Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p0666

    p0666

    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from "The Queen of Sheba", 2nd act
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1862
    • DIMENSIONS: 18 x 21 cm
    • COMMENTS: "Engraving after a photograph under electric light"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Egypt, France, Sudan,
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6948

    p6948

    • TITLE OF WORK: Masked male dancer in the role of a peasant
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1680
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: theater
  • p8248

    p8248

    • ARTIST: Joseph Emanuel Weiser (Germany, 1847-1911) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Round dance (Reigen)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, monochrome
    • DATE: 1909
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s4025

    s4025

    • ARTIST: Giulio Gioia (Italy, 1945-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance. Havana 2003 (La danza. Havana 2003)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 2003
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Cuba
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p4876

    p4876

    • ARTIST: Johann Michael Kupfer (Germany/Austria, 1859-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The last dance of the washing women at the Sechsschimmelberg (Der letzte Tanz der Wäscherinnen auf dem Sechsschimmelberg)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1893
    • DIMENSIONS: 41 x 49.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p2464

    p2464

    • ARTIST: R. M. Guillaume (France, 1893-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Music hall artists (Artistes de music hall)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p4772

    p4772

    • ARTIST: John French Sloan (U.S.A., 1871-1951)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, etching
    • DATE: 1911
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • s4916

    s4916

    • ARTIST: Ferdinand Bac (France, 1859-1952)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Quadrille of Mary Stuart (Quadrille de Marie-Stuart)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, black ink, black pencil and heightenings by pencil and ink
    • DATE: 1946
    • DIMENSIONS: 28 x 22 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated 1946, contrecollé
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular, round
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • p9849

    p9849

    • ARTIST: Pola Aivazian-Rossi (Switzerland, 1914-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Group of dancers (Groupe de danseuses)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1952
    • DIMENSIONS: 54 x 65 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Switzerland
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6159

    p6159

    • TITLE OF WORK: Shepherds dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1550
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From a 16th century Flemish book of prayers
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, folk
  • s3851

    s3851

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers of the Imperial Theater of Vienna
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria, Vienna, Wien
    • DANCE FORM: couple, classical ballet
  • s2613

    s2613

    • ARTIST: Auguste de Molins (France, 1821-1890) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Nautch dance under a giant tree near Boghor (Danse de bayadères sous un multipliant, aux environs de Boghor)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1864
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 23.6 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Voyage à Java" by Mr. de Molins, 1858-1864
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Indonesia, Java
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, solo
  • p0313

    p0313

    • TITLE OF WORK: Formidable. Bal du Moulin Rouge
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1988
    • COMMENTS: Choreography by Bill Goodson. With the Doriss Girls, the Doriss dancers, Debbie de Coudreaux.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p9607

    p9607

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing between decks
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1850
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.5 x 15.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Emigrants departing from Liverpool to America
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple
    • KEYWORDS: sea, ship
  • p7518

    p7518

    • ARTIST: Brian Pinkney (U.S.A., 1961-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Alvin Ailey
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1993
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p6295

    p6295

    • ARTIST: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, 1880-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Four female dancers (Vier Tänzerinnen)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1908
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.5 x 42 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p4950

    p4950

    • TITLE OF WORK: The real cake walk at the New Circus (Le vrai cake walk au Nouveau Cirque)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Director: Joseph Oller
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, cakewalk
  • p9171

    p9171

    • ARTIST: Fortunato Depero (Italy, 1892-1960)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Le chant du rossignol": Dame d'Honneur
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, collage
    • DATE: 1917
    • COMMENTS: "Le chant du rossignol", ballet in one act by the Ballets Russes. Music from the opera "Le rossignol" by Igor Stravinsky; choreography by L. Massine, scenery and costumes by Henri Matisse.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, China
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s1180

    s1180

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing the "Blues" in one of the delightful Twink Blues. Twink cleans and dyes at the same time
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1923
    • DIMENSIONS: 35 x 22.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: advertisement
  • s4574

    s4574

    • ARTIST: Jean-Léon Gérôme (France, 1824-1904)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Loïe Fuller. Nude uncovering herself 2
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, marble statuette
    • DATE: 1900
    • DIMENSIONS: 92.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • s2072

    s2072

    • ARTIST: Marcel Caron (Belgium, 1890-1961)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance hall (Le dancing)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1929
    • DIMENSIONS: 100 x 80 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • s4107

    s4107

    • TITLE OF WORK: Seven women in a line dance. "Praise ye the Lord" scene
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mural, fresco
    • DATE: 1760
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Byzantium, Greece, Peloponnese, Mani
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, line
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p2160

    p2160

    • TITLE OF WORK: Mrs. Hurst dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1816
    • COMMENTS: From the book by Diana Sperling: Mrs. Hurst Dancing and other Scenes from Regency Life. London, Victor Gollancz.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • s3144

    s3144

    • TITLE OF WORK: Branle d'Ossau, a dance of Eaux-Bonnes (Branle d'Ossau dansé aux Eaux-Bonnes)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1867
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: Branle, traditional, round
    • KEYWORDS: musical instrument, violin
  • p7040

    p7040

    • TITLE OF WORK: Picnic given to Prince Arthur by the citizens of Halifax
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1869
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.3 x 24 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Canada, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • p8525

    p8525

    • TITLE OF WORK: Carlotta Grisi in "Le diable à quatre" by Mazilier (Sur les motifs du ballet de A. Adam)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1845
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6125

    p6125

    • ARTIST: W?adys?aw Skoczylas (Poland, 1883-1934)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of the mountain brigands
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland
    • DANCE FORM: popular, traditional
  • s5321

    s5321

    • ARTIST: John Duncan Fergusson (U.K., 1874-1961)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing nude: Effulgence
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on polished brass
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.6 cm high
  • s1942

    s1942

    • ARTIST: Miquel Roig Nadal (Spain, 1923-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Ballet studio", Linda Gibbs, New London Ballet
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache
    • DATE: 1985
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6750

    p6750

    • ARTIST: Réné Gruau (Italy, 1909-2004)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Poster design for the "Lido" cabaret
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1975
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: cabaret
  • s0858

    s0858

    • TITLE OF WORK: Notes in the Samoan Islands - The Siva or sitting-down dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1881
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.5 x 22.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., Samoa Islands
    • DANCE FORM: sitting, traditional, female
    • KEYWORDS: candle
  • s3521

    s3521

    • ARTIST: Pavel Tchelitchew (Russia, 1898-1957)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Serge Lifar
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1954
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • s2712

    s2712

    • ARTIST: Vladimir Kirin (Croatia, 1894-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Croatian national dances, no. 10
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, postcard, color
    • DATE: 1970
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From a series of postcards, no. 10
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Croatia, Yugoslavia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, folk
  • p3245

    p3245

    • ARTIST: Serge Lifar (Ukraine, 1905-1986)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance scene
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p8275

    p8275

    • TITLE OF WORK: War dance of the Ngaiterangi. Native games at the Papa camp, Tauranga, New Zealand
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1866
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.3 x 23.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: New Zealand, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: weapon
  • s6019

    s6019

    • ARTIST: Epiktetos Painter (Greece, active ca. 500-400 BC)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Komast dancing holding a vase in each hand
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, red-figured cup, vase
    • DATE: -470
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: Tondo
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Attica, Athens
  • p8935

    p8935

    • ARTIST: Alexander Nikolaevich Benois (Russia, 1870-1960)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Giselle": Une dame (A Dame)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor on paper
    • DATE: 1910
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p8356

    p8356

    • TITLE OF WORK: Fanny Elssler and Jules Perrot in the ballet "A painter's folly" (Le délire d'un peintre)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1843
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.5 x 15 cm
    • COMMENTS: The same engraving has appered in the Illustrirte Zeitung, 25. Leipzig, 1843, p. 399.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, U.K., France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p5057

    p5057

    • ARTIST: Vincent Lopez
    • TITLE OF WORK: Folies-Bergère cabaret. A wind of folly. Fowler & Tamara (Folies-Bergère. Un vent de folie. Fowler & Tamara)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1927
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p7229

    p7229

    • ARTIST: Franz Kollarz (Austria, 1825-1894) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Easter Queen in Hungary (Die Pfingstkönigin in Ungarn)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1870
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.8 x 31 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p0969

    p0969

    • ARTIST: Claude Lorrain (France, 1600-1682)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Scenery with figures dancing (Paysage avec figures dansant). Detail
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1648
    • DIMENSIONS: 150 x 200 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: country
  • p1386

    p1386

    • ARTIST: Henri Matisse (France, 1869-1954)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance - Grey, blue, white
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1935
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 29.8 x 80.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • p1163

    p1163

    • ARTIST: Francis Hayman (U.K., 1708-1776)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Milkmaids' dance or Plays of the First of May?
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1735
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 137 x 234 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
  • s4265

    s4265

    • TITLE OF WORK: Village dances (Danses villageoises)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Tapestry
    • DATE: 1390
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 300 x 350 cm
    • COMMENTS: Tapestry of Flanders (Audenarde)
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • s5111

    s5111

    • TITLE OF WORK: Male dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Mosaic
    • DATE: 375
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From the House of the Donkey at Djemila.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Algeria, Rome, Hellenistic
    • DANCE FORM: solo, male
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • p1629

    p1629

    • ARTIST: Hugò Scheiber (Hungary, 1873-1950)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer with mandolin
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache
    • DATE: 1930
    • DIMENSIONS: 64 x 49 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary
  • p6835

    p6835

    • ARTIST: Pierre Amédée Champod (Switzerland, 1834-1913) (drawing); P. Blanchard (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Dance of the white Negroes", from Vevey, in Cornavin Square ("Danse des nègres blancs", de Vevey, sur la place Cornavin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1866
    • DIMENSIONS: 12 x 15 cm
    • COMMENTS: Fête de bienfaisance à Genève
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Switzerland
    • DANCE FORM: popular, traditional
    • KEYWORDS: Black
  • p8723

    p8723

    • ARTIST: Francis William Topham (U.K., 1808-1877) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancing academy
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1852
    • DIMENSIONS: 10.2 x 15.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for "The squanders of Squander Castle", by William Carleton
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: instruction
  • p9000

    p9000

    • TITLE OF WORK: May revels
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1889
    • DIMENSIONS: 18.5 x 23 cm
    • COMMENTS: Al fresco fayre and floral fête for the Grosvenor Hospital for Women and Children, at the Albert Hall
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p2288

    p2288

    • ARTIST: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (France, 1780-1867)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Study for "L'âge d'or"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, black pencil and lead pencil
    • DATE: 1830
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.6 x 31.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France

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