Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p8406

    p8406

    • TITLE OF WORK: Old Berlin and Cologne: Sailor's dance (Alt-Berlin un Köln: Schiffertanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1894
    • DIMENSIONS: 10.5 x 8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple
    • KEYWORDS: marine
  • p7266

    p7266

    • ARTIST: W. Stek
    • TITLE OF WORK: The apotheosis of Lola Montez
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1846
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Ireland, Germany, Bavaria
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • p8024

    p8024

    • TITLE OF WORK: A ball in Reykjavik (Ein ball in Reykiavik)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1875
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.6 x 31.9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Iceland
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p7625

    p7625

    • ARTIST: Paul Colin (France, 1892-1985)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Josephine Baker dancing the charleston on a piano (Joséphine Baker dansant le charleston sur un piano)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1927
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, charleston, solo
  • s0990

    s0990

    • ARTIST: Ego (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The jig (La gigue)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1903
    • DIMENSIONS: 9 x 14.1 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: jig, gigue, traditional
    • KEYWORDS: musical instrument, bagpipes,
  • p8748

    p8748

    • TITLE OF WORK: Three dancers and two seated musicians
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bas-relief
    • DATE: 1100
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Han period
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: China
  • s3960

    s3960

    • ARTIST: Walter Schott (Germany, 1861-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan - 4
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, bronze
    • DATE: 1903
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
  • p5852

    p5852

    • ARTIST: Georges Crouzat (France, 1904-1976)
    • TITLE OF WORK: La Jalousie - Basse Normandie
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, bronze, medal
    • DATE: 1990
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 4.7 cm diameter
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: folk
  • p4897

    p4897

    • TITLE OF WORK: Shiva dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze
    • DATE: 1250
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From South India
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • KEYWORDS: religion, deity
  • p7592

    p7592

    • ARTIST: Edvard Lehmann (Denmark, 1815-1892)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Abdallah": Juliette Price
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1855
    • COMMENTS: "Abdallah", ballet choreographed by August Bournonville
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Denmark
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s4134

    s4134

    • TITLE OF WORK: Bearded man in a dance pose and female aulos-player on an Attic red-figure amphora vase
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on clay vase
    • DATE: -470
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 42 x 18 cm diam.
    • COMMENTS: The dancer holds a crook in his right hand and a parasol in his left hand. He could be an elegant visitor to Athens from Eastern Greece
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • p5927

    p5927

    • ARTIST: Jean-Léon Gérôme (France, 1824-1904)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The sabre dance in a coffee shop (La danse du sabre dans un café)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1875
    • DIMENSIONS: 58.5 x 80 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Egypt, Cairo, France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, solo, Oriental
    • KEYWORDS: weapon, sabre
  • p2561

    p2561

    • ARTIST: Alexandre Lacauchie (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Arthur Saint-Léon in "Le lutin de la vallée"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1853
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.5 x 12.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Théâtre Lyrique, Paris, 1853. Lithographed by Decan, Paris.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s3014

    s3014

    • ARTIST: Edouard Riou (France 1833-1900) (sketch); Lix (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Villefranche - Performance given by the Vice-Admiral Boutakoff aboard the Russian frigate "Kniag-Pozharsky" transformed into a garden
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1875
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.1 x 21.9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France, Villefranche
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: sea, ship, marine
  • p5694

    p5694

    • ARTIST: Elias Back
    • TITLE OF WORK: Peasant wedding (Bauernhochzeit)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1730
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s3165

    s3165

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of the Mevlevi dervishes (Danse des derwischs Mewlewis)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1787
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • s3496

    s3496

    • ARTIST: Jacques Philippe Caresme (France, 1734-1796) (circle of)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A dancing faun surrounded by putti
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, bodycolor on vellum
    • DATE: 1770
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 8.9 x 6.3 cm
    • COMMENTS: Circle of Philippe Caresme (1734-1796)
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • s2388

    s2388

    • TITLE OF WORK: Graphic motifs 33
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1995
    • KEYWORDS: clip art
  • p6739

    p6739

    • ARTIST: Achille Etna Michallon (France, 1796-1822)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Landscape inspired by the view of Frascati (Paysage inspiré de la vue de Frascati)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1820
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p9901

    p9901

    • ARTIST: Auguste Rodin (France, 1840-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Cambodian dancer (Danseuse cambodgienne)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, lead pencil, crayon and watercolor
    • DATE: 1906
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Cambodia, France
    • DANCE FORM: stage, solo
  • s1844

    s1844

    • TITLE OF WORK: Pas de Giselle
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1840
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, duo
  • s1186

    s1186

    • ARTIST: Jules Chéret (France, 1836-1932) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Poster study (Plakatentwurf)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1907
    • DIMENSIONS: 13 x 9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: tambourine
  • p6927

    p6927

    • ARTIST: Jean Toth (France, 1899-1972)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Josette Amiel at the Paris Opera
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p5462

    p5462

    • TITLE OF WORK: Three Couretes dancing over Cronus baby
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief
    • DATE: 100
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Rome
    • KEYWORDS: military
  • p4242

    p4242

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers on stage (Danseuses sur la scène)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pastel on two sheets of paper joined
    • DATE: 1898
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 73.7 x 105.4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p8112

    p8112

    • TITLE OF WORK: Two female dancers and woman with tympanon (tambourine)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, stucco
    • DATE: 400
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: The dancer represents Agaue waving the head of Pentheus and the sword she used to cut it.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Italy, Roman
    • KEYWORDS: weapon, theater
  • s5788

    s5788

    • ARTIST: Amasis Painter (Greece, active around 550-510 BC)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Wedding procession, girls dancing, seated aulos and lyra players. Black-figure lecythos vase
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, black-figure lekythos vase
    • DATE: -545
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: Sketch by Agnès Irigoyen.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: women, round
    • KEYWORDS: wedding
  • s4495

    s4495

    • TITLE OF WORK: Triumph of Dionysos
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 400
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Persia, Iran, Orient
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p6017

    p6017

    • ARTIST: Edward Seago (U.K., 1910-1974)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Uday Shankar
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1938
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • DANCE FORM: stage
  • s3750

    s3750

    • ARTIST: François-Rupert Carabin (France, 1862-1932)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Loïe Fuller
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, bronze
    • DATE: 1890
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Signed and marked F9
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: serpentine, modern
  • s0893

    s0893

    • ARTIST: Charles E. Turner (U.K., 1883-1965) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The "fox-trot of silence" in an elegant London dance hall (Le "fox-trot du silence" dans un élégant dancing londonien)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1928
    • DIMENSIONS: 28.1 x 23 cm
    • COMMENTS: Une originale application à la danse des principes de T.S.F.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p4051

    p4051

    • ARTIST: Joan Brull i Vinyoles (Spain, 1863-1912)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Revery (Ensue?o (Reverie))
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1898
    • COMMENTS: Other title: "Ensomni"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
  • p7603

    p7603

    • ARTIST: H. G. Mason (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Lola Montez in Syndey
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1855
    • COMMENTS: Lola Montez was lover of King Ludwig I of Bavaria
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Australia, Ireland, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, music-hall, Spanish dance
  • s0954

    s0954

    • ARTIST: Robert Barnes (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Fanfare was footing a quaint little dance with Elizabeth Jane"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1886
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.6 x 17.4 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the novel "The Mayor of Casterbridge" by Thomas Hardy
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p7319

    p7319

    • ARTIST: Pieter Brueghel the Younger (Flanders, 1564-1638)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Return of the pilgrims (Retour du pélerinage - De terugkeer van de bedevaert)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1610
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Belgium, Flanders
    • DANCE FORM: popular, traditional
  • s4632

    s4632

    • ARTIST: Léopold "Léo" Lelée (France, 1872-1947)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Farandole des Arlésiennes dance (La farandole des Arlésiennes)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache
    • DATE: 1938
    • DIMENSIONS: 41 x 118 cm
    • COMMENTS: Dated 1938
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: farandole, traditional, round
    • KEYWORDS: windmill
  • p4101

    p4101

    • ARTIST: Manuel Rodrìguez de Guzmàn (Spain, 1818-1867)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Country dance of the Port Virgin (El baile campestre en la Virgen del Puerto)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1857
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
  • s4695

    s4695

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer. Illustration for the book by Paul Valéry "Degas. Danse. Dessin"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, copper engraving
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Published by Ambroise Vollard in 1936, an album illustrated with 26 copper engravings
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, solo
    • KEYWORDS: tambourine
  • s3455

    s3455

    • ARTIST: E. J. Predika
    • TITLE OF WORK: Aztec dancers 3
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 2000
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s6069

    s6069

    • ARTIST: The Painter of Louvre G 456 (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: B: Komos, men, youths. A: Komos, men, one draped holding pipes case, one with oinochoe, youths. I: komos, man with skyphos and youth with staff, stool
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, red-figure cup, vase
    • DATE: -455
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Attica, Athens
  • p3382

    p3382

    • ARTIST: Edward McKnight Kauffer (U.S.A., 1890-1954)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Drop curtain design for the ballet "Checkmate"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1937
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s0866

    s0866

    • TITLE OF WORK: An afternoon dance on board a man-of-war - The young lady who had her card filled before going on board
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1882
    • DIMENSIONS: 10 x 7.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: humor, invitation, caricature
  • p0428

    p0428

    • TITLE OF WORK: Satyr and maenad
    • TYPE OF WORK: Tapestry
    • DATE: 300
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Coptic art
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Egypt, Ancient, Copts, Greece
  • p5269

    p5269

    • ARTIST: Sophie Fedorovitch (Russia, 1893-1953)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Symponic variations" by the Saddler's Wells Ballet
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1946
    • COMMENTS: "Symphonic variations", ballet in one act; music by Cesar Franck; sets and costumes by Sophie Fedorovitch, choreography by Frederick Ashton. Created on 24/04/1946 at Covent Garden, London.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p9908

    p9908

    • ARTIST: Camillo Innocenti (Italy, 1871-1961)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The tango
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor and black pencil
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 62 x 53.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed at lower right
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Argentina, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: tango, ballroom, couple
  • s4696

    s4696

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Two dancers - green background (Deux danseuses - fond vert)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, fusain and pastel
    • DATE: 1889
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 58 x 41 cm
    • COMMENTS: Stamp of the workshop at lower left
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, duo
  • p6452

    p6452

    • ARTIST: Jules-Achille Noël (France, 1810?-1881) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A ball on board the vessel "City of Lyon" (Bal à bord du vaisseau "La ville de Lyon")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1865
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.2 x 31.4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • KEYWORDS: military, navy
  • s1403

    s1403

    • TITLE OF WORK: Carnival in Japan - The Himura dog (Le carnaval au Japon - Le chien d'Himura)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1872
    • DIMENSIONS: 14 x 24 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Japan, Himura
    • DANCE FORM: processional, traditional, popular
  • p8044

    p8044

    • ARTIST: Valentine Gross Hugo (France, 1887-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vaslav Nijisnky in the ballet "Carnaval"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil and gouache
    • DATE: 1913
    • DIMENSIONS: 25 x 19 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated 1913
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p9297

    p9297

    • ARTIST: Daniel Israel (Austria, 1859-1901)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The young entertainers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on panel
    • DATE: 1895
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.5 x 30 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and inscribed "München"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental, traditional, couple, popular

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