COMMENTS: The accompanying text reads: What is Vivandière ? English reader ! it is a French translation of "Suttler" or "Moll Flaggon", which before now has been associated with something coarse and ugly
TITLE OF WORK: Short tongues: four women dancers. Fragment of body of Clazomenian black-figure painted pottery amphora
TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, black-figure amphora vase
DATE: -535
DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
DIMENSIONS: 16.8 x 24.9 cm
COMMENTS: Made at Clazomenae (?), Izmir, Turkey. Purple for slippers (worn by first and third women, the other two - as often in Clazomenian black figure ware - being barefoot); for two stripes on dark area bel
TITLE OF WORK: On a music-hall dancer (Sur une danseuse de music hall)
TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on board laid down on panel
DATE: 1917
DIMENSIONS: 101.6 x 75.5 cm
COMMENTS: Signed and dated 1917. Painted during Gleizes's second visit to New York, when many of his themes were inspired by dance-halls, ciscus and jazz musicians.
TITLE OF WORK: Scene from the ballet "La délivrance de Renaud". Godefroy et ses chevaliers dans leur pavillon de toile d'or. Le roi et douze seigneurs
TYPE OF WORK: Print
DATE: 1617
COMMENTS: A ballet danced by king Louis the 13th (in the role of the Fire Demon) and the duke of Luynes (as the knight Renaud) in the great hall of the Louvre on 29/01/1617.
COMMENTS: Sketch executed during her performances at the Victoria Theatre, Adelaide, in 1855. Lola Montez arrived in Sydney in 1855 for a season at the Royal Victoria Theatre. She appeared there in the burlesqu
TITLE OF WORK: Improvised dances of the courtisans
TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
DATE: 1785
DATE DETAILS: approx.
DIMENSIONS: 26 x 19 cm
COMMENTS: One of a series of stamps under the title "Seiro Niwaka Zukushi" (Niwaka dance competition in the pleasure quarters). In the annual festival that took place in the beginning of august in the Yoshiwara