Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • s4072

    s4072

    • TITLE OF WORK: Athens, Lanthern of Demosthenes, Port of Phalarea
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, copper
    • DATE: 1759
    • DIMENSIONS: 57 x 38 cm
    • COMMENTS: Plate 4. Compare with the original in the book of Le Roy, and the subsequent in Killian
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Athens, Pireaus
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
  • p9502

    p9502

    • ARTIST: Wilhelm Gause (Austria, 1853-1916) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Viennese pictures: At the Washerwomen's Ball (Wiener Bilder: Auf dem Wäschermädelball)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1897
    • DIMENSIONS: 34.3 x 48.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria, Vienna
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p2669

    p2669

    • ARTIST: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, 1880-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tango tea (Tangotee)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1919
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: tango, ballroom, couple
  • s4621

    s4621

    • TITLE OF WORK: The promenade with torches (La promenade aux flambeaux)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1877
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.9 x 23.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: South America
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: fire
  • s6111

    s6111

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing maenad. Plaster copy of an ancient marble statue in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, plaster statue
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 128 x 50 x 50 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Greece, Rome
    • KEYWORDS: maenad
  • p4527

    p4527

    • TITLE OF WORK: Russian infantry dancing and singing at the Ploesti railway station
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1877
    • DIMENSIONS: 14.9 x 21.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Russo-Turkish War
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: military
  • s0251

    s0251

    • ARTIST: Otto Gerlach (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Berlin pictures: Familly celebration in a rented hall (Berliner Bilder: Hausfest in einer Miethkaserne)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1902
    • DIMENSIONS: 23 x 34 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Berlin
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple
  • s1762

    s1762

    • ARTIST: Hippolyte Lecomte (France, 1781-1857)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Le dieu et la bayadère", Mlle Noblet
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1830
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, India
    • DANCE FORM: stage, solo, ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p4023

    p4023

    • ARTIST: Edmond van Saanen Algi (Romania, 1882-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan in "Danse guerrière"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sanguine
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 22 x 16.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: From a series of 10 plates published by Ateliers André Marty et Daniel Jacomet in December 1920.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p1751

    p1751

    • ARTIST: Vassili Baranov (after)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Charles-Louis Didelot
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1820
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 6.8 x 5.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p0555

    p0555

    • ARTIST: W. Langdon Kihn (U.S.A., 1898-1957)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ted Shawn as Tepancaltzin, emperor of the Telteques, in "Xochitl"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache
    • DATE: 1923
    • COMMENTS: The ballet "Xochitl" was created in 1921
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., Mexico
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Indian
  • s3652

    s3652

    • TITLE OF WORK: La sardane, vignette
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Spain, Catalonia
    • DANCE FORM: sardana, traditional, folk, circle
  • p8515

    p8515

    • TITLE OF WORK: Girls in a Hungarian chain dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1896
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Tolna
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
  • p8646

    p8646

    • ARTIST: Edouard Cazaux (France, 1889-1974)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance (Danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on vase, faience and platine
    • DATE: 1935
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • p3536

    p3536

    • ARTIST: Otto Poertzel (Germany, 1876-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Snake charmer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, bronze and ivory
    • DATE: 1928
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: animal
  • p0702

    p0702

    • ARTIST: Moritz Friedrich Schlegel (Germany, 1865-1935) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sword dance of the young women in Old Serbia
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1902
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 23 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Serbia, Yugoslavia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: weapon
  • s0635

    s0635

    • TITLE OF WORK: The finale and the orchestra
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1878
    • DIMENSIONS: 10 x 15 cm
    • COMMENTS: Coolie life in India - An operatic performance
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • DANCE FORM: stage, traditional
    • KEYWORDS: royalty, drum, cymbal, flute, night, torch
  • s2528

    s2528

    • ARTIST: Jean-Baptiste Révillon (France, 1819-1869) (sculpture)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer of the Opéra. Plaster plaque - 2 (Danseuse de l'Opéra. Plaquette plâtre -2)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, monochrome, from a relief
    • DATE: 1904
    • DIMENSIONS: 4.5 x 3.4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6064

    p6064

    • ARTIST: August Berg (Sweden, 1885-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Norwegian Bondedans (Norsk Bondedans)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1860
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Norway
    • DANCE FORM: popular, ballroom
  • p6768

    p6768

    • ARTIST: J. G. Fuellhaas (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A ball twenty years ago (Ein Ball vor zwanzig Jahren)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1886
    • DIMENSIONS: 32.5 x 24.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • p8430

    p8430

    • ARTIST: Adolf Brütt (Germany, 1855-1939)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sword dancer (Schwerttänzerin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze
    • DATE: 1903
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Germany,
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: weapon, sword
  • p9744

    p9744

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer with tambourine (Danseuse au tambourin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze
    • DATE: 1883
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 28 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Inscribed "Degas", numbered and stamped with the foundry mark. The original model was executed between 1882 and 1895. It was cast in bronze between 1919 and 1921 by Adrien Hébrard in an edition of 24.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, solo
    • KEYWORDS: nude, tambourine,
  • p8712

    p8712

    • TITLE OF WORK: Turned up their noses at Lucy... and nicknamed her "Siddons junior"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1852
    • DIMENSIONS: 12.5 x 15.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration from "A story of a Columbine", by Angus B. Reach
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7548

    p7548

    • TITLE OF WORK: A collective recreational dance by negroes in Africa (Danza colectiva, gimnàstica, de negros en Africa)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1890
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Africa
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
  • s5932

    s5932

    • TITLE OF WORK: Figures dancing (?) probably within the context of ritual activities. Geometric skyphold cup
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, skyphold cup
    • DATE: -720
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: Mature Geometric period
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Geometric
  • p5830

    p5830

    • ARTIST: Josep Clarà i Ayats (Spain, 1878-1958)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora and her children (Isadora et ses enfants)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1912
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • s3790

    s3790

    • ARTIST: Sigurd Leeder (Germany, 1902-1981)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ludmila Mlada in "Dance suite" by Sigurd Leeder, 1955
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, charcoal
    • DATE: 1955
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
  • p1179

    p1179

    • ARTIST: Domingos Antonio de Sequeira (Portugal, 1768-1837)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The four parts of the world dancing around Venus
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuettes
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Central element of the Portuguese "surtout de table"
  • p6447

    p6447

    • ARTIST: D. A. Ferrier (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The missing partner
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1871
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.2 x 29.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • s5527

    s5527

    • ARTIST: Shunmo (Japan, 1900?-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, brush
    • DATE: 1870
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 20 x 15 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Japan
    • KEYWORDS: solo
  • p5388

    p5388

    • TITLE OF WORK: Maypole dance in the Strand, London
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1830
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: A scene of the 16th century
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p2777

    p2777

    • ARTIST: Auguste Gérardin (France, 1849-1924?) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Cinghalese in the Jardin d'Acclimatation. Devil's Dance (Les cynghalais au Jardin d'Acclimatation. La danse du Diable)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1886
    • DIMENSIONS: 20.2 x 30.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ceylon, Sri Lanka
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s1896

    s1896

    • TITLE OF WORK: Mlle. Radetzky, of the Staatsopera ballet
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture
    • DATE: 1926
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Photo sculpture, a Viennese novelty. The face is first greased with a tepid mass. Impressions of different parts of the face are taken at different times, the negative is then coated with a special pr
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria, Vienna
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p7956

    p7956

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance mask of the Bopope, representing an aquatic demon
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, wood, human hair, feathers
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 23 cm height of face
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: New Caledonia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: scenery, article, mask
  • s2610

    s2610

    • ARTIST: Alphonse de Neuville (France, 1835-1885) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Nautch girls or bayaderes at Haiderabad (Nautch girls ou bayadères, à Haiderabad)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1869
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 23.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Voyage dans l'Inde" by Alfred Grandidier
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India, Haiderabad
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular
  • s1698

    s1698

    • ARTIST: Antonio de La Gándara (France 1861-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ida Rubinstein
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p6086

    p6086

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer in the "suchipada" position of Odissi
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief
    • DATE: 1250
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • DANCE FORM: Odissi, traditional Indian
  • p6217

    p6217

    • ARTIST: Lynn Chadwick (U.K., 1914-2003)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing figures
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1952
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
  • s4083

    s4083

    • TITLE OF WORK: Satyr and maenad
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, silver plate
    • DATE: 325
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From the Mildenhall Treasure
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Byzantium
    • DANCE FORM: duo
  • p7401

    p7401

    • TITLE OF WORK: Universal Exhibition. The Turcos soldiers of the observation post imitate the female oriental dancers)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1884
    • DIMENSIONS: 11 x 16 cm
    • COMMENTS: A scene from the Universal Exhibition in Paris, 1867. The Turcos were French troops recruited in the North African colonies
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Algeria
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, folk, Oriental
    • KEYWORDS: military
  • p6068

    p6068

    • ARTIST: Gerhard Munthe (Norway, 1849-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: An afternoon in Eastland on St. Hans's day (En Östlandsk St. Hans Aften)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1870
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Norway
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p3639

    p3639

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Le Carnaval": Harlequin
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor and pencil on paper
    • DATE: 1910
    • COMMENTS: Music by Robert Schumann
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s0269

    s0269

    • ARTIST: Carl Böker (Germany, 1836-1905) (painting); C. Kühnlein (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Morning stroll of the Princess (Der Fürstin Morgenpromenade)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1887
    • DIMENSIONS: 23 x 34.6 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed "Carl Böker 1886"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: solo, popular, Oriental
    • KEYWORDS: royalty, Gypsy
  • p6984

    p6984

    • TITLE OF WORK: Act 2 of the ballet "Giselle"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1849
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p4303

    p4303

    • TITLE OF WORK: The scene of the vision of the Dryades from the ballet "Don Quichotte" in Saint Petersburg
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1871
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s6030

    s6030

    • TITLE OF WORK: Komast louterion rim. Terracotta fragment
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, terracotta
    • DATE: -505
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.8 cm width
    • COMMENTS: Two young nyde komasts dance near both sides of a table on top of which is a cup. Other komasts dance around a krater vase.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Etruria, Italy
  • s2714

    s2714

    • ARTIST: Vladimir Kirin (Croatia, 1894-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Croatian national dances, no. 12
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, postcard, color
    • DATE: 1970
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From a series of postcards, no. 12
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Croatia, Yugoslavia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, folk
  • p5997

    p5997

    • ARTIST: Denis Boissier
    • TITLE OF WORK: The white dancer (La danseuse blanche)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, terracotta, enameled
    • DATE: 1984
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6973

    p6973

    • ARTIST: Johann Gottfried Schadow (Germany, 1764-1850)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Salvatore Vigano and his wife Maria Medina Vigano
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen
    • DATE: 1790
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3161

    p3161

    • ARTIST: Louis Carrogis Carmontelle (France, 1717-1806) (painting); J. B. Tilliard (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Jean Dauberval and Marie Allard in a pas de deux pantomime in the opera "Sylvie"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1766
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet

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