Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • s0173

    s0173

    • ARTIST: Charles Robert Cockerell (U.K., 1788-1863)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Men dancing in front of the temple of Hephaistos
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil on laid paper
    • DATE: 1811
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 19 x 28.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Athens
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s2396

    s2396

    • TITLE OF WORK: Graphic motifs 41
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1995
    • KEYWORDS: clip art
  • p0920

    p0920

    • ARTIST: Jacques Gestalder (France, 1918-2006)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer (Danseuse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, stucco
    • DATE: 1997
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p0888

    p0888

    • ARTIST: Auguste Rodin (France, 1840-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Draped woman after Isadora Duncan (Femme drapée d'après la danseuse Isadora Duncan)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1911
    • COMMENTS: From an unidentified booklet on Isadora Duncan
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • s4578

    s4578

    • ARTIST: Henri Fantin-Latour (France, 1836-1904)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tannhäuser. Venusberg
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1864
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Germany,
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p2825

    p2825

    • ARTIST: Elli Solomonidi-Balanou (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Scenes from the ballet "My own Faust" by Maurice Béjart
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, black marker on paper
    • DATE: 1976
    • COMMENTS: Ballets of the 20th Century, choreography by Maurice Béjart. Athens, Herodes Atticus Theater, August 1976.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p4857

    p4857

    • ARTIST: Friedrich Kaiser (Germany, 1815-1890)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Exclussive company (Geschlossene Gesellschaft)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1840
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 29.7 x 37 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • p0777

    p0777

    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancing schoole. Frontispiece from "The dancing master"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1709
    • COMMENTS: From the 14th edition of the famous dance manual
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: England, U.K.
    • KEYWORDS: instruction
  • s4412

    s4412

    • ARTIST: Jules Grandjouan (France, 1875-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pastel on colored paper
    • DATE: 1915
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Grandjouan executed a great number of pastels of Isadora Duncan between 1905 and the end of the 1920s. The are untitled and undated.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
  • p9735

    p9735

    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from life in the suburbs: Ball in a house at Hirtenberg (Szene aus dem Vorstadtleben: Hausball in Hirtenberg)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil on paper
    • DATE: 1846
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 18 x 27 cm
    • COMMENTS: Work of an austrian artist of the Biedermeier school. One of six drawings.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria, Vienna, Wien
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • s5481

    s5481

    • ARTIST: Bernard Daydé (France, 1921-1986)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Milorad Miskovic
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1967
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Serbia
    • DANCE FORM: ballet
  • p4229

    p4229

    • ARTIST: Rudolf Schlichter (Germany, 1890-1955)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tingel-Tangel
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: cabaret
  • p1598

    p1598

    • TITLE OF WORK: Romeika or Roman dance (Danse romeika ou romaine)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, copper
    • DATE: 1825
    • DIMENSIONS: 10 x 6.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, romaica
  • p3551

    p3551

    • ARTIST: Aubrey Beardsley (U.K., 1872-1898)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Salome
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1895
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • KEYWORDS: Salome, religion, Bible
  • s2842

    s2842

    • ARTIST: A. Coffinières de Nordeck (sketch); Riou (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of Bangoue (La danse du Bangoué)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1878
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Congo
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s5061

    s5061

    • ARTIST: Leonardo De Mango (Italy, 1843-1930)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Italian soldiers dancing on ship
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1911
    • DIMENSIONS: 67 x 112 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: popular, traditional, tarantella, duo
    • KEYWORDS: military, sea, boat, guitar, mandolin, flute
  • p2035

    p2035

    • ARTIST: Theyre Lee-Elliott (U.K., 1903-1988)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Margot Fonteyn in "Apparitions"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1947
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s5830

    s5830

    • TITLE OF WORK: Woman dancing between two satyrs. Attic panathenaic amphora fragment
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, black-figure amphora vase
    • DATE: -550
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 5.9 x 8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Athens
  • p0879

    p0879

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Three dancers at rest (Trois danseurs au repos)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, ink
    • DATE: 1925
    • DIMENSIONS: 35 x 25 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Monaco, Monte Carlo
  • p3484

    p3484

    • ARTIST: Francesco Albani "l'Albano" (Italy, 1578-1660)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of the Putti (Danza degli amorini). Detail
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1659
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 90 x 119 oval
    • COMMENTS: One of several similar works by Alnani
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Antiquity
    • DANCE FORM: popular, round
    • KEYWORDS: child, tree
  • p5634

    p5634

    • ARTIST: Jacob Gauermann (Germany, 1773-1843) (drawing); Gros (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance in a village of Lower Austria (Tanz in einem niederösterreicheschen Dorf)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, aquatint, color
    • DATE: 1809
    • COMMENTS: This work exists in several variations
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s4570

    s4570

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer and two musicians playing trumpet and drum
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, color
    • DATE: 1730
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.2 x 22.9 cm
    • COMMENTS: Attributed to the Guler painter Pandit Seu, father of the master painters Manaku and Nainsukh
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India,
    • DANCE FORM: solo, traditional
  • s3848

    s3848

    • TITLE OF WORK: Myriam dancing with other girls
    • TYPE OF WORK: Manuscript illumination, miniature
    • DATE: 1250
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From the Song of the Exodus, Haggadah of Sarajevo, 13th century
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Croatia, Jews, Israel
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, round
    • KEYWORDS: tambourine
  • p5665

    p5665

    • ARTIST: Theodor de Bry (Flanders, 1528-1598)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of lords and ladies (Danse de seigneurs et dames)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1535
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p4364

    p4364

    • ARTIST: Israël Silvestre (France, 1621-1691)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "The wedding of Peleus and Thetis", act 1, scene 1 ("Les noces de Pélée et de Thétis", act 1, scene 1)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1830
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s0734

    s0734

    • ARTIST: Robert Walker Macbeth (U.K., 1848-1910) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: An old English custom: Dancing round the maypole on the village green
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1896
    • DIMENSIONS: 30.3 x 53.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., England
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, mixed
    • KEYWORDS: maypole, ribbons, children
  • p7190

    p7190

    • ARTIST: Edouard Riou (France 1833-1900) (drawing); Lix (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The polonaise, danced by the emperor and the court (La polonaise, dansée par l'empereur et la cour)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1874
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.5 x 31 cm
    • COMMENTS: Saint Petersburg, Russia. Celebrations for the marriage of the grand duchess Mary. The great ball of the nobility
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, court
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • p8143

    p8143

    • ARTIST: Ira Moskowitz (Poland, 1912-)rnDeath Year :rnCountry : Poland
    • TITLE OF WORK: Hopi Snake Dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1946
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: Indians, Native Americans
  • s4086

    s4086

    • TITLE OF WORK: The four seasons depicted as young men dancing; musician playing pan flute
    • TYPE OF WORK: Mosaic
    • DATE: 525
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Byzantium, Italy, Ravenna
    • DANCE FORM: quartet,
  • p6095

    p6095

    • ARTIST: Denis Boissier
    • TITLE OF WORK: Les lèvres sur l'épaule (The lips on the showlder)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, stone
    • DATE: 1984
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s4222

    s4222

    • ARTIST: Alfredo Bortoluzzi (Germany, 1905-1995)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Greek dancer (Griechische Tänzerin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, monochrome
    • DATE: 1938
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Germany, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: kerchief
  • p2534

    p2534

    • ARTIST: Mihály Munkácsy (Hungary, 1844-1900)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The last waltz
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1915
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, waltz
  • s2273

    s2273

    • ARTIST: Dora Brandenburg-Polster (Germany, 1884-1958)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Gertrud Leistikow - 9
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1914
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p7659

    p7659

    • ARTIST: Albrecht Dürer (Germany, 1471-1528)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Putti dancing and playing music
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and black ink
    • DATE: 1495
    • DIMENSIONS: 27.2 x 31.6 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed "AD 1795". Dürer travelled to Italy for the first time and executed a numner of works influenced by Italian art
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Germany,
    • KEYWORDS: child, music
  • p7515

    p7515

    • ARTIST: Brian Pinkney (U.S.A., 1961-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Young Alvin Ailey dancing in the street
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1993
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p0726

    p0726

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of the Provence
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1980
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Provence
  • s5127

    s5127

    • ARTIST: Utagawa Kunisada or Utagawa Toyokuni III (Japan, 1786-1865)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Five Festivals: Young girls dancing. The seventh month
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1835
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Japan
    • DANCE FORM: duo, female
  • p4894

    p4894

    • ARTIST: Hans Fritsch (Germany, 1870-1945)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tango evenings at the Tango Club (Tango-Abende im Tango-Klub)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, cover of a music score
    • DATE: 1913
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: tango, couple, ballroom
  • p4532

    p4532

    • TITLE OF WORK: War dance (Danse guerrière)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From the series "Danses de l'Ancienne Grèce". Produits Liebig
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Greece
    • KEYWORDS: war
  • s3812

    s3812

    • ARTIST: Georges Wolinski (France, 1934-2015)
    • TITLE OF WORK: 22H Rambert Dance Company (2)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1989
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Arles, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p1885

    p1885

    • TITLE OF WORK: Spanish ballet scene
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1883
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, flamenco, Spanish dance
  • p3779

    p3779

    • ARTIST: Henri (de) Gissey (France, 1621-1673)
    • TITLE OF WORK: King Louis XIV as Apollo
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1665
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 29.5 x 21.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • p2338

    p2338

    • ARTIST: Heinrich Zille (Germany, 1858-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sunday-afternoon sunbathing (Sonntagsnachmittag im Sonnenbad)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Berlin
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p0779

    p0779

    • ARTIST: J. C. Leyendecker (U.S.A., 1874-1951)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Arrow collars & shirts for dress
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1913
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
  • p0435

    p0435

    • ARTIST: Georges Goursat or SEM (France, 1863-1934)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The ball at Blom Street (Le bal de la rue Blom)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1925
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: dance-hall
  • p4069

    p4069

    • ARTIST: Hans Sebald Beham (Germany, 1500-1550)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The pleasures of life Freuden des Lebens)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1545
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • p4684

    p4684

    • ARTIST: Giovanni Galli-Bibiena (Italy, 1717-1760) (drawing); Johann Andreas Pfeffel (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Court dance in the Riding School of Vienna (Hofball in der Wiener Hofreitschule)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, copper
    • DATE: 1744
    • COMMENTS: The dance illustrated is probably a contradance, on the occasion of the wedding of Archduchess Maria Anna with the Duke Karl von Lothringen, on 12/01/1744.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p8353

    p8353

    • TITLE OF WORK: Madame Grisi
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1843
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.8 x 7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • s4891

    s4891

    • TITLE OF WORK: Man and woman dancing with the infant god Dionysus
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief
    • DATE: 100
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: baby, deity
  • p7587

    p7587

    • ARTIST: Edvard Lehmann (Denmark, 1815-1892)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Lucile Grahn in the ballet "Sylphide"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1837
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Lucile Grahn danced the role of the Sylphide, choreographed by August Bournonville, from 1836 to 26/11/1838.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Denmark, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet

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