Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p7542

    p7542

    • TITLE OF WORK: Peruvian dance called Samaquaker, South America
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor on paper
    • DATE: 1823
    • COMMENTS: Copy of a previous work
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Peru
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, zamacueca, couple
  • p5942

    p5942

    • ARTIST: Denis Boissier
    • TITLE OF WORK: The take-off (L'envol)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencils, color
    • DATE: 1984
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s4687

    s4687

    • ARTIST: Frans Hogenberg (Netherlands, 1535-1590)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Fools' dance (Danse des fous)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1580
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
  • s1171

    s1171

    • ARTIST: Alfred Arthur Mailey (Australia, 1886-1967) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Therefore members of the Australian team are practising the Charleston in order to get into good condition for the test matches"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1926
    • DIMENSIONS: 5 x 13 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Australia, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: charleston, ballroom, popular, couple
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature, cartoon, sports
  • s4157

    s4157

    • ARTIST: Aristomenis Katsoulas (Greece, 1955-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance No. 3
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, acrylic on carton
    • DATE: 1984
    • DIMENSIONS: 157 x 92 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • p2128

    p2128

    • ARTIST: Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov (Russia, 1881-1964)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vera Nemchinova
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil
    • DATE: 1920
    • DIMENSIONS: 50 x 33 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s1258

    s1258

    • ARTIST: Antonio Sciortino (Malta, 1879-1947)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The rhythms of life
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze
    • DATE: 1925
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Malta, Italy
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • p7082

    p7082

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vaslav Nijinsky and Tamara Karsavina in "Le spectre de la rose"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen
    • DATE: 1911
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland, Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, modern
  • s4640

    s4640

    • ARTIST: Georges de Podegaieff (Russia, 1897-1971)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Russian Ballets of colonel W. de Basil (Ballets Russes du colonel W. de Basil) 1
    • 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
  • s2819

    s2819

    • TITLE OF WORK: War dance of the Bari Negroes (Kriegs-Tanz der Bari-Neger)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Africa
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, armed
    • KEYWORDS: weapon, spears, lances, shields
  • s3799

    s3799

    • ARTIST: Sigurd Leeder (Germany, 1902-1981)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Self-portrait
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, brush
    • DATE: 1939
    • COMMENTS: Dated Dartington Hall 1939
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, U.K.
    • KEYWORDS: portrait, choreographer
  • p8573

    p8573

    • ARTIST: Friedrich August von Kaulbach (Germany, 1850-1920) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Cotillon
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1896
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.8 x 31 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, cotillon
  • s4058

    s4058

    • TITLE OF WORK: An English maypole
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., England
    • DANCE FORM: round, traditional, maypole
  • p5857

    p5857

    • ARTIST: Georges Crouzat (France, 1904-1976)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sardane - Rousillon
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, bronze, medal
    • DATE: 1990
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 4.7 cm diameter
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: sardana, folk
  • s1692

    s1692

    • ARTIST: Paul Renouard (France, 1845-1924) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "The ideal ballet" - "How bored am I!" ("Le ballet idéal" - "Que je m'ennuie!")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1910
    • DIMENSIONS: 13 x 10 cm
    • COMMENTS: One of 4 charcoal drawings exhibited at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris 1910
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1644

    p1644

    • ARTIST: Paul Rudolf Henning (Germany, 1886-1986)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance of Charlotte Bara (Der Tanz der Charlotte Bara) - 1
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, terracotta
    • DATE: 1918
    • DIMENSIONS: 39 cm height
    • COMMENTS: A three-part work
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • p5010

    p5010

    • TITLE OF WORK: Pilar Gomez and Company
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, program cover
    • DATE: 1958
    • COMMENTS: For the performances at the Palacio de Bellas Artes of Mexico City, 1958. Federico Rey and Pilar Gomez in a program of Spanish and South American dances.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Mexico
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s5725

    s5725

    • TITLE OF WORK: Relief dedicated to the Nymphs (Weihrelief an die Nymphen)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, marble
    • DATE: -325
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 40 x 30 x 12 cm
    • COMMENTS: Found in Megara, Greece
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Megara
    • DANCE FORM: circular
  • s0139

    s0139

    • ARTIST: François Flameng (France, 1856-1923)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Cleo de Merode in evening dress (Cléo de Mérode en robe de soirée)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1923
    • DIMENSIONS: 115 x 91 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • s4160

    s4160

    • TITLE OF WORK: The huppa-huppa, a new dance. Sung and danced by Emily-Reyne. Theory by Lucien Piau, lyrics by Juan Hens, music by René de Buxeuil
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Music score
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: huppa-huppa, couple, ballroom
  • s0466

    s0466

    • ARTIST: Eugenio Zampighi (Italy, 1859-1944)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A concert by the fire
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 24 x 34 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • KEYWORDS: cat, animal, accordion, mandolin
  • s4089

    s4089

    • TITLE OF WORK: Scenes from the Hippodrome of Constantinople. Musicians and two male dancers (?)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mural, fresco, sketch
    • DATE: 1150
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Byzantium, Ukraine, Kiev
    • DANCE FORM: duo
  • p6155

    p6155

    • ARTIST: Maurice Quentin de La Tour (France, 1704-1788)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Camargo
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1740
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p9906

    p9906

    • ARTIST: Eduardo Dalbono (Italy, 1841-1915)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance lesson
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1890
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 51 x 38 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and inscribed "in Napoli" at lower left
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Naples, Napoli
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: child, instruction
  • s5850

    s5850

    • TITLE OF WORK: Papposilenus. Attic figure-shaped vase
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, pottery, vase
    • DATE: -400
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 14.9 x 6.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: Found in Bosco di Acerra, Italy. Im Satyrspiel erscheint der Papposilen, der greise Silen, als Anführer des Satyrchores.rnEinen tanzenden Schauspieler, der in Gestalt des Papposilens auftritt, mit bär
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Athens
    • KEYWORDS: Silenus
  • p0607

    p0607

    • ARTIST: J. G. Snellhaas (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Mars without weapons. At the dance… (Mars ohne Waffen. Beim Tanze...)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1886
    • DIMENSIONS: 10 x 7.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple
    • KEYWORDS: military
  • p0364

    p0364

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer with bouquet (Danseuse au bouquet)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel on monotype
    • DATE: 1878
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Lemoisne catalogue number 476
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p5815

    p5815

    • ARTIST: Charles-François Marchal (France, 1825-1877) (drawing); God. Durand (France, 1832-1890) (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Occupation of the palace of Yuan-nineg-yuan by the French troops (Occupation du palais de Yuan-nineg-yuan par les troupes françaises)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1860
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 23 cm
    • COMMENTS: Anglo-French expedition to Peking, China
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, China,
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s1241

    s1241

    • ARTIST: George Romney (U.K., 1734-1802) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Gower children
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1924
    • DIMENSIONS: 12.4 x 13.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular, round
    • KEYWORDS: children, tambourine
  • p7783

    p7783

    • TITLE OF WORK: The first ball of the season at the Tuileries (Le premier bal de la saison aux Tuileries)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1870
    • DIMENSIONS: 24 x 34.4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • p4336

    p4336

    • ARTIST: Stanislao Lepri (Italy, 1905-1980)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for "Washerwomen's ball": The Butcher's Assistant
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1947
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s2061

    s2061

    • ARTIST: Elli Solomonidi-Balanou (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Illustration for the poem "The little ballarina" by Xenophon Dantis
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and black ink
    • DATE: 1999
    • DIMENSIONS: 21 x 29.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
  • p9540

    p9540

    • ARTIST: Saverio or Xavier della Gatta (Italy, 1777-1811)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Transporting the wine
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pen and ink and watercolor
    • DATE: 1826
    • DIMENSIONS: 20 x 26 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated 1826
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • p2041

    p2041

    • ARTIST: Spyros Vassiliou (Greece, 1902-1985)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Study for the ballet "Pandora"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1952
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p5069

    p5069

    • ARTIST: Pierre Gilardeau or O'Kley (France, 1930-2006)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Folies-Bergère. Folies legères (Light follies)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1958
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p5960

    p5960

    • ARTIST: Denis Boissier
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sonata in Re minor (Sonate en Ré mineur)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, acrylic and oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1984
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p2032

    p2032

    • ARTIST: Theyre Lee-Elliott (U.K., 1903-1988)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tamara Toumanova in "Giselle"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1947
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p9556

    p9556

    • ARTIST: David Teniers the Elder (Flanders, 1582-1649) (manner of)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A wedding feast
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on panel
    • DATE: 1640
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 46 x 64.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • s5793

    s5793

    • TITLE OF WORK: Attic black-figure lekythos with (Body) Dionysos between maenads and satyrs
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, black-figure lekythos vase
    • DATE: -540
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 27.94 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Athens
    • KEYWORDS: god, deity, satyr, maenad
  • s1274

    s1274

    • ARTIST: Essenther (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Carnival time
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1927
    • DIMENSIONS: 24.3 x 21 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: stage
    • KEYWORDS: mask
  • p0134

    p0134

    • TITLE OF WORK: Sabre dance in Jericho (Danse du sabre à Jericho)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1878
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.2 x 22.6 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "An artist's pilgrimage in the Holy Land", where the dance is described.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Palestine, Jericho, Israel
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, Oriental, armed
    • KEYWORDS: weapon, sabre, sword
  • s5372

    s5372

    • ARTIST: Sir William Russell Flint (U.K., 1880-1969)
    • TITLE OF WORK: From Homer's Odyssey N. 8 Book
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • s0666

    s0666

    • ARTIST: Abraham Walkowitz (U.S.A., 1878-1965)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, brush
    • DATE: 1909
    • COMMENTS: Drawing situated in New York
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • s2973

    s2973

    • ARTIST: Marcel-Louis Baugniet (Belgium, 1896-1995)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Exctract from "Kaloprosopie"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1925
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • s3394

    s3394

    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer pouring roses
    • TYPE OF WORK: Mosaic, marble and calcaire
    • DATE: 375
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 201 x 154 cm
    • COMMENTS: From the bath of a mansion found at Sidi Ghrib
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Tunisia, Greece, Roman
    • DANCE FORM: popular, solo
    • KEYWORDS: flower, rose
  • s3952

    s3952

    • ARTIST: André Dunoyer de Segonzac (France, 1884-1974)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Valentine de Saint Point in "Métachorie"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1914
    • COMMENTS: Valentine de Saint Point was a dancer, choreographer, model for famous painters, poet and painter.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
  • s5110

    s5110

    • TITLE OF WORK: Male dancers and musicians on a boat
    • TYPE OF WORK: Mosaic
    • DATE: 375
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From the House of the Donkey at Djemila. Inferior frame of the Toilet of Venus mosaic. The musician on the left plays the lituus, the others hold crotales.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Algeria, Rome, Hellenistic
    • KEYWORDS: sea, boat
  • s0302

    s0302

    • ARTIST: Knut Hansen (Denmark, 1876-1926)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A merry dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 55.4 x 65 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed with monogram
    • DANCE FORM: couple, popular
  • p2892

    p2892

    • TITLE OF WORK: Italian dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1905
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Stengel & Co., Dresden, 29425 (Serie 65)
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p2701

    p2701

    • ARTIST: Ai Chong-hsin
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: China

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