Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p0346

    p0346

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Two dancers (Deux danseuses)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel on paper
    • DATE: 1898
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 95.5 x 87 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s2815

    s2815

    • ARTIST: Eugène Ronjat (1822-1912) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Lances' dance (Danse des lances)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1880
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.9 x 9.9 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Six semaines à Java"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Java, Indonesia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, armed
    • KEYWORDS: weapon, lance, armed
  • s0742

    s0742

    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from the new ballet of "Acalista", at Her Majesty's Theatre
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1857
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.1 x 22.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: tambourine
  • s2540

    s2540

    • ARTIST: Thomas Daniell (U.K., 1749-1840)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A Banian, sacred tree, in a sanctuary of Shiva
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1800
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 94 x 135 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, solo
  • s5087

    s5087

    • ARTIST: Walter Schnackenberg (1880-1961)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Odeon casino, poster
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1925
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • p6292

    p6292

    • ARTIST: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, 1880-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Blonde Pippa in white dance costume with umbrella (Blonde Pippa in weissem Tanzkostüm mit Schirm)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, copper
    • DATE: 1908
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 24 x 18 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • p8952

    p8952

    • ARTIST: Alexander Nikolaevich Benois (Russia, 1870-1960)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Petrouchka". "La cellule du Maure"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor and gold on paper
    • DATE: 1911
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • s4207

    s4207

    • ARTIST: Ferdinand Freiherr von ?ezní?ek (Austria, 1868-1909)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Minuet (Menuett)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1906
    • DIMENSIONS: 38 x 27 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: minuet, court, couple
  • p0003

    p0003

    • ARTIST: Auguste Rodin (France, 1840-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance movement (Mouvement de danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture
    • DATE: 1908
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p4386

    p4386

    • TITLE OF WORK: Pas de quatre by Fanny Cerrito, Lucile Grahn, Marie Taglioni and Carlotta Grisi
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1845
    • COMMENTS: The four ballerinas appeared together at London's Her Majesty's Theatre, in 1845, in a choreography by Jules Perrot. Marie Taglioni is pictured here kneeling. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were amo
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., France, Denmark
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p4433

    p4433

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan - Gravitation
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1911
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p3574

    p3574

    • ARTIST: Guzzi (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance in Delos at the feast of Diana (Danza in Delo nella festa di Diana)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1840
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.9 x 25.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: From an unidentified book (Proferio?)
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Greece, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: tambourine, horn, deity, religion
  • p4971

    p4971

    • TITLE OF WORK: The blue dove (La paloma azul)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1940
    • COMMENTS: Emblem of the Association "La paloma azul", dedicated to the promotion of the fine arts in Mexico
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Mexico
  • s2362

    s2362

    • TITLE OF WORK: Graphic motifs 07
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1995
    • KEYWORDS: clip art
  • p9693

    p9693

    • ARTIST: Edoardo Gelli (Italy, 1852-1933)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing in a tavern
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1882
    • DIMENSIONS: 94 x 197 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated 1882 at upper left
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p6819

    p6819

    • ARTIST: Sophie Fedorovitch (Russia, 1893-1953)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Mephisto valse" by Frederick Ashton
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1934
    • COMMENTS: Rambert Dance Company
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p4022

    p4022

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer bowing with a bouquet (Danseuse au bouquet saluant)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, charcoal heightened
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p4560

    p4560

    • ARTIST: Prieur (drawing); Pierre Gabriel Berthault (France, 1748?-1819?) (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Celebrations and illuminations at the Champs Elysées on 18/07/1790 (Fêtes et illuminations aux Champs-Elysées, le 18 juillet 1790)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, copper
    • DATE: 1790
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.3 x 25.1 cm
    • COMMENTS: Celebrations and illuminations on the Champs-Elysées, on 18/07/1790. From the series "Tableaux historiques de la Révolution française", No. 41.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p1222

    p1222

    • ARTIST: André Derain (France, 1880-1954)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Two dancers (Deux danseuses)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1927
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 65 x 53 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s0520

    s0520

    • ARTIST: Henri Matisse (France, 1869-1954)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer at the mirror (Danseuse au miroir)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1927
    • DIMENSIONS: 55.7 x 39.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed in pencil and numbered. Plate 104 from the series "Dix danseuses", published by Galerie d'Art Contemporain, Paris, 1927.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: off-stage
  • s3730

    s3730

    • ARTIST: Henri (de) Gissey (France, 1621-1673) (workshop of)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Ballet of the feasts of Bacchus". The God of Sleep ("Ballet des fêtes de Bacchus": Dieu du sommeil (God of sleep))
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen, wash and gouache
    • DATE: 1651
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.7 x 22.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Played by Charles or Henry de Beaubrun, both designers and painters
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, court
    • KEYWORDS: crowned with poppies
  • p5920

    p5920

    • TITLE OF WORK: Death dance (Totentanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1493
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p5497

    p5497

    • TITLE OF WORK: The minuet in the hall of the throne. Costumed ball of Queen Victoria (Die Menuet im Thronsaale. Der Costümball der Königin Victoria)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1845
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 23 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • s1515

    s1515

    • TITLE OF WORK: A night scene at Harry Hill's concert saloon
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1928
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.5 x 14 cm
    • COMMENTS: From the book "The gangs of New York" by Herbert Ashbury.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., New York
  • p7536

    p7536

    • ARTIST: Louis Legrand (France, 1863-1951)
    • TITLE OF WORK: In front of the mirror (Devant la glace)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, etching
    • DATE: 1908
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • s6050

    s6050

    • ARTIST: Eeucharides Painter (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: BD: Komos, youths, one dancing, one with chlamys and staff, skyphos on ground
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, red-figure hydria vase
    • DATE: -480
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Attica, Athens
  • s3302

    s3302

    • TITLE OF WORK: Peasants dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on board
    • DATE: 1890
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 89 x 124cm
    • COMMENTS: Continental School (19th century), indistinctly signed,
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p4322

    p4322

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Narcisse": Béotien (danced by Vaslav Nijinsky)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil, watercolor and gouache on paper
    • DATE: 1911
    • COMMENTS: "Narcisse", ballet by the Ballets Russes, 1911, Théâtre du Casino, Monte Carlo. Choreography by Mikhail Fokine; music by Nikolai Tcherepnin.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Russia, France, Monaco, Monte Carlo,
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p8343

    p8343

    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from the children's burlesque play at the Haymarket Theatre
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1867
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.9 x 23.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • s0013

    s0013

    • ARTIST: Koloman Moser (Austria, 1868-1918)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer (Tänzerin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and China ink
    • DATE: 1904
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.5 x 19.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Design for metal works of the Wiener Werkstätte, Vienna
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria, Vienna
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • p0407

    p0407

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of the "monkey in trance"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1860
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Men dancing in the night around a torch to celebrate the Ketjak, or dance of the "monkey in trance"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Bali, Indonesia
    • KEYWORDS: animal
  • s0012

    s0012

    • ARTIST: Koloman Moser (Austria, 1868-1918)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer (Tänzerin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and China ink
    • DATE: 1904
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 23 x 19.3 cm
    • COMMENTS: Design for metal works of the Wiener Werkstätte, Vienna
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria, Vienna
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • p6526

    p6526

    • ARTIST: Théodore Rivière (France, 1857-1912)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Bust of Loïe Fuller (Buste de Loïe Fuller)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, marble
    • DATE: 1898
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.5 x 24.1 x 16.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Inscribed on the base "Théodore Rivière"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p5154

    p5154

    • ARTIST: Katherine "Kay" Ambrose, (U.K., 1914-1971)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Drawings for dancers only - Uninitiated please skip
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1945
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • p5845

    p5845

    • ARTIST: Georges Crouzat (France, 1904-1976)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Branle des Vignerons dance of Bourgogne (Branle des vignerons - Bourgogne)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, bronze, medal
    • DATE: 1990
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 4.7 cm diameter
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: folk
  • p4672

    p4672

    • ARTIST: Hieronymus Janssens or Jeroom Janssens (Flanders, 1624-1693)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance scene
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1650
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • s2445

    s2445

    • TITLE OF WORK: Passengers and crew of "Admiral Gueydon" shipwrecked on the coast of Africa (Les passagers et l'équipage de l'"Amiral-Gueydon" naufragés sur la côte d'Afrique)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1903
    • DIMENSIONS: 25.8 x 36.4 cm
    • COMMENTS: Between Aden and Muscat
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Aden, Muscat
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, armed
    • KEYWORDS: weapon, lances, rifles, knife
  • p5160

    p5160

    • ARTIST: Katherine "Kay" Ambrose, (U.K., 1914-1971)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tatiana Riabouchinska in the ballet "Paganini", in London
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1942
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p9852

    p9852

    • ARTIST: Ernest Azéma (France, 1871-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The flamenco dancer (La danseuse de flamenco)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1912
    • DIMENSIONS: 116 x 89 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated at lower left
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France
    • DANCE FORM: flamenco, Spanish dance, popular, traditional, stage, solo
  • p4001

    p4001

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917) & Ludovic-Napoléon Lepic (France, 1839-1889)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The ballet master (Le maître de ballet)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, monotype heightened with ink and wash
    • DATE: 1876
    • DIMENSIONS: 56.5 x 70 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed "Lepic Degas"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s2313

    s2313

    • ARTIST: Anthony Nellé (U.S.A., 1894-1977)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Set design for the film "Es leuchten die Sterne": The twelve signs of the zodiac
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1936
    • COMMENTS: For the German film "Es leuchten die Sterne", Berlin 1936
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland, U.S.A., Germany
  • p2879

    p2879

    • ARTIST: Marken
    • TITLE OF WORK: Picturesque Holland (La Hollande pittoresque)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Holland
    • DANCE FORM: folk
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p7407

    p7407

    • ARTIST: George Montbard (France, 1841-1905)
    • TITLE OF WORK: An Egyptian dancing girl
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1884
    • DIMENSIONS: 30.5 x 41.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Egypt
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, folk, Oriental
  • p3700

    p3700

    • ARTIST: Albert Chazelle (France, 19??-1974)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The clown. Bal du Moulin Rouge, Paris (Le Clown. Bal du Moulin Rouge, Paris)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1925
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Postcard
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p9302

    p9302

    • ARTIST: Adolphe Willette (France, 1857-1926)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 100 x 31 cm
    • COMMENTS: Strengthened signature
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • p2133

    p2133

    • ARTIST: Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov (Russia, 1881-1964)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Serge Lifar dancing in front of Serge Diaghilev
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and China ink
    • DATE: 1924
    • DIMENSIONS: 18 x 27 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1010

    p1010

    • ARTIST: Theophilos Hadjimichail (Greece, 1867-1934)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The mayor of Megara. Dance of the Evzones, peasants and girls at Megara (O Dimarchos ton Megaron. O choros ton evzonon chorikon kai despinidon eis ta Megara)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1933
    • DIMENSIONS: 76.5 x 179 cm
    • COMMENTS: Megara is a village near Athens, known for its local dance called Trata
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Megara
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
  • p6461

    p6461

    • ARTIST: Gladys Hight
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sketches for the "Loïe Fuller butterfly wings dance"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1963
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p2301

    p2301

    • ARTIST: Henry Mayo Bateman (U.K., 1887-1970)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Anna Pavlova and Novikov (or Novikoff)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, caricature, cartoon
    • DATE: 1913
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7384

    p7384

    • ARTIST: Friedrich August von Kaulbach (Germany, 1850-1920)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ruth Saint-Denis
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1907
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 205 x 91 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern, music-hall, solo

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