Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • s0873

    s0873

    • ARTIST: William Small (U.K., 1843-1929) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "The audience", observed Lord Rockminster, "would distinctly prefer to have the song sung"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1889
    • DIMENSIONS: 17.1 x 22.6 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration from the novel The new Prince Fortunatus" by William Black
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: stage
    • KEYWORDS: theater
  • p6841

    p6841

    • ARTIST: Hermann Lüders (Germany, 1836-1908) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The wedding of Prince William of Prussia in Berlin (Die Hochzeit des Prinzen Wilhelm von Preussen in Berlin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1881
    • DIMENSIONS: 14.2 x 20 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Prussia
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, court
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • p2545

    p2545

    • ARTIST: Alphonse León Noël (France, 1807-1884) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Marie Taglioni
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1833
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p8269

    p8269

    • ARTIST: Ludwig Bechstein (Germany, 1843-1914) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Entry of the New Year (Neujahrsantritt)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1884
    • DIMENSIONS: 12 x 8.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • s2890

    s2890

    • ARTIST: Daniel Vierge (Spain, 1851-1904) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "King of Lahore" at the Opera - The paradise of Indra ("Le roi de Lahore" à l'Opéra - Le paradis d'Indra)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1877
    • DIMENSIONS: 20.5 x 15.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India, Lahore, France
    • DANCE FORM: stage, classical ballet
  • p2277

    p2277

    • TITLE OF WORK: Carnival feast at Potosif (Fêtes du carnaval à Potosif)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 13 x 20 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: South America
  • p3288

    p3288

    • ARTIST: Yannis Tsarouchis (Greece, 1910-1989)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sailor dancing Zeibekiko, 12-4-78
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel on painted background
    • DATE: 1978
    • DIMENSIONS: 27.2 x 17 cm
    • COMMENTS: Dated 12/04/1978
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: popular, Zeibekiko, Greek, rebetiko
    • KEYWORDS: military, rebetiko
  • p5432

    p5432

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Kerchief Waltz (Waltzer au mouchoir)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1793
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p2819

    p2819

    • ARTIST: Elli Solomonidi-Balanou (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Final scene of the ballet "Encounter". Classical Ballet of Mexico.
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, black ink on paper
    • DATE: 1968
    • COMMENTS: Music by Benjamin Britten. Athens, Herodus Atticus Theater, 1968.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
  • p8836

    p8836

    • ARTIST: Wilhelm Gause (Austria, 1853-1916) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from the new ballet "Beautiful Melusine" (Scene aus dem neuen Ballet "Die schöne Melusine")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1882
    • DIMENSIONS: 17.8 x 23.4 cm
    • COMMENTS: From the performance in the Vienna City Opera. With prima ballerina Cerale
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria, Vienna
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: opera
  • p7320

    p7320

    • ARTIST: Winslow Homer (U.S.A., 1836-1910)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A summer night
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1890
    • DIMENSIONS: 77 x 101 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, popular
  • p2741

    p2741

    • ARTIST: Albert Pénot (France, 1862-1930)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer with red veil (Danseuse au voile rouge)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1915
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • p6657

    p6657

    • ARTIST: Grinsson
    • TITLE OF WORK: "La reine de Broadway" (Cover girl), Rita Hayworth, Gene Kelly
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1944
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: cinema
  • p2733

    p2733

    • ARTIST: Eugène-Paul Mesplès (France, 1849-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A l'Opéra, fantaisie sur un ballet connu (At the Opera, fantasy on a known ballet)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1912
    • COMMENTS: Presented at the Salon de Paris 1912.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s1123

    s1123

    • ARTIST: Joseph Bernard (France, 1866-1931) (sculpture)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance frieze (Frise de la danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1925
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.5 x 20.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: Cour des Métiers, Exposition de Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France, Paris,
    • DANCE FORM: couple
  • p6468

    p6468

    • TITLE OF WORK: Loïe Fuller in the initial position of "La danse serpentine"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1892
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p3518

    p3518

    • ARTIST: Salvador Dalí (Spain, 1904-1989)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Bacchanale. Surrealist costumes
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1939
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p0570

    p0570

    • ARTIST: Charles Amédée de Noé or Cham (France, 1818-1879)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Théophile Gautier and Amalia Ferraris repeating "Sacountala"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, caricature, cartoon
    • DATE: 1858
    • COMMENTS: Th. Gautier was writing ballet critiques in "La presse" from 1836 to 1855.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p9007

    p9007

    • ARTIST: Nathaniel Sichel (Germany, 1843-1907) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "The bayadère", Indian dancing girl
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1889
    • DIMENSIONS: 28.8 x 21.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, India
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, Oriental
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p6136

    p6136

    • ARTIST: Jean René Bazaine (France, 1904-2001)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Pour Janine Charrat
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1962
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s1766

    s1766

    • TITLE OF WORK: The death of the bayadère Nikiya in the ballet by Marius Petipa
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1877
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Russia, India
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p4596

    p4596

    • TITLE OF WORK: Anwerbung der Tiroler Schützen
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1703
    • DIMENSIONS: 54.2 x 76 cm
    • COMMENTS: Recruiting state guards, a farewell dance
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: military
  • p8219

    p8219

    • ARTIST: Oliver Smith (U.S.A., 1918-1994)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Backcloth design for the ballet "Rodeo"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1942
    • COMMENTS: "Rodeo", a ballet on music by Copeland, design by Smith, choreography by de Mille; first given by the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, 16/10/1942
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p0399

    p0399

    • ARTIST: Athenian painter
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer with "crotala" and flute player
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on red figure vase
    • DATE: -450
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: Red-figured Athenian stamnos (short-necked wine vessel)
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Attica, Athens
  • s2644

    s2644

    • TITLE OF WORK: The joy of life
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1921
    • DIMENSIONS: 7 x 10 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular, round
  • p1083

    p1083

    • ARTIST: Pieter Brueghel the Elder (Flanders, 1525-1569) (after)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The kermess of Hoboken
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1570
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 29.7 x 41 cm
    • COMMENTS: Similar to "The kermess of Hoboken", or "of Saint George", a lost painting by Bruegel whose several copies are known.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p7427

    p7427

    • ARTIST: Henri Matisse (France, 1869-1954)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer (Danseuse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1931
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3786

    p3786

    • TITLE OF WORK: Watching Fanny Cerrito at Her Majesty's Theatre, London
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1841
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6722

    p6722

    • TITLE OF WORK: Courante
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1897
    • DIMENSIONS: 10.8 x 6.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: From a performance of historical dances by Mlle Sandrini of the Paris Opéra; choreography by Laure Fonta, lecture by Professor Bourgault-Ducoudray
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court, stage
  • s3419

    s3419

    • TITLE OF WORK: Two naked men, probably buffoons, dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on vase
    • DATE: -200
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 35 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Arric amphor with black figure painting of the attic-corinthian or tyrrenic school
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Dodecanese, Rhodes
    • DANCE FORM: popular, duo, comic
  • s1260

    s1260

    • TITLE OF WORK: British Empire Exhibition
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1925
    • DIMENSIONS: 22 x 23 cm
    • COMMENTS: At the gates of Wembley, London
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London, Wembley
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: advertisement
  • s4808

    s4808

    • ARTIST: Etienne Dinet (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Khadra, Ouled-Naïl dancer (Khadra, danseuse Ouled-Naïl)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, cover
    • DATE: 1926
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Algeria
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, Oriental
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • s3445

    s3445

    • ARTIST: Jack Vetriano (U.K., 1951-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Waltzers (Valseurs)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1990
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 60 x 80 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Scotland
    • DANCE FORM: Waltz, couple
  • p7818

    p7818

    • ARTIST: Lorent Lorenz
    • TITLE OF WORK: Caricature for the ballet "La filleule des fées"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1849
    • COMMENTS: The sketch shows shows Jules Perrot, Louis Lenfant and Carlotta Grisi
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • p6250

    p6250

    • ARTIST: Claude Michel "Clodion" (France, 1738-1814)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Circle dance by male and female satyrs (Ronde de satyres et de satyresses). Detail
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, Tonnerre stone
    • DATE: 1782
    • DIMENSIONS: 107 height x 42 cm. diameter
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
  • s1454

    s1454

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Viennese dancers - L'allemande (The German) (Les danseuses viennoises - L'allemande)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1845
    • DIMENSIONS: 8.5 x 7.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria, Vienna, France
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, allemande
  • s4175

    s4175

    • TITLE OF WORK: Satyr playing the double flute and dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1956
    • COMMENTS: From a Greek black-figure vase. After Lenormans-de-Wire
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: flute
  • p2356

    p2356

    • ARTIST: Marie Laurencin (France, 1883-1956)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer with a black shawl (Danseuse au châle noir)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on panel
    • DATE: 1946
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 26.5 x 22 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p5787

    p5787

    • TITLE OF WORK: Shakers at meeting. The religious dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1870
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.4 x 30 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p1131

    p1131

    • ARTIST: Alexander Calder (U.S.A., 1898-1976)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Exotic dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, iron wire and fabrics
    • DATE: 1929
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Part of "The circus"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
  • p5000

    p5000

    • ARTIST: Leonora Carrington (U.K., 1917-2011)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "La balada de la luna y el venado": The Clouds
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1956
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Mexico
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p6759

    p6759

    • ARTIST: Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (France, 1827-1875)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing woman (Femme dansant)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, black pencil on paper
    • DATE: 1868
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 20.9 x 13.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: One of the preparatory sketches for the work at the Paris Opéra
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
  • s0437

    s0437

    • ARTIST: Emil Rosenstand (Denmark, 1859-1932) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ball scene - Cakewalk (Ballszene - Cake-walk)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1903
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.5 x 29.4 cm
    • COMMENTS: From the original watercolor
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple, cakewalk
    • KEYWORDS: ball, musical instrument, piano
  • p4798

    p4798

    • TITLE OF WORK: Couple dance in Slovenia
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, wood
    • DATE: 1865
    • COMMENTS: From a bee-hive decoration
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Slovenia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • s4180

    s4180

    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer holding krotala. Group of the concert of Egina (Danseuse aux crotales. Groupe du concert d'Egine)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, figurine
    • DATE: -235
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 21 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Les crotales sont des sortes de castagnettes en bois dont jouaient principalement les femmes lors des fêtes dionysiaques. La musique et la danse jouaient un grand rôle dans la vie quotidienne des Grec
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: krotala
  • s2959

    s2959

    • ARTIST: Marcel-Louis Baugniet (Belgium, 1896-1995)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Akarova, portrait
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1922
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • s0022

    s0022

    • TITLE OF WORK: Hevajra, deity of the Mahayana boudhism
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze
    • DATE: 1200
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Bayon style. Found in Banteay Kdei
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Cambodia
    • KEYWORDS: religion, divinity
  • s0156

    s0156

    • ARTIST: Karl Josef Geiger (Austria, 1822-1905)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A Bacchanalian procession
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on board
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 41.3 x 54.6 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular, duo
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • p9394

    p9394

    • ARTIST: Otto Gerlach (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Peasant ball in the Prussian House of Altenburg on 24 February to celebrate the arrival of Prince Ernst and Princess Adelheid of Sachsen-Altenburg
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1898
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.7 x 33.9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Altenburg
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • s5614

    s5614

    • TITLE OF WORK: Marble calyx-krater with reliefs of maidens and dancing maenads
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief on a Pentelic marble vase
    • DATE: 50
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 80.7 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Imperial Roman period
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Rome, Italy

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