Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p9330

    p9330

    • TITLE OF WORK: El Sapateo de Cadiz. The celebrated Spanish dance, by Madlle. Fanny Elssler at her last Benefit
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1843
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., Austria
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, solo, Spanish dance
  • p6542

    p6542

    • ARTIST: Pierre Lelong (France, 1908-1984)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Loïe Fuller, queen of light (La Loïe Fuller, reine de la lumière)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1910
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • s3076

    s3076

    • ARTIST: Christian Bérard (France, 1902-1949)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sketch for "Giselle", second act
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1942
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p5281

    p5281

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance scene
    • TYPE OF WORK: Tapestry
    • DATE: 1550
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 120 x 378 cm
    • COMMENTS: Bonddansen
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sweden
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s2995

    s2995

    • ARTIST: Franz van Monfort (Belgium, 1889-1980)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1927
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
  • p1954

    p1954

    • ARTIST: Theyre Lee-Elliott (U.K., 1903-1988)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Robert Helpmann and dancers in the ballet "Apparitions"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1947
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p9617

    p9617

    • ARTIST: Gaston Vuillier (France, 1845-1915) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Miss Rosita Mauri, first dancer, who just created the role of Yvonette in the ballet "Korrigane", at the Opera
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1880
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.7 x 17.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: Miss Rosita Mauri, first dancer who recently created the role of Yvonette in the ballet "Korrigane", at the Paris Opera
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p0845

    p0845

    • TITLE OF WORK: Maenad dancing for Dionysos
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on vase
    • DATE: -400
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: Interior of a red-figured Kylix
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
  • p2759

    p2759

    • ARTIST: Jules Grandjouan (France, 1875-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1912
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • s2063

    s2063

    • ARTIST: Elli Solomonidi-Balanou (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Illustration for the poem "Salome's dance" by G. Stavropoulos
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and black ink
    • DATE: 1999
    • DIMENSIONS: 21 x 29.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental
    • KEYWORDS: Salome, religion
  • s1993

    s1993

    • ARTIST: Lucien Fontanarosa (France, 1912-1975)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Two seated dancers (Deux danseuses assises)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel
    • DATE: 1963
    • DIMENSIONS: 65 x 51 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p8749

    p8749

    • TITLE OF WORK: Fragments from a sarcophagus found at Patras
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bas-relief
    • DATE: 50
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Maenad holding dismembered animal and sword, double-flutist, Hercules dancing
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Rome
    • KEYWORDS: weapon, animal, music
  • p1013

    p1013

    • TITLE OF WORK: Man and woman dancing & double-flute player
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief
    • DATE: -500
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: Detail from a funerary urn found in the necropolis of Chiusi
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Etruria, Italy
  • s0650

    s0650

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Green Room. Last call. The Christmas pantomimes - above, below and behind the curtain
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1874
    • DIMENSIONS: 12 x 22 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: off-stage
  • p3798

    p3798

    • ARTIST: Josep Clarà i Ayats (Spain, 1878-1958) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1912
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., Spain
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • s3198

    s3198

    • ARTIST: May Néama (1917-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Jig for a Lady, danced by Miss Subligny in England in 1704 (Gigue pour une femme, dansée par Mlle Subligny en Angleterre, 1704)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1969
    • DIMENSIONS: 18 x 12 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the book "80 récits sur la danse" edited by the artist
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: solo, ballet
  • p0643

    p0643

    • ARTIST: Gustave Doré (France, 1832-1883) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A Granada Gypsy dancing the Zorongo (Gitana de Grenade dansant le zorongo)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1864
    • DIMENSIONS: 24 x 16 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Voyage en Espagne" by Gustave Doré and Ch. Davillier, 1862
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Granada
    • DANCE FORM: zorongo, traditional, popular, solo
    • KEYWORDS: Gypsy, tambourine, castagnets
  • s1075

    s1075

    • ARTIST: St. George Hare (U.K., 1857-1933) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancing damsel
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1895
    • DIMENSIONS: 30.4 x 22 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular, stage
    • KEYWORDS: tambourine
  • p7227

    p7227

    • ARTIST: Kleemann (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The carnival festival in the Königsbau of Stuttgart (Die Karnevals-Redoute im Königsbau zu Stuttgart)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1861
    • DIMENSIONS: 28.5 x 23 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • p8138

    p8138

    • ARTIST: Ira Moskowitz (Poland, 1912-)rnDeath Year :rnCountry : Poland
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Turtle Dance at Taos pueblo
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1946
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: Indians, Native Americans
  • p0240

    p0240

    • ARTIST: Henri Valentin (France, 1820-1855) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Carrousel
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1847
    • DIMENSIONS: 14 x 10.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • p3482

    p3482

    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene of a ball (Scène de bal)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1620
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 100 x 220 cm
    • COMMENTS: Painter of the French school of the early 16th century. Estimate: 55,000-65,000 French francs.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p9453

    p9453

    • ARTIST: Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov (Russia, 1881-1964)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Le bouffon": scene 6, "Le jardin du marchand" (The merchand's garden)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil and watercolor on paper
    • DATE: 1921
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • s2923

    s2923

    • ARTIST: Jean Bérain the Elder (France, 1638-1711) (drawing); J. Le Pautre (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Habit de paysanne (Costume design for a peasant)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1665
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: One of the first pictures showing castanets
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, theatrical, stage, court
    • KEYWORDS: costume, castanets, music
  • p1224

    p1224

    • ARTIST: André Derain (France, 1880-1954)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancer Sonia (La danseuse Sonia)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1933
    • COMMENTS: In 1932 Derain made the costumes and decors for "La concurrence", music by Georges Auric, choreography by Georges Balanchine, for the Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo. In 1933 he carried on with "Fastes"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s4456

    s4456

    • ARTIST: Ludwig Heinrich Matthias Hauttmann (Germany, 1796-1861)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The death dance in the so-called Todten Chappel of the Saint Mary church at Lübeck (Der Totentanz in der sogenannten Todtenkapelle der St. Marienkirche zu Lübeck)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, chalk
    • DATE: 1829
    • DIMENSIONS: 26 x 42.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: One of 8 prints
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: death, macabre
  • p4152

    p4152

    • ARTIST: Valeriano Bécquer (Spain, 1833-1870)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance in a Spanish inn
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s4378

    s4378

    • ARTIST: Alexandre Roubtzoff (Russia, 1884-1949)
    • TITLE OF WORK: M'Saouda and Aïda or Kerchief dance (M'Saouda and Aïda, ou "La danse des mouchoirs")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1934
    • DIMENSIONS: 90 x 95 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed, dated Tunis 1934, and annotated in Arabic
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Tunisia, Tunis,
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, solo, Oriental
    • KEYWORDS: drum, darbouka, kerchief
  • s3592

    s3592

    • ARTIST: Jànos Vaszary (Hungary, 1867-1939)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Idyll
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, watercolor
    • DATE: 1903
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 43.1 x 53.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Gobelin design
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary
    • DANCE FORM: popular, duo
  • p9663

    p9663

    • TITLE OF WORK: Country feast (Fête champêtre)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1750
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 58.5 x 72 cm
    • COMMENTS: The original composition is by Watteau, of which there are several versions by Pater, copied by a painter of the French school
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: couple, court
  • s3943

    s3943

    • ARTIST: Jean Cocteau (France, 1889-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vaslav Nijinsky in rehearsal clothes (Vaslav Nijinsky en tenue de répétition)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen on paper
    • DATE: 1913
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 34.4 x 40.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland, Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
  • p3839

    p3839

    • TITLE OF WORK: Swiss children dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: No. 559
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Switzerland
    • DANCE FORM: folk
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p9923

    p9923

    • ARTIST: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, 1880-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Wire chord dancer (Drahtseiltanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1908
    • DIMENSIONS: 120 x 149.9 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed, titled and dated "1908" on the reverse
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • p8644

    p8644

    • ARTIST: Nicolas Poussin (France, 1594-1665)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Bacchanal
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1634
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 122 x 169 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p4257

    p4257

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Two dancers at rest (Deux danseuses au repos)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, charcoal and pastel on tracing paper
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 78 x 98 cm
    • COMMENTS: Lemoisne 1465
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s2131

    s2131

    • TITLE OF WORK: Amusements on the occasion of the harvest (Réjouissances à l'occasion de la cueillette)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1877
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.8 x 23.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Peru
    • DANCE FORM: couple
  • p6376

    p6376

    • ARTIST: L. Moulin (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of the bees (Danse des abeilles)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1863
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.2 x 32 cm
    • COMMENTS: Bal costumé donné au Palais des Tuileries le 09/02/1863, Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, court
  • p8563

    p8563

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing boy - Batshis (Tanzender Knabe - Batschis)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving
    • DATE: 1899
    • DIMENSIONS: 10.1 x 15 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Uzbekistan, Samarkand
    • DANCE FORM: Traditional, solo
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p8089

    p8089

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "The sleeping princess" - Prologue or christening scene
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1921
    • COMMENTS: First performance by the Diaghilev Ballet at the Alhambra Theatre, London, 02/11/1921
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • s2253

    s2253

    • ARTIST: Dora Brandenburg-Polster (Germany, 1884-1958)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ellen Tels - In the autumn (Ellen Tels - Im Herbst)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1921
    • DIMENSIONS: 10.6 x 17.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p7355

    p7355

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Schéhérazade": The Grand Eunuch (danced by Enrico Cecchetti)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil, watercolor and gold on paper
    • DATE: 1910
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Russia, France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p5888

    p5888

    • TITLE OF WORK: Italian court ballet - 1606 (Ballet de cour italien - 1606)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1884
    • DIMENSIONS: 8.7 x 12.9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p5558

    p5558

    • TITLE OF WORK: Charles II at a ball at The Hague
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1890
    • DIMENSIONS: 19.6 x 30.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: From a picture in the possession of Her Majesty the Queen
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Holland, France, The Hague
    • DANCE FORM: court, couple
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • p2298

    p2298

    • ARTIST: Hector Thomas Maybank
    • TITLE OF WORK: Illustrated interview with Mme. Pavlova
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1913
    • DIMENSIONS: 30 x 18 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p5576

    p5576

    • TITLE OF WORK: Eskimo children learning to dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Eskimo
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p7710

    p7710

    • ARTIST: Jules Gaildrau (France, 1816-1898) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Japanese dance (Danse japonaise)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1858
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.8 x 22.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Japan, France
    • DANCE FORM: Traditional, solo
  • s4449

    s4449

    • ARTIST: Elli Solomonidi-Balanou (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Rudolf Nureyef in the ballet "Corsaire" at the Herodus Atticus Roman Theater
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch, pen and black ink
    • DATE: 1963
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, Greece, Athens
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, solo
  • p4997

    p4997

    • ARTIST: Antonio López Mancera (Mexico, 1924-1994)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Tiendra de sue?os": La Vendedora
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1954
    • COMMENTS: For the performance of the "Ballet Mexicano" at the Palacio de Bellas Artes of Mexico City, in 1954. Choreography by Guillermo Keys, music by Salvador Moreno and Armando Montiel Olvera, argument by Lu
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Mexico
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s4299

    s4299

    • ARTIST: Léonard-Agathon van Wydeveld (France, 1841-1923)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Proof of a cover. "Le jeu de l'écharpe". Inspired by Loïe Fuller (Epreuve du surtout "Le jeu de l'écharpe". Inspired by Loïe Fuller)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, ceramic
    • DATE: 1897
    • COMMENTS: Presented at the Universal Exhibition in Paris 1900, after models exhibited at the Salon of 1897
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: solo, modern
  • p0283

    p0283

    • TITLE OF WORK: Valse Chaloupée. The Apache's Dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1908
    • COMMENTS: Mistinguette and Max Dearly in "La revue du Moulin" at the "Moulin Rouge"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall

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