Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p5790

    p5790

    • TITLE OF WORK: New Year's Eve in Ireland
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1870
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.3 x 30 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ireland, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p1050

    p1050

    • ARTIST: Richard Caton Woodville (U.K., 1856-1927)
    • TITLE OF WORK: An afternoon dance on board a man-of-war
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1882
    • DIMENSIONS: 32 x 46 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: marine
  • s2343

    s2343

    • TITLE OF WORK: Music and dance scene
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mural, fresco
    • DATE: 1099
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Mural from Zhao Daweng's tomb of the Song. Unearthed at Yuxian, Henan
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: China
    • DANCE FORM: Traditional, solo
  • s4768

    s4768

    • ARTIST: Alexander Golovine (Russia, 1863-1930)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of the ballerina E. Smirnova
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, detrempe and pastel on canvas
    • DATE: 1910
    • DIMENSIONS: 105 x 105 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p8903

    p8903

    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Auguste Vestris
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1830
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Given to Jules Perrot by his friend , Auguste Bournonville
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • s1834

    s1834

    • ARTIST: Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (France, 1755-1842)
    • TITLE OF WORK: La Camargo
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1730
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • s2365

    s2365

    • TITLE OF WORK: Graphic motifs 10
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1995
    • KEYWORDS: clip art
  • s1174

    s1174

    • ARTIST: Pisani (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: An impression by Pisani at Kettner's Restaurant, where the recent innovation of dancing at supper time has become very popular
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1926
    • DIMENSIONS: 12.5 x 10.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p2439

    p2439

    • ARTIST: Joseph Maria Olbrich (Austria, 1867-1908) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Couple. Decoration on the door of the music room.
    • TYPE OF WORK: Incrustations of various species of wood
    • DATE: 1898
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 193 x 82 cm(total of the door)
    • COMMENTS: Incrustations de: noyer, frêne, érable à oeil d'oiseau, bois de citronnier et de rose, écaile, laiton.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria
  • p8831

    p8831

    • TITLE OF WORK: Nubian dancer in Khartoum (Nubische Tänzerin in Chartum)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1882
    • DIMENSIONS: 12.7 x 6.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sudan, Khartoum, Nubia
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • s0412

    s0412

    • TITLE OF WORK: Marble figure of a dancer in the Royal Museum at Berlin (Marnorfigur einer Tänzerin im königl. Museum zu Berlin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1895
    • DIMENSIONS: 19.8 x 9.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Germany, Berlin
  • s2759

    s2759

    • ARTIST: Gustave Doré (France, 1832-1883) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Search pleasures and country balls (Recherchez les plaisirs et les bals champêtres)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.5 x 7.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature, cartoon
  • p3324

    p3324

    • ARTIST: Yannis Tsarouchis (Greece, 1910-1989)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Zeibekiko dancer, 1-1-79
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pastel and pencil on craft paper
    • DATE: 1979
    • DIMENSIONS: 176 x 70 cm
    • COMMENTS: Dated 01/01/1979
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: popular, Zeibekiko, Greek, rebetiko
    • KEYWORDS: rebetiko
  • p0578

    p0578

    • ARTIST: Janet-Lange or Ange-Louis Janet (France, 1811-1872)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Arthur Saint-Léon and Fanny Cerrito in the ballet "Le violon du diable"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1849
    • COMMENTS: Ballet presented in the Paris Opera in 1849.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s0324

    s0324

    • ARTIST: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, 1880-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Three female dancers (Drei Tänzerinnen)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1912
    • DIMENSIONS: 20 x 27.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: stage, trio
  • p8640

    p8640

    • TITLE OF WORK: A spectacle for colonel Polier
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, gouache on paper, heightened with gold
    • DATE: 1780
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 26.6 x 32.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: From Lucknow
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
  • s0637

    s0637

    • TITLE OF WORK: The double royal marriage at Berlin - The "Fackeltanz", or torchlight procession, in the White Hall of the Royal Palace
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1878
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.6 x 29.9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Berlin
    • DANCE FORM: Fackeltanz, torch, court
    • KEYWORDS: royalty, torch, procession, wedding
  • s5343

    s5343

    • TITLE OF WORK: From the ballet "Maid of the Danube" with Marie Taglioni
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1832
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballet
  • s2145

    s2145

    • ARTIST: Theodor de Bry (Flanders, 1528-1598) (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ceremonies with which the savages kill and eat their prisoners
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1592
    • COMMENTS: Based on the account of Hans Staden, who sailed to Brazil in 1550 and was captured by the Tupinambas. He was held prisoner for 9 months, until he was bought by a French merchant.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Brazil
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p6694

    p6694

    • ARTIST: Theodor Hosemann (Germany, 1807-1875) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Poor Peter (Der arme Peter)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1866
    • DIMENSIONS: 12 x 15.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s3040

    s3040

    • TITLE OF WORK: "The escape" - The small ballerinas execute the step ("L'escapade" - Robert s'avance, pâle comme un ciel d'automne)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1896
    • DIMENSIONS: 8 x 11.3 cm
    • COMMENTS: Une scène de la pièce "L'escapade", par Auguste Germain, de la série "Scènes de la vie parisienne", interprétées par Mmes Mariquita, Marie Pernot, Amélie Guerra, Jeanne Chasle, Céleste Riganti, Claire
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: instruction, theater
  • p5572

    p5572

    • TITLE OF WORK: Three Greek nymphs performing a round dance under a canopy
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1820
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Greece
  • p7107

    p7107

    • ARTIST: Pierre-Jacques Volaire or le Chevalier Volaire (France, 1729-1799)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance around a fire (Danse autour d'un feu)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, brush and grey ink on a pencil sketch
    • DATE: 1780
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 25.7 x 50.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p6163

    p6163

    • TITLE OF WORK: Two dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bas-relief
    • DATE: 1120
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Khmer art. The temple was built under king Suryavarman II
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Cambodia, Khmer
  • p3258

    p3258

    • ARTIST: Monique Lancelot (France, 1923-1982)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Relevé sur les pointes
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1952
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p2913

    p2913

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers (Danseurs)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 6.8 x 10.9 cm
    • COMMENTS: Chocolat Hugon, Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • p7851

    p7851

    • ARTIST: Gösta Adrian-Nilsson, called GAN (Sweden, 1884-1965)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Curtain design for the ballet "La mer glaciale"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and black ink
    • DATE: 1923
    • DIMENSIONS: 35.3 x 24.3 cm
    • COMMENTS: Ishavsbaletten, Paris, Nov. 1923. "La mer glaciale", a ballet by Gösta Nystroem for the Ballets Suédois
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sweden
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3763

    p3763

    • ARTIST: Harald Kreutzberg (Germany, 1902-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Harald Kreutzberg teaching
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1935
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p5026

    p5026

    • ARTIST: Guillermo Barclay
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Saeta"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1976
    • COMMENTS: For the performance at the Palacio de Bellas Artes of Mexico City, 1976.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Mexico
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p7186

    p7186

    • ARTIST: Emil Nolde (Germany, 1867-1956)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Three dancing women
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s2291

    s2291

    • TITLE OF WORK: Loïe Fuller - 2
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1897
    • DIMENSIONS: 11 x 15.6 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for an article, from a photograph by professor Stebbing
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, solo
  • p6392

    p6392

    • ARTIST: Ferdinand Freiherr von ?ezní?ek (Austria, 1868-1909)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Blue Waltz. How to dance the waltz (La valse bleue. Comment danser la valse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1890
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p4827

    p4827

    • TITLE OF WORK: Greek folk dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 8.4 x 13.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: folk
  • p1992

    p1992

    • ARTIST: Theyre Lee-Elliott (U.K., 1903-1988)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Pattern of figures from "Petrouchka"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1947
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3241

    p3241

    • TITLE OF WORK: Antelope dance headdress, female "Chi wara", Bambara people
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, wood with brass eyes
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 34 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Found near Bamako
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Mali
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: Bambara
  • p5910

    p5910

    • ARTIST: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (France, 1864-1901)
    • TITLE OF WORK: La Goulue
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1895
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • s2314

    s2314

    • ARTIST: Anthony Nellé (U.S.A., 1894-1977)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Set design for "Lower depths"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1936
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland, U.S.A.
  • s1067

    s1067

    • TITLE OF WORK: Maldive dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1886
    • DIMENSIONS: 10 x 13.9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Maldives
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: tambourine
  • s5040

    s5040

    • ARTIST: Ramiro Arrue (Spain, 1892-1971)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Celebration of a Pelote champion (Hommage à un champion de pelote)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 59 x 134 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Basque Country
    • DANCE FORM: traditional,
    • KEYWORDS: sport, drum
  • p5209

    p5209

    • ARTIST: Tom C. Keogh (U.S.A., 1922-1980)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Jean Babilée
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1950
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s4813

    s4813

    • ARTIST: William Adolphe Lambrecht (France, 1876-1940)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Two Ouled Naïl dancers (Deux danseuses Ouled Naïl)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on panel
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 35 x 26.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed at lower left
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Algeria
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, solo, Oriental
  • p6151

    p6151

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance scene
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1750
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Drawing of the French school
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p1279

    p1279

    • ARTIST: Edward Seago (U.K., 1910-1974)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A study at the barre
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1935
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Marie Zarina
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6469

    p6469

    • TITLE OF WORK: Miss Loïe Fuller and her transformations. "The serpentine dance" (Mlle Loïe Fuller et ses transformations. "La danse serpentine")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1892
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p7918

    p7918

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer in ritual posture
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, clay figurine
    • DATE: 500
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 41 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Maya figurine from Isla de Jaina, Campeche
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Mexico
  • s0256

    s0256

    • ARTIST: Godefroy Durand (France, 1832-1920) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Indian dancers (Danseuses indiennes)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1857
    • DIMENSIONS: 12.9 x 21.1 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • DANCE FORM: stage, duo
  • s4081

    s4081

    • TITLE OF WORK: Venus crowned and two boats with dwarf dancers and musicians
    • TYPE OF WORK: Mosaic
    • DATE: 325
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From the "House of Ariadne" at Carthage
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Tunisia, Greece, Roman, Carthage
    • KEYWORDS: hellenistic, sea
  • p1030

    p1030

    • ARTIST: Henri Matisse (France, 1869-1954)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance (La danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, eau-forte en couleurs
    • DATE: 1935
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.6 x 74 cm
    • COMMENTS: Four colors used: black, grey, rose and blue
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • s3570

    s3570

    • TITLE OF WORK: Recruitment of a dancing youth by army officers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color, lithograph
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.8 x 32.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary, Austria
    • DANCE FORM: popular, Verbunk, solo
    • KEYWORDS: recruiting, military
  • p5145

    p5145

    • ARTIST: Tsai Ming Kyong
    • TITLE OF WORK: Four immortals dancing with a crane
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, silk
    • DATE: 1610
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: The 8 immortals are mythological persons, cmbining elements from taoistic, budhistic and confucianistic tradition
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Korea
    • DANCE FORM: traditional

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