Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • s2495

    s2495

    • TITLE OF WORK: Funeral customs of the Giague negroes (Funérailles des Nègres Giagues)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1732
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: West Africa
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
  • s4405

    s4405

    • ARTIST: Jules Grandjouan (France, 1875-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Aujourd'hui - Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, China ink on colored paper
    • DATE: 1937
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Executed from memory, after the death of Isadora Duncan
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
  • p3946

    p3946

    • ARTIST: Maurice Sand (France, 1823-1889) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The bourrée dance (La bourrée)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1851
    • DIMENSIONS: 13.5 x 14.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for an article on the Berry region of France
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, bourrée
  • p9931

    p9931

    • ARTIST: Hieronymus Janssens or Jeroom Janssens (Flanders, 1624-1693)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Party in the court of an elegant house, with couple of dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1680
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 60 x 92 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: court, couple
  • p1085

    p1085

    • ARTIST: Mettais (drawing); Alexandre Bida (France, 1813-1895) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Recounting a tale in a harem (Un récit dans l'intérieur d'un harem)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1870
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 20 x 15.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Turkey
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental
  • p8618

    p8618

    • ARTIST: Godefroy Engelmann (Germany, 1788-1839)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Young Ephesian throwing flowers in a lyrical tragedy, ballet of the 3d act (Jeune Ephésienne semant des fleurs dans une tragédie lyrique, ballet du 3e acte)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1810
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: theater
  • s4681

    s4681

    • ARTIST: Pieter Codde (Netherlands, 1599-1678)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancing lesson
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on wood
    • DATE: 1627
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Netherlands
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, couple
    • KEYWORDS: instruction
  • p4593

    p4593

    • TITLE OF WORK: Kalmyk Russian dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1750
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s6049

    s6049

    • TITLE OF WORK: A: Komos, woman playing pipes, youths with tympanon and torches
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, red-figure bell krater vase
    • DATE: -360
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Attica, Athens
  • p5724

    p5724

    • TITLE OF WORK: Sir Roger de Coverley. Christmas Eve. No. 13.
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, steel engraving
    • DATE: 1853
    • DIMENSIONS: 21 x 15.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • s0382

    s0382

    • ARTIST: Georges Wakhévitch (Ukraine, 1907-1984)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Decor design for the ballet "Beauty and the beast"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, gouache on paper laid down on board
    • DATE: 1955
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 53.3 x 71.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed. From the collection of Ruth Page. Wakhévitch executed this design for a ballet prepared by Ruth Page
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p1858

    p1858

    • ARTIST: Paul-Émile Bécat (France, 1885-1960)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Spanish dancer (2)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, colored
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, flamenco, Spanish dance
  • p5228

    p5228

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of the Warrau (Warrautanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1844
    • DIMENSIONS: 8.5 x 11 cm
    • COMMENTS: British Guyana
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Guyana, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s2582

    s2582

    • ARTIST: Jean-Baptiste Henri Durand-Brager (France, 1814-1879) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The jig at the dancing café (La gigue, au café dansant)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1865
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.9 x 16 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Une excursion dans les quartiers pauvres de Londres" by L. Simonin, 1862
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: popular, solo
  • p0001

    p0001

    • ARTIST: Edouard-Frédéric Richter (France, 1844-1913)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The soloist (La soliste)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, France
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental, solo
    • KEYWORDS: tambourine
  • s2954

    s2954

    • TITLE OF WORK: Relief on a marble fountain-basin
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, marble
    • DATE: 1600
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary
    • DANCE FORM: popular, traditional, round
  • p4116

    p4116

    • ARTIST: Adrien Marie (France, 1848-1891) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The fantastic farandole in the Arenas of Arles (La farandole fantastique dans les Arènes d'Arles)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1883
    • DIMENSIONS: 25 x 21 cm
    • COMMENTS: Le Théâtre Illustré. Opéra. La Farandole, ballet de MM. Ph. Gille, A. Mortier et Mérante; musique de M. Théodore Dubois.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Arles
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, farandole
  • s1580

    s1580

    • ARTIST: Louis-René Boquet (France, 1717-1814)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for A Demon
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, China ink and wash
    • DATE: 1743
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p0928

    p0928

    • ARTIST: Kees van Dongen (Netherlands, 1877-1968) (attributed to); Bourdelle, Antoine (attributed to)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1924
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p0022

    p0022

    • ARTIST: André Dunoyer de Segonzac (France, 1884-1974)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Warrior's dance of Isadora Duncan (La danse du guerrier d'Isadora Duncan)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, ink
    • DATE: 1910
    • DIMENSIONS: 25 x 36 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan, war
  • p6294

    p6294

    • ARTIST: Max Beckmann (Germany, 1884-1950)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Kaschemme
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1922
    • DIMENSIONS: 68.5 x 62.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: From the series "Berliner Reise"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p3738

    p3738

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "La belle au bois dormant" (The sleeping princess or The sleeping beauty): The Wolf
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor, gouache, pencil, silver and gold on paper
    • DATE: 1921
    • DIMENSIONS: 48.5 x 33 cm
    • COMMENTS: Music by Piotr Tchaikovsky
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p0880

    p0880

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Three dancers at rest (Trois danseurs au repos)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, ink
    • DATE: 1925
    • DIMENSIONS: 35 x 25 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Monaco, Monte Carlo
  • p8813

    p8813

    • ARTIST: George Knapp (U.S.A., 1833-1910) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Saint John's festival customs in the Middle Ages (Johannisfestbräuche im Mittelalter)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1883
    • DIMENSIONS: 18.5 x 23.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple
  • p5609

    p5609

    • ARTIST: Albert Guillaume (France 1873-1942)
    • TITLE OF WORK: By proxy (Par procuration)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p1976

    p1976

    • ARTIST: Theyre Lee-Elliott (U.K., 1903-1988)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Alan Carter in "Harlequin in the street"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1947
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s1251

    s1251

    • TITLE OF WORK: A riotous dancing party escorted by watch from old "Evans", Covent Garden, to the watch-house
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1925
    • DIMENSIONS: 14 x 23 cm
    • COMMENTS: The night club evil in the West... a hundred years ago
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • KEYWORDS: police
  • p8672

    p8672

    • TITLE OF WORK: Christmas celebration in Andalusia. Night dances in Sevilla (La fête de Noël en Andalousie. Les danses de la nuit de Noël à Séville)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1890
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.8 x 31.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular
  • p6891

    p6891

    • ARTIST: Georges Lepape (France, 1887-1971)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Fox Trot. An envelopping, caressing perfume (Fox-trot. Modes et manières d'aujourd'hui)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1919
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, fox-trot
  • p7795

    p7795

    • TITLE OF WORK: Lüderen Polka, Emmental
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1949
    • DIMENSIONS: 13 x 10.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Switzerland
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • s4018

    s4018

    • ARTIST: Jacques Villon (France, 1875-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Cakewalk of the small girls (Le cake-walk des petites filles)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, aquatint study
    • DATE: 1904
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: cakewalk
  • s2724

    s2724

    • ARTIST: Vladimir Kirin (Croatia, 1894-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Serbian national dances, no. 24
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, postcard, color
    • DATE: 1970
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From a series of postcards, no. 24
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Serbia, Yugoslavia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, folk
  • p4836

    p4836

    • TITLE OF WORK: Negro dance in a Cuban plantation
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1859
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Cuba, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: Black
  • s3581

    s3581

    • ARTIST: Kàroly Lotz (Hungary, 1833-1904)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Peasnt wedding (Parasztlakodalom)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1858
    • DIMENSIONS: 54.7 x 85.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • s0529

    s0529

    • ARTIST: Josep Clarà i Ayats (Spain, 1878-1958)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1903
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Inscribed with pencil: "A l'éminent archéologe (sic) et cher ami Alex. Philadelpheus" (To the eminent archeologist and dear friend Alex. Philadelpheus". Gift of Clara to Greek archeologist Alexander P
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., Spain
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p3156

    p3156

    • TITLE OF WORK: Mademoiselle Subligny
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1700
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p8421

    p8421

    • ARTIST: Franz Eisenhut (Hungary, 1857-1903) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Kirghisian or Circassian dance (Tscherkessentanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1894
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.2 x 30 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, Cherkessiya, Abkhasia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • p6698

    p6698

    • ARTIST: C. Hartmann (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A horse market in Pest, Hungary (Ein Pferdemarkt in Ungarn, Pesth)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1865
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.3 x 32 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s1602

    s1602

    • ARTIST: Yves Saint Laurent (France, 1936-2008)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Spectacle Zizi Jeanmaire"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1961
    • COMMENTS: "Spectacle Zizi Jeanmaire", ballet; directed by Roland Petit. Théeâtre de l'Alhambra, Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p7336

    p7336

    • ARTIST: Valentin Serov (Russia, 1865-1911)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Tamara Karsavina
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch, lead pencil on paper
    • DATE: 1909
    • DIMENSIONS: 42.8 x 26.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p6890

    p6890

    • ARTIST: Georges Lepape (France, 1887-1971)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The God Tango (Le Dieu Tango)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache and gold (now peeled)
    • DATE: 1914
    • DIMENSIONS: 36 x 26 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: tango, ballroom, couple
  • p1996

    p1996

    • ARTIST: Theyre Lee-Elliott (U.K., 1903-1988)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers under a blue light
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1947
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p5517

    p5517

    • ARTIST: Paul Colin (France, 1892-1985) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The fantastic extravaganza of Loie Fuller. Champs Elysees music hall (Les féeries fantastiques de la Loïe Fuller. Champs élysées music hall)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1925
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • s3561

    s3561

    • TITLE OF WORK: Oriental dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, solo
  • s2873

    s2873

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Golden Festival at Valparaiso (Les Fêtes d'Or à Valparaiso)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1879
    • DIMENSIONS: 8.9 x 15.3 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the play "Les enfants du Capitaine Grant" by Jules Verne and A. d'Ennery, presented ffirst at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint Martin, Paris, on 26/12/1878
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Chile, Valparaiso, France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s3785

    s3785

    • TITLE OF WORK: Mignon
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, postcard
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 13.9 x 8.9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: Traditional, solo
    • KEYWORDS: tambourine, carpet
  • s3631

    s3631

    • ARTIST: Cornelis Dusart (Netherlands, 1660-1704)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing couple
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1675
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Belgium, Holland
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • s0739

    s0739

    • TITLE OF WORK: Christmas pantomimes. Drury Lane, Haymarket, Princess'
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1856
    • DIMENSIONS: 34 x 23.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, stage
  • p7097

    p7097

    • TITLE OF WORK: Mme Tuczynowicz and Mr. Krzesinski of the Warsaw Ballet, performing in the Cracow costume
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1999

    p1999

    • ARTIST: Theyre Lee-Elliott (U.K., 1903-1988)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Michael Somes and Pamela May in "The wanderer"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1947
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet

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