Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p9720

    p9720

    • ARTIST: Charles Hermans (Belgium, 1839-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Two dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on panel
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 64 x 33 cm
    • COMMENTS: Study for a larger painting entitled "Le bal masqué"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Belgium
  • p9025

    p9025

    • ARTIST: Cecil Aldin (U.K., 1870-1935)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The country lass
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1894
    • DIMENSIONS: 34 x 23 cm
    • COMMENTS: Contains poem "My ruddy cheeks..."
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
    • KEYWORDS: poem
  • s4489

    s4489

    • ARTIST: Guydo
    • TITLE OF WORK: Guardian angels - Does my hat bother you, mister? (Les anges gardiens. - Mon chapeau vous gêne bien, Monsieur?)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, cartoon, color
    • DATE: 1906
    • DIMENSIONS: 24.5 x 22 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: cabaret, music-hall, cancan
  • p9159

    p9159

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Le tricorne". A Lady
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor on paper
    • DATE: 1919
    • COMMENTS: "Le tricorne", ballet in one act by the Ballets Russes, in Paris. Music by M. de Falla, composed for the pantomime by Martinez-Sierra. Scenario by Serge Diaghilev after the play "Le tricorne" by Alarc
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Spain
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, Spanish dance?
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p3020

    p3020

    • ARTIST: Walter Schott (Germany, 1861-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Fountain of the three dancing girls (Brunnen dreier tanzender Mädchen)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze (base from stone)
    • DATE: 1903
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Isadora Duncan modeled for several statuettes and for this fountain by Walter Schott
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., Germany, Berlin
    • DANCE FORM: popular, modern, round
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan, fountain
  • p6350

    p6350

    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief
    • DATE: 1050
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
  • p5393

    p5393

    • TITLE OF WORK: La rumba. El danzon sociadal. Tango Argentine by J. Tim Brymn, created for Miss Joan Sawyer & Mr Lew Quinn
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1935
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: tango, ballroom, rumba, danzon
  • p9354

    p9354

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Le tricorne"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1919
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p3634

    p3634

    • ARTIST: Edward Gordon Craig (U.K., 1872-1966)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan - Gluck
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1905
    • COMMENTS: Sketched from life on 02/03/1905, at Breslau
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Breslau, U.S.A., U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • s2138

    s2138

    • ARTIST: John White (U.K., 1540?-1593?) (drawing); Théodore de Bry (Belgium, 1528-1598) (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Oppidum Secota (La ville de Secota)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1591
    • COMMENTS: Expedition of 1585 by Thomas Harriot; engraving after the original watercolors by John White
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., Virginia, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p8798

    p8798

    • TITLE OF WORK: The late Miss Clara Webster
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1844
    • DIMENSIONS: 14.6 x 7.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Fatal accident in the second act of "The revolt of the harem" at Drury-Lane Theatre
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: accident, death
  • p2537

    p2537

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance in the theater (Danse au théâtre)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1890
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: instruction
  • p8326

    p8326

    • ARTIST: H. Warren (drawing); Thomas Williams (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Fanny Cerrito and Jules Perrot in "Ondine", scene 1. Ondine appearing to Matteo
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1843
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p4756

    p4756

    • ARTIST: Ralph Hedley (U.K., 1848-1913) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Sword Dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: The captain of the group of dancers greets the landlords, asking for money. His hat, decorated with peacock feathers, is called "the Bessy"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: weapon
  • s0389

    s0389

    • TITLE OF WORK: Athletics in play: The gymnastical dance (Das Turnen im Spiel: Der gymnastischer Tanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1860
    • DIMENSIONS: 7.2 x 10.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • KEYWORDS: recreation, play
  • s1024

    s1024

    • ARTIST: Henry Marriott Paget (U.K., 1856-1936) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Scottish gathering at Stamford Bridge Grounds. Judges of dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1894
    • DIMENSIONS: 12.4 x 21.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Scotland
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, solo
    • KEYWORDS: musical instrument, bagpipes,
  • s2295

    s2295

    • ARTIST: Jean-Louis Ernest Meissonier (France, 1815-1891) (sculpture)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing Muse (Muse dansante)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood, from a sculpture
    • DATE: 1893
    • DIMENSIONS: 12 x 6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
    • DANCE FORM: popular, solo
    • KEYWORDS: religion, deity,
  • p9778

    p9778

    • TITLE OF WORK: Lama dance at Jummoo, performed before the Prince of Wales
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1876
    • DIMENSIONS: 20.3 x 29.9 cm
    • COMMENTS: Visit of the Prince of Wales to Cashmere
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Cashmere, Jummoo
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: royalty, disguise, religion, music, drum
  • s5943

    s5943

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing girl with raised arms and hennaed hands wearing a colourful striped jacket
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on paper
    • DATE: 1830
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.4 x 18 cm
    • COMMENTS: Title (series)rnrn Portraits of celebrities of the Persian CourtrnrnDescriptionrnrnA dancing girl; single-page painting mounted on album folio. Dancing girl with raised arms and hennaed hands weari
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Persia, Iran
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p9322

    p9322

    • TITLE OF WORK: Pathan sword-dance before Prince Albert Victor at the cavalry camp, Muridki, India
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1890
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.3 x 23.4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: royalty, fire, arm, sword, fire,
  • p8159

    p8159

    • ARTIST: Sébastien Coeuré (France, 1778-18??) (drawing); Prud'hon (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Marie Miller in the ballet "Psyché"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1780
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6085

    p6085

    • TITLE OF WORK: A dancer playing on the side of a drum, known as "parshva mardala"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief
    • DATE: 950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • DANCE FORM: Odissi, traditional Indian
  • p3304

    p3304

    • ARTIST: Yannis Tsarouchis (Greece, 1910-1989)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Zeibekiko dance, first idea for Perama, 30/09/1978
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pastel on paper
    • DATE: 1978
    • DIMENSIONS: 33.2 x 28.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Dated 30/09/1978
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: popular, Zeibekiko, Greek, rebetiko
    • KEYWORDS: rebetiko
  • p4173

    p4173

    • ARTIST: K. Chassiotis (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Greek dances and folk songs for singing, piano, violin or mandoline - Balos dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.8 x 22.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Score cover
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: folk
  • p0677

    p0677

    • TITLE OF WORK: (Ballroom dancers and pianist)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1881
    • DIMENSIONS: 10 x 28 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • s0265

    s0265

    • ARTIST: Hal Hurst (U.K., 1865-1938) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Washington Post
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1898
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.8 x 22.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: "At Christmas, the time of the feast and the toast... There is one dance , says Mildred, that I adore the most / 'Tis the Washington Post"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple, Washington Post
    • KEYWORDS: poem
  • p4566

    p4566

    • ARTIST: Daniel Chodowiecki (Poland, 1726-1801)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Children's round dance in a park. Detail
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1760
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 18.5 x 23.5 cm
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • s3288

    s3288

    • ARTIST: Romano Romanelli (Italy, 1882-1969)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Head of Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p9272

    p9272

    • TITLE OF WORK: Miss Lenore Snyder as Hollee Beebee
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1891
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 7.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: "The Nautch girl, or The Rajah of Chutneypore", an opera on libreto by George Dance and music by Edward Solomon. Beebee and three other members of the troupe execute a charming "Vocal Nautch Dance", w
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: stage
    • KEYWORDS: opera
  • p1893

    p1893

    • TITLE OF WORK: Spanish dance (6)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1790
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, bolero, Spanish dance
  • p3132

    p3132

    • TITLE OF WORK: Fanny Elssler in the ballet "The artist's dream"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1840
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria, Vienna
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s5408

    s5408

    • ARTIST: Franz Eisenhut (Hungary, 1857-1903) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The pasha's concubine
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1890
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient
  • s1885

    s1885

    • ARTIST: Maurice Brianchon (France, 1899-1979)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Quadro flamenco
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1922
    • COMMENTS: Salon de Paris 1922
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France
    • DANCE FORM: flamenco, Spanish dance, stage
  • p7753

    p7753

    • ARTIST: G. A. Turner
    • TITLE OF WORK: Clara Webster in "The revolt of the harem"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p9207

    p9207

    • ARTIST: Pierre Girieud (France, 1874-1940)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Springtime (Printemps)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1902
    • DIMENSIONS: 86 x 118 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated 1902
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p7635

    p7635

    • ARTIST: Zinaida Serebriakova (Russia, 1884-1967)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ballet dancerts in their dressing room
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pastel on paper mounted on cardboard
    • DATE: 1923
    • DIMENSIONS: 59 x 47 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: off-stage
  • p3182

    p3182

    • ARTIST: Ludwig Kainer (Germany, 1885-1967)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The new Haller Review. Admiral Palace Theater. Director: Herman Haller (Die neue Haller Revue. Theater im Admiralpalast. Direktion: Herman Haller)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, poster
    • DATE: 1927
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: An und aus die Revue Berlins
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p4752

    p4752

    • ARTIST: Godefroy Durand (France, 1832-1920) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Celebration of the Gard Bridge - Farandole (Fête du Pont du Gard - Farandole)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1857
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p8796

    p8796

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing in a mist
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1871
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.3 x 7.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Notes at Inverary
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Scotland
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s4443

    s4443

    • ARTIST: Georges Barbier (France, 1882-1932)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vaslav Nijinsky and Isadora Duncan (Vaslav Nijinsky et Isadora Duncan)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1914
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: duo, modern
  • p4130

    p4130

    • ARTIST: Gérard de Lairesse (Netherlands, 1641-1711)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Parnassus
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1700
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Greece
  • p2753

    p2753

    • ARTIST: Giulio Romano (Italy, 1499?-1546)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance of Apollo with the Muses (La danza d'Apollo con le Muse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1700
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Italy
  • p7486

    p7486

    • TITLE OF WORK: Two dance scenes
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1400
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: The "Roman de la rose" was an extremely popular work, copied again and again for many generations, with varying illustrations.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • s0064

    s0064

    • ARTIST: Alexandre Yevgenievich Jacovleff (Russia, 1887-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Kashmiri dancers, Schrinagar (Danseurs Kachmiri)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel and black chalk on paper laid down on board
    • DATE: 1931
    • DIMENSIONS: 150 x 199.4 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Afghanistan, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: stage
  • s4745

    s4745

    • ARTIST: Gustave Alaux (France, 1887-1965)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A pirate dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on panel
    • DATE: 1940
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 18.5 x 24 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: West Indies, Antilles
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple
  • s1057

    s1057

    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from Meyerbeer's "L'étoile du Nord", at the Royal Italian Opera
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1855
    • DIMENSIONS: 17.5 x 24 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: stage
    • KEYWORDS: weapon, tambourine,
  • p2052

    p2052

    • ARTIST: Yannis Tsarouchis (Greece, 1910-1989)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Marsyas"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1950
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p6498

    p6498

    • ARTIST: Louis Chalon (France, 1866-1940)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Loïe Fuller
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette
    • DATE: 1894
    • COMMENTS: Serpentine dance
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p4162

    p4162

    • ARTIST: Karl Walser (Switzerland, 1877-1943)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Carmen
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: popular, Spanish dance
  • p3629

    p3629

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "The fairy doll" (Die Puppenfee): The Postman
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor touched with bronze and India ink on paper
    • DATE: 1903
    • DIMENSIONS: 37 x 20.3 cm
    • COMMENTS: Music by Josef Bayer
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: costume

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