Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p7439

    p7439

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing Apsara
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, sandstone
    • DATE: 1200
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Cambodia, Anghor, Bayon
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Cambodia
    • KEYWORDS: religion, divinity
  • p5083

    p5083

    • ARTIST: Jovanov
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sabre dance (Igra handzarina)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1905
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 47 x 66.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed at lower right. Auctioned on 18/11/1998. Estimated at 60,000 French francs
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Yugoslavia, Albania, Macedonia, Serbia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, sword, sabre
    • KEYWORDS: weapon
  • p8065

    p8065

    • ARTIST: Valentine Gross Hugo (France, 1887-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ida Rubinstein in "Pisanella"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1912
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1109

    p1109

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Opera (L'Opéra)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, colored
    • DATE: 1700
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Caption: "On chante, on danse icy, l'on fait mille merveilles..."
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • KEYWORDS: opera
  • p3510

    p3510

    • TITLE OF WORK: Base of a plaque in the Pala style representing the wedding of god Shiva with the godess Parvati
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief
    • DATE: 950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 64 cm total height
    • COMMENTS: The scene includes dancers, musicians and the god-mounted bull Nandin.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • DANCE FORM: court, traditional
  • p4985

    p4985

    • ARTIST: Miguel Covarrubias (Mexico, 1904-1957)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Design for the ballet "Los cuatro soles"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1951
    • COMMENTS: For the performance at the Palacio de Bellas Artes, in Mexico City, in 1951. Choreography by José Lim?n, music by Carlos Ch?vez.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Mexico
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p8799

    p8799

    • TITLE OF WORK: Mdlle Dumilatre, in the new ballet of "The corsair", at Drury Lane Theatre
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1844
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.5 x 12 cm
    • COMMENTS: A ballet founded upon Lord Byron's poem of the same name. The illustration represents the cabinet of Seide, the opening of act 2, where the Turkish Pasha throws himself upon a couch and Guinare approa
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1365

    p1365

    • ARTIST: Jean-Baptiste van Moor or Mour (France, 1671-1737)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Religious ceremony of the whirling derviches in Galata
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1750
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 76 x 101 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey, Constantinople, Istanbul,
    • DANCE FORM: Sema, traditional, whirling, Oriental
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • s0398

    s0398

    • TITLE OF WORK: Lola Montez, countess of Landsfeld, deceased on 17/01/1861(Lola Montez, Gräffin von Landsfeld, gestorben am 17. Januar)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1861
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 12.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Lola Montez was lover of King Ludwig I of Bavaria
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Ireland, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, Spanish dance?
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • s2553

    s2553

    • ARTIST: Adrien Marie (France, 1848-1891) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Farandole, for the piano, by four hands, by Claudius Blanc and Léopold Dauphin (La farandole, pour piano, à quatre mains, par Claudius Blanc et Léopold Dauphin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, monochrome
    • DATE: 1887
    • DIMENSIONS: 30 x 22 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: farandole, traditional, line
    • KEYWORDS: score
  • p3171

    p3171

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Seated dancer holding fan (Danseuse assise à l'éventail)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pastel on paper
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 32 x 38.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • s4740

    s4740

    • ARTIST: François Lafon (France, 1846-1920)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer with tambourine and musician (Danseuse au tambourin et musicien)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on panel
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 55 x 36.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Initialed at lower left
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: popular, solo
    • KEYWORDS: tambourine, flute
  • p6484

    p6484

    • TITLE OF WORK: Garment for dancers, invented April 17, 1894. Inventor Marie Louise Fuller
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1894
    • COMMENTS: Loïe Fuller. Patented in Washington on 17/04/1894
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p1427

    p1427

    • ARTIST: Max Pechstein (Germany, 1881-1955)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance II (Tanz II)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1910
    • DIMENSIONS: 24.5 x 28 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • p3609

    p3609

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of a female witch-doctor (La danse de la Griote)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1892
    • DIMENSIONS: 13 x 21.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Africa
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: therapy
  • s2956

    s2956

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of Devils and She-Devils at the festival of the Nativity of Cachareas
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Peru
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • s1889

    s1889

    • TITLE OF WORK: Why Sanatogen won the Grand Prix
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, monochrome
    • DATE: 1919
    • DIMENSIONS: 17.7 x 25.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: processional
    • KEYWORDS: advertisement, publicity
  • p6309

    p6309

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Russian season at the Paris Opera (Saison Russe à l'Opéra de Paris)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, poster
    • DATE: 1910
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s1682

    s1682

    • ARTIST: E. Touraine
    • TITLE OF WORK: The bear's dance (La danse de l'ours)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1912
    • DIMENSIONS: 28.3 x 21.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: animal, wolf
  • s4013

    s4013

    • ARTIST: Jan Brueghel the Younger (Flanders, 1601-1678)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Village festival (Kermesse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1650
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 25.2 x 37 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Netherlands
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p8005

    p8005

    • ARTIST: Gustavo Simoni (Italy, 1846-1926) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Negro dance in front of the mosque in Tlemcen (Negertanz vor der Moschee in Tlemsen)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1890
    • DIMENSIONS: 30.4 x 20.9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Morocco
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s3798

    s3798

    • ARTIST: Sigurd Leeder (Germany, 1902-1981)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing boy
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, charcoal
    • DATE: 1957
    • COMMENTS: Dated London 1957
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • s5021

    s5021

    • ARTIST: Fernando Botero (Colombia, 1932-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 2000
    • DIMENSIONS: 41.3 x 32.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Colombia
    • DANCE FORM: popular, ballroom, couple
  • p6783

    p6783

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance in the barracks (La danse aux camps)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1853
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 12 x 17.3 cm
    • COMMENTS: Soldiers dancing in a French military training camp
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: humor, military, caricature
  • s2259

    s2259

    • ARTIST: Dora Brandenburg-Polster (Germany, 1884-1958)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Gertrud Leistikow - 2
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1911
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p1734

    p1734

    • ARTIST: Fernand Léger (France, 1881-1955)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "La création du monde"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1923
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p9732

    p9732

    • ARTIST: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, 1880-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Step dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: step
  • p6105

    p6105

    • ARTIST: Joan Miró (Spain, 1893-1983)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A preparatory drawing squared for "Spanish dancer" (Dessin préparatoire quadrillé pour "Danseuse espagnole")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1924
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France, Catalonia
  • p4783

    p4783

    • ARTIST: Ludwig Richter (Germany, 1803-1884)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dorf Schaenke
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1833
    • DIMENSIONS: 24.1 x 27.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p0709

    p0709

    • ARTIST: Franz Waldraff (Germany, 1878-1961)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Three maidens dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1913
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 26 x 22.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: trio
  • s4288

    s4288

    • ARTIST: Edouard-Frédéric Richter (France, 1844-1913)
    • TITLE OF WORK: In the court of a villa at Algiers (Dans la cour d'une villa algéroise)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Algeria, Algiers
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s0203

    s0203

    • ARTIST: Valias Semertzidis (Greece, 1911-1983)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Pyrrhic dance (Pyrrichios choros)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving
    • DATE: 1970
    • DIMENSIONS: 35 x 50 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Pontos, Black Sea, Turkey, Lazistan
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, Pyrrhic, Serra
  • p2346

    p2346

    • ARTIST: Otto Dix (Germany, 1891-1969)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Big city triptych (Grossstadt-Triptychon). Detail from the middle panel
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mixed technique in wood
    • DATE: 1928
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 181 x 200 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s1154

    s1154

    • ARTIST: Thomas Rowlandson (U.K., 1756-1827) (after)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The waltz, 1809
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1899
    • DIMENSIONS: 9 x 12.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: From "The sorrows of Werhter"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: waltz, ballroom, couple
  • p7834

    p7834

    • ARTIST: Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx (Italy, 15??-1587?)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Comic ballet of the Queen" - Figure of a wooden chariot ("Ballet comique de la Reine" - Figure de chariot de bois)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1592
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court, ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p7127

    p7127

    • ARTIST: Tommaso Borgonio (Italy, 1620-1683)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "The tobacco ballet" ("Il tabacco baletto", Tapuia and Paracussa)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1650
    • COMMENTS: "Il tabacco balletto", alle dame l' ultimo giorno di Carnevale, primo di Marzo, mille sei cento cinquanta. Ballato in Torino (A ballet presented in Turin on 01/03/1650, last day of Carnival). The Toba
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Torino, Turin, Venezuela
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p9739

    p9739

    • ARTIST: Lodewijk Toeput or Ludovico Pozzoserrato (Flanders, 1550-1605) (follower of)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The foolish virgins dancing and enjoying temporal pleasures
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1655
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 39.5 x 70 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland
    • DANCE FORM: popular, round
    • KEYWORDS: religion Bible,
  • s0060

    s0060

    • TITLE OF WORK: At the ball
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on panel
    • DATE: 1885
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 19.4 x 30.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed "R. Madrazo". Spanish school
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p9360

    p9360

    • TITLE OF WORK: Oriental Polka (Orientalische Polka)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1852
    • DIMENSIONS: 11 x 23 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the musical score
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, polka, couple
    • KEYWORDS: score
  • s1869

    s1869

    • TITLE OF WORK: The street groom: gallant for a coin
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1928
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: Carnival
  • p8342

    p8342

    • ARTIST: Knut Ekwall (Sweden, 1843-1912) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A house ball by the German imperial couples (Ein Hausball beim deutschen Kaiserpaare)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1875
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.2 x 51.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • p8161

    p8161

    • TITLE OF WORK: The opening of the season at Almack's
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1844
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • s1880

    s1880

    • ARTIST: Henri Montassier (France, 1880-1946)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Daydreaming (Rêverie)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1927
    • COMMENTS: Salon de Paris 1927
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, France
  • s0745

    s0745

    • TITLE OF WORK: Juvenile evening party, at Paris
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1854
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.4 x 21.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: children, piano
  • p1727

    p1727

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance guild (Dansgille)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache
    • DATE: 1921
    • COMMENTS: Based on a popular drawing. "Dansgille", a ballet premièred by the Ballets Suédois in Paris on 20/11/1921. Music by Eugène Bigot adapted from Swedish folk tunes, set based on a painting in Stockholm's
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p4896

    p4896

    • TITLE OF WORK: Petrole Hahn. Hair treasure (Petrole Hahn. Tresor des cheveux)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1902
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
  • s0674

    s0674

    • TITLE OF WORK: Amateur performance of "One hour" at the British Embassy, Constantinople - The "Nursery rhyme quadrille"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1882
    • DIMENSIONS: 17.2 x 22.4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey, U.K., Constantinople, Istanbul
    • DANCE FORM: quadrille, ballroom, stage
    • KEYWORDS: disguise
  • s0490

    s0490

    • ARTIST: Adrien Marie (France, 1848-1891) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Messalina", a ballet by Mr Danesi, presented at the Eden Theatre. The triumph of Claude and Agrippina at the Capitole
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1885
    • DIMENSIONS: 30.3 x 44 cm
    • COMMENTS: "Messalina", a ballet by Mr. Danesi, performed at the Eden Theater. The triumph of Claudius and Agrippina at the Capitol
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Rome, France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s5181

    s5181

    • ARTIST: Jan Brueghel The Elder (Flanders, 1568-1625)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Country feast in front of the Ducs
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1623
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p0985

    p0985

    • ARTIST: Kees van Dongen (Netherlands, 1877-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Moulin de la Galette (Le Moulin de la Galette)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1904
    • DIMENSIONS: 65 x 54 cm
    • COMMENTS: Compare with paintings of the same ball, by Picasso and Toulouse-Lautrec.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom

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