Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • s0989

    s0989

    • ARTIST: Pedretti (drawing & engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Retirn from the Virgin of Arco (Ritorno dalla Madonna dell'Arco). Detail
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1834
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • p2590

    p2590

    • TITLE OF WORK: Transformation Polka. Marie Bonfanti in the ballet "The Black Crook"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1867
    • DIMENSIONS: 32 x 22.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: Niblo's Garden, New York, 1866.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., New York
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, polka
  • p2203

    p2203

    • TITLE OF WORK: La trénis, a country dance (La trénis, Contredanse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1801
    • COMMENTS: From "Le Bon Genre", 1801
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, contredanse
  • p4219

    p4219

    • ARTIST: José Simont (Spain, 1875-1968) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The entrance of the dance foyer (L'entrée du foyer de la danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1907
    • DIMENSIONS: 34 x 49.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "L'Opéra. Les coulisses"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s3899

    s3899

    • ARTIST: Georg Schuster-Woldan (Germany, 1864-1933)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Clotilde von der Planitz (later Coltilde von Derp - Sacharoff)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1909
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p7820

    p7820

    • ARTIST: Saul Bolasni (U.S.A., 1923-?)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Oleg Sergeievsky
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1935
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • s1576

    s1576

    • ARTIST: Marc-Luc (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Theory of the chicago dance (La théorie du chicago)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1922
    • DIMENSIONS: 6.2 x 19 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • s0596

    s0596

    • TITLE OF WORK: The rehearsal - A parent's pride
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1874
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.1 x 29.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular, solo, stage
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p1793

    p1793

    • ARTIST: Yury Pavlovich Annenkov (Russia, 1889-1974)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Clarté" or "Jasnja"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor, ink and colored pencils
    • DATE: 1916
    • DIMENSIONS: 69 x 98 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s4637

    s4637

    • ARTIST: Louis-François Cassas (France, 1756-1827)
    • TITLE OF WORK: View of Athens with the Acropolis and the Olympieion
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor on paper
    • DATE: 1810
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 33 x 51 cm
    • COMMENTS: Cassas tourred Greece commissioned by the count Choiseul-Gouffier between 1784 and 1787, then settled in Rome.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Athens
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
    • KEYWORDS: temple
  • s6048

    s6048

    • ARTIST: The Painter of Munich 2335 (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A: Komos, man and youths, some with staffs, one with lyre, all draped
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, red-figure column krater vase
    • DATE: -430
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Attica, Athens
  • p5065

    p5065

    • ARTIST: Michel Gyarmathy (Hungary, 1908-1996)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the dancers of Folies-Bergère
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p9406

    p9406

    • ARTIST: Jan Miense Molenaer (Netherlands, 1610-1668) (follower of)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Peasants revelling in an interior
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1635
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 53.5 x 81 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Holland
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • s3532

    s3532

    • ARTIST: Maurice Tassart
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Tessa Beaumont
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1955
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p2393

    p2393

    • ARTIST: Helmut Andreas Paul Grieshaber (Germany, 1909-1981)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancing people (Die Tanzenden)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1955
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • s4853

    s4853

    • TITLE OF WORK: Maria Taglioni and partner in "Styrian ballet" (Maria Taglioni e partner in "Balletto stiriano")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: clasical ballet, duo
  • p6609

    p6609

    • ARTIST: Callimachus (Greece, ca. 450-400 BC) (after)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief
    • DATE: -350
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: Greek art
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
  • s3404

    s3404

    • ARTIST: Jean-Baptiste Hilaire (France, 1753-1822) (sketch)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Greek dance in the Island of Paros (Danse grecque dans l'île de Paros)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and wash
    • DATE: 1782
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 22 cm
    • COMMENTS: See also the print after this drawing: p1258
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Cyclades, Paros
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
  • s5052

    s5052

    • ARTIST: Elli Solomonidi-Balanou (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Academy of the Bolshoi Ballet performing in Athens
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 2006
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: ballet
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p6471

    p6471

    • ARTIST: Bernhard Hoetger (Germany, 1874-1949)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Loïe Fuller
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze with brown gilt
    • DATE: 1901
    • DIMENSIONS: 25.5 x 17.5 x 15.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: The artist saw Loïe Fuller dance at the Universal Exhibition of 1900 in Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, solo
    • KEYWORDS: veils, drapery
  • p0257

    p0257

    • ARTIST: Henriot
    • TITLE OF WORK: He only likes the cake-walk (Il n'aime que le cake-walk)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1905
    • DIMENSIONS: 5.5 x 4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, cake-walk
  • s1668

    s1668

    • ARTIST: Paul Quinsac (France, 1858-1929) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A drawing by P. Quinsac having served to frame the Program of "Courrier Français" distributed in the hall of the Opera on the occasion of Dramatic Artists' Ball
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1888
    • DIMENSIONS: 25 x 20.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p2948

    p2948

    • ARTIST: J. Pélissier (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A kirmes in the Middle Ages (Une kermesse au Moyen Age)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1855
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 18.7 x 27.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p8488

    p8488

    • ARTIST: L. Frenzel (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The 25 year celebration of the "Arts house" at Chemnitz on the 25th of January (Das 25jährige Jubelfest der "Kunsthütte" zu Chemnitz am 25. Januar)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1885
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.2 x 34.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Chemnitz
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: disguise
  • s6098

    s6098

    • ARTIST: The Painter of Berlin 2268 (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A,B: Komos, youths with wineskin and drinking horn
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, red-figure cup, vase
    • DATE: -505
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: 525-475 BC
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Attica, Athens
  • p5047

    p5047

    • ARTIST: Jules Chéret (France, 1836-1932) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Folies-Bergère. Emilienne d'Alençon. Every evening (Folies-Bergère. Emilienne d'Alençon. Tous les soirs)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1893
    • DIMENSIONS: 50 x 84 cm
    • COMMENTS: The real name of Emilienne d'Alençon was Emilienne André. She first appeared at the Cirque d'Eté in 1896 training white rabbits.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, solo
    • KEYWORDS: umbrella
  • p5459

    p5459

    • ARTIST: Maurice Sand (France, 1823-1889)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Bourrée à Six, a dance of the Bas-Berry (Bourrée à six du Bas-Berry)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1851
    • COMMENTS: Première figure de la danse: an avant et en arrière
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p5937

    p5937

    • TITLE OF WORK: A "nayika" in the languorous Odissi pose known as "alasa" from the "jagamohana"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief
    • DATE: 950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • DANCE FORM: Odissi, traditional Indian
  • p5485

    p5485

    • TITLE OF WORK: Franz Wallner as Sebastian (Franz Wallner als Sebastian)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1847
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 23 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: folk
  • p8501

    p8501

    • ARTIST: Arpad Schmidhammer (Germany, 1857-1921) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Rokoko adaptation of "Figaro" in the Royal Residence Theater at Munich: Wedding feast, 3rd act (Rokoko-Inscenirung des "Figaro" im königlichen Residenztheater zu München: Hochzeitsfeier, III. Akt)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1895
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.2 x 22.9 cm
    • COMMENTS: Rococo performance of "Figaro" in the Residence Theater at Munich: wedding festival, act 3
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Bavaria, Munich
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7268

    p7268

    • TITLE OF WORK: Ludwig, king of Bavaria, bidding farewell to his mistress Lola Montez
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1847
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Ireland, Germany, Bavaria, Switzerland
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • s5859

    s5859

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Muses on a Roman sarkophagus. Marble.
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, marble
    • DATE: 190
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 67 x 224 x 67 cm
    • COMMENTS: Musensarkophag: Langseite und zwei Seitenteile. Erhalten sind die Vorderseite und - als Einzelteile - die beiden Schmalseiten des Sarkophags, der sich zunächst vor der Basilika S. Maria Maggiore in Ro
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Rome
    • KEYWORDS: Muses, god
  • p6466

    p6466

    • TITLE OF WORK: Apollo, god of music
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1970
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Greece
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • s2913

    s2913

    • TITLE OF WORK: "Ballet d'Armide" - First decoration
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1617
    • COMMENTS: Danced by king Louis XIII in 1617. The destruction of the palace of Armide, while muscians in the woods sing in praise of Renaud
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, theatrical, stage
    • KEYWORDS: royalty, court,
  • p9316

    p9316

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Three dancers in bodice (Trois danseuses en maillot)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, charcoal heightened with white pastel
    • DATE: 1902
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 45.5 x 36 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s4270

    s4270

    • ARTIST: Manuel Orazi (Italy, 1860-1934)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Olympia. Liane de Pougy & Rose Demay. Rêve de Noël
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1898
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 159 x 111 cm
    • COMMENTS: Imprimeries Lemercier
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: cancan, quadrille, music-hall
  • p4474

    p4474

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan in "La danse des Scythes", 7ème mouvement (Isadora Duncan in "Scyths' dance", 7th movement)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1911
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p8099

    p8099

    • ARTIST: Moritz Friedrich Schlegel (Germany, 1865-1935) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A "sagra" - church saints festival - in Istria (Sagra - Kirchenheiligenfest - in Istrien)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1883
    • DIMENSIONS: 23 x 31.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Croatia, Slovenia, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple
  • s5870

    s5870

    • TITLE OF WORK: Young man balancing an amphore on his foot
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, red-figure cup, vase
    • DATE: -515
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: acrobatic
    • KEYWORDS: amphora vase
  • s5662

    s5662

    • ARTIST: Micali Painter (atributed)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Pottery: black-figured amphora with a procession, sporting events and entertainments
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pottery, black-figured amphora vase
    • DATE: -505
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 45.7 height x 3.1 cm diam
    • COMMENTS: Etruscan art found in Vulci, Viterbo, Italy. The athletic events are a boxing match watched by a boy with a sponge and oil-flask, a pipe-player and umpire; a discus thrower; a javelin thrower; a man w
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Etruria, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: processional
    • KEYWORDS: krotala
  • s4793

    s4793

    • ARTIST: Rodolfo B. Feleo
    • TITLE OF WORK: Bayanihan Philippine Dance Company, the Mountain Province suite: Kalinga warrior and Kalinga maiden
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch, monochrome
    • DATE: 1970
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Philippines
    • DANCE FORM: folk
  • p5248

    p5248

    • ARTIST: Natalia Goncharova (Russia, 1881-1962)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "La foire de Sorotchinsky" by the Ballets Ruses de Paris
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1940
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p3914

    p3914

    • ARTIST: François-Rupert Carabin (France, 1862-1932)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Parisian dancers (Les danseurs parisiens)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • s2435

    s2435

    • TITLE OF WORK: Kadiri dervishes dancing in two concentric circles
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1760
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p3567

    p3567

    • ARTIST: Natalia Goncharova (Russia, 1881-1962)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing peasants
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1911
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p9991

    p9991

    • ARTIST: Charles F. de Lacroix (France, 1700-1782)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tarantella dancers by the sea (Danseurs de tarantelle au bord de la mer)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1770
    • DIMENSIONS: 55 x 76 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated "De Lactoix 1770" at lower right
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, France
    • DANCE FORM: Tarantella, couple, popular Italian
  • p3066

    p3066

    • ARTIST: Fritz Bergen (Germany, 1857-1941)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Before the invitation
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.2 x 6.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Munich, Bavaria
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p6919

    p6919

    • TITLE OF WORK: Clotilde in the ballet "Le ballet de Paris"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1797
    • COMMENTS: The dancer Clotilde was étoile de l'Opéra de Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p4953

    p4953

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Alhambra
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1896
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p6328

    p6328

    • ARTIST: Max Radiguet (France, 1816-1899) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Festival of the Amancaës (Fête des Amancaës)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1852
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.5 x 23 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Peru
    • DANCE FORM: traditional

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