Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p3590

    p3590

    • ARTIST: Beppe Ciardi (Italy, 1875-1932)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Giro tondo
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p2478

    p2478

    • ARTIST: Nicolas Lancret (France, 1690-1743)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance in the garden (La danse en jardin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1740
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • s4300

    s4300

    • ARTIST: Léonard-Agathon van Wydeveld (France, 1841-1923)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Proof of a cover. "Le jeu de l'écharpe". Inspired by Loïe Fuller (Epreuves du surtout "Le jeu de l'écharpe". Inspired by Loïe Fuller)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, ceramic
    • DATE: 1897
    • COMMENTS: Presented at the Universal Exhibition in Paris 1900, after models exhibited at the Salon of 1897
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: solo, modern
  • p1202

    p1202

    • ARTIST: Max Pechstein (Germany, 1881-1955)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Russian ballet I (Russisches Ballett I)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, eau-forte and aquatinte
    • DATE: 1912
    • DIMENSIONS: 28.8 x 25 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p9574

    p9574

    • ARTIST: Juan Gris (Spain, 1887-1927)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Les tentations de la bergère": Oriental Man
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pastel on paper
    • DATE: 1924
    • COMMENTS: "Les tentations de la bergère", ballet in one act by the Ballets Russes. Music by M. Montéclair (1666-1727), arranged and orchestrated by H. Casadesus. Choreography by Bronislava Nijinska; décors and
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s5668

    s5668

    • TITLE OF WORK: Procession of woman lyra player, man playing a double aulos and woman dancer with krotala. Attic black-figured oenochoe vase
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pottery, black-figured oenochoe vase
    • DATE: -450
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 25,5 cm height; 13,8 cm diam.
    • COMMENTS: Attic art
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Athens
    • DANCE FORM: processional
    • KEYWORDS: aulos, lyre, krotala
  • p0036

    p0036

    • ARTIST: Giandomenico Tiepolo (Italy, 1727-1804)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Carnival scene in Venice or The minuet
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1756
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 81 x 111 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Venice
    • DANCE FORM: popular, court, minuet
    • KEYWORDS: Carnival, disguise
  • p9347

    p9347

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Les femmes de bonne humeur": Marquis de Luca
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache and charcoal heightened with gold and silver paint
    • DATE: 1917
    • DIMENSIONS: 44.5 x 29 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s5417

    s5417

    • ARTIST: Karl Hagenauer (Austria, 1898-1956)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing figure
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette
    • DATE: 1935
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • p1306

    p1306

    • ARTIST: Angelos Giallinas (Greece, 1857-1939)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Villagers of Corfu dancing (Paysans de Corfou dansant)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, postcard
    • DATE: 1890
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: The scene is probably in the village Vyros during the Easter festival of Saint George
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Ionian Islands, Corfu
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: village
  • p4572

    p4572

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance scene
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1300
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p9451

    p9451

    • ARTIST: Christoffel Jacobsz van der Lamen (1610?-1651)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Elegant company in an interior
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on panel
    • DATE: 1640
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 40 x 55 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland
    • DANCE FORM: court, couple
  • p9523

    p9523

    • ARTIST: Pierre Carrier-Belleuse (France, 1851-1933)
    • TITLE OF WORK: At the barre (A la barre)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pastel on paper laid down on canvas
    • DATE: 1888
    • DIMENSIONS: 81.2 x 114.3 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated "1888"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: instruction
  • p3943

    p3943

    • TITLE OF WORK: La Cracovienne, in the ballet "Gipsy" by Miss Fanny Elssler (La Cracovienne, dansée dans la Gipsy par Melle Fanny Elssler)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1840
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 33.5 x 26 cm
    • COMMENTS: Arrangée pour le piano par A. Rogat. Valse nouvelle: Une Elégante, par A. de Beauplan
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, cracovienne
  • s0962

    s0962

    • ARTIST: William Holt Titcomb (U.K., 1859-1930) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The rest of the crew rose up to dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1886
    • DIMENSIONS: 14.9 x 21.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for "A boat race for a wife. A Burmese story" by J. George Scott
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Burma
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: boat, water
  • s0797

    s0797

    • TITLE OF WORK: The hundredth anniversary of the Northern Meeting at Inverness, Scotland. The ball
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1888
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.8 x 22.4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Scotland, Inverness
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple, mixed
  • s0074

    s0074

    • TITLE OF WORK: Region of Caucasus. Costumes (Région du Caucase. Costumes)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1780
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 9 x 15.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Caucasus, Georgia, Armenia
    • DANCE FORM: popular, solo
  • s4177

    s4177

    • TITLE OF WORK: Veiled Tanagra dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, terracotta, clay
    • DATE: -350
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: Attic or Beotian art
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • p1028

    p1028

    • ARTIST: Henri Matisse (France, 1869-1954)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer asleep on the couch (Danseuse endormie au divan)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1927
    • DIMENSIONS: 28 x 46 cm
    • COMMENTS: From the series "Dix danseuses", published by Galerie d'Art Contemporain, Paris, 1927.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: off-stage
  • p7157

    p7157

    • ARTIST: Alfred Albert
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for a ballet dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1855
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, Spanish dance?
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p9869

    p9869

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ballerina tying her chausson (Danseuse attachant son chausson)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3851

    p3851

    • TITLE OF WORK: (Dance in a salon)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1920
  • p1712

    p1712

    • ARTIST: Jean-Pierre Peytier (France, 1793-1863)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Palikares dancing in a house in Attica
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil
    • DATE: 1830
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 24.1 x 32.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Attica
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s3688

    s3688

    • TITLE OF WORK: A carnival ball in New Orleans, Louisiana
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., Louisiana, New Orleans
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p8480

    p8480

    • ARTIST: Robert Geissler (Germany, 1819-1893) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Children Care Station of the Mechanical Spinning Works at Linden near Hannover (Die Kinderpflegeanstalt der Mechanischen Weberei zu Linden bei Hannover)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1884
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.2 x 17 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • s4500

    s4500

    • TITLE OF WORK: Children dancing a folk dance and violinist (Kellemes husvéti ünnepeket)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color, postcard
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary
    • DANCE FORM: couple, popular, folk
  • p7964

    p7964

    • ARTIST: Jean-Baptiste Pater (France, 1695-1736)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance (La danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1760
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 55 x 45 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court, couple
  • p5599

    p5599

    • ARTIST: Guglielmo Zocchi (Italy, 1874-?) (drawing); Bartolozzi (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Allegory of the month of February (Allegoria del mese di Febraro)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1600
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
  • p2954

    p2954

    • ARTIST: Maria Or?owska-Gabry? (Poland, 1925-1988)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Taniec z Podegrodzia, dance by the Mazowsze ensemble
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1975
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland
    • DANCE FORM: folk
  • p0061

    p0061

    • ARTIST: Jean-Louis Forain (France, 1852-1931)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer standing behind a bearing slide (Danseuse debout derrière un portant de coulisse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 46 x 61 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed at lower right
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3200

    p3200

    • ARTIST: Valentine Gross Hugo (France, 1887-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vaslav Nijinsky in the ballet "Les Sylphides"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut, color, silver background
    • DATE: 1910
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 15 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s0823

    s0823

    • ARTIST: Mars (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Les affaires de coeur of a young man of the period. And I believe my affection was reciprocated
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1891
    • DIMENSIONS: 10.5 x 14.4
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple, mixed
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p4912

    p4912

    • ARTIST: Pierre Vidal (France, 1849-1913) (sketch)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Farandole at the water tower of Peyrou (Farandole au Château d'eau du Peyrou)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1884
    • DIMENSIONS: 30 x 21 cm
    • COMMENTS: Montpellier. Centenary of abbé Fabre, poet.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Montpellier
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, farandole, round
  • p9897

    p9897

    • ARTIST: Robert Emil Stübner (Germany, 1874-1931)
    • TITLE OF WORK: At the theatre
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1915
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 24 x 28 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: theater
  • p0288

    p0288

    • ARTIST: Armand Vallée (France, active circa 1920-1930)
    • TITLE OF WORK: French cancan… Always! (French cancan… Toujours!)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1944
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Moulin Rouge
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, cancan
  • p4250

    p4250

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Arabesque penchée, dit à tort. Danceuse, grande arabesque, troisième temps (première étude)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, brown wax
    • DATE: 1895
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 43.8 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6406

    p6406

    • ARTIST: Jean Bérain the Elder (France, 1638-1711)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Castillan dancing the sarabande at the Opera (Castillan, dansant la sarabande à l'Opéra)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1680
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s1102

    s1102

    • TITLE OF WORK: Madame Lola Montes as she appeared during the delivery of her lectures at St. James's Hall (Lola Montez)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1859
    • DIMENSIONS: 11 x 7.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: After an absence of many years, Lola Montez has recently returned to this country (U.K.) and she has given a short series of lectures in London on Europeans in the New World.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: stage
  • s3470

    s3470

    • ARTIST: Czes?aw Wielhorski (Poland, 1911-1980)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Olejander
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print from a drawing, postcard
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, duo
  • s1569

    s1569

    • ARTIST: Paul Peltier (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Drawing for the article "La danse dans le tourbillon politique" (3)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1922
    • DIMENSIONS: 8 x 6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: round, circular, circle
    • KEYWORDS: tree
  • p1650

    p1650

    • ARTIST: Pablo Gargallo (Spain, 1881-1934)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing David
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze
    • DATE: 1934
    • DIMENSIONS: 54 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
  • p4397

    p4397

    • ARTIST: Alfred-Henri Darjou (France, 1832-1874) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Upper Egypt - Oriental dancers on the bank of Assiout (Haute-Egypte - Danse des almées sur le rivage de Syout)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1869
    • DIMENSIONS: 12 x 22.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Egypt,
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: theater
  • p7574

    p7574

    • ARTIST: Emilius Baerentzen (Denmark, 1799-1868)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of August Bournonville
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil
    • DATE: 1841
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 13 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Denmark, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: choreographer, portrait
  • p1098

    p1098

    • ARTIST: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, 1880-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of the peasants in the house "In den Lärchen" in Frauenkirch (Tanz der Bauern im Haus "In den Lärchen" in Frauenkirch)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1920
    • DIMENSIONS: 59.5 x 51 cm
    • COMMENTS: The painter had many visitors in his house "In den Lärchen" and they danced to his gramophone for the New Year 1920.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Frauenkirch
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • p0425

    p0425

    • ARTIST: Félix de Vuillefroy-Cassini (France, 1841-1918)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A reception in Algeria (Une réception en Algérie)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1890
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 65 x 81 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Algeria
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental, solo, traditional
  • p0135

    p0135

    • ARTIST: Emile Prisse d'Avennes (France, 1807-1879)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ghawazi
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1848
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Egypt,
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental
  • s0689

    s0689

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Highlanders' (Black Watch) ball at Glasgow
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1882
    • DIMENSIONS: 14.6 x 22.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Scotland, Glasgow,
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: musical instrument, bagpipes,
  • s3885

    s3885

    • ARTIST: Natalia Goncharova (Russia, 1881-1962)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for Clotilde Sacharoff as "Berceuse de l'Oiseau de Feu" 2
    • TYPE OF WORK: Collage, pencil, ink, gouache
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p5041

    p5041

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "La belle au bois dormant" (The sleeping princess): King Florestan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1921
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p2239

    p2239

    • TITLE OF WORK: Man in festival costume
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze
    • DATE: 1550
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular

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