Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p3147

    p3147

    • TITLE OF WORK: An early Cancan II
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1865
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, cancan
  • p8122

    p8122

    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from the ballet "The bayadère". Saint Petersburg, Grand Theater. The rage of the gods
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1877
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s2333

    s2333

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dian feather dance of the Western Han
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1100
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Copy of the decoration on the lid of a bronze utensil for storing cowrie shells
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: China
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: feather
  • p0465

    p0465

    • ARTIST: Pierre-Auguste Renoir (France, 1841-1919)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer with castanets (Danseuse aux castagnettes)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1909
    • DIMENSIONS: 155 x 64.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • s3070

    s3070

    • ARTIST: Mariano Baquero (Spain, 1838-1890)
    • TITLE OF WORK: After the dance (Après la danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1885
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 67.3 x 100.3 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed at lower right "Mariano B."
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, Oriental, solo
    • KEYWORDS: tambourine
  • p0156

    p0156

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing boys (Köçek)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1755
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From Surname-i Vehbi
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Turkey
    • DANCE FORM: court, Oriental
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • s2721

    s2721

    • ARTIST: Vladimir Kirin (Croatia, 1894-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Serbian national dances, no. 21
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, postcard, color
    • DATE: 1970
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From a series of postcards, no. 21
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Serbia, Yugoslavia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, folk
  • s0350

    s0350

    • ARTIST: Antoni Clavé (Spain, 1913-2005)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Revanche" (Revenge): Manrico
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, gouache, ink wash, white chalk, collage of papers on black paper
    • DATE: 1951
    • DIMENSIONS: 49.5 x 32.4 cm
    • COMMENTS: From the collection of Ruth Page
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, Spanish dance?
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s5419

    s5419

    • ARTIST: Josef Anton Engelhart (Austria, 1864-1941)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A ball in the washday drying yard (Ball auf dem Waschhängeplatz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1894
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular
  • p6529

    p6529

    • ARTIST: Georges Meunier (France, 1869-1942)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Loïe Fuller. Folies-Bergère
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1898
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • s4598

    s4598

    • ARTIST: Léon Cauvy (France, 1874-1933)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Ouled Nails (Les Ouled Naïls)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1932
    • DIMENSIONS: 188 x 230 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Algeria
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental, traditional
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p7248

    p7248

    • ARTIST: José de Cala y Moya (Spain, 1850-1891)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Entertainment in the harem (Divertissement au harem)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on wood
    • DATE: 1879
    • DIMENSIONS: 37 x 56 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated at lower left. Auctioned on 18/11/1998. Estimated at 100,000 French francs
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Spain,
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental
  • p8880

    p8880

    • ARTIST: E. Tchentsov
    • TITLE OF WORK: Elena Lioukom as The Young Girl and Anatole Vilzak as Eros in the ballet "Eros"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1925
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, duo
  • p8856

    p8856

    • ARTIST: Andre? Roller
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for a ballet by Marius Petipa
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p0848

    p0848

    • ARTIST: Kleophon Painter (Greece, active 450-400 BC)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Man dancing behind a flutist
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on vase
    • DATE: -430
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
  • s1535

    s1535

    • ARTIST: Tom Cottrell (U.K., 1890-1969) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A true blue conservative Christmas troupe. The Chamberlains - simultaneous dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1928
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.5 x 11.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: stage
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature, cartoon, politics
  • p5354

    p5354

    • ARTIST: Basset
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of Harlequin and Colombine (Danse d'Arlequin et de Colombine)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1715
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s2172

    s2172

    • ARTIST: Giovanni Paglianti (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Pyrrhic dance (Danza pirrica)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, monochrome
    • DATE: 1890
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From an unidentified book, Europa Vol. I, Tav. 41
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: Pyrrhic ancient Greek armed dance
    • KEYWORDS: weapon, military, Antiquity
  • p2596

    p2596

    • ARTIST: Georges Rouault (France, 1871-1958)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer and Mr Loyal (Danseuse et Monsieur Loyal)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor, pastel and China ink
    • DATE: 1905
    • DIMENSIONS: 28 x 36.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p5554

    p5554

    • TITLE OF WORK: Village dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1580
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p6565

    p6565

    • ARTIST: Pierre Roche or Fernand Massignon (France, 1855-1922)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Loïe Fuller
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1904
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p6686

    p6686

    • ARTIST: Manfried (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance floor of the Hungarian peasants (Tanzboden der ungarischen Bauern)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1866
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.3 x 23 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p7265

    p7265

    • TITLE OF WORK: Lola Montez and her Bavarian royal lover
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1847
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Lola Montez was lover of King Ludwig I of Bavaria
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Ireland, Germany, Bavaria, France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • s5029

    s5029

    • ARTIST: Théodore Levigne (France, 1848-1912)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The French Cancan dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 41 x 32.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: cancan, music-hall, solo
    • KEYWORDS: nude, erotic
  • p9826

    p9826

    • ARTIST: Leopold Schmutzler (Austria, 1864-1941)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Flamenco dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1896
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 179 x 107 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed at lower right
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Austria
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, solo, flamenco, Spanish dance
  • p4605

    p4605

    • ARTIST: Jean-Jacques de Boissieu (France, 1736-1810)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The country feast (La fête champêtre)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1773
    • DIMENSIONS: 25.8 x 34.9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s1812

    s1812

    • ARTIST: Janet Collins (U.S.A., 1917-2003)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the dance "La creole. Dreams of the Quadroon Ball" choreographed by Janet Collins
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1947
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, modern
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s4455

    s4455

    • TITLE OF WORK: Death dance (Totentanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, feather
    • DATE: 1830
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.1 x 34.1 cm
    • COMMENTS: A folder of 8 prints without title or cover
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: death, macabre
  • s5833

    s5833

    • TITLE OF WORK: Clay lid of a lekanis jewellery box with mine Maenads, a Satyr and five Eros deities drinking, dancing and playing music around god Dionysos
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, clay lekanis vase
    • DATE: -350
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Athens
  • s2969

    s2969

    • ARTIST: Marguerite Acarin "Akarova" (Belgium, 1904-1999)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume designed and made by Akarova for "Rhapsody in blue" by Gershwin
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1939
    • COMMENTS: Akarova, Belgian dancer, choreographer, and artist, was called "the Belgian Isadora Duncan"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p9730

    p9730

    • ARTIST: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (France, 1864-1901)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Quadrille of the chair Louis XIII at l'Elysée-Montmartre (Le quadrille de la chaise Louis XIII à l'Elysée-Montmartre)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1886
    • DIMENSIONS: 46 x 55.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Stamped with the monogram. One of two identical versions, the other being in a private collection. This version was commissioned by Aristide Bruant, the owner of the cabaret L'Elysée-Montmartre, and w
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, cancan
    • KEYWORDS: cabaret
  • s0314

    s0314

    • ARTIST: Karel Frans Philippeau (Netherlands, 1825-1897)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Italian peasants entertaining a baby
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on panel
    • DATE: 1885
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 37 x 48.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s4238

    s4238

    • TITLE OF WORK: Salome dancing before Herod
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, carving on wood
    • DATE: 1824
    • COMMENTS: Iconostasis made by Mijaci carvers
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Macedonia, Skopje
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: Salome, religion, Bible
  • p4280

    p4280

    • ARTIST: Auguste Rodin (France, 1840-1917) (attributed)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Draped woman after Isadora Duncan (Femme drapée d'après Isadora Duncan)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1911
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 7.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: From a booklet on Isadora Duncan
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • s0056

    s0056

    • ARTIST: Natalia Goncharova (Russia, 1881-1962)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Firebird": Kaschei the Magician
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, gouache over pencil on buff paper
    • DATE: 1925
    • DIMENSIONS: 51 x 65 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p7771

    p7771

    • ARTIST: Godefroy Durand (France, 1832-1920) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Carnival Thursday in Madrid (Le jeudi de mi-carème à Madrid)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1870
    • DIMENSIONS: 30 x 22.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular
    • KEYWORDS: music
  • s1800

    s1800

    • ARTIST: Heinz Bentele (Germany, 1902-1983)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Flamenco dancer with castagnets (Flamenco-Tänzerin mit Kastagnetten)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture
    • DATE: 1970
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: flamenco, Spanish dance, traditional, stage, solo
    • KEYWORDS: female
  • s0447

    s0447

    • ARTIST: Nikolai Baskakov (Russia, 1918-1993)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ballet dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 82 x 86.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed in cyrillic
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: off-stage
  • p1851

    p1851

    • TITLE OF WORK: The festival of Sevilla (La foire de Séville)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1890
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, flamenco, Spanish dance
  • s0212

    s0212

    • ARTIST: R. Koch (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Christmas festival of the artists of Hamburg (Weihnachtsfest der hamburger Künstler)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1865
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.5 x 12.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Hamburg
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple
  • p8158

    p8158

    • TITLE OF WORK: The celebrated Mademoiselle G-m-rd or Grimhard from Paris (Marie-Madeleine Guimard)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1789
    • COMMENTS: Published in London
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • s2814

    s2814

    • ARTIST: Louis Baader (France, 1828-1919) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance in front of the cabin of the bride - the groom in a solo (La danse devant la cabane de la mariée - le cavalier seul)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1874
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 23.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Romania, Transylvania
    • DANCE FORM: Traditional, solo
    • KEYWORDS: musical instrument, violin
  • p3935

    p3935

    • TITLE OF WORK: King Ludwig I of Bavaria abdicating for the sake of Lola Montez
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1848
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: A contemporary carricature blaming Lola Montez for the king's abdication
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p4411

    p4411

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan - Joie (Joy)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1911
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • s5109

    s5109

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dionysiac procession with dancers and flutist on a sarcophagus
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, marble relief
    • DATE: -200
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 210 x 190 x 90 cm
    • COMMENTS: Sculptured in Attica, Greece
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Libya, Greece, Rome, Hellenistic
  • p9771

    p9771

    • ARTIST: Jan Anton Garemyn or Garemijn (Flanders, 1712-1799) & Constantin van Eecke (Flanders, 1712-1799)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Peasants feasting in front of a castle with the village of Dudzele, near Bruges, in the background
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1772
    • DIMENSIONS: 250 x 480 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated at lower left by Garemyn, and at lower center by van Eecke
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium
  • s3338

    s3338

    • ARTIST: Alexandre Bigot (France, 1862-1927)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tanagra
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, sandstone (grès flammé), statuette
    • DATE: 1898
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 18.2 x 8.5 x 6.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Inspired by the dances of Loïe Fuller
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Greece,
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: revival
  • s1534

    s1534

    • ARTIST: W. L. Wightman (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Her octogenarian counsel used to sit below his haughty client and periodically pass her up smelling salts and bonbons, both of which Mata would disdain (Mata Hari)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1928
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.5 x 15 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Mata Hari, the "ping-pong" spy, by Ferdinand Tuohy
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Holland
    • DANCE FORM: stage, music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: trial, court, espionage, spy
  • s5265

    s5265

    • ARTIST: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (France, 1864-1901)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Moulin Rouge - La Goulue
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1891
    • DIMENSIONS: 167 x 115 cm
    • COMMENTS: Art Nouveau
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: cabaret
  • p8479

    p8479

    • ARTIST: Emerich Imre Greguss (Hungary, 1856-1910) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Pictures from Hungary. The Hungarian national dance csardas (Bilder aus Ungarn. Der ungarische Nationaltanz czàrdàs)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1885
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.2 x 34.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, csardas, cjardas

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