Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p6395

    p6395

    • TITLE OF WORK: Frieze of daners at a masked ball (Frise de danseurs de bal masqué)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p5939

    p5939

    • ARTIST: Denis Boissier
    • TITLE OF WORK: Flight above the lights (Vol au dessus des lumières)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencils, color
    • DATE: 1984
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p0419

    p0419

    • ARTIST: Mohammed Racim (Algeria, 1896-1975)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers in old Algiers (Danseuses à vieil Alger)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, miniature, gouache heightened with gold
    • DATE: 1932
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 18 x 13 cm
    • COMMENTS: The dancers wear costumes dating from 1830.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Algeria, Algiers,
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental, duo, traditional
  • s1134

    s1134

    • ARTIST: F. Furnivall (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Smith's Glasgow Mixture
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1919
    • DIMENSIONS: 17.5 x 25 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Scotland
    • DANCE FORM: Traditional, solo
    • KEYWORDS: weapon, sword, bagpipes
  • p9762

    p9762

    • TITLE OF WORK: A lady fainting during a party
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1780
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 82 x 110 cm
    • COMMENTS: One of a pair of paintings of the Veronese School, representing night life of Veronese society
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: couple, court
  • p7245

    p7245

    • ARTIST: John White (U.K., 1550?-1593?)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ritual dance in North Carolina
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1585
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: The painting was executed for Sir Walter Raleigh. The three persons in the center are virgins, while the poles marking the circle are carved with human heads
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: Indians, Native Americans
  • s2960

    s2960

    • ARTIST: Raymond Duncan (U.S.A., 1874-1966)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Muses - 2 (Les Muses - 2)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1919
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, U.S.A.
    • KEYWORDS: religion, deity,
  • s6060

    s6060

    • ARTIST: Pothos Painter (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A: Satyrs, one with fillet, one with torch, and maenads with ivy and animal skin, some named, komos, thalia, eros playing pipes (named, pothos)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, red-figure bell krater vase
    • DATE: -430
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Attica, Athens
  • s1127

    s1127

    • ARTIST: Marcel Vertès (Hungary, 1895-1961) (watercolor)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Illusion
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1925
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 10.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p9676

    p9676

    • ARTIST: Friedrich Fehr (Germany, 1862-1927) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: At the foyer (Im Foyer)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1891
    • DIMENSIONS: 27.2 x 22 cm
    • COMMENTS: From the International Art Exhibition in Berlin, 1891
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: off-stage, mirror
  • p0967

    p0967

    • ARTIST: Claude Lorrain (France, 1600-1682)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Scenery with peasants' dance (Paysage avec danse de paysans)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1640
    • DIMENSIONS: 118 x 148.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
  • s5028

    s5028

    • ARTIST: Gerda Wegener (Denmark, 1885-1940)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Carnival scene
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 28 x 43 cm
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p9249

    p9249

    • ARTIST: Jean Léon Pallière (Brazil, 1823-1887) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A ball given in Buenos Aires by Mr Forbin-Janson, consul of France (Bal donné à Buenos-Ayres par M. Forbin-Janson, consul de France)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1860
    • DIMENSIONS: 12.7 x 21.1 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Argentina, France, Buenos Aires
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p0433

    p0433

    • ARTIST: Jean Puy (France, 1876-1960)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The ballerina (La ballerine)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 90 x 71 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p2463

    p2463

    • ARTIST: Natalia Goncharova (Russia, 1881-1962)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Studies for the ballet "Le coq d'or". Tamara Karsavina in the center
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1914
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1439

    p1439

    • ARTIST: Edouard Manet (France, 1832-1883)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Spanish ballet (Le ballet espagnol)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1862
    • DIMENSIONS: 61 x 91 cm
    • COMMENTS: The troupe appeared in Paris in 1862, performing "La flor de Sevilla", a ballet inserted in the first act of the popular play "Le barbier de Sevilla" by Beaumarchais. The posed in the studio of a frie
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, flamenco, Spanish dance, stage
  • s3452

    s3452

    • ARTIST: Daniel Prat
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tango 1
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, inks on wax
    • DATE: 2000
    • DIMENSIONS: 30 x 22 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: tango, ballroom, couple
  • p6872

    p6872

    • TITLE OF WORK: Two dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1675
    • COMMENTS: From the period of the Mogul Empire
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p9202

    p9202

    • ARTIST: Fernand Léger (France, 1881-1955)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Composition. The dancer with a yellow triangle (Composition. La danseuse au triangle jaune)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1930
    • DIMENSIONS: 63.5 x 55.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated '30
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • p5322

    p5322

    • ARTIST: Helene Schjerfbeck (Finland, 1862-1946)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing children (Dansande barn)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1894
    • DIMENSIONS: 20.7 x 30.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Finland
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • s3870

    s3870

    • ARTIST: Alexej von Jawlensky (Russian, 1864-1941)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Alexander Sacharoff, portrait study
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on carton
    • DATE: 1909
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: On the back of the painting "Die weisse Feder"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ukraine, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • s0876

    s0876

    • TITLE OF WORK: Kolo dance (Kolotanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1893
    • DIMENSIONS: 12.6 x 19.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Bosnia, Mostar, Serajevo, Yugoslavia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
  • s2241

    s2241

    • ARTIST: Ludwig Eberle (Germany, 1883-1956) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The rhythm - 5 (Der Rhythmus - 5)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1920
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.7 x 11.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
  • s0209

    s0209

    • ARTIST: Godefroy Durand (France, 1832-1920) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Winzer festival in Vevey: A wedding dance in Seestrasse (Das Winzerfest in Vevey: Hochzeitstanz in der Seestrasse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1865
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.5 x 23.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s5516

    s5516

    • ARTIST: Alice Asmar (U.S.A., 1929-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Harvest dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color lithograph
    • DATE: 1980
    • DIMENSIONS: 52 x 74 cm
    • COMMENTS: Native Americans of the South-West
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., Native Americans
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, processional
  • p1621

    p1621

    • ARTIST: Fernando Botero (Colombia, 1932-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1980
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Colombia
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • s0501

    s0501

    • ARTIST: Christian Bérard (France, 1902-1949)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Seated ballerina at a dressing table
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, India ink and gouache on paper
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 34.3 x 25.4 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dedicated "a Madame Igor Stravinsky souvenir de Ch. Berard"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: off-stage
  • s3052

    s3052

    • TITLE OF WORK: Macabre dance (Danse macabre). Detail - 2
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mural
    • DATE: 1460
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 140 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Gothic art. A pope, an emperor, a cardinal and a nobleman are made to dance by skeletons, to show that all are equal in front of death.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: macabre, death
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • s5459

    s5459

    • ARTIST: Miquel Roig Nadal (Spain, 1923-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Milorad Miskovic "L'Echelle" 2
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1961
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Serbia
    • DANCE FORM: ballet
  • s5562

    s5562

    • ARTIST: Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (Netherlands, 1836-1912)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sketch of a red-figure vase painted by the Dinos Painter in the Archaeological Museum of Naples
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil on paper
    • DATE: 1865
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 13.9 x 42.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Compare with his painting 'A private celebration' S5561
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Greece, Rome
  • p8553

    p8553

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers at the sultan's court (Tänzerinnen am Hofe des Sultans)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1870
    • DIMENSIONS: 9 x 8 cm
    • COMMENTS: From "Typen und Spiele auf Java" (Types and plays in Java)
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Java, Indonesia
    • DANCE FORM: stage
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • p9609

    p9609

    • TITLE OF WORK: School fête at Codrington College, Barbadoes
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1850
    • DIMENSIONS: 14 x 23.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: The school opened in 1745
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Barbados, West Indies, Caribbean, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular, round
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • s3059

    s3059

    • TITLE OF WORK: General table. The five positions of the dance (Tableau d'ensemble des positions de la danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1740
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From "Le maître à danser" by Rameau
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: instruction
  • p3242

    p3242

    • ARTIST: Christian Bérard (France, 1902-1949)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Serge Lifar in "Valses nobles et sentimentales"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Music by Maurice Ravel
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s0639

    s0639

    • TITLE OF WORK: British Burmah - A Burmese play
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1880
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.1 x 22.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Burma
    • DANCE FORM: stage, court
    • KEYWORDS: theater
  • p2609

    p2609

    • ARTIST: Jean-Charles Duval (France, 1880-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tamara Karsavina in "L'oiseau de feu"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1910
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p9527

    p9527

    • ARTIST: Pietro Gabrini (Italy, 1856-1926)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Peasants dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil and watercolor on paper
    • DATE: 1895
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 69.8 x 48.9 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple, flamenco, Spanish dance
  • p9143

    p9143

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume model for the ballet "Parade": American Manager
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, painted carton
    • DATE: 1917
    • COMMENTS: Reconstructed in 1964
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s3345

    s3345

    • ARTIST: Keller & Guérin
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tanagra dancer, raised hand (Tanagra danseuse bras levé)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, faience à émaux métallescents
    • DATE: 1895
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 17 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Inspired by the dances of Loïe Fuller and Greek Tanagra statuettes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: drapery, veil
  • p2995

    p2995

    • TITLE OF WORK: Miniature painting from "Surname-i Vehbi (Vehbi's Book of Feasts)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1726
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p9516

    p9516

    • ARTIST: Michel-Barthélemy Ollivier (France, 1714-1784 )
    • TITLE OF WORK: Galant scene in a park (Scène galante dans un parc)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on panel
    • DATE: 1755
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 31 x 41.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: One of a pair of paintings
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: couple, court
  • s1083

    s1083

    • ARTIST: J. Ludovic (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Shadows
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1892
    • DIMENSIONS: 17 x 17 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the poem "Shadows" by Egan Mew.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: court, couple
    • KEYWORDS: poem
  • p2330

    p2330

    • ARTIST: Charles-Melchior Descourtis (France, 1753-1820) (after Nicolas-Antoine Taunay)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Village wedding (Noce de village)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1785
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • p7099

    p7099

    • ARTIST: Alexander Nikolaevich Benois (Russia, 1870-1960)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Petrouchka". The fairground scene
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1934
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p7225

    p7225

    • ARTIST: Adrien Moreau (France, 1843-1906) (painting); J. Pélissier (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A kirmes in the Middle Ages (Une kermesse au Moyen Age)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1876
    • DIMENSIONS: 18.7 x 27.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Drawn after a photograph of the painting by MM. Goupil
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple, traditional
    • KEYWORDS: musical instrument, bagpipes,
  • p2093

    p2093

    • ARTIST: Jean-Charles Duval (France, 1880-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Mademoiselle Rigel as Penelope
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1943
    • COMMENTS: Ballet "Penelope", presented on 14/03/1943 at the Paris Opera
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p4730

    p4730

    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from the new ballet of "The island nymph", at Drury Lane Theatre
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1846
    • DIMENSIONS: 12 x 15 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3011

    p3011

    • ARTIST: Demêtre Chiparus (Romania, 1888-1950)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Dolly Sisters
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, bronze and ivory; base in onyx with inlay
    • DATE: 1905
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 74 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Romania
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p7882

    p7882

    • ARTIST: Gösta Adrian-Nilsson, called GAN (Sweden, 1884-1965)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Design for the ballet "La mer glaciale" by Gösta Nystroem for the Ballets Suédois
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, ink
    • DATE: 1923
    • DIMENSIONS: 35.3 x 24.3 cm
    • COMMENTS: Ishavsbaletten, Paris, Nov. 1923
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sweden
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3699

    p3699

    • ARTIST: Pol Rab (France, 1898-1933)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Selecting dancers for the Moulin Rouge music-hall
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1929
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall

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