Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p7256

    p7256

    • TITLE OF WORK: Negros dancing to banjo music
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1872
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p9554

    p9554

    • ARTIST: Jean-Baptiste Pater (France, 1695-1736) (manner of)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The pleasures of the ball (Les plaisirs du bal)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on panel
    • DATE: 1780
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 24 x 34 cm
    • COMMENTS: One of a pair of paintings, the other being "Le colin-maillard"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: couple, court
  • s4504

    s4504

    • TITLE OF WORK: Negro ball of the Blomet Street in Paris (Le bal nègre de la rue Blomet, à Paris)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: couple, popular, ballroom
  • s3560

    s3560

    • ARTIST: Robert Fowler (U.K., 1853-1926)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tha dance of Salome
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 146 x 210 cm
    • COMMENTS: Painting of the English school
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, solo
    • KEYWORDS: Salome, religion, Bible
  • p5097

    p5097

    • ARTIST: Paul Gavarni or Guillaume Sulpice Chevalier (France, 1804-1866)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The waltz (La valse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1840
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, waltz
  • p7685

    p7685

    • ARTIST: Eugène Berman (Russia, 1899-1972)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for "Devil's holiday"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p8764

    p8764

    • ARTIST: Otto Geyer (Germany, 1843-1914) (drawing); L. Patzschke (drawing); J. Werthmann (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: From the frieze at the Berlin City Hall. Relief on the main façade: Social life and amusement (Aus dem Fries am berliner Rathhaus. Relief an der Hauptfaçade: Geselliges Leben und Lustbarkeit)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1879
    • DIMENSIONS: 7.8 x 32.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: couple, popular
  • p6443

    p6443

    • TITLE OF WORK: Reception of the Princess Clotilde in a harem in Cairo (Empfang der Prinzessin Clotilde im Harem in Kairo)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1862
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 22 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Egypt, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s0290

    s0290

    • ARTIST: August Mandlick (Austria, 1860-1934) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: From the popular life in Vienna: the Five Pound Dance (Fünfkreuzertanz) (Aus dem Wiener Volksleben: Beim Fünfkreuzertanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1905
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.5 x 46.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria, Vienna, Wien
    • DANCE FORM: Fünfkreuzertanz, traditional, popular, couple
  • p4240

    p4240

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Group of dancers (Groupe de danseuses)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1898
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 47 x 62.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: Sir Alexander Maitland gift 1960
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s4722

    s4722

    • ARTIST: Otto Pilny (Switzerland, 1866-1936)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Desert dance (Danse du désert)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1908
    • DIMENSIONS: 75 x 94 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated 1908
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, solo, Oriental
  • p4268

    p4268

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Two dancers on stage (Deux danseuses sur la scène). Detail
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s3844

    s3844

    • ARTIST: Georges Wolinski (France, 1934-2015)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Les Alyscamps, mardi 26 juillet 22H, Zaccho Dance Theatre Joanna Haigood "Journey from Elysian Fields", création (1)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1989
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Arles
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p7048

    p7048

    • TITLE OF WORK: Rejoicings of peasants in Asia Minor upon the announcement of a victory over the Serbs (Réjouissances de paysans d'Asie Mineure à l'annonce d'une victoire sur les Serbes)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1876
    • DIMENSIONS: 17 x 24.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey, Serbia, Yugoslavia
    • DANCE FORM: popular, traditional
  • s6052

    s6052

    • TITLE OF WORK: SH: Komos, youths, with skyphos and walking stick, basket, cup and pipes case suspended, vessel
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, red-figure oinochoe vase
    • DATE: -480
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Attica, Athens
  • p7129

    p7129

    • ARTIST: Adriaen Jansz van Ostade (Netherlands, 1610-1685) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance (Der Tanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1863
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.5 x 16.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular
  • s0181

    s0181

    • ARTIST: Arthur Langhammer (Germany, 1854-1901) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sunday dance in the Orpheum Hall at Munich (Sonntagstanz im Orpheumssaal zu München)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1894
    • DIMENSIONS: 30.1 x 46.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Munich, München
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • s3957

    s3957

    • TITLE OF WORK: The polka
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1860
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple, polka
  • p7860

    p7860

    • 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: 34.6 x 24.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Ishavsbaletten, Paris, Nov. 1923
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sweden
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p0378

    p0378

    • TITLE OF WORK: Village feast (Fête au village)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1750
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 78 x 98 cm
    • COMMENTS: Painter of the Flemish school. One of a pair of paintings. Auctionned by Vincent Wapler in July 1996, in Paris.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Holland, Flanders, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, country dance
  • s3312

    s3312

    • ARTIST: Pierre Roche or Fernand Massignon (France, 1855-1922)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Loïe Fuller dancing (Loïe Fuller dansant)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bas-relief, terracotta
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 18 x 19.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, solo
    • KEYWORDS: veils, drapery
  • p1472

    p1472

    • ARTIST: Edouard Manet (France, 1832-1883)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Lola de Valence
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, eau-forte and aquatint
    • DATE: 1863
    • DIMENSIONS: 26.6 x 18.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, bolero, Spanish dance
  • s1160

    s1160

    • ARTIST: Arthur Paine Garratt (U.K., 1873-1955) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The minuet
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1899
    • DIMENSIONS: 30.3 x 21.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: minuet, ballroom, couple
  • s5043

    s5043

    • ARTIST: A. Gory
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, bronze, silver gilt, ivory
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 68 x 41 cm
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • p7532

    p7532

    • ARTIST: Louis Legrand (France, 1863-1951)
    • TITLE OF WORK: First lesson (Première leçon)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, etching
    • DATE: 1908
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p1088

    p1088

    • ARTIST: Olfert Dapper (Netherlands, 1635?-1689)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Benin (Le Benin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1686
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Belgium, Benin, Nigeria
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: country
  • s4218

    s4218

    • ARTIST: Ferdinand Hodler (Switzreland, 1853-1918)
    • TITLE OF WORK: View on the vastness (Blick in die Unendlichkeit)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1914
    • DIMENSIONS: 258 x 475 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Switzerland
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p8847

    p8847

    • ARTIST: Serkov
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Soumbéka, ou La conquête de Kazan": The Empress (danced by Avdotia Istomina)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1815
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s3948

    s3948

    • ARTIST: Augustin Grass-Mick (France, 1873-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Jane Avril in the Bal Tabarin cabaret (Jane Avril au Bal Tabarin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1903
    • COMMENTS: At far right the composer Erik Satie
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • s4116

    s4116

    • TITLE OF WORK: Figurine of a female dancer (?)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, clay
    • DATE: -1500
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 12 x 6.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: Late Minoan period (1580-145 BC)
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Crete
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • p0684

    p0684

    • ARTIST: Frédéric de Haenen (Netherlads, 1853-1928) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Soldiers' ball in a suburb of Vienna
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1883
    • DIMENSIONS: 21 x 29 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria, Vienna
    • KEYWORDS: military
  • p9536

    p9536

    • ARTIST: Franz Ludwig Catel (Germany, 1778-1856)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A Neapolitan family at play
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1810
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 73 x 97.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Naples, Napoli, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular, duo
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p1220

    p1220

    • ARTIST: William Hogarth (U.K., 1697-1764)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Women’s costume
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, monochrome
    • DATE: 1723
    • DIMENSIONS: 24.5 x 34 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p4734

    p4734

    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from the new ballet of "Lalla Rookh", at Her Majesty's Theatre
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1846
    • DIMENSIONS: 17.5 x 22 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s5922

    s5922

    • ARTIST: Yelena Grigoryevna Shegal (Russia, 1924-1879)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of ballerina Maya Michailovna Plissezkaia (Maja Michailowna Plissezkaja)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1952
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p3520

    p3520

    • ARTIST: J. Raynouard (France, 1880-) (after an engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: On the way to the class at the Opera
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p5058

    p5058

    • ARTIST: Ranson
    • TITLE OF WORK: Folies-Bergère cabaret. A wind of folly. Josephine Baker (Folies-Bergère. Un vent de folie. Josephine Baker)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1927
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p9387

    p9387

    • ARTIST: Jules Garnier (France, 1847-1889) (painting); Quesnel (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Return from the festival (Retour de fête)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1879
    • DIMENSIONS: 19.5 x 30.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Accompaanied by a poem by Adrien Dézamy: "Entendez-vous la cornemuse?..."
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p0239

    p0239

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance in Landes, France
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1847
    • DIMENSIONS: 75 x 115 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Landes
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, Branle
  • p4266

    p4266

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer adjusting her shoe (Danseuse ajustant son chausson)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pastel on grey paper
    • DATE: 1885
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 48.2 x 61 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p8625

    p8625

    • ARTIST: John Hawkesworth (engraving); Giovanni Cipriani (drawing); Francesco Bartolozzi (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: View of the interior of a house on the Island of Ulietea, with representation of a dance executed to the rhythm of a local music
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1773
    • COMMENTS: View of the interior of a house on the island of Ulietea, with a representation of a dance executed to the rythm of a local music
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Tahiti, Pacific
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s2648

    s2648

    • ARTIST: Antoine Guillaume "Tony" Minartz (France, 1870-1944) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Flamenco dancer resembling La Tortojada
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1904
    • DIMENSIONS: 12.1 x 9.6 cm
    • COMMENTS: From a music-hall in Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, solo, stage, flamenco, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: guitar
  • s6066

    s6066

    • ARTIST: Manner of Epiktetos Painter (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: I: Komos, youth with skyphos
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, red-figure cup, vase
    • DATE: -505
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Attica, Athens
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: man
  • p4035

    p4035

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance class (La leçon de danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1879
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: instruction
  • p5356

    p5356

    • ARTIST: Julien Vallou de Villeneuve (France, 1795-1866)
    • TITLE OF WORK: African dance (Danse africaine)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1832
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Africa, France
    • DANCE FORM: folk
  • p0665

    p0665

    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from "Le Palais des Diamants" in the Théâtre des Variétés
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1861
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 22.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • s3768

    s3768

    • ARTIST: Yannis Chapsis (Greeece, 1925-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance in Karpathos
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1986
    • COMMENTS: Mr. Yannis Chapsis is a folk painter in the village Othos, Karpathos
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Dodecanese, Karpathos, Othos
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
  • p5430

    p5430

    • TITLE OF WORK: Queen Elizabeth dancing "lavolta" with the Earl of :eicester
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1570
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p0171

    p0171

    • ARTIST: Thanassis Spyropoulos (Greece, 1931-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Karsilamas dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1968
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Inspired by "I bira tou pikinou", a song by K. Roukounas
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, karsilamas
  • p9701

    p9701

    • ARTIST: Lawrence Dupuy (France)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Young girl playing and dancing to cymbals
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze, green patination
    • DATE: 1885
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 62.5 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Signed and inscribed, with foundry stamp
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: nude

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