Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • s1299

    s1299

    • ARTIST: Henriot (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The spectrum of the rose - new version for the Slav Ballets (Le spectre de la rose - nouvelle version pour les ballets slaves)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1912
    • DIMENSIONS: 12.8 x 27 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature, cartoon
  • s3319

    s3319

    • ARTIST: Victor Prouvé (France, 1858-1943)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The girl-flower (La fille-fleur)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, glass
    • DATE: 1905
    • DIMENSIONS: 25.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: Produced by Daum Frères. Inspired by Loïe Fuller. See his preparatory drawing.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, solo
    • KEYWORDS: veils, drapery
  • p3512

    p3512

    • TITLE OF WORK: Shiva Nataraja, the dance-master god
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, bronze dravidien
    • DATE: 1300
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 154 cm height
    • COMMENTS: The godess Ganga, impersonating the river Gange, is sitting on his hair
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p4794

    p4794

    • ARTIST: Jakob Placidus Altmutter (Austria, 1780-1820)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Shoe clapping at the Ländler dance (Schuhplatteln beim Ländlertanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen sketch, in grey
    • DATE: 1815
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 10.9 x 14.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, Schuhplattler
  • p0411

    p0411

    • TITLE OF WORK: The god Bes dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on a panel
    • DATE: -1400
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: Panel of the throne of Sitamun, tomb of Yuia and Thuin, Egypt.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Egypt, Ancient
    • KEYWORDS: religion, deity,
  • p9698

    p9698

    • ARTIST: Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (France, 1824-1887)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Neapolitan dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze, mid and light brown patination
    • DATE: 1870
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 43 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Signed "A Carrier"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Naples, Napoli, France
    • DANCE FORM: solo, popular
    • KEYWORDS: tambourine
  • s2914

    s2914

    • ARTIST: Jean Le Pautre or Lepautre (France, 1618-1682) (drawing & engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Man in ballet costume (Homme en habit de ballet)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1680
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Costume design for one of the ballets presented at the court of in one of the royal residencies, under Louis XIV
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, theatrical, stage
    • KEYWORDS: royalty, court,
  • p3029

    p3029

    • ARTIST: Aspell
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1898
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p3184

    p3184

    • ARTIST: Valentine Lecomte (France, 1872-?)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Studies of Isadora Duncan dancing (3)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil on paper
    • DATE: 1915
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • s3092

    s3092

    • ARTIST: Jean-Denis Malclès (France, 1912-2002)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Serge Lifar
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p0831

    p0831

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer (Danseuse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1919
    • DIMENSIONS: 31 x 24 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
  • s3401

    s3401

    • ARTIST: Giacomo Mantegazza (Italy, 1853-1920)
    • TITLE OF WORK: An idle evening at the seraglio (Une soirée oisive au sérail)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1876
    • DIMENSIONS: 97 x 149 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated "Milano 1876"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: solo, popular, Oriental, acrobatic
    • KEYWORDS: acrobatic, rings, musical instruments
  • s5643

    s5643

    • ARTIST: Red-Line Painter (attributed)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Seated man and woman dancer. Pottery: black-figure neck-amphora
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pottery, black-figured neck-amphora
    • DATE: -510
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.85 cm height
    • COMMENTS: On the reverse: Apollo Citharoedos seated on an okladias to right. Made in Attica, gound in Sicily, Italy.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Athens
  • s3258

    s3258

    • ARTIST: Edmond Joseph Massicotte (Canada, 1875-1929) (drawing); Marcel Gareau Rigaud
    • TITLE OF WORK: A few dance steps (Quelques pas de danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Marquetterie, wood
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Canada
    • DANCE FORM: couple, traditional
  • p4787

    p4787

    • TITLE OF WORK: Estonian peasant dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 44 x 56 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Estonia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p8316

    p8316

    • ARTIST: Robert Jacob Hamerton (U.K., 1810?-1904) (attributed)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Fanny Cerrito in "Alma", in the background Henri Desplaces and Jules Perrot
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1842
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s2796

    s2796

    • ARTIST: Bouillet
    • TITLE OF WORK: La Bourrée à Quatre dance (La bourrée à quatre)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From "L'album auvergnat"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Auvergne
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple, bourrée à quatre
  • p2587

    p2587

    • TITLE OF WORK: Lola Montez at the Park Theatre, New York. Lola has come! Enthusiastic reception of Lola by an American audience.
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1851
    • DIMENSIONS: 17.5 x 22.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: Lola Montez was lover of King Ludwig I of Bavaria
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., New York
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p4575

    p4575

    • TITLE OF WORK: Russian dance scene
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p5670

    p5670

    • ARTIST: Josef Wilhelm Wallander (Sweden, 1821-1888)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Friar dance on the Floda bridge (Friardans paa Flodabron)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1860
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sweden
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p7683

    p7683

    • ARTIST: Eugène Berman (Russia, 1899-1972)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for "Devil's holiday"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p9996

    p9996

    • ARTIST: Amadeo Preziosi (Malta, 1816-1882)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Galata Mevlevi dervishes' shrine
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor and pencil heightened with white on paper
    • DATE: 1865
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 27.3 x 44.1 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed "Preziosi" at lower left
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey, Constantinople, Istanbul,
    • DANCE FORM: Sema, sama, whirling, solo
    • KEYWORDS: religion, dervish
  • s1145

    s1145

    • TITLE OF WORK: Sonora, the highest class gramophone in the world
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1919
    • DIMENSIONS: 17.5 x 24.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: child, advertisement
  • p9402

    p9402

    • ARTIST: Adrien Marie (France, 1848-1891) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Mr. Louis Mérante in the role of Nori, ballet "Yedda" (M. Louis Mérante, dans le rôle de Nori, ballet de "Yedda)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1879
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.1 x 15.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: "Yedda", ballet in three acts, by Philippe Gille, Arnold Mortier and L. Mérante. Music by Olivier Métra; presented at the Théâtre de l'Opéra, Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris, Japan
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p4283

    p4283

    • TITLE OF WORK: Mary Wigman and her Dance Groupe, "The holiday", Chemnitzer Volksbühne 27/02/1927 (Mary Wigman und ihre Tanzgruppe, "Die Feier", Chemnitzer Volksbühne 27/02/1927)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1927
    • COMMENTS: Flyer for a performance of "Die Feier" (The Feast) by Mary Wigman,
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • s2653

    s2653

    • ARTIST: Maurice de Lambert (France, 1873-1952) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Miss Sergine in "Armine and Gildis" (Mlle Sergine dans "Armine et Gildis")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1904
    • DIMENSIONS: 33 x 20 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, stage
    • KEYWORDS: portrait, costume
  • s0296

    s0296

    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance at Zalongo, 1803 (O choros tou Zalogou, 1803)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, copper engraving
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 10 x 10 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Epirus, Zalongo
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: war, suicide
  • p8705

    p8705

    • TITLE OF WORK: The masquerade scene from the new ballet of "Les métamorphoses"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1850
    • DIMENSIONS: 17.5 x 23 cm
    • COMMENTS: A ballet by P. Taglioni, with Carlotta Grisi and Rosa
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1899

    p1899

    • TITLE OF WORK: Spanish dance couple
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1890
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, flamenco, Spanish dance
  • s0996

    s0996

    • ARTIST: F. Shelford (sketch); Frank Craig (U.K., 1874-1918) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Anglo-French boundary question in West Africa: Life in the Lagos hinterland. A fetish dance in a village
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1897
    • DIMENSIONS: 14.5 x 22.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Nigeria, Lagos
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: carpet
  • p3864

    p3864

    • TITLE OF WORK: Young female dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1590
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Miniature of the Ispahan school, Persia
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Persia, Iran
  • p8923

    p8923

    • ARTIST: Konstantin Alekseyevich Korovin (Russia, 1861-1939)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Le festin"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1909
    • COMMENTS: "Le festin", dance suite on music by various Russian composers; choreography by M. Petipa, A. Gorsky, M. Fokine etc. Décors by C. Korovine from the first act of the opera "Rousslan and Loudmilla" in t
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p1255

    p1255

    • TITLE OF WORK: A dancing girl
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, aquatint, color
    • DATE: 1813
    • DIMENSIONS: 18 x 11 cm
    • COMMENTS: ô???ç (). ??ëê????ö??, 36 x 47,5 ?ê. ??ü ô? âéâë?? ô?? Abraham Ortelius: Theatrum orbis terrarum. Additamentum IV. Antwerp 1590.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Turkey
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, solo
    • KEYWORDS: music, cymbals
  • s0394

    s0394

    • ARTIST: Knut Ekwall (Sweden, 1843-1912) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The peasant ball in the Prussian Court at Altenburg on 15 April (Der Bauernball im Preussischen Hof zu Altenburg am 15. April)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1873
    • DIMENSIONS: 23 x 34.9 cm
    • COMMENTS: Festivities in honour of the wedding of Prince Albrecht of Prussia with Princess Marie of Sachsen-Altenburg
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Altenburg
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple
    • KEYWORDS: royalty, ball,
  • s5750

    s5750

    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer holding krotala and wearing a kalathiskos on her head
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, figurine
    • DATE: -300
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 17.5 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Made in Corinth, found in Greece
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Corinth
    • KEYWORDS: krotala
  • p9513

    p9513

    • ARTIST: Claude-Théodore Caruelle d'Aligny (France, 1798-1871)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Arab feast (Fête arabe)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1850
    • DIMENSIONS: 112 x 61 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, France
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental, traditional, solo
  • s5129

    s5129

    • ARTIST: Utagawa Hiroshige (Japan)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Parodies of the Sanbaso dance: Allusion to the character of Senzai
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1855
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Japan
    • DANCE FORM: female
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p1997

    p1997

    • ARTIST: Theyre Lee-Elliott (U.K., 1903-1988)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Harold Turner in "Les patineurs" (The skaters)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1947
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p8795

    p8795

    • TITLE OF WORK: A portrait group at the Duchess of Argyll's ball
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1871
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.5 x 30 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Scotland
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • s2746

    s2746

    • ARTIST: G. Vallon
    • TITLE OF WORK: Choral "Réjouis-toi, mon âme" de J.-S. Bach
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sanguine
    • DATE: 1950
    • DIMENSIONS: 20 x 12 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, solo
  • p8155

    p8155

    • ARTIST: Ira Moskowitz (Poland, 1912-)rnDeath Year :rnCountry : Poland
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Corn Dance season of Pueblo marriage, Santo Domingo
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1946
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: Indians, Native Americans
  • p3758

    p3758

    • ARTIST: Johann Gottfried Schadow (Germany, 1764-1850)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Marie Vigano (Maria Medina Vigano)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1796
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p0679

    p0679

    • TITLE OF WORK: Ballet "L'étoile de Messine", 1st act, 1st scene: the Casino of Messina (Ballet de "L'étoile de Messine, acte 1er, 1er tableau: le Casino de Messine, décor de M. Despléchin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1861
    • DIMENSIONS: 18 x 22 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for an article by Léo de Bernard
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Italy, Messina
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: Théâtre de l'Opéra
  • s2884

    s2884

    • ARTIST: Adrien Marie (France, 1848-1891) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "The beautiful Persian lady", at the Renaissance Theater: Namouna (Miss Jeanne Hading) before the Prince (Miss Gélabert)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1879
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.2 x 21.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Persia, Iran, France, Paris, Orient
    • DANCE FORM: stage, classical ballet
  • s0462

    s0462

    • ARTIST: Jean-Louis Forain (France, 1852-1931)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancers (Les danseuses)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on paper laid down on canvas
    • DATE: 1895
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 53 x 77 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3517

    p3517

    • ARTIST: Valentin Serov (Russia, 1865-1911)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Michel Fokine
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: choreographer, portrait
  • s0933

    s0933

    • ARTIST: Paul Thiriat (France, 1898-1970) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The shout of victory at Nice
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1918
    • DIMENSIONS: 30.5 x 22.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: British Tommies and Yanks danced with joy as the "Marseillaise" was sung from a balcony in the Avenue de la Gare
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.K., U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: military
  • p1277

    p1277

    • ARTIST: Edward Seago (U.K., 1910-1974)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Petrouchka
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1935
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Leonide Massine
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p2529

    p2529

    • ARTIST: Marie-Alexandre Adolphe (France, 1812-1883) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Carlotta Grisi and Lucien Petipa in the leap from the ballet "La Péri"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1843
    • DIMENSIONS: 20 x 22.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Opéra de Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1631

    p1631

    • ARTIST: Hugò Scheiber (Hungary, 1873-1950)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Russian dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache
    • DATE: 1920
    • DIMENSIONS: 62 x 48 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary, Russia

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