Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p1253

    p1253

    • ARTIST: Edward Seago (U.K., 1910-1974)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tribute to ballet
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1935
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Les Cent Baisers. David Lichine and Irina Baronova take the curtain at Covent Garden
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3622

    p3622

    • ARTIST: Arthur Wanjura (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ballerina: What a pity, I always wanted a count like you as adoptive father Tänzerin: Ach, wie schade - einen Grafen, wie Sie sind, habe ich schon immer zum Adoptivvater gewünscht)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1887
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.5 x 7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: humor, off-stage, caricature
  • p9323

    p9323

    • ARTIST: William Groome (U.K., 1854-1913) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Going to the dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1890
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.6 x 23.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
  • p7183

    p7183

    • ARTIST: Emil Nolde (Germany, 1867-1956)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance scene
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • p3815

    p3815

    • ARTIST: Juan Gorostiza Gongueta (Spain, 1897-1970)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Musa (Muse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, enamel
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 22 x 17 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Basque
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: music
  • s1368

    s1368

    • ARTIST: Alfons Giehsz (Austria, 1850-1893) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Return from the highlands (Rückkehr aus dem Ofener Gebirge)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1886
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.8 x 23 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, processional
    • KEYWORDS: music, harmonica, accordion
  • s3913

    s3913

    • ARTIST: Philippe Petit
    • TITLE OF WORK: Alexandre Sakharoff (Alexander Sacharoff) as Saint Sebastian
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, colored pencil, red and black ink
    • DATE: 1922
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ukraine, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
  • p1316

    p1316

    • ARTIST: Clémence Bluteau
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1980
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
  • p8286

    p8286

    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from the ballet "L'île des amours"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s2857

    s2857

    • ARTIST: Jean André Rixens (France, 1846-1925) (drawing); Louis Rousselet (France, 1845-1929) (sketch)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The fakirs (Les fakirs)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1873
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.7 x 12.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "L'Inde des Rajas" by Louis Rousselet, 1864-1868.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India, Central, Bengali
    • DANCE FORM: Traditional, solo
  • s3322

    s3322

    • ARTIST: Louis Dejean (France, 1872-1953)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Loïe Fuller
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, terracotta with white and gilt touches
    • DATE: 1908
    • DIMENSIONS: 35 x 20 x 17 cm
    • COMMENTS: Inscribed "Louis Dejean" on the terrace, stamped underneath "atelier LD, 1908"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, solo
    • KEYWORDS: veils, drapery
  • s1913

    s1913

    • ARTIST: Ludwig Hohlwein (Germany, 1874-1949) (design)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Kitty Starling
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1914
    • DIMENSIONS: 53 x 38.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., Germany
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, solo
  • p6517

    p6517

    • ARTIST: François-Rupert Carabin (France, 1862-1932)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Loïe Fuller
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, bronze
    • DATE: 1897
    • DIMENSIONS: 22 x 18 x 16.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Part of a series of Loïe Fuller statuettes, which the artist kept till his death. Only 4 or 5 copies were made of each. The sculptor invited the dancer to his studio where he sketched her in various p
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, solo
    • KEYWORDS: veils, drapery
  • s1020

    s1020

    • TITLE OF WORK: Laying the first stone of the Royal Dramatic College, at Maybury
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1860
    • DIMENSIONS: 11 x 12 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Maybury
    • DANCE FORM: stage, popular
  • s0019

    s0019

    • ARTIST: Albert Marquet (France, 1875-1947)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing couple (Couple dansant)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, India ink
    • DATE: 1904
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p7757

    p7757

    • ARTIST: John Brandard (U.K., 1812-1863) (drawing and engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Louise Fleury in "The beauty of Ghent"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s2804

    s2804

    • ARTIST: Mathieu Barathier (France, 1784-1867)
    • TITLE OF WORK: God and the Nautch (Le Dieu et la Bayadère)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel
    • DATE: 1849
    • DIMENSIONS: 64 x 48.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: After a ballad by Goethe, 1792. Signed at lower left.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, India,
    • DANCE FORM: theatrical, solo
    • KEYWORDS: religion, deity, divinity
  • s5047

    s5047

    • ARTIST: Roseline Granet (France, 1936)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The great tango
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, plaster
    • DATE: 2005
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: tango, couple, ballroom, popular
  • s5729

    s5729

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dwarf dancing to the sound of krotala. Group of the concert of Egina (Nain dansant au son des crotales. Groupe du concert d'Egine)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, figurine
    • DATE: -235
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 12 cm height
    • COMMENTS: La musique et la danse jouaient un grand rôle dans la vie quotidienne des Grecs lors des banquets, mariages et funérailles. Elles accompagnaient surtout les devoirs cultuels des citoyens envers les di
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece,
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: krotala
  • p0847

    p0847

    • ARTIST: Euphronios Painter (Greece, 535?-470? BC)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Youths dancing the Komos 1
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on vase
    • DATE: -510
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 59.5 cm height x 43.6 diameter
    • COMMENTS: Volute-krater from the former collection Bacci. Attributed by Furtwängler to Euphronios. Among the youth a bearded man holding a cup. Crotals, double flute, barbiton are represented.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: Komos, popular Ancient Greek dance
    • KEYWORDS: music, drink
  • s5429

    s5429

    • ARTIST: Serge Ivanoff (Russia, 1893-1983)
    • TITLE OF WORK: La danse basse
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1937
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DANCE FORM: basse danse
  • p4922

    p4922

    • TITLE OF WORK: As lilies in bloom. Tango for piano (Como los nardos en flor. Tango para piano)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, cover of a music score
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Argentina
    • DANCE FORM: tango, ballroom, popular,
  • p7495

    p7495

    • ARTIST: Hans Sebald Beham (Germany, 1500-1550)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The twelve months… (Die zwelf Monet...)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1546
    • COMMENTS: "Dancing out" the new year
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • s0282

    s0282

    • ARTIST: Georg Cyrahn (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: From the Advertisement Costume Festival in Karlsruhe. The dolls' round dance (Vom karlsruher Reclame-Costümfest. Puppenreigen)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1894
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.4 x 9.4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Karlsruhe
    • DANCE FORM: popular, round
  • p6753

    p6753

    • ARTIST: Réné Gruau (Italy, 1909-2004)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Lido, cabaret restaurant, "C'est magnifique!"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1957
    • COMMENTS: Choreography by Donn Arden
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: cabaret
  • p1641

    p1641

    • ARTIST: Rudolf Belling (Germany, 1886-1972)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer (Tänzerin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze
    • DATE: 1916
    • DIMENSIONS: 39 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • s0749

    s0749

    • TITLE OF WORK: Performers in the palace. The sacred water rite and confirmation of the title of H.R.H. the Crown Prince of Siam, Bangkok, Siam
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1887
    • DIMENSIONS: 6.7 x 11 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Siam, Bangkok
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, court, stage
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • p1964

    p1964

    • ARTIST: Theyre Lee-Elliott (U.K., 1903-1988)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers in the ballet "Nocturne"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1947
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p4584

    p4584

    • TITLE OF WORK: A dance (Ein Tantz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, ink
    • DATE: 1723
    • COMMENTS: The region of Oltenia or Little Vlachia, in Southern Rumania, was ruled between 1718 and 1738 by the Austrian emperors.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Romania
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p6232

    p6232

    • TITLE OF WORK: Voodoo dance (Danse du vaudou)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1852
    • DIMENSIONS: 11 x 14.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Accompanying text by A. Pigeard with description of this Haitian dance
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Haiti
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s3020

    s3020

    • ARTIST: Abel-Boyé (painting); Baude (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Homer (Homère)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood, from a painting
    • DATE: 1896
    • DIMENSIONS: 28.8 x 45.1 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France, Revival
    • DANCE FORM: popular, duo
    • KEYWORDS: sickle, bough
  • s1322

    s1322

    • TITLE OF WORK: Bacchus, a low relief in marble (Bacchus, bas-relief en marbre)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1847
    • DIMENSIONS: 4.8 x 8.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • KEYWORDS: religion, god
  • s0517

    s0517

    • ARTIST: Paul Klee (Switzerland, 1879-1940)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Chord dancer (Seiltänzer)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph printed in black and rose
    • DATE: 1923
    • DIMENSIONS: 44.1 x 27 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed in pencil
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: acrobatic
    • KEYWORDS: acrobat
  • p1494

    p1494

    • ARTIST: F. Spiegel
    • TITLE OF WORK: In Lent (Im Lenz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, chromolithograph
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • p3932

    p3932

    • ARTIST: Wilhelm von Kaulbach (Germany, 1805-1874)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sketch for the portrait of Lola Montez
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1847
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Compare with the full-length portrait by Kaulbach.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Germany
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, Spanish dance
  • s0406

    s0406

    • ARTIST: Josef Anton Engelhart (Austria, 1864-1941) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Little wall flowers (Mauerblümchen)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1906
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.6 x 29 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p0672

    p0672

    • ARTIST: Jean-Baptiste Delestre (France, 1800-1871) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Loges Festival in the plain of Saint Germain in the 18th century (La fête des Loges, val de Saint-Germain au dix-huitième siècle)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1864
    • DIMENSIONS: 19.5 x 23.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: La Fête des Loges (Val de Saint Germain au 18e siècle), d'après un tableau de M Delestre
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Saint-Germain
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • s3772

    s3772

    • ARTIST: Peter Roberts
    • TITLE OF WORK: Singing to the harp and dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1815
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Wales
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
    • KEYWORDS: musical instrument, harp
  • p2290

    p2290

    • ARTIST: Hervé Morvan (France, 1917-1980)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Two amors (Deux amours)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1948
    • DIMENSIONS: 160 x 120 cm
    • COMMENTS: Poster for the French film "Deux amours" by Richard Pottier, starring Tino Rossi.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • KEYWORDS: cinema
  • p2710

    p2710

    • ARTIST: Holger Trülzsch (Germany, 1939-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance movements
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture
    • DATE: 1980
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • p4378

    p4378

    • TITLE OF WORK: Vicente Escudero
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1935
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: flamenco, Spanish dance, traditional, stage
  • s4344

    s4344

    • ARTIST: Pierre Gardel (France, 1758-1840)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costumes design for "Achilles in Skyros"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1804
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • p7949

    p7949

    • ARTIST: Romain de Tirtoff "Erté" (Russia, 1892-1990)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Rose dancer (Rose dansante)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1985
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • s0636

    s0636

    • TITLE OF WORK: May-Day festivities at Worsley, near Manchester. Pseudo-Irishmen
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1878
    • DIMENSIONS: 6.9 x 11.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Manchester, Ireland
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: disguise, violin, flute, music
  • p0158

    p0158

    • ARTIST: Ferdinand Preiss (Germany, 1882-1943)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The flame leaper
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, cold-painted bronze, ivory and amber
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 36 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Dancer-acrobat
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria
    • DANCE FORM: acrobatic
    • KEYWORDS: acrobat
  • p8260

    p8260

    • TITLE OF WORK: Soldiers crossing to Stornoway: keeping themselves warm. Sketches among the revolted crofters in the Lewis, Hebrides
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1887
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.2 x 23.4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: army, military
  • p6942

    p6942

    • ARTIST: Jean-Baptiste Martin (France, 1659-1735) (drawing); Gaillard (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A female Fury
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, colored
    • DATE: 1755
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p1795

    p1795

    • ARTIST: Charles Robert Cockerell (U.K., 1788-1863)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Men dancing in front of the temple of Hephaistos
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1811
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 18 x 28 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Athens
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p2799

    p2799

    • TITLE OF WORK: Costumes des provinces. L'Auvergne en 1870. Puy-de-Dôme
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1985
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: folk,
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p9014

    p9014

    • ARTIST: prof. L. Braun (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Pictures from the Bavarian highlands: Church festival in Kaiserklause (Bilder aus dem Bairischen Hochgebirge: Die Kirchweih in der Kaiserklause)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1875
    • DIMENSIONS: 25.4 x 35.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Bavaria, Kaiserklause
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple

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