Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p4549

    p4549

    • ARTIST: Rudolf Meyer (Switzerland, 1605-1638)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Peasant dance (Bauerntanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, copper
    • DATE: 1635
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 7.6 x 12.1 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p1287

    p1287

    • ARTIST: Alexander Rodtchenko (Russia, 1891-1956)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Mask (Masque) 1
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, gouache on paper
    • DATE: 1943
    • DIMENSIONS: 27.5 x 20.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • KEYWORDS: mask
  • p6027

    p6027

    • ARTIST: A. Van Pers (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sangot, headdress of the Rong-Dings (Sangot, coiffure des rong-dings)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 3.5 x 6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Java, Indonesia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p9033

    p9033

    • TITLE OF WORK: Ball of water-porters and coalers, at the Villette barrier (Un bal de porteurs d'eau et de charbonniers, à la barrière de la Villette)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1857
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.7 x 22.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple
  • p1470

    p1470

    • ARTIST: Gustave Doré (France, 1832-1883)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The fandango in the San Fernando Theater in Madrid
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1862
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Madrid
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, bolero, fandango, Spanish dance
  • p5089

    p5089

    • ARTIST: Roy Lichtenstein (U.S.A., 1923-1997)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tintin reading
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1993
    • DIMENSIONS: 205.7 x 167.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
  • p7881

    p7881

    • ARTIST: Gösta Adrian-Nilsson, called GAN (Sweden, 1884-1965)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Design for the ballet "La mer glaciale" by Gösta Nystroem for the Ballets Suédois
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, watercolor and colors
    • DATE: 1923
    • DIMENSIONS: 35.3 x 24 cm
    • COMMENTS: Ishavsbaletten, Paris, Nov. 1923
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sweden
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7459

    p7459

    • TITLE OF WORK: Circus dancers and other circus folk with animals
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1830
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, France
    • KEYWORDS: circus
  • p1967

    p1967

    • ARTIST: Theyre Lee-Elliott (U.K., 1903-1988)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Frederick Ashton in the ballet "Carnaval"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1947
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s1226

    s1226

    • ARTIST: Troy Kinney (U.S.A., 1871-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tortola Valencia, a Spanish artist
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, etching
    • DATE: 1924
    • DIMENSIONS: 8.7 x 7.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: From an exhibition at the Greatorex Gallery, London
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: stage, solo, Spanish dance
  • s4583

    s4583

    • ARTIST: Théodore Chassériau (France, 1819-1856)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Petra Camara dancing (Petra Camara dansant)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, lead pencil and watercolor
    • DATE: 1854
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.2 x 15.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated at lower right. Petra Camara, Spanish dancer, appeared in Paris in 1854
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: Spanish dance
  • p3652

    p3652

    • ARTIST: Karl Buechler
    • TITLE OF WORK: Women dancing, flutist
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on vase
    • DATE: -650
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: Copy of the decoration on an hydria vase found in the Heraion of Samos. The dance pattern in two rows indicates probably a dancing contest.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
  • p5391

    p5391

    • TITLE OF WORK: The reel performed in New England
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1820
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: popular, reel
  • p5247

    p5247

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Giselle". Danced by Anna Pavlova
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1925
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p1708

    p1708

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Greek national waltz
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, colored
    • DATE: 1853
    • DIMENSIONS: 14.5 x 11 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s2331

    s2331

    • ARTIST: Anthony Nellé (U.S.A., 1894-1977)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Set design for "Crazy show of 1890": Wrestling match, drop
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1934
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland, U.S.A.
  • s0769

    s0769

    • TITLE OF WORK: The clog dance, by drummer A. Phillips and private W. Stewart
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1889
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.2 x 8.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Performance of "Ivanhoe" by the Gurads Burlesque Company at the Chelsea barracks
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Chelsea
    • DANCE FORM: clog, popular, stage, male
    • KEYWORDS: military
  • s4839

    s4839

    • TITLE OF WORK: Grecian harvest home
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, monochrome
    • DATE: 1800
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.5 x 11.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: From an unidentified book
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p5206

    p5206

    • ARTIST: Marc Chagall (Russia, 1887-1985)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Aleko"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1942
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p7472

    p7472

    • ARTIST: Ibrahim Tita Mbohou (Cameroon, 1914-1977)
    • TITLE OF WORK: King Mbouombouo dancing the Nja (Le roi Mbouombouo dansant le Nja)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, ink, colored pencils, graphite pencil on paper
    • DATE: 1936
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 54 x 67 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Cameroon
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • p5151

    p5151

    • ARTIST: Charles MacIver Grierson (U.K., 1864-1939) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A dancing lesson
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1898
    • DIMENSIONS: 17.7 x 23.4 cm
    • COMMENTS: Exhibited at the Institute of Painters in Oil Colours
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: instruction
  • p9332

    p9332

    • ARTIST: Amédée Forestier (France, 1854-1930) (drawing); P. Naumann (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: We'll just waltz up there an' inquire
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1890
    • DIMENSIONS: 17.9 x 12.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration from a short story
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, waltz, couple
  • p6171

    p6171

    • ARTIST: Gustave Doré (France, 1832-1883)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance in the village (Danse au village)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1862
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: popular, Spanish dance
  • p5441

    p5441

    • ARTIST: Hippolyte Lalaisse (France, 1812-1884)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A wedding near Quimper in the Finistère, Britanny (Une noce près de Quimper, Finistère)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1844
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Britanny, Bretagne
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: musical instrument, bagpipes, shawm
  • s5269

    s5269

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing priest, Campeche, Mexico
    • TYPE OF WORK: Solid clay
    • DATE: 900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: 700-1000
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Mexico
  • s5597

    s5597

    • TITLE OF WORK: Terracotta statuette of a girl dancing, Hellenistic period, 3rd century B.C.
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, terracotta
    • DATE: -250
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.3 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Right arm raised, left holding drapery.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, South Italy, Tarentine
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • p3985

    p3985

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The rehearsal on stage (La répétition sur la scène)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pastel over brush-and-ink drawing on paper, glued on bristol applied to canvas
    • DATE: 1874
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 53.3 x 72.3 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed "Degas"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s2112

    s2112

    • ARTIST: Lucienne Pageot-Rousseaux (France, 1899-1994)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Poster design for the exibition "La danse à travers l'affiche"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 2000
    • COMMENTS: Exhibition organized by the Salon de la Danse at the Espace Carpeaux, Paris, 09/11/2000-10/12/2000
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p5541

    p5541

    • TITLE OF WORK: A figure of the waltz
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1870
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, waltz
  • p6503

    p6503

    • ARTIST: Henry Gray
    • TITLE OF WORK: Serpentine dancer at the Winter Circus by Loïe Fuller (Danseuse serpentine, Cirque d'Hiver. Loïe Fuller)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1894
    • COMMENTS: Acrobatic show inspired by the serpentine dance of Loïe Fuller
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, acrobatic
    • KEYWORDS: circus
  • p4170

    p4170

    • ARTIST: Franz von Stuck (Germany, 1863-1928)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Bacchants (Bacchantinen)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • s2975

    s2975

    • ARTIST: Marcel-Louis Baugniet (Belgium, 1896-1995)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Akarova dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pochoir
    • DATE: 1924
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p1071

    p1071

    • TITLE OF WORK: Snakes' dance (La danse des serpents)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, plate, ceramic
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Amérique du Sud
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: South America, France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: animal
  • s5414

    s5414

    • ARTIST: Karl Hagenauer (Austria, 1898-1956)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer with long skirt -2
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette
    • DATE: 1935
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
  • p7849

    p7849

    • TITLE OF WORK: Mlle Bigotini as Folie (Madness) in the ballet "Le carnaval de Venise"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Mlle Bigotini, de l'Académie Royale de Musique
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s1752

    s1752

    • ARTIST: Fritz Husmann (Germany, 1896-1982)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ursula Falke
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1915
    • COMMENTS: From the duo Gertrud and Ursula Falke
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
  • p1608

    p1608

    • ARTIST: Gino Severini (Italy, 1883-1966)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel, coal, chalk, pailletes
    • DATE: 1913
    • DIMENSIONS: 40 x 29.9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
  • p2106

    p2106

    • ARTIST: Jean Cocteau (France, 1889-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Alicia Nikitina
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1956
    • COMMENTS: Inscribed "A Nikitina, son ami"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p3472

    p3472

    • ARTIST: Edward Gordon Craig (U.K., 1872-1966)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan reading in the woods near Berlin
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1905
    • COMMENTS: Summer 1905
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan, off-stage
  • p4420

    p4420

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan - The call (Appel)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1911
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • s5653

    s5653

    • ARTIST: Tarporley Painter (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dionysos and Ariadne crowned by Nike watch a Seilenos dancing. Red figured pottery bell krater vase
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pottery, red-figured bell-krater vase
    • DATE: -350
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 35.56 cm height; 36.83 diam.
    • COMMENTS: Apulian Greek art, found in Basilicata, Puglia, Italy. Dionysos and Ariadne crowned by Nike: Dionysos is seated to right, turning to left; he is nude and beardless, with fillet, and himation beneath
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Apulia, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: comic, solo
    • KEYWORDS: Seilinos, Ariadne
  • s0955

    s0955

    • ARTIST: Frederic Villiers (U.K., 1851-1922) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: With Lord Dufferin in Burma. The mummers of the place - Lord and Lady Dufferin in Theebaw's theatre
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1886
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.1 x 22.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Burma
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, stage
    • KEYWORDS: musicians
  • p0698

    p0698

    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from "Namouna", a ballet by Nuitter, music by Lalo, at the Paris Opera
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1882
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: Opera
  • p8049

    p8049

    • ARTIST: Maurice Charpentier-Mio (France, 1881-1976)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vaslav Nijisnky and Tamara Karsavina in the ballet "Le spectre de la rose"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, bronze plaque
    • DATE: 1913
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 11.5 cm oval shape
    • COMMENTS: Stamped and numbered 9
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland, France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s3257

    s3257

    • ARTIST: Frederick Simpson Coburn (Canada, 1871-1960)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Away she go Hooraw ! Hooraw !
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Canada
    • DANCE FORM: couple, traditional
  • p7138

    p7138

    • ARTIST: Gustav Sundblad (Germany, 1835-1891) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A church festival in Upper Bavaria (Ein Kirchweihfest in Oberbayern)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1867
    • DIMENSIONS: 7.5 x 16 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Bavaria
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: inn
  • p3340

    p3340

    • ARTIST: Edward Burra (U.K., 1905-1976)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Silver Dollar bar
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1952
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • KEYWORDS: military
  • s0605

    s0605

    • ARTIST: Sydney Prior Hall (U.K., 1842-1922) (drawing); W. Hatherell (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The State Ball at Buckingham Palace in honour of President Loubet: The opening quadrille
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1903
    • DIMENSIONS: 30.5 x 50.1 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: quadrille, ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: royalty, military, ball
  • p1380

    p1380

    • ARTIST: Henri Matisse (France, 1869-1954)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance - Composition no. 1
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, feather and watercolor
    • DATE: 1909
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.1 x 32 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • s5506

    s5506

    • ARTIST: Kenneth Robertson (U.K., 1950?-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Anna Pavlova in "Dying Swan"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette
    • DATE: 1973
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From a series of statuettes on dancers
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: ballet

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