Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p1065

    p1065

    • ARTIST: Edvard Munch (Norway, 1863-1944)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tingel-Tangel
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, heightened by hand
    • DATE: 1895
    • DIMENSIONS: 41 x 62.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Norway
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p9336

    p9336

    • ARTIST: Gerrit Lundens (Netherlands, 1622-1683)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Figures carousing outside a tavern
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1740
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 66.5 x 50.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Holland, Flanders
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, solo
  • p4310

    p4310

    • ARTIST: Jean Cocteau (France, 1889-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vaslav Nijinsky after dancing "Le spectre de la rose"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1911
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia, Poland
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7424

    p7424

    • ARTIST: André Dunoyer de Segonzac (France, 1884-1974)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan - Bacchanale
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1910
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, U.S.A., France,
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p4494

    p4494

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance. Isadora and Nijinsky - 4 (La danse. Isadora et Nijinsky IV)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, ink and brush, black ink and wash on paper
    • DATE: 1911
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.7 x 20 cm
    • COMMENTS: Study for the relief La Danse of the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris. After Isadora Duncan.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • s1742

    s1742

    • TITLE OF WORK: Do not strive to please the master… (Bemuhe Dich nicht viel dem Maitre…)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1713
    • COMMENTS: Frontispiece of the book by Meletaon: Von der Nutzbarkeit des Tanzes, Leipzig, 1713
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: court, solo
    • KEYWORDS: instruction, violin
  • p2427

    p2427

    • ARTIST: Milly Steger (Germany, 1881-1948)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The daughter of Jepta (Jeptas Tochter)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, gypsum
    • DATE: 1918
    • COMMENTS: Formerly in the Folkwang Museum Essen, Germany. Destroyed in 1944.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • p2065

    p2065

    • ARTIST: Jean-Charles Duval (France, 1880-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • s1607

    s1607

    • ARTIST: Yves Saint Laurent (France, 1936-2008)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Maldoror": Maldoror
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1962
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p2583

    p2583

    • ARTIST: Robert Hinshelwood (U.S.A., 1812-1879) (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Augusta in the character of "La Sylphide" - A fancy sketch
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1838
    • DIMENSIONS: 34.5 x 21.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: For the journal "The spirit of times", New York.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., New York
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s5480

    s5480

    • ARTIST: Bernard Daydé (France, 1921-1986)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Milorad Miskovic
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1967
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Serbia
    • DANCE FORM: ballet
  • s3792

    s3792

    • ARTIST: Sigurd Leeder (Germany, 1902-1981)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ludmila Mlada in "Dance suite" by Sigurd Leeder, 1955
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, charcoal
    • DATE: 1955
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
  • p0368

    p0368

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance school (Ecole de danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1879
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: instruction
  • s0566

    s0566

    • ARTIST: Richard Knötel (Germany, 1857-1914) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A ball on the Emperor's birthday: Mister Captain and Mrs. Staff Sergeant (Ball an Kaisers Geburtstag: Der Herr Hauptmann und die Frau Feldwebel)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1891
    • DIMENSIONS: 8 x 7.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple, popular
    • KEYWORDS: ball,
  • p2437

    p2437

    • ARTIST: Christian Rohlfs (Germany, 1849-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers' couple (Tänzerpaar)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, tempera on canvas
    • DATE: 1928
    • DIMENSIONS: 100 x 80 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: couple
  • p2586

    p2586

    • TITLE OF WORK: Gabriel Ravel and his troupe in their early days in Paris
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 19.6 x 24.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: From the article "L'incomparable Ravel"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7330

    p7330

    • ARTIST: David Teniers the Younger (Flanders, 1610-1690)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Village festival (Dorfkirmes)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1660
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 61 x 82 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular
  • p2794

    p2794

    • ARTIST: Jean Droit (France, 1884-1961)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Le Comtat Vénaissin
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: folk,
  • p8580

    p8580

    • ARTIST: Theodor Volz (Germany, 1850-1916) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Song and zither tunes (Singa und Zithernschlagn)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving
    • DATE: 1896
    • DIMENSIONS: 32 x 23 cm
    • COMMENTS: Including the poem "Singa und Zithernschlagn" in the Salzburg dialect, by Friedrich Franz Scheirl
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria, Salzburg
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple,
    • KEYWORDS: poem, poetry
  • p9943

    p9943

    • ARTIST: Alexis Bafcop (Flanders, 1805-1895)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The carnival (Le carnaval)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1876
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: disguise
  • s5711

    s5711

    • TITLE OF WORK: 12 plaques in the shape of dancing woman wearing a kalathos. The Bosporan Kingdom. 4th century BC
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, gold, stamped plaque
    • DATE: -350
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 5,3 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Krasnodar Territory,Taman Peninsula, near the Cossack Village of Vyshesteblievskaya. Great Bliznitsa barrow, stone crypt No.1
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Russia, Bosporus
  • s0796

    s0796

    • ARTIST: Thomas Rowlandson (U.K., 1756-1827) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Bath and its baths in their palmy days. The new or upper Assembly Rooms
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1888
    • DIMENSIONS: 10.7 x 15.5
    • COMMENTS: Facsimile of contemporary print. "What joy at the ball, what delight have I found / By all the bright circle encompassed around / Now why should I mention a hundred or more / Who went the same circle
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Bath
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple, mixed
  • s3291

    s3291

    • ARTIST: Jean Cocteau (France, 1889-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora in Nice. Jean (Isadora à Nice. Jean)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • s1536

    s1536

    • TITLE OF WORK: Courtaulds' Fabrics dress and lingerie for winter wear
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1928
    • DIMENSIONS: 33.2 x 22.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: advertisement
  • p0974

    p0974

    • ARTIST: Gustav Klimt (Austria, 1862-1918)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancer (Die Tänzerin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1917
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 180 x 90 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria
  • s1965

    s1965

    • ARTIST: Daniela Scanabucci (Italy, 1961?-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Imagine
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1998
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Exhibited at the IXème Biennale dels pintors i escultors de la dansa. Barcelona, 03/02/1999.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, modern
  • s2186

    s2186

    • ARTIST: Anthony Nellé (U.S.A., 1894-1977)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Self portrait inscribed "Me intelligent", New York
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch, pencil
    • DATE: 1922
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland, U.S.A.
  • s4115

    s4115

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Faun, musician and dancer (Faune, musicien et danseuse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, black pencil and guache
    • DATE: 1945
    • COMMENTS: Design for a print. Dated Antibes 1945
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • KEYWORDS: flute
  • s0145

    s0145

    • ARTIST: Alfred Dehodencq (France, 1822-1882) (attributed to)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Nubian dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1870
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 81.5 x 115 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Egypt, Nubia, Africa,
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental
  • s3890

    s3890

    • ARTIST: Boris Bernstein
    • TITLE OF WORK: Clotilde Sacharoff in "Danseuse de Delphes"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pochoir
    • DATE: 1949
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p2319

    p2319

    • TITLE OF WORK: The life of Sir Henry Unton (detail)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1550
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Sir Henry Unton and his guests sit at the table while actors, dancers and musicians play a mascarade
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • KEYWORDS: theater
  • s4053

    s4053

    • TITLE OF WORK: Women holding hands in slow dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, vase
    • DATE: -100
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
  • s0092

    s0092

    • ARTIST: Richard Knötel (Germany, 1857-1914) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of the 19th century - Gigerln (Tanz des 19. Jahrhunderts - Gigerln)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1892
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.5 x 12 cm
    • COMMENTS: From the winter ball of the students of the Berlin Academy of Arts
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Berlin
    • DANCE FORM: couple, ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: disguise
  • p3247

    p3247

    • ARTIST: Maurice Tassart
    • TITLE OF WORK: Maurice Béjart and Michèle Seigneuret
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1303

    p1303

    • TITLE OF WORK: Greek women dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1880
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s0714

    s0714

    • TITLE OF WORK: Arabs with big sticks dancing with delight
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1884
    • DIMENSIONS: 12.4 x 22.4 cm
    • COMMENTS: The rebellion in the Soudan - The relief of Tokar, March 1, after the second battle of Teb. Meeting of General Graham and the Governor of Tokar, March 1 (01/03/1884). From a sketch by a military offic
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sudan
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: stick
  • p4485

    p4485

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora dancing and playing the flute IV (Isadora dansant et jouant la flute IV)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1912
    • COMMENTS: Study for the relief La Danse of the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris. After Isadora Duncan.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p2872

    p2872

    • ARTIST: André Hofer (France, 1890-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Egyptian dancers (La danse à travers les âges - Danseuses égyptiennes)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color, postcard
    • DATE: 1982
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: La danse à travers les âges. Danseuses égyptiennes. Editions Arc-en-ciel, Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Egypt, Antiquity
  • p0414

    p0414

    • ARTIST: Fra Angelico or Guido di Pietro (Italy, 1387-1455)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Last Judgement. Detail
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1432
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • s2987

    s2987

    • ARTIST: Tony Alain Hermant (Belgium, 1880-1939)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Akarova dancing "Danse arabe" by Tchaikovsky
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1923
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p4424

    p4424

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan - Course
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1911
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p5978

    p5978

    • ARTIST: Denis Boissier
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Rudolf Noureev
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1984
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • s1486

    s1486

    • ARTIST: Pierre de Belay (France, 1890-1947) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1933
    • DIMENSIONS: 12.2 x 16 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Scènes de la vie moderne" by Robert de Beauplan
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p4068

    p4068

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing women
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: -1400
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: From a tomb at Thebes Kurna
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Egypt, Ancient
  • s4568

    s4568

    • TITLE OF WORK: Goddess dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, stele, chloritic schist
    • DATE: 1150
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 70.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Hoysala Dynasty, Karnataka, Mysore District, South India, circa 12th century
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India, Karnataka
    • DANCE FORM: solo, traditional, court
    • KEYWORDS: religion, deity, divinity
  • s4121

    s4121

    • TITLE OF WORK: Young Satyr dances holding a thyrsos and probably a musical instrument
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, clay
    • DATE: -80
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 8.6 cm height X 13 cm rim diam
    • COMMENTS: Early 1st century BC. Made by the Menemachos workshop in Ionia. Skyphos vase depicts the god Dionysos with a band of musicians.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Ionia, Turkey
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • p4515

    p4515

    • TITLE OF WORK: In Greece (En Grèce)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1960
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: A flat reproduction by E. Gillieron (son) of a dance of the Graces, depicted on the circular bowl of a great amphora, or two-handled wine jar, of Pentelic marble, 72 centimetres in height, now in the
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Greece
  • p6194

    p6194

    • ARTIST: Jean Target (France, 1910-1997)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ninon Le Bertre in "Concerto"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1980
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6082

    p6082

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer in the "vrishchika" leg position of Odissi dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief
    • DATE: 750
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • DANCE FORM: Odissi, traditional Indian
  • s5860

    s5860

    • ARTIST: Meleager Painter (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance in front of Oriental god or king. Attic red-figure volute krater vase
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, red-figure volute krater vase
    • DATE: -375
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 42.5 cm; 24.5 cm diam.
    • COMMENTS: Seite A: In der Mitte weiße Ädicula, davor auf einem Lehnstuhl sitzender bärtiger Mann nach links, orientalisch gekleidet. Ihm gegenüber, erhöht stehend, eine Frau. Rechts oben Herakles (?), bärtig. B
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Persia?
    • DANCE FORM: solo

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