Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p8789

    p8789

    • TITLE OF WORK: An Irish jig before royalty
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1871
    • DIMENSIONS: 29.7 x 50 cm
    • COMMENTS: A sketch taken at a recent picnic at Glendalough near Dublin
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ireland, U.K., Dublin
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, couple
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • s4302

    s4302

    • ARTIST: Hendrik Frans van Lint (Flanders, 1684-1763)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A landscape with a watermill and dancing figures
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1737
    • DIMENSIONS: 154 x 198 cm
    • COMMENTS: One of a pair, signed, inscribed and dated 1737
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • s1508

    s1508

    • ARTIST: Benvenuto do Garofalo or Tisi or Tisio Benvenuto Tisi (Italy, 1481-1559)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sacrifice to Ceres
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1520
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: music, double flute
  • p2158

    p2158

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance scene
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1815
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • p5953

    p5953

    • ARTIST: Denis Boissier
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sarastro
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, acrylic on canvas
    • DATE: 1984
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s2609

    s2609

    • ARTIST: George Catlin (U.S.A., 1796-1872) (sketch); Neuville, A. de (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Masks and disguises for the medicine dance (Masques et déguisements pour la danse de la médecine)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1869
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.7 x 12.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Escursions parmi les tribus Indiens des bassins de la Colombia et du Haut-Missouri" after G. Catlin, 1832
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., Missouri
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular
  • s4624

    s4624

    • ARTIST: Elli Solomonidi-Balanou (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from the 2nd Dance Platform in the Megaron Mousikis, Athens
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch, black ink
    • DATE: 2006
    • COMMENTS: The 2nd Dance Platform took place 02-05/02/2006
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Athens
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p9335

    p9335

    • TITLE OF WORK: Peasants dancing in a mountainous landscape
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1725
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 148 x 208 cm
    • COMMENTS: Painter of the Piemontese school, first half of the 18th century
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • p4488

    p4488

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance. Study with two figures - 1 (La danse. Etude avec deux personnages I)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1912
    • COMMENTS: Study for the relief La Danse of the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris. After Isadora Duncan.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p8641

    p8641

    • ARTIST: Luis Paret y Alcázar (Spain, 1746-1799)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The masked ball
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1772
    • DIMENSIONS: 40 x 51 cm
    • COMMENTS: This masked ball took place in the Teatro del Principe de Madrid
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: court
    • KEYWORDS: disguise, mask
  • p9435

    p9435

    • ARTIST: Elisabeth Seldron (France, 1690?-1735)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A military encampment
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas laid down on board
    • DATE: 1730
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.4 x 14.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Bavaria
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: military
  • p1329

    p1329

    • ARTIST: Thomas Allom (U.K., 1804-1872) (drawing); P. Lightfoot (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The babyses, or sweet waters of Europe
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, steel engraving
    • DATE: 1840
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 12.4 x 18.9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Turkey, Istanbul
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular
  • p7991

    p7991

    • TITLE OF WORK: La Carole dance (La carole)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, fresco, mural
    • DATE: 1375
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Art of Prevence, France
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p3879

    p3879

    • ARTIST: Xavier Sager (France, 1870-1930)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tango
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1913
    • COMMENTS: From a postcard
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: tango, ballroom, couple
  • p9259

    p9259

    • ARTIST: Mars (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The middle of Lent. Children's afternoon in disguise. Sabotière (La mi-carême. Une matinée enfantine en travesti. Sabotière)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1884
    • DIMENSIONS: 8.7 x 8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: popular, sabotière, traditional
    • KEYWORDS: child, disguise
  • p2939

    p2939

    • TITLE OF WORK: Moroccan dancer II, Tanger - Morocco (Danseuse marocaine II, Tanger - Maroc)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Morocco,
    • DANCE FORM: folk, Oriental
  • p7416

    p7416

    • ARTIST: Louis Bouquet (French, 1885-1952)
    • TITLE OF WORK: African dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mural
    • DATE: 1931
    • COMMENTS: The mural is part of the office of Paul Reynaud, minister of France, together with the furniture, made by Jacques-Emile Ryhlmann.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Africa
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s2894

    s2894

    • ARTIST: Théodore Valério (France, 1819-1879) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Morlac musicians of the district of Zara (Musiciens morlaques du district de Zara)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1877
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.7 x 15.9 cm
    • COMMENTS: From the book "Les bords de l'Adriatique et de Montenegro" by Charles Yriarte
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Croatia, Dalmatia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, solo
    • KEYWORDS: musicians
  • s1290

    s1290

    • ARTIST: André Galland (France, 1886-1965) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: In the stall of the corps de ballet (Dans la loge du corps de ballet)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1931
    • DIMENSIONS: 11 x 10 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Spectacles pour enfants"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: stage, ballet
    • KEYWORDS: children, off-stage
  • p6641

    p6641

    • ARTIST: Henry Meyer (U.K., 1780-1847)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Opera ball (Le bal de l'Opéra)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1840
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: Carnival, disguise, juvenile, fancy-dress
  • p7540

    p7540

    • ARTIST: Paul Treutler
    • TITLE OF WORK: A Gypsy in three points (Una chingana en Tres Puntas)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1860
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Chile
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • p9389

    p9389

    • ARTIST: Adrien Marie (France, 1848-1891) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The farandole, executed by the corps de ballet of the Opéra passing through the crowd (La Farandole, exécutée par le corps de ballet de l'Opéra, traversant la foule)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1879
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.4 x 30.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: A festival for the benefit of Hungary
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, farandole
  • p4880

    p4880

    • ARTIST: Maximilian Neubauer
    • TITLE OF WORK: Johann Strauss son conducting in the dance hall Zum Schwarzen Bock (Johann Strauss Sohn dirigiert im Tanzsaal Zum Schwarzen Bock)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1873
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • p2740

    p2740

    • ARTIST: René Péan (France, 1875-1940)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ollé
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1913
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France
    • DANCE FORM: Spanish dance
  • p4015

    p4015

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Two dancers (Deux danseuses)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, charcoal and chalk on velin paper
    • DATE: 1879
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 63.8 x 48.9 cm
    • COMMENTS: Maris van Goethem (the "Little dancer aged fourteen") modeled also for this worm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s2179

    s2179

    • TITLE OF WORK: Therapenides (Servants)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Mosaic
    • DATE: 100
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Hellenistic period
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Syria
    • DANCE FORM: circle
  • p6341

    p6341

    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Arthur Saint-Léon
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1869
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p3880

    p3880

    • TITLE OF WORK: Thé tango (Tango tea)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1914
    • COMMENTS: Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: tango, ballroom, couple
  • p7791

    p7791

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Schuasta polka dance in Salzkammergut (Schuastapolka, Salzkammergut)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1948
    • DIMENSIONS: 12.5 x 10.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • s0698

    s0698

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Eastern Question. Bulgaria - A marriage procession: The bridegroom sending presents to the bride
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1877
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 22.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Bulgaria
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, processional
    • KEYWORDS: music
  • p1639

    p1639

    • ARTIST: Alexander Archipenko (Ukraine, 1887-1964)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance II
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel
    • DATE: 1914
    • DIMENSIONS: 48 x 31.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
  • p7240

    p7240

    • TITLE OF WORK: Lucile Grahn in the ballet "Eoline ou La dryade"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1845
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Denmark, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p0839

    p0839

    • TITLE OF WORK: Two maidens in a religious dance scene
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief
    • DATE: -510
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 51 cm height
    • COMMENTS: From the sanctuary of Demetra Malophoros in Selinonte.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: line
  • s4485

    s4485

    • TITLE OF WORK: We have taken a small salon to hear the band sing (Nous avons pris un petit salon pour entendre chanter la bande)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 10.5 x 12 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for a travel book
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: popular, solo
  • p2922

    p2922

    • TITLE OF WORK: Children's round dances (Rondes d'enfants)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1905
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 7 x 10.3 cm
    • COMMENTS: Chocolat Vinay. 45.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • s2749

    s2749

    • ARTIST: G. Vallon
    • TITLE OF WORK: Janine Solane directing The Machines in La Grande Passacaille by J.-S. Bach (Janine Solane dirigeant Les Machines dans La Grande Passacaille de J.-S. Bach)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sanguine
    • DATE: 1949
    • DIMENSIONS: 17 x 13 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s2925

    s2925

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer of the Opéra dressed as Flore, goddess of the Spring (Danseuse de l'Opéra en habit de Flore, déesse du printemps)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1675
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, theatrical, stage, court
  • s4747

    s4747

    • ARTIST: Roger Soubie (France, 1898-1984)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Viva Las Vegas. Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, poster
    • DATE: 1956
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., Nevada, Las Vegas
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • s2378

    s2378

    • TITLE OF WORK: Graphic motifs 23
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1995
    • KEYWORDS: clip art
  • p1292

    p1292

    • TITLE OF WORK: Odissi dancer in the "tribhanga" pose
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette
    • DATE: 600
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p6551

    p6551

    • ARTIST: Pierre Roche or Fernand Massignon (France, 1855-1922)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Loïe Fuller
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1893
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p6116

    p6116

    • ARTIST: Aristide Maillol (France, 1861-1944)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Illustration for the book "Daphnis and Chloe" by Longus
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1921
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
  • p4533

    p4533

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of the grape-pressing - Pas de deux (Danse du pressoir - Pas de deux)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From the series "Danses de l'Ancienne Grèce". Produits Liebig
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Greece
  • p7871

    p7871

    • 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: Painting, drawing, watercolor and pencils
    • DATE: 1923
    • DIMENSIONS: 35.3 x 24.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Ishavsbaletten, Paris, Nov. 1923
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sweden
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s1115

    s1115

    • ARTIST: Georges Goursat or SEM (France, 1863-1934) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: White bottoms: M. Tigre de Regnier, J.-Gabriel Domergue, Agha Khan, M. Léon Rénier
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1927
    • DIMENSIONS: 10 x 25.4 cm
    • COMMENTS: Sketches from the album "White bottoms" by SEM
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: black-bottom, ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • p9142

    p9142

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Parade". Final stage
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1917
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p0427

    p0427

    • TITLE OF WORK: Four dancers in a closed circle
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture
    • DATE: -600
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
  • p1323

    p1323

    • ARTIST: Nikos Nikolaidis
    • TITLE OF WORK: Two men dance in a taverna
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1970
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: popular, hasapiko
    • KEYWORDS: rebetiko
  • p4009

    p4009

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance class (La leçon de danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel and black chalk on three pieces of wove paper joined together
    • DATE: 1879
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 64.6 x 56.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: instruction
  • p0941

    p0941

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Male and female dancers (Danseur et danseuse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, ink
    • DATE: 1925
    • DIMENSIONS: 62 x 47 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Monaco, Monte Carlo
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet

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