Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p6373

    p6373

    • ARTIST: B. Cosson Smeet (drawing); Godefroy (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Oriental dancers in Government Square (Danse de bayadères sur la place du gouvernement)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1863
    • DIMENSIONS: 7 x 13.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: Fête du 15 ao?t à Pondichéry, India
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India, Pondichery
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p6403

    p6403

    • ARTIST: Jean-Baptiste Wicar (France, 1762-1834) (drawing); Louis Joseph Masquelier (1741-1811) (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of the Muses (Danse des Muses)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1810
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, France
  • p6655

    p6655

    • ARTIST: Jean-Antoine Watteau (France, 1684-1721)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The shepherds (Les bergers)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1717
    • DIMENSIONS: 56 x 81 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p4306

    p4306

    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Sylvia"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1876
    • COMMENTS: Choreography by Louis Mérante, music by Léo Délibes, costumes by Eugène Lacoste. First performance in the Paris Opéra on 14/06/1876, with Rita Sangalli, Marie Sanlaville, Louise Marquet, Marco Magri.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p0764

    p0764

    • ARTIST: Stefano della Bella (Italy, 1610-1664); Henry de Gissey (workshop)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Louis XIV as "Apollo, le Roi Soleil" in "Le ballet de la nuit", 4th part, final entrée
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen, wash and gouache, heightened with gold
    • DATE: 1653
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.7 x 26 cm
    • COMMENTS: The 14-year old king performed at court during Carnival season on 23/02/1653.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: court
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • s3855

    s3855

    • TITLE OF WORK: Four girls dancing at home in closed circle
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1870
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, closed circle
  • p1094

    p1094

    • ARTIST: Dioskurides from Samos (Greece, -50?)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ambulant musicians
    • TYPE OF WORK: Mosaic
    • DATE: -100
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 48 x 46 cm
    • COMMENTS: Found in Pompei, villa di Cicerone
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: music
  • s0433

    s0433

    • ARTIST: Julius Konrad Hentschel (Germany, 1872-1907) (sculpture)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance (Tanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1904
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.2 x 6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • s5510

    s5510

    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer dancing for Dionysos
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, white-figure amphora vase
    • DATE: -510
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient Greece
    • KEYWORDS: krotala
  • p0923

    p0923

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Two dancers seated (Deux danseuses assises)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, ink
    • DATE: 1925
    • DIMENSIONS: 50 x 40 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Monaco, Monte Carlo
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p5858

    p5858

    • ARTIST: Georges Crouzat (France, 1904-1976)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Le rigodon savoyard - Savoie
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, bronze, medal
    • DATE: 1990
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 4.7 cm diameter
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: folk
  • p2057

    p2057

    • ARTIST: Nicos Engonopoulos (Greece, 1907-1985)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Stage design for the ballet "The ring and the trumpet"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1958
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: stage
  • s4517

    s4517

    • ARTIST: John Barker (U.K., 1811-1886)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Village dance (Danses villageoises)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 25.5 x 30.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: English school of the 19th century
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular, traditional, folk, couple
  • p1986

    p1986

    • ARTIST: Theyre Lee-Elliott (U.K., 1903-1988)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Sylphs (Les Sylphides)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1946
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6202

    p6202

    • ARTIST: Jean Target (France, 1910-1997)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Christiane Vaunard and Serge Lifar in "Suite en blanc"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1980
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6209

    p6209

    • ARTIST: Jean Target (France, 1910-1997)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Nina Vyroubova in "Suite en blanc"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1980
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p4558

    p4558

    • ARTIST: Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne (Netherlands, 1589-1662)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance around the Maypole at a castle in the Marsch
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on wood
    • DATE: 1620
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 26 x 36 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: maypole
  • p8101

    p8101

    • ARTIST: Paul Juhasz (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: With the Theiss fischermen (Bei den Fischern an der Theiss)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1883
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.3 x 23.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: On the occasion of the Kaiser's voyage to Hungary
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple, traditional
  • p3207

    p3207

    • ARTIST: Gustave Doré (France, 1832-1883)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance (La danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze, brown patina
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 88 x 38 x 31 cm
    • COMMENTS: Principal model for the facade of the Opéra Garnier in Monte Carlo. Face characteristics correspond with those of Sarah Bernardt, pupil and friend of the artist.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • s0505

    s0505

    • ARTIST: Dietz Edzard (Germany, 1893-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The ballerina
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1946
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 91.5 x 72 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • s3711

    s3711

    • ARTIST: Henri (de) Gissey (France, 1621-1673) (workshop of)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ballet "The wedding of Peleas and Thetis":, act 2, final entry: The War (Ballet "Les noces de Pélée et de Thétis", act 2, final entrée: La Guerre)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, gouache touched with gold on vellum
    • DATE: 1654
    • DIMENSIONS: 34 x 24 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, court
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s0464

    s0464

    • ARTIST: Carl Milles (Sweden, 1875-1955)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, gilded bronze
    • DATE: 1913
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 48 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Signed and stamped with the foundry mark
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sweden
  • p5138

    p5138

    • ARTIST: Katherine "Kay" Ambrose, (U.K., 1914-1971)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Promenade", ballet by Ninette de Valois
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1943
    • COMMENTS: Beryl Grey and David Paltenghi
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p5648

    p5648

    • TITLE OF WORK: Sword dance by the knifesmiths in Nürnberg
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1600
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: military
  • p1533

    p1533

    • ARTIST: Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (Germany, 1884-1976)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer I (Tänzerin I)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, eau-forte
    • DATE: 1922
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.5 x 29.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • s5329

    s5329

    • ARTIST: J. M. W. Turner (U.K., 1775-1851)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Nude woman dancing, seen from behind
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, graphite on paper
    • DATE: 1800
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 119 x 73 mm
    • COMMENTS: From Academies Sketchbook; Turner Bequest LXXXIV
  • p9329

    p9329

    • TITLE OF WORK: Miss Phyllis Broughton and Mr. Hayden Coffin in their dancing duet
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1890
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.1 x 23.3 cm
    • COMMENTS: "Captain Thérèse", comic opera by M. Planquette, at the Prince of Wales's Theatre, London
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: stage, couple, duet
    • KEYWORDS: theater
  • p8771

    p8771

    • TITLE OF WORK: Christmas at the theatres. Drury-Lane - "Friae Rush, or Harlequin and King Gold". The opening scene
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1848
    • DIMENSIONS: 13 x 22.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: theatrer
  • p2626

    p2626

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Oriental dance (Danse orientale)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s2196

    s2196

    • ARTIST: Anthony Nellé (U.S.A., 1894-1977)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Set design for "Harlem fantasy"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1928
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland, U.S.A.
  • p5573

    p5573

    • TITLE OF WORK: Four men performing an armed pyrrhic dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1820
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Greece
    • KEYWORDS: military
  • p7712

    p7712

    • TITLE OF WORK: Saint John festival in Harfleur (Fêtes de la Saint Jean, à Harfleur)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1858
    • DIMENSIONS: 14.8 x 17.6 cm
    • COMMENTS: Harfleur is near Le Havre, France
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p4140

    p4140

    • ARTIST: Claude Michel "Clodion" (France, 1738-1814)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Bacchants (Bacchantes)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture
    • DATE: 1800
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
  • p7732

    p7732

    • TITLE OF WORK: Ballet "A rajah's evening". Mis Taglioni and Mr Taglioni Son in the Shawl Dance (Ballet der Abend eines Rajah. Mlle Taglioni und Hr Taglioni Sohn im Shawl Tanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1826
    • COMMENTS: Erinnerungen an das Ballet des Kgl. Hoftheaters (Ballet souvenirs of the Royal Theater), Stuttgart
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1171

    p1171

    • ARTIST: Maurice Charpentier-Mio (France, 1881-1976)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan as Poland - 4
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze plaquette, dark plated
    • DATE: 1912
    • DIMENSIONS: 12 x 13 cm
    • COMMENTS: One of a set of 4 plaquettes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.S.A., Poland
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p6886

    p6886

    • ARTIST: Georges Lepape (France, 1887-1971)
    • TITLE OF WORK: From a ball in the Moulin de la Galette
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, lead pencil
    • DATE: 1907
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 17 x 10 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular, ballroom
  • s1177

    s1177

    • TITLE OF WORK: Joie de vivre. Beecham's Pills
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1923
    • DIMENSIONS: 17.5 x 11.1 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: advertisement
  • s3281

    s3281

    • ARTIST: Abraham Walkowitz (U.S.A., 1878-1965)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Five studies of Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and ink
    • DATE: 1936
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: solo, modern
  • s4886

    s4886

    • TITLE OF WORK: An Arab feast at the front (Une fête arabe sur le front)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, cover, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1914
    • DIMENSIONS: 31 x 27 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient
    • DANCE FORM: popular, traditional, solo
    • KEYWORDS: fire, military, spahi, flute
  • p2247

    p2247

    • ARTIST: A. Délions
    • TITLE OF WORK: Curiosity (Curiosité)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1915
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: off-stage
  • p4650

    p4650

    • ARTIST: Albrecht Dürer (Germany, 1471-1528)
    • TITLE OF WORK: So went the Nörmenger women to the dance (Also gand dye Nörmenger frawenn zum thantz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen, lightly watercolored
    • DATE: 1500
    • DIMENSIONS: 32.5 x 21.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • s2805

    s2805

    • ARTIST: Valentino Ilver
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ballet scene
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1932
    • COMMENTS: Valentino Ilver was a Greek-Russian painter who was an inmate of the Mental Hospital of Athens between 1930 and 1950, then disappeared.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3633

    p3633

    • ARTIST: Nicosthenes (Greece, ca. 550-510 BC)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Satyrs and maenads. Black-figure neck amphora vase
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, black-figure neck amphora vase
    • DATE: -530
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: Neck-amphora vase
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
    • KEYWORDS: saryr, maenad
  • p0009

    p0009

    • ARTIST: Max Pechstein (Germany, 1881-1955)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Negro dance group. Dance from Somalia (Negertanzgruppe, Somalitanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, hand-colored red and yellow
    • DATE: 1910
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.8 x 36.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Somalia, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: folk
  • p4943

    p4943

    • ARTIST: Lucien Métivet (France, 1863-1931?) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Rivality: Cléo de Mérode and Caroline Otéro (Rivalité: Cléo de Mérode et Caroline Otero)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1901
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, ballet, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: Otero
  • s0351

    s0351

    • ARTIST: Antoni Clavé (Spain, 1913-2005)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Revanche" (Revenge): Count Luna, aged 12
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, gouache and white chalk on black paper, laid down on board
    • DATE: 1951
    • DIMENSIONS: 49.5 x 32.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: From the collection of Ruth Page
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, Spanish dance?
    • KEYWORDS: costume, child
  • s5855

    s5855

    • TITLE OF WORK: Seated aulos player and standing female armed dancer. Attic red-figure bell krater
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, red-figure bell krater vase
    • DATE: -415
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.5 x 34.1 cm diameter
    • COMMENTS: Seite A: Sitzende Aulosbläserin und stehende Waffentänzerin in ärmellosem getupftem Gewand, behelmt, in der Rechten Lanze, am linken Arm Schild, zwischen zwei Jünglingen.rnSeite B: Drei Manteljüngling
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Athens
    • DANCE FORM: armed
    • KEYWORDS: weapon, shield, lance
  • p7782

    p7782

    • ARTIST: C. Valnay
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Paris-Revue", a review extravaganza ballet. Grand ballet of Ismailia. ("Paris-Revue", revue-féeric-ballet. Grand ballet d'Ismailia)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1870
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.5 x 23.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Egypt, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3358

    p3358

    • ARTIST: Milein Cosman (Germany, 1921-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Antonio in "Bulerias"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1960
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, flamenco, Spanish dance
  • p7077

    p7077

    • ARTIST: Jacques-Emile Blanche (France, 1861-1942)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vaslav Nijinsky in the ballet "Les Orientales"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1910
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland, Russia,
    • DANCE FORM: modern

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