Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • s5250

    s5250

    • TITLE OF WORK: Initation ceremony
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mural
    • DATE: 50
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Pompei, Italy
  • p8264

    p8264

    • ARTIST: Richard Caton Woodville (U.K., 1856-1927) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: In Fairyland
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1885
    • DIMENSIONS: 33.3 x 23.1 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: off-stage
  • p0295

    p0295

    • TITLE OF WORK: Ball of the Moulin Rouge - 1 (Bal du Moulin Rouge -1)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1890
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, cancan
  • p7905

    p7905

    • ARTIST: Johann Gottfried Schadow (Germany, 1764-1850)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Salvatore Vigano and his wife Maria Medina Vigano
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1796
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, duo
  • s0161

    s0161

    • ARTIST: Giovanni Antonio da Brescia (Italy, 14??-15??)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Four dancing Muses
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving
    • DATE: 1520
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 21 x 34 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Italy
  • s4416

    s4416

    • ARTIST: Jules Grandjouan (France, 1875-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pastel on colored paper
    • DATE: 1915
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Grandjouan executed a great number of pastels of Isadora Duncan between 1905 and the end of the 1920s. The are untitled and undated.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
  • p5578

    p5578

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance around the May tree
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1460
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s2525

    s2525

    • ARTIST: Félix Régamey (France, 1844-1907) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Shinto priest dancing (Prêtre Shinto dansant)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, monochrome
    • DATE: 1904
    • DIMENSIONS: 7.2 x 5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Japan, France
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • p3912

    p3912

    • ARTIST: Eugène Delacroix (France, 1798-1863)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Arab dancer (Danseur arabe)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and brown ink
    • DATE: 1832
    • DIMENSIONS: 19 x 15.4 cm
    • COMMENTS: Delacroix noted in his diary on 16/04/1832: "Les nègres qui sont venus danser au consulat et par la ville". This leads to believe that this study was made together with another one, kept in the Louvre
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Morocco
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p6983

    p6983

    • ARTIST: Jules Collington (drawing); Deschamps (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Finale of the ballet "Giselle", act 2
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1845
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1392

    p1392

    • ARTIST: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, 1880-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance couple in music-hall (Tanzpaar im Varieté)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, feather, wax chalks
    • DATE: 1910
    • DIMENSIONS: 9 x 14 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p3178

    p3178

    • ARTIST: Josep Clarà i Ayats (Spain, 1878-1958)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan dancing to "Bacchanale" from "Tannhäuser" by Wagner
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1912
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p4735

    p4735

    • TITLE OF WORK: Mlle Carlotta Grisi and M. Sylvain, in the new ballet of "Paquita", at Drury Lane Theatre
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1846
    • DIMENSIONS: 13 x 15 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, Spanish dance?
  • s1833

    s1833

    • TITLE OF WORK: Marie-Madeleine Guimard
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1770
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3475

    p3475

    • ARTIST: Edward Gordon Craig (U.K., 1872-1966)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Design for "Elektra" by Sophocles
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1905
    • COMMENTS: Inspired by the dramatic movement of Isadora Duncan
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p5649

    p5649

    • TITLE OF WORK: Hoop dance from a Nürnberg Schembart manuscript
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1561
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p6036

    p6036

    • ARTIST: Gustav Klimt (Austria, 1862-1918)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Study for "Dancer" (Studie für "Tänzerin")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil on paper
    • DATE: 1916
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 49.6 x 32.4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria
  • p3213

    p3213

    • ARTIST: Boris M. Froedman-Cluzel
    • TITLE OF WORK: Russian dance - couple (Danse russe - couple)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, bronze, brown patina
    • DATE: 1911
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 18 x 14 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated "St Petersbourg 1911"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: folk
  • s3047

    s3047

    • TITLE OF WORK: "The escape" - Oh! Madam, I swear ("L'escapade" - Oh! Madame, je vous le jure)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1896
    • DIMENSIONS: 8.9 x 11 cm
    • COMMENTS: Une scène de la pièce "L'escapade", par Auguste Germain, de la série "Scènes de la vie parisienne", interprétées par Mmes Mariquita, Marie Pernot, Amélie Guerra, Jeanne Chasle, Céleste Riganti, Claire
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: instruction, theater
  • p9621

    p9621

    • ARTIST: Jules Kossak (Poland, 1829-1899) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The end of the Carnival in Cracow. Feast given by the countess Tarnowska. The dance of "Kulig" before the archduke and archduchess Frederic
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1880
    • DIMENSIONS: 21 x 29 cm
    • COMMENTS: The end of the carnival at Cracow. Feast given by the countess Tarnowska. The dance "Kulig" in front of the grand duke and the grand duchess Frederic
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland, Cracow
    • DANCE FORM: kulig, traditional, couple
  • s6025

    s6025

    • TITLE OF WORK: Relief with a banquet scene. Roman copy of an original made ca. 100 BC
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, marble
    • DATE: 100
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 80 x 129 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Rome, Italy, Greece
    • KEYWORDS: banquet
  • p3287

    p3287

    • ARTIST: Yannis Tsarouchis (Greece, 1910-1989)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Zeibekiko dancer in red shirt, 12-4-78
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel on painted background
    • DATE: 1978
    • DIMENSIONS: 27.2 x 16 cm
    • COMMENTS: Dated 12/04/1978
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: popular, Zeibekiko, Greek, rebetiko
    • KEYWORDS: rebetiko
  • p8006

    p8006

    • ARTIST: Carlos Grethe (Germany, 1864-1913) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Merry sailors on a whaler (Lustige Matrosen auf einem Walfischfänger)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1888
    • DIMENSIONS: 22 x 31.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s4403

    s4403

    • ARTIST: Jules Grandjouan (France, 1875-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, China ink on colored paper
    • DATE: 1935
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Executed from memory, after the death of Isadora Duncan
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
  • p6026

    p6026

    • ARTIST: A. Van Pers (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Rong-gings, dancers of the interior of Java (Rong-gings - danseuses - de l'intérieur de Java)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.5 x 17 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Java, Indonesia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s0276

    s0276

    • ARTIST: Pietro Longhi (Italy, 1701-1785) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance class (La leçon de danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1875
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 26.4 x 21 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Venice
    • DANCE FORM: contredanse, court
    • KEYWORDS: instruction, violin
  • p3072

    p3072

    • ARTIST: David Allan (U.K., 1744-1796)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Penny Wedding
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pen and watercolor
    • DATE: 1795
    • DIMENSIONS: 33.6 x 45.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: This is Allan's best known and most influential single work. The occasion is called a penny wedding because the bride, according to the custom, receives coins given by the guests. Hogarth has treated
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Scotland
    • DANCE FORM: folk
  • s0197

    s0197

    • ARTIST: Valias Semertzidis (Greece, 1911-1983)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance on the 1st of May 1944 (Choros 01/05/1944)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1967
    • DIMENSIONS: 120 x 240 cm
    • COMMENTS: On the 1st of May 1944 Athens was liberated from German occupation
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Athens
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p4696

    p4696

    • ARTIST: Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff (Germany, 1699-1753)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Allemande in the open air (Allemande im Freien)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1739
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 235 x 125 cm
    • COMMENTS: A position of the Allemande. This painting used to hang in the music chamber of the Rheinsberg castle; its present location is unknown.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: court, allemande
  • p2153

    p2153

    • TITLE OF WORK: Perspective vue of the ballroom made in the yard of the town hall
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1755
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Vue perspective de la salle du bal, construite dans la cour de l'Hôtel de ville
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • s5385

    s5385

    • ARTIST: Albert von Keller (Germany, 1844-1920)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer in white (Tänzerin in Weiss)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1897
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 145 x 98 cm
    • DANCE FORM: solo, female
  • p8552

    p8552

    • ARTIST: Godefroy Durand (France, 1832-1920)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Execution of the "Imperial quadrille" by the artists of the Opera (Exécution du "Quadrille impérial" par les artistes de l'Opéra)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood, engraving
    • DATE: 1859
    • DIMENSIONS: 20.5 x 23 cm
    • COMMENTS: Bal donné à l'Opéra, au bénéfice de la caisse des pensions de retraite des artistes et employés de ce théâtre
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, ballet
  • p7150

    p7150

    • TITLE OF WORK: Caricature of Vestris
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1780
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • s1596

    s1596

    • TITLE OF WORK: Harukoma, Japanese folk dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1800
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Japan
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p7376

    p7376

    • ARTIST: Friedrich August von Kaulbach (Germany, 1850-1920)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Rosario Guerrero
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on wood, mahogany
    • DATE: 1903
    • DIMENSIONS: 120 x 95.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed "Fr A v Kaulbach 1903"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Spain
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p9344

    p9344

    • ARTIST: Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov (Russia, 1881-1964)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Rayonist study of Massine
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, pochoir
    • DATE: 1915
    • DIMENSIONS: 50.5 x 34.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1080

    p1080

    • ARTIST: Camille Claudel (France, 1864-1943)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The waltz (La valse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze
    • DATE: 1895
    • DIMENSIONS: 43 x 23 x 34 cm
    • COMMENTS: One of several versions
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, waltz
  • s2366

    s2366

    • TITLE OF WORK: Graphic motifs 11
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1995
    • KEYWORDS: clip art
  • p6798

    p6798

    • ARTIST: Fortuné Louis Méaulle (France, 1844-1901) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "The fandango", ballet-pantomime in one act ("Le fandango", ballet-pantomime en un acte)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1877
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.5 x 31 cm
    • COMMENTS: "Le fandango", ballet-pantomime en un acte, de MM. H. Millhac, Lud. l'Alévy et L. Mérante; musique de M. G. Salvayre; Théâtre National de l'Opéra, Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: pantomime
  • s3300

    s3300

    • ARTIST: Alexis Gritchenko (Ukraine, 1883-1977)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The whirling dervishes (Les derviches tourneurs)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey, Constantinople, Istanbul,
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, Sema, whirling, Oriental
  • s0233

    s0233

    • ARTIST: H. Fritzmann (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Behind the curtain (Hinter dem Vorhang)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1872
    • DIMENSIONS: 34.8 x 50 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: off-stage
  • p4919

    p4919

    • TITLE OF WORK: Tango scene
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.6 x 19.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: tango, ballroom, couple
  • p5142

    p5142

    • ARTIST: Katherine "Kay" Ambrose, (U.K., 1914-1971)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "The wanderer", ballet by Frederick Ashton
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1941
    • COMMENTS: Music by Schubert; sets and costumes by Graham Sutherland; with Margot Fonteyn, Pamela May, Michael Somes.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s4834

    s4834

    • TITLE OF WORK: Female ballet dancer in a solo figure
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1997
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Belarus
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, solo
  • p6168

    p6168

    • ARTIST: José Domínguez Bécquer (Spain, 1805-1841)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A Bohemians' ball (Un bal de Bohémiens)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: popular, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: Gypsy
  • p2633

    p2633

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Le dieu bleu": La Danse Rituelle (Ritual dance)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor, gouache and gold on paper
    • DATE: 1912
    • COMMENTS: "Le dieu bleu" ballet, Théâtre du Chatelet, Paris. Costumes and stage design by Leon Bakst.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p3595

    p3595

    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1906
    • COMMENTS: From an article on Isadora Duncan
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., Denmark
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p4447

    p4447

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan - Stop (Isadora Duncan - Arrêt)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1911
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • s3871

    s3871

    • ARTIST: Alexej von Jawlensky (Russian, 1864-1941)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Head of the dancer Sacharoff (Kopf des Tänzers Sacharoff)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on carton
    • DATE: 1913
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ukraine, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p4511

    p4511

    • ARTIST: Edmond Morin (France, 1824-1882) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Flowers and life (Les fleurs et la vie). Detail
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1869
    • DIMENSIONS: 25 x 19 cm
    • COMMENTS: May celebrations
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France

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