Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p2143

    p2143

    • ARTIST: Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov (Russia, 1881-1964)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Bronislava Nijinska directing a rehearsal in Monte-Carlo
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and China ink
    • DATE: 1949
    • DIMENSIONS: 31 x 19.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: The first dancer in front, hands raised, is André Eglevsky (1917 Moscow - ?). He danced with the "Ballets de Monte-Carlo" since 1932 and was étoile of the "Grand Ballet du Marquis de Cuevas" 1946-1950
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1117

    p1117

    • ARTIST: Peeter Gijzels (Netherlands, 1621-1690)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Flemish kirmess
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, copper
    • DATE: 1687
    • DIMENSIONS: 60 x 83 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Belgium, Flanders
    • DANCE FORM: country
  • s4342

    s4342

    • ARTIST: Skopas (Greece, 395? BC-350 BC)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Maenad
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture
    • DATE: -350
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
  • p2786

    p2786

    • ARTIST: H. Hornualle (?)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Arin-arin, a dance of the Basque Coast. After the Basque folk dance group Oldarra-Biarritz (Arin-arin, danse de la Côte Basque. D'après de groupe basque Oldarra-Biarritz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1960
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: folk, arin-arin, Spanish dance
  • p7839

    p7839

    • TITLE OF WORK: Marie Allard in the opera-ballet "Les festes d'Hébé"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1749
    • COMMENTS: "Les festes d'Hébé", opéra-ballet by Cahusac and Rameau, 1749
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: opera
  • p3971

    p3971

    • ARTIST: Paula Rego (Portugal, 1935-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing ostriches from Disney's "Fantasia"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pastel on paper mounted on aluminium
    • DATE: 1995
    • DIMENSIONS: 150 x 150 cm
    • COMMENTS: Part of a triptych
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Portugal
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p4085

    p4085

    • ARTIST: Gerrit Lundens (Netherlands, 1622-1683)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing girl (Tanzendes Mädchen)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1670
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s2583

    s2583

    • ARTIST: Thompson (sketch); Émile-Antoine Bayard (France, 1837-1891) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Maori war dance (Danse de guerre des Maoris)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1865
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 24 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Voyage à la Nouvelle-Zélande" by Ferdinand de Hochstetter, 1858-1860
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: New Zealand
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, armed
    • KEYWORDS: weapon, rifles
  • p7954

    p7954

    • TITLE OF WORK: Caneça (The elephant headed god) or Ganapati (Chief of the dwarfs) dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache on canvas
    • DATE: 1875
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 152 x 116 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Mongolia
    • KEYWORDS: animal, deity, divinity
  • s2113

    s2113

    • ARTIST: André Derain (France, 1880-1954)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume project for "Jack in the box": Dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1926
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p0543

    p0543

    • ARTIST: Armand Rassenfosse (Belgium, 1862-1934)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer with ribbons (La danseuse aux rubans)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on carton, pencil and gouache
    • DATE: 1921
    • DIMENSIONS: 79 x 59 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • s5916

    s5916

    • TITLE OF WORK: Gorgon plaque with incised figure of a dancing Satyr, c. 525-475 BC
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, plaque, terracotta
    • DATE: -500
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 6.7 x 6.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: Greece, South Italy, Taranto, 6th-5th century BC
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, South Italy
  • s6081

    s6081

    • 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.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Attica, Athens
  • p9828

    p9828

    • TITLE OF WORK: Indian dancer and musicians
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.1 x 14.9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • DANCE FORM: Traditional, solo
  • s0027

    s0027

    • ARTIST: François Sicard (France, 1862-1934)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Denise - dance of the shawl (Denise - danse de l'écharpe)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, marble
    • DATE: 1914
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: shawl, child
  • s2922

    s2922

    • TITLE OF WORK: "Ballet royal de l'Alcidiane" - Title of the original edition ("Ballet royal de l'Alcidiane" - Titre de l'édition originale)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1658
    • COMMENTS: Danced by His Majesty on 14/02/1658
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, theatrical, stage, court
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • s2997

    s2997

    • ARTIST: Toto Fornari
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance costumes for a ballet by Casella
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s3016

    s3016

    • ARTIST: Parys (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "The following year," a review by Messrs Clairville, Vély and Vallin, presented at the New Theatre
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1896
    • DIMENSIONS: 32.5 x 23.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, ballet
    • KEYWORDS: review
  • p2639

    p2639

    • ARTIST: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, 1880-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Naked dancer with ballet (Nackte Tänzerin mit Ballett)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, ink pen
    • DATE: 1909
    • DIMENSIONS: 20.3 x 16.9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • p3765

    p3765

    • ARTIST: Richard Ziegler (Germany, 1891-1992)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1945
    • DANCE FORM: flamenco, Spanish dance
  • p0740

    p0740

    • TITLE OF WORK: The ball (Le bal)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, poster
    • DATE: 1983
    • COMMENTS: For the film "Le bal" by Ettore Scola
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • p8242

    p8242

    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancers of the king of the Zulus (Danseuses du roi des Zoulous)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1872
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 11.1 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: South Africa, France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p8988

    p8988

    • ARTIST: Leo von Elliot (Germany, 1816-1890) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The national holiday in Paris: The ball in the Market Halls (Das Nationalfest in Paris: Der Ball in den Markthallen)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1878
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.3 x 34.9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s1770

    s1770

    • ARTIST: Franca Squarciapino (Italy, 1940-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "La bayadère"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1992
    • COMMENTS: "La bayadère", ballet by the Paris Opera, choreography by Rudelf Noureev, 1993
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, India, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p4365

    p4365

    • ARTIST: Jean Bérain the Elder (France, 1638-1711)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from the ballet "Le songe d'Atys"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1680
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s0319

    s0319

    • ARTIST: Jules Chéret (France, 1836-1932)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A woman dancing with two masks
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, charcoal and gouache
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 92 x 74 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: solo, modern
    • KEYWORDS: mask
  • p4963

    p4963

    • TITLE OF WORK: A scene from Praise Dance, executed at the Josefstädter Theater in Vienna (Scene aus dem Lobtentanz, ausgeführt auf dem Josefstädter Theater in Wien)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1844
    • DIMENSIONS: 18 x 24 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria, Vienna
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s3708

    s3708

    • ARTIST: Henri (de) Gissey (France, 1621-1673) (workshop of)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Ballet of the feasts of Bacchus", 30th entry ("Ballet des fêtes de Bacchus", 30th entrée)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen, wash and gouache, touched with gold
    • DATE: 1651
    • DIMENSIONS: 33.7 x 45 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, court
    • KEYWORDS: sets
  • p0683

    p0683

    • ARTIST: Fortris (sketch)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Yaizico, dance of the sticks, executed by the Basques on their holiday of 15 September (La Yaizico, danse des bâtons, exécutée par les Basques le jour de leur fête, le 15 septembre)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1861
    • DIMENSIONS: 14.5 x 22.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Basque, Spain, Biskaia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, folk
    • KEYWORDS: sticks
  • s4258

    s4258

    • TITLE OF WORK: Folies-Bergère. Cléo de Mérode
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color poster
    • DATE: 1890
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 76 x 118 cm
    • COMMENTS: Imprimerie et publicité Charles Verneau
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, music-hall, solo
  • p5064

    p5064

    • ARTIST: Jean-Gabriel Domergue (France, 1889-1962)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Josephine Baker, nude portrait
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1948
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 100 x 75 cm
    • COMMENTS: Folies-Bergère, Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p5137

    p5137

    • ARTIST: Katherine "Kay" Ambrose, (U.K., 1914-1971)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Hamlet", ballet by Robert Helpmann
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1942
    • COMMENTS: Margot Fonteyn as Ophelia, Robert Helpmann as Hamlet, Jack Hart as Laertes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3021

    p3021

    • ARTIST: Friedrich August von Kaulbach (Germany, 1850-1920)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel
    • DATE: 1902
    • COMMENTS: Painted in Munich
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • s0969

    s0969

    • ARTIST: Hans Holbein (Germany, ca. 1497-1543); François dit Janet Clouet (France, ca. 1515-1572) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Henry the 8th, Anne Boleyn and others. The "Dancing picture"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1890
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.5 x 13.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: court, couple
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • s2370

    s2370

    • TITLE OF WORK: Graphic motifs 15
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1995
    • KEYWORDS: clip art
  • p6252

    p6252

    • ARTIST: Claude Michel "Clodion" (France, 1738-1814)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Satyr playing the flute for a nymph listening and two children satyrs dancing (Satyre jouant la fl?te devant une nymphe qui l'écoute et deux satyres enfants dansant)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, terracotta
    • DATE: 1773
    • DIMENSIONS: 33 height x 36.2 length x 2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • s5012

    s5012

    • ARTIST: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (France, 1864-1901)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Jane Avril
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor and gouache over silver print photograph
    • DATE: 1893
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 24.5 x 18.3 cm
    • COMMENTS: Estimated at 365,000-510,000 euros
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: cabaret, music-hall
  • s5389

    s5389

    • ARTIST: Albert von Keller (Germany, 1844-1920)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Anni Söldner in a veil robe (Im Schleiergewand, Anni Söldner)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on wood
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 43 x 22.5 cm
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • s3200

    s3200

    • ARTIST: May Néama (1917-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Marie Taglioni in "God and tha Nautch", 1830 (Marie Taglioni "Le dieu et la bayadère", 1830)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1969
    • DIMENSIONS: 18 x 12 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the book "80 récits sur la danse" edited by the artist
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: solo, ballet
  • s0227

    s0227

    • ARTIST: Gustav Sundblad (Germany, 1835-1891) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A painter in the Bavarian mountains. In the village inn (Ein Maler im bairischen Gebirge. In der Dorfschenke)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1865
    • DIMENSIONS: 7.3 x 9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Bavaria
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, couple
  • p1143

    p1143

    • ARTIST: Jacques Callot (France, 1592-1635)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A dance from "I capriccii"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1617
    • COMMENTS: From the Comedia dellarte
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • KEYWORDS: theater
  • p1624

    p1624

    • TITLE OF WORK: Allegory (Allégorie)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1570
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Unknown painter of the Fontainebleau school
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • p3108

    p3108

    • ARTIST: John Durang (U.S.A., 1768-1822)
    • TITLE OF WORK: John Durang in "The Highland Fling"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1795
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s3075

    s3075

    • ARTIST: Serge Lifar (Ukraine, 1905-1986)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sketches for the choreography of "Icarus" (Croquis pour la chorégraphie d'"Icare")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1935
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: notation
  • p6752

    p6752

    • ARTIST: Réné Gruau (Italy, 1909-2004)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Ciné bijou", by Roland Petit
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1953
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s2028

    s2028

    • ARTIST: Tadashi Kawamata (Japan, 1953-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Couple dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1995
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Japan
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p4921

    p4921

    • TITLE OF WORK: Loca! Tango
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, cover of a music score
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Argentina
    • DANCE FORM: tango, ballroom, popular, couple
  • s5216

    s5216

    • TITLE OF WORK: Lola Montez and her following. Reminder Journal of the events on 9, 10 and 11 February 1848 in Munich
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, monochrome
    • DATE: 1848
    • DIMENSIONS: 45.5 x 31 cm
    • COMMENTS: Lola Montez was lover of King Ludwig I of Bavaria
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Munich
    • DANCE FORM: flamenco, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: humor, politics, caricature
  • p8895

    p8895

    • ARTIST: Victor Coindre (France, 1816-18??)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Carlotta Grisi and Lucien Petipa in the pas de deux of act 1 of the ballet "Giselle"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s3780

    s3780

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing the tarantella at the bay of Naples
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, postcard, color, lithograph
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Naples, Napoli
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
    • KEYWORDS: mandolin, pipe

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