Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p3483

    p3483

    • ARTIST: Cesare-Auguste Detti (Italy, 1847-1914)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene of a ball (Scène de bal)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on panel
    • DATE: 1872
    • DIMENSIONS: 39.5 x 59 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated "C. Detti Roma 1972". Estimate: 20,000-30,000 French francs.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p2150

    p2150

    • ARTIST: Louis Léopold Robert (Switzerland, 1794-1835) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The arrival of the harvesters in the Pontine Marshes (L'arrivée des moissonneurs dans les Marais Pontins)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular
  • p6126

    p6126

    • ARTIST: Marino Marini (Italy, 1901-1980)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Three dances (Tre danze)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, eau-forte
    • DATE: 1968
    • DIMENSIONS: 67.9 x 34.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
  • s1422

    s1422

    • TITLE OF WORK: Ronguin or dancer (Ronguin ou danseuse - Ronguin oder Taenzerin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1750
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 10 x 14.9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Indonesia, Java
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, stage
  • p0493

    p0493

    • ARTIST: Nicolai Wilhelm Marstrand (Denmark, 1810-1873)
    • TITLE OF WORK: October festival evening outside the walls of Rome
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1839
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Rome
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p1669

    p1669

    • ARTIST: Francesco Albani "l'Albano" (Italy, 1578-1660)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The rapt of Prosperina (Ratto di Prosperina). Detail
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on copper
    • DATE: 1650
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 90 x 114 cm oval
    • COMMENTS: Albani produced many works on the theme of the "Dance of the putti"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Antiquity
    • DANCE FORM: popular, round
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p0592

    p0592

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing couple (Couple dansant)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, lead pencil
    • DATE: 1915
    • DIMENSIONS: 28.8 x 22.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Spain
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p6084

    p6084

    • TITLE OF WORK: The "baddha chari" figure of Odissi
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief
    • DATE: 950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • DANCE FORM: Odissi, traditional Indian
  • p9649

    p9649

    • ARTIST: Antoine Pesne (France, 1683-1757)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Santina Olivieri, alias La Reggiana, as Leda (Portrait of Santina Olivieri, dite La Reggiana, en Leda)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1740
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 98.5 x 117.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: One of several portaits of Pesne with this sitter
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Italy, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p6198

    p6198

    • ARTIST: Jean Target (France, 1910-1997)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Claude Bessy and Eric Bruhn in "Don Quixote" (Claude Bessy et Eric Bruhn dans "Don Quixote")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1980
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p5866

    p5866

    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance (La danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1902
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p7191

    p7191

    • ARTIST: Georges Scott (France, (1873-1943) (drawing); Morin (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The New Opera. Dance foyer (Le Nouvel Opéra. Foyer de la danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1875
    • DIMENSIONS: 25.7 x 21.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: Opéra de Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: off-stage
  • p1995

    p1995

    • ARTIST: Theyre Lee-Elliott (U.K., 1903-1988)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Alan Carter in "Harlequin in the street"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1947
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s0047

    s0047

    • ARTIST: Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, (Netherlands, 1836-1912)
    • TITLE OF WORK: An entry at a Roman theater (Une entrée de théâtre romain)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on panel
    • DATE: 1867
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 41.9 x 58.9 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Rome, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: couple
    • KEYWORDS: theater
  • s0726

    s0726

    • TITLE OF WORK: Grand ball given at the Academy of Music, New York, in honour of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1860
    • DIMENSIONS: 34.6 x 51.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., U.K., New York
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • p5966

    p5966

    • ARTIST: Denis Boissier
    • TITLE OF WORK: Andante
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, acrylic and oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1984
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s3958

    s3958

    • ARTIST: Vilmos Huszár (Hungary, 1884-1960)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Mechanically dancing figure
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, aluminium, mica, wood
    • DATE: 1923
    • COMMENTS: Reconstruction by André Kowalski, Reflex, Utrecht, 1984.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary
  • p3996

    p3996

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Group of four men and two dancers (Groupe de quatre hommes et de deux danseuses)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, monotype with black ink on white paper
    • DATE: 1876
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 26.1 x 19.1 cm sheet size
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p8885

    p8885

    • ARTIST: Alexander Gherassimov (Russia, 1881-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Olga Lepeshinska?a
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1938
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: off-stage, portrait
  • p6015

    p6015

    • ARTIST: Edward Seago (U.K., 1910-1974)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "The elements" - Russian Ballets of de Monte Carlo ("Les éléments" - Les Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1938
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Monaco, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p9066

    p9066

    • ARTIST: Fedor Fedorovsky (Russia, 1883-1955)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the opera "The Khovantchina": Ivan Khovansky
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, gouache on paper
    • DATE: 1913
    • COMMENTS: "The Khovantchina", opera in 5 acts and 6 scenes; argument by M. Moussorgsky, direction by A. Sanine, choreography by A. Bolm; décors and costumes by F. Fedorovsky
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume, opera
  • p7277

    p7277

    • ARTIST: Wilhelm Scholz (Germany, 1824-1893)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Lola Montez, Emma Herwegh and Louise Aston
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1848
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Lola Montez was lover of King Ludwig I of Bavaria
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Ireland, Germany, Bavaria
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • p7960

    p7960

    • ARTIST: Cornelis Troost (Netherlands, 1696-1750)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The wedding of Cloris and Roosier
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel
    • DATE: 1739
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 63 x 82 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Holland
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple
    • KEYWORDS: music
  • p9094

    p9094

    • ARTIST: Auguste Rodin (France, 1840-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance movement D (Mouvement de danse D)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze
    • DATE: 1911
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 32.5 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Executed circa 1810-1911; cast in a later date. Signed and stamped with the foundry mark. Height excluding base.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, solo
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • p4829

    p4829

    • ARTIST: Antonio Segu?
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tango
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1993
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.7 cm diameter
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Argentina
    • DANCE FORM: tango, popular, ballroom, couple
  • s0001

    s0001

    • ARTIST: Hendrik Govaerts (Belgium, 1669-1720)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The music lesson (La leçon de musique)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1700
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 65 x 81 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Belgium, Flanders
    • DANCE FORM: court, couple
  • p4235

    p4235

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer examining her right foot (Danseuse regardant la plante de son pied droit)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze
    • DATE: 1898
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 46.4 cm height
    • COMMENTS: The original, in green wax, is in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris (RF 2771)
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s0897

    s0897

    • ARTIST: Eugène Lami (France, 1800-1890) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance foyer of the old Opera house on Le Peletier Street (Le Foyer de la Danse de l'ancien Opéra de la rue Le Peletier)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1921
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.9 x 23.1 cm
    • COMMENTS: Le théâtre romantique au Musée Victor Hugo
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: off-stage
  • s0459

    s0459

    • ARTIST: Auguste Rodin (France, 1840-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance movement I (Mouvement de danse I)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.5 length x 12.7 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Signed and stamped with the foundry mark
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • p2920

    p2920

    • TITLE OF WORK: Let's dance the Capucine (Dansons la Capucine)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 7.3 x 11 cm
    • COMMENTS: Véritable extrait de viande Liebig
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • s2446

    s2446

    • TITLE OF WORK: Professional male or female dancers "çengi" holding scarves
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1550
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Turkey
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p9949

    p9949

    • TITLE OF WORK: 4o Festival de Tango de Monevideo (4th Tango Festival of Montevideo)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, poster
    • DATE: 1991
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Uruguay, Montevideo
    • DANCE FORM: tango, ballroom, couple,
  • p7705

    p7705

    • ARTIST: Crafty (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Paris. At the Opera ball. The dance hall (Paris. Au bal de l'Opéra. La salle de danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1870
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.2 x 22.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, ballet
  • s2640

    s2640

    • ARTIST: Edouard Riou (France 1833-1900) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Bayente dance of the Bahuas (La danse du Bayenté chez les Bahuas)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1866
    • DIMENSIONS: 12 x 15.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Voyage de l'Océan Pacifique à l'Océan Atlantique" by Paul Marcoy
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Peru
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: disguise
  • p1175

    p1175

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance spectacle in front of Mohammed Qouli Chah Qoutoub
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1590
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 21 x 11 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • KEYWORDS: Golcond
  • p7530

    p7530

    • ARTIST: Johann Wenzel Zinke (Austria, 1797-1858)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Fanny Elssler in "La Cracovienne"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, hand-colored
    • DATE: 1830
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 25.5 x 21 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, solo
  • s4201

    s4201

    • ARTIST: Ferdinand Freiherr von ?ezní?ek (Austria, 1868-1909)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Cancan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1906
    • DIMENSIONS: 38 x 27 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: cancan, cabaret, music-hall
  • p3136

    p3136

    • TITLE OF WORK: Queen Victoria and Prince Albert waltzing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1840
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, waltz
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • s6062

    s6062

    • ARTIST: The Cock Group (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: BD: Komos, youth pursuing (?) woman, between draped figures with staffs
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, black-figure lekythos vase
    • DATE: -530
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Attica, Athens
  • p9685

    p9685

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance around the May Queen on Valpurgian Day (Der Tanz um die Maikönigin am Walpurgistag)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1904
    • DIMENSIONS: 14 x 15 cm
    • COMMENTS: Customs of Alsatia
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Alsatia, Germany, Alsace
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
    • KEYWORDS: May
  • s4162

    s4162

    • TITLE OF WORK: "This is unseen", fox-trot sung by Dranem. "Sisters Hortensias", operetta in 3 acts and 5 scenes, play by Henri Duvernois & André Barde, lyrics by André Barde, music by Raoul Moretti
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Music score
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: couple, music-hall
  • p4945

    p4945

    • ARTIST: Léandre (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Cleo de Merode and king Leopold of Belgium (Cléo de Mérode et Léopold de Belgique)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1895
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, ballet
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • p0084

    p0084

    • ARTIST: Jan Havickszoon Steen (Netherland, 1626-1679)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancing couple
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1663
    • DIMENSIONS: 102.5 x 142.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • p4172

    p4172

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance (?) scene
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: -2700
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Egypt, Ancient
  • s1925

    s1925

    • ARTIST: Miquel Roig Nadal (Spain, 1923-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Mediterrania", Ballet Nacional, Liceo de Barcelona
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache
    • DATE: 1985
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6131

    p6131

    • ARTIST: Jean Cocteau (France, 1889-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Janine Charrat
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p4965

    p4965

    • TITLE OF WORK: The court's minuet, danced by Miss Elssler and Dumilâtre (Menuet de la cour, getantzt von den Fräulein Elssler und Dumilâtre)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1844
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 14 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • p8940

    p8940

    • ARTIST: Boris Israëlevich Anisfeld (Russia, 1878-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Sadko": The Queen
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil, watercolor and blanc de céruse on paper
    • DATE: 1911
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p3542

    p3542

    • ARTIST: Jakov Stepanovitch Basilov
    • TITLE OF WORK: In the dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1885
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 124 x 54 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • p9274

    p9274

    • ARTIST: William Barnes Wollen (U.K., 1857-1936) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A Manipur dancing party
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1891
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.4 x 23.3 cm
    • COMMENTS: From a photograph by surgeon A. C. E. Newland
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India, Manipur
    • DANCE FORM: stage, solo, traditional

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