malgré sa résistance)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood engraving
    • DATE: 1890
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 8 x 13 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration from a book
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • s0271

    s0271

    • ARTIST: Catherine Greenaway (U.K., 1846-1901) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A juvenile Christmas party in the last century: "Sir Roger de Coverley"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1879
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.4 x 31.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, Sir Roger de Coverley
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p4335

    p4335

    • ARTIST: Mayo
    • TITLE OF WORK: Composition for the ballet "Le rendez-vous". The young man and the hunchback.
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1946
    • COMMENTS: "Le rendez-vous", balet of Jacques Prévert; Le jeune homme et le bossu
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s4314

    s4314

    • ARTIST: Hans Zatzka (Austria, 1859-1945)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The harem dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, solo, Oriental
  • s3894

    s3894

    • ARTIST: Philippe Petit
    • TITLE OF WORK: Alexander Sacharoff in "Golliwog's Cake Walk"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, brush and ink
    • DATE: 1922
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ukraine, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
  • p6629

    p6629

    • TITLE OF WORK: Six ladies in Chinese attire, dancing after the Naien banquet
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, ink and colors on paper
    • DATE: 1160
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 45.2 cm height
    • COMMENTS: An orchestra composed of female musicians is playing, while members of the court watch and torch-bearers stand around.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Japan, China
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, court
  • p4160

    p4160

    • ARTIST: John Singer Sargent (U.S.A., 1856-1925)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Carmencita
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1890
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 232 x 142 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: popular, Spanish dance
  • s1029

    s1029

    • ARTIST: Sydney Prior Hall (U.K., 1842-1922) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The spectacle of the civilisation of the West
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1878
    • DIMENSIONS: 7.5 x 22.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: All the world at Paris, VI. Bullier, bal du soir.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, popular
  • p1707

    p1707

    • TITLE OF WORK: Greek quadrille (Quadrille grec)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 21 x 14 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration number 10 from an unidentified work
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p9694

    p9694

    • ARTIST: Hans Thoma (Germany, 1839-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The summer (Der Sommer)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1894
    • DIMENSIONS: 99 x 131 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed with initials and dated '94
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular, Ringelreihen, round
  • p2645

    p2645

    • ARTIST: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, 1880-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Clown and dancer (Clown und Tänzerin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil
    • DATE: 1911
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.5 x 20.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • p7617

    p7617

    • ARTIST: Paul Colin (France, 1892-1985)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Mistinguett
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1927
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • p4685

    p4685

    • ARTIST: George Bickham junior (U.K., 1706-1771) (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Letting hands go
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, copper
    • DATE: 1738
    • COMMENTS: Evidently a copy of an illustrtation from the book by Pierre Rameau "Maître à danser", Paris 1725.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: court
    • KEYWORDS: instruction
  • s4660

    s4660

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Agarrao in Madrid (El Agarrao. Madrid)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color, postcard
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Serie num. 35/10 - Bailes regionales. Blass, Madrid
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Madrid
    • DANCE FORM: popular, ballroom, couple, Spanish dance?
  • s5039

    s5039

    • ARTIST: Pietro de Francisco (Italy, 1873-1969)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 89 x 116 cm
    • DANCE FORM: popular, traditional,
  • p0860

    p0860

    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance of Myriam and the women of Israel
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, tempera on vellum
    • DATE: 1058
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 33 x 27 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Byzantium, Israel
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, circle
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p4027

    p4027

    • ARTIST: Alexander Philadelpheus (Greece, 1866-1955) (?)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan (?). Black veil
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1903
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Philadelpheus was an archeologist, not a professional painter
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • s5124

    s5124

    • ARTIST: Hishikawa Morohira (Japan, ca. 1670-1710)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Entertainment scenes in spring and autumn
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1695
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Japan
    • DANCE FORM: round, folk
    • KEYWORDS: sticks
  • p7754

    p7754

    • ARTIST: L'Enfant
    • TITLE OF WORK: Clara Webster in "The beauty of Ghent"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6383

    p6383

    • ARTIST: Severin Benz (Germany, 1834-1898)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Folk scenes from Zillerthal (Volkszcenen aus dem Zillerthale)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1835
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p7824

    p7824

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Savages' ball (Le bal des Sauvages)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Tapestry
    • DATE: 1475
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Wall carpet made in the north of France
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p8293

    p8293

    • ARTIST: Timms (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from the ballet "Ondine": Ondine flying out through the window of Matteo's hut
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1820
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6562

    p6562

    • ARTIST: Jules Chéret (France, 1836-1932)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Folies-Bergère. Fire Dance (Folies-Bergère. La Danse du Feu)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1897
    • DIMENSIONS: 88 x 123 cm
    • COMMENTS: Loïe Fuller
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, solo
    • KEYWORDS: fire
  • s2936

    s2936

    • ARTIST: Georges Scott (France, (1873-1943) (drawing); Lix (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Around the world in eighty days", a drama by Mr. d'Ennery and Mr. Jules Verne. Grand ballet ("Le Tour du Monde en quatre-vingt jours", drame de MM. d'Ennery et Jules Verne. Grand ballet)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1874
    • DIMENSIONS: 11 x 10 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: stage, ballet
  • p5508

    p5508

    • TITLE OF WORK: Two of the maidens sprang to their feet and, taking hands, began to dance...
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1893
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.5 x 24 cm
    • COMMENTS: ...It was a dance of posture and attitude - slow, graceful, quiet: the girl who played the mandolin touched it gently, as if the dance were a song and as if she were playing an accompaniment.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Egypt,
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, Oriental ?
  • s4914

    s4914

    • ARTIST: Edouard Doigneau (France, 1865-1954)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Breton dance (La danse bretonne)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas,
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 60 x 85 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed at lower right
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Britanny
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
  • s0551

    s0551

    • ARTIST: Mars (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: London. The banquet by the Lord Mayor at Guildhall. The final galop (Londres. Le banquet du Lord Maire à Guildhall. Galop finale)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1883
    • DIMENSIONS: 10 x 9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple, galop
  • p6488

    p6488

    • TITLE OF WORK: Serpentine dance. Loïe Fuller
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Loïe Fuller (?)
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p9257

    p9257

    • ARTIST: Alfred Quesnay de Beaurepaire (France, 1830-1897) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ball of the Friendly Relief Society of the Graduates of the Polytechnic School, given at the Palace of the Legion of Honor, on 03/05/1884, Paris
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1884
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.6 x 27.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: military, officer
  • p5291

    p5291

    • ARTIST: Anders Zorn (Sweden, 1860-1920)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Gopsmorstugan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1917
    • DIMENSIONS: 29 x 20 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sweden
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s2594

    s2594

    • ARTIST: George Catlin (U.S.A., 1796-1872) (sketch); Neuville, A. de (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The witch-doctor or evil spirit (Le sorcier ou mauvais esprit)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1869
    • DIMENSIONS: 12 x 8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Escursions parmi les tribus Indiens des bassins de la Colombia et du Haut-Missouri" after G. Catlin, 1832
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., Missouri
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: therapy, Indians, Native Americans
  • p9091

    p9091

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Three female dancers (Trois danseuses)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel
    • DATE: 1905
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 65 x 50 cm
    • COMMENTS: Stamped with the signature. Executed between 1904 and 1906. Lemoisne catalogue no. 1448.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p8989

    p8989

    • ARTIST: Melton Prior (U.K., 1845-1910) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Carnival in Port of Spain, Trinidad
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1888
    • DIMENSIONS: 34.4 x 50.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain, West Indies
    • DANCE FORM: popular, traditional
    • KEYWORDS: carnival, disguise, street
  • p8492

    p8492

    • TITLE OF WORK: New cotillon tours (Neue Cotillontouren)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1884
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, cotillon
  • p7975

    p7975

    • TITLE OF WORK: Funerary ceremonies in the province of Tangut
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1350
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Italy, France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
  • s2757

    s2757

    • ARTIST: Marcelin Delechaux (France, 1821-1902) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Corps de ballet
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.1 x 12.4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature, cartoon
  • s1679

    s1679

    • TITLE OF WORK: Caroline Otero (Otéro)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, stage
    • KEYWORDS: Otero, tambourine
  • p4464

    p4464

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan - Colère
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1911
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p4908

    p4908

    • ARTIST: Dante Paolocci (Italy, 1856-1926) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The court's ball at the Quirinale (Il ballo di corte al Quirinale)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1881
    • DIMENSIONS: 20.5 x 30 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Rome
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • s4867

    s4867

    • ARTIST: Komala Varadan (India, 19?-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Kathakali
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1988
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • DANCE FORM: Kathakali, Indian traditional, solo
  • p9817

    p9817

    • ARTIST: Hugh William Williams (U.K., 1773-1829)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Levadia, Boeotia
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and brown ink and wash with scratching out
    • DATE: 1825
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 22 x 33 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p8040

    p8040

    • ARTIST: Georges Barbier (France, 1882-1932)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vaslav Nijisnky in the ballet "L'oiseau d'or"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen, indian ink, watercolor
    • DATE: 1912
    • DIMENSIONS: 19.5 x 21 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated. This pas-de-deux was first danced by Karsavina and Nijinsky in the divertissement "Le festin" produced by the Ballets Russes at the Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, in 1909
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p5669

    p5669

    • ARTIST: Johannes Flintoe (Denmark, 1787-1870)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Couple dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1890
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Norway
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p9250

    p9250

    • TITLE OF WORK: "Loves of a rose", pastoral balet of the fourth act of "Daughter of the Devil" ("Les amours d'une rose", balet pastoral du quatrième acte de "La fille du diable")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1860
    • DIMENSIONS: 13.7 x 22.4 cm
    • COMMENTS: Théâtre des Variétés, Paris. Vaudeville fantastique de MM. Clairville, Lambert Thiboust et Siraudin, décors de M. Georges
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p0242

    p0242

    • ARTIST: Henri Valentin (France, 1820-1855) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Carnival ball in the Paris Opera, in 1846 (Le bal de la mi-carême, en 1846, à l'Opéra)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1846
    • DIMENSIONS: 17.5 x 23 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: carnival, ball

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