Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • s4298

    s4298

    • ARTIST: Victor Prouvé (France, 1858-1943)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Girl flowers. Inspired by Loïe Fuller in the Fire Dance (Filles fleurs. Inspiré par Loïe Fuller dans la Danse du Feu)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, ceramic, biscuit
    • DATE: 1902
    • COMMENTS: Made by Mougin
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: solo, modern
  • p9629

    p9629

    • ARTIST: Claudio Castelucho
    • TITLE OF WORK: Spanish dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 130.8 x 97.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple, duo, flamenco, Spanish dance
  • p5457

    p5457

    • TITLE OF WORK: Raised hands. A figure of the cotillon dance (Les bras levés. Figure de cotillon)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1855
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, cotillon
  • s0085

    s0085

    • TITLE OF WORK: Tango. The new dance: The choclo (Tango. La nouvelle danse: Le choclo)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Argentina, France, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: tango, ballroom, popular, couple, choclo
    • KEYWORDS: music score cover
  • p2686

    p2686

    • ARTIST: Gustav Schmidt-Cassel (Germany, 1867-1954)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance legend (Tanzlegende)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • s3035

    s3035

    • TITLE OF WORK: Miss Lenore Snyder as Hollee-Beebee
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1891
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 7.4 cm
    • COMMENTS: "The nautch girl, or The Rajah of Chutneypore", a comic opera by Gilbert and Sullivan at the Savoy Theatre
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, India
    • DANCE FORM: stage, Oriental, solo
  • p5210

    p5210

    • ARTIST: Paul Colin (France, 1892-1985)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Josephine Baker (Joséphine Baker)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1935
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • s5824

    s5824

    • TITLE OF WORK: Wall fragment with dancing satyr, hippocamps, and other decorative motifs on black ground
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, wall, fresco
    • DATE: 60
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 78 x 74 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Rome, Boscoreale, Italy
    • KEYWORDS: horn
  • s2222

    s2222

    • ARTIST: Ph. Blanchard (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Court ball (Bal à la cour)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1851
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 23.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Un hiver à Saint-Petersbourg" by Blanchard (1856-1857)
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, Saint Petersburg
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • s2086

    s2086

    • ARTIST: Giovanni Boldini (Italy, 1842-1931)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Cleo de Merode (Cléo de Mérode)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: modern, music-hall, ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • s4673

    s4673

    • ARTIST: Robert Polack (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Perfume fan. Perfume "Un air embaumé" by Rigaud
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color, fan
    • DATE: 1921
    • COMMENTS: Perfume fan
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular, ballroom, couple
  • p1062

    p1062

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer on a boat, holding sticks
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mural
    • DATE: -600
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
  • p2716

    p2716

    • ARTIST: Emilio Vasarri (Italy, 1862-1928)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isiaque Dance (Danse Isiaque)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
  • s2152

    s2152

    • ARTIST: Psiakas Painter (Greece, active ca. 500 BC)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Flutist and dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, black-figure plate, vase
    • DATE: -515
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: Attic black-figure plate (pinakion) attributed to the painter Psiakas
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Attica, Athens
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: flute
  • p2117

    p2117

    • ARTIST: Otto Quante (Germany, 1875-1947)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Spring dance (Frühlingstanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 42 x 48.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: After the colored Hanfstaengl print.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple
  • p7845

    p7845

    • ARTIST: M. F. Lawrence
    • TITLE OF WORK: The preparations of the ballet (Les apprêts du ballet)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1800
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: off-stage
  • s1632

    s1632

    • ARTIST: Yves Saint Laurent (France, 1936-2008)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the Ballets de Roland Petit
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1962
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, Spanish dance?
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p6391

    p6391

    • ARTIST: Alexander Nikolaevich Benois (Russia, 1870-1960)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Petrouchka", act 3
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1911
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p7267

    p7267

    • TITLE OF WORK: Lola Montez as Ariadne on her dog called Turk
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1846
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: 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
  • s1768

    s1768

    • ARTIST: Franca Squarciapino (Italy, 1940-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "La bayadère"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1992
    • COMMENTS: "La bayadère", ballet by the Paris Opera, choreography by Rudelf Noureev, 1993
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, India, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s3468

    s3468

    • ARTIST: Czes?aw Wielhorski (Poland, 1911-1980)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Wale skater Wielkopolska (Wale figurowy wielkopolski)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print from a drawing, postcard
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, duo
  • p3585

    p3585

    • ARTIST: Valery Kosoroukov (Russia, 1937-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from the ballet "Nutcracker"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1989
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6631

    p6631

    • ARTIST: Lucebert
    • TITLE OF WORK: Spanish dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1961
    • DIMENSIONS: 134. 5 x 185 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated at lower left
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Holland
    • DANCE FORM: Spanish dance
  • s0672

    s0672

    • ARTIST: Edward Gordon Craig (U.K., 1872-1966)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan - Strauss
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1906
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p6999

    p6999

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Schéhérazade": La Sultane
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1915
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland, Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s0839

    s0839

    • TITLE OF WORK: The ball at the Mansion House
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1885
    • DIMENSIONS: 20.4 x 30 cm
    • COMMENTS: The Municipal Corporations Jubilee in London, to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the passing of the Municipal Corporations Act, 1835
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, mixed couples
  • p6258

    p6258

    • ARTIST: Jean-Etienne Liotard (Switzerland, 1702-1789)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Marie-Jeanne and Marie-Thérèse Liotard, the elder daughters of the artist, dancing the gavotte (Marie-Jeanne et Marie-Thérèse Liotard, les filles ainées de l'artiste, dansant la gavotte)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, black stone and white chalk
    • DATE: 1777
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 65 x 44 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Switzerland
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p6618

    p6618

    • ARTIST: Carl Lallemand (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Wood Apple Dance in Obenwald (Der Holzapfeltanz im Obenwald)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1861
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.5 x 22.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p9563

    p9563

    • ARTIST: Franz Paul Guillery (Germany, 1862-1933) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Schäffler dance in Munich (Der Schäfflertanz in München)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1900
    • DIMENSIONS: 23 x 33.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Munich, Bavaria
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p7074

    p7074

    • ARTIST: Théodore Géricault (France, 1791-1824)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The tarantella (La tatantelle)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, black stone, white gouache on brown paper
    • DATE: 1815
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 270 x 190 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p7704

    p7704

    • ARTIST: Deroy (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Poitiers - A ball given in the Hall of Waiting (Poitiers - Bal donné dans la salle des Pas-Perdus)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1869
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 22.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Poitiers
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p0817

    p0817

    • ARTIST: Georges Goursat or SEM (France, 1863-1934)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing the black-bottom (l. to r.): T. de Régnier, J.-G. Domergue, the Agha Khan and Léon Rénier
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, caricature sketch
    • DATE: 1926
    • COMMENTS: From the album "White bottoms" by Sem.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, blackbottom
  • p5390

    p5390

    • TITLE OF WORK: California miners' ball
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1820
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p6004

    p6004

    • ARTIST: Alfons Biehsz (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The festival of the Danube in Budapest (Das Fest der Donauniren in Budapest)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1886
    • DIMENSIONS: 23 x 34.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s0680

    s0680

    • TITLE OF WORK: In the King's Palace - Dancing with the Princesses
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1884
    • DIMENSIONS: 8 x 22.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: A visit to the Island of Inishkea, off the Connaught Coast, Ireland
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ireland, U.K., Inishkea Island
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p4629

    p4629

    • ARTIST: Richard van Bleeck (Netherlands, 1670-1733) (drawing); F. Morellon la Cave (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance master Kellom Tomlinson
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, copper
    • DATE: 1724
    • COMMENTS: Title page of his book "The art of dancing...", London, 1724. The drawing was made in 1716.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • KEYWORDS: instruction
  • p5775

    p5775

    • ARTIST: Luc-Olivier Merson (France, 1846-1920) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Sospiro dance on the staircase of Trinity of the Mountains, during carnival (La danse del Sospiro sur l'escalier de la Trinité des Monts, pendant le carnaval)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1873
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.3 x 31.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Rome
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: Carnival
  • p8622

    p8622

    • TITLE OF WORK: Two animal-headed "dakini"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, applique on silk and silk damask
    • DATE: 1750
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 76.2 x 67.3 cm
    • COMMENTS: The "dakini" are servants of deities or historical figures. Here they dance on human bodies, bearing macabre costumes.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: China, Tibet
    • KEYWORDS: religion, divinity
  • s0793

    s0793

    • TITLE OF WORK: How I went on a voyage in search of a wife. Confound that gold lace
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1891
    • DIMENSIONS: 8 x 6.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple, mixed
    • KEYWORDS: humor, sea, ship, caricature
  • s0317

    s0317

    • ARTIST: Henri Gervex (France, 1852-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A ballet dancer at the barre
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel heightened with bodycolor
    • DATE: 1895
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 53 x 36 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: exercise
  • p6775

    p6775

    • ARTIST: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (France, 1864-1901) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancer (La danseuse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, monochrome
    • DATE: 1898
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.5 x 6 cm
    • COMMENTS: The Music and Dance Exhibition, Paris. Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s3431

    s3431

    • TITLE OF WORK: Circle dance. Neidhart (Reigen)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mural, fresco
    • DATE: 1400
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Gothic fresco in an old noble house in the centre of Vienna
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria, Vienna
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, circle
  • s0121

    s0121

    • ARTIST: David Teniers the Younger (Flanders, 1610-1690) (follower of)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A merry company before an inn
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1700
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 58.5 x 73 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Belgium, Holland
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • p9755

    p9755

    • ARTIST: Paul Fischer (Denmark, 1860-1934)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The fan dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on panel
    • DATE: 1908
    • DIMENSIONS: 47 x 34 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed, inscribed"Mrs. DAISY SANDER" and dated "MAI 1908" at lower right
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Denmark
    • DANCE FORM: fan,
    • KEYWORDS: fan
  • s3881

    s3881

    • ARTIST: Chichio Haller or Felicitas Trillhaase (Switzerland, 1894-1961)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sacharoff in "Golliwog's Cake Walk" 2
    • TYPE OF WORK: Collage, silk and embroidery
    • DATE: 1918
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ukraine, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p2322

    p2322

    • ARTIST: Basile de Loose (Belgium, 1809-1885)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Children's dance in the school inn
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on wood
    • DATE: 1845
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 99 x 120.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • s3967

    s3967

    • ARTIST: Alain Le Quernec (France, 1944-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Carribean ball, Henri Guedon salsa orchestra. Doudouarnenez, Saturday 21 Februaryr 1981 (Bal antillais, orchestre salsa Henri Guedon. Doudouarnenez, sam 21 fevrier 81)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, poster, postcard
    • DATE: 1981
    • DIMENSIONS: 111 x 76 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Douarnenez
    • DANCE FORM: couple
  • p7804

    p7804

    • TITLE OF WORK: Sârba, Dragos village, Transylvania
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1952
    • DIMENSIONS: 10.3 x 7.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Romania
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • p1711

    p1711

    • ARTIST: Jean-Pierre Peytier (France, 1793-1863)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Palikares dancing in the open air
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil
    • DATE: 1830
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.2 x 29.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p1479

    p1479

    • ARTIST: Henri Matisse (France, 1869-1954)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance (La danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1910
    • DIMENSIONS: 260 x 391 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France

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