Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p3115

    p3115

    • TITLE OF WORK: Ksessinskaya
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1909
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s0503

    s0503

    • ARTIST: Grigory Gluckmann (Belarus, 1898-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tu-tu shop (Tutu shop)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on panel
    • DATE: 1945
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 61 x 26 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: humor, off-stage, caricature
  • p9727

    p9727

    • ARTIST: Giovanni Boldini (Italy, 1842-1931)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers (Danseurs)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and ink on paper
    • DATE: 1901
    • DIMENSIONS: 13 x 21.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
  • p8808

    p8808

    • ARTIST: Knut Ekwall (Sweden, 1843-1912) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ball celebrating the inauguration of the German Imperial Court of Justice in the New City Theater of Leipzig on the 1st of October
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1879
    • DIMENSIONS: 34.8 x 50 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Leipzig
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p7212

    p7212

    • TITLE OF WORK: An evening at the Bourbon Palace. Representation of the ballet "Psyche and Love" in the grand salon of celebrations
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1892
    • DIMENSIONS: 22 x 32.1 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p5246

    p5246

    • ARTIST: Paul Séguin-Bertault (France, 1869-1964)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Michel Fokine
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, eau-forte
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p9829

    p9829

    • TITLE OF WORK: Italian Renaissance dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 8.5 x 30.1 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: court, couple
  • p7681

    p7681

    • ARTIST: Henri Matisse (France, 1869-1954)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Impression
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1939
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • s2937

    s2937

    • ARTIST: Georges Scott (France, (1873-1943) (drawing); G. Janet & Valney (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The centenary of Petrarca in Avignon. Dancers from Provence (Le centenaire de Pétrarque à Avignon. Danseuses provençales)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1874
    • DIMENSIONS: 12 x 8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Provence, Avignon
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular
  • s5148

    s5148

    • ARTIST: Hugo Franz Kirsch (Austria, 1873-1961)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance couple (Tanzpaar)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, porcelain
    • DATE: 1908
    • DANCE FORM: couple
  • p6635

    p6635

    • ARTIST: William-Adolphe Bouguereau (France, 1825-1905)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Bacchus in his youth (La jeunesse de Bacchus)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1884
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p6495

    p6495

    • ARTIST: Georges de Feure (France, 1868-1928)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Loïe Fuller in "Salome", at the Comédie Parisienne (La Loïe Fuller dans "Salomé", à la Comédie Parisienne)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1895
    • DIMENSIONS: 130 x 94 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, solo
    • KEYWORDS: religion, Bible, veils, drapery, light
  • p5964

    p5964

    • ARTIST: Denis Boissier
    • TITLE OF WORK: Duet (Duetto)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, acrylic on canvas
    • DATE: 1984
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s3458

    s3458

    • ARTIST: Bruno Podjaski (Poland, 1915 - 199?)
    • TITLE OF WORK: New Year's Eve at Bukowiec (Nouvel-an à Bukowiec)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1977
    • DIMENSIONS: 40 x 56 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p1887

    p1887

    • ARTIST: Georgius Houfnaglius or Joris Hoefnagel (Flanders, 1542-1600)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance in Granada
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1565
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, flamenco, Spanish dance
  • p9907

    p9907

    • ARTIST: Giovanni Muzzioli (Italy, 1854-1894)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Pagan dance before an altar
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1890
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 99 x 163 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed at lower right
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: duo, stage
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p5149

    p5149

    • ARTIST: George Montbard (France, 1841-1905) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A gentle sylph-like creature, of maybe seventeen summers, she stood exposed to the gaze of a throng of café idlers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1897
    • DIMENSIONS: 17.8 x 23.4 cm
    • COMMENTS: From the article "The dancer of Koom Ombo" by John Foster Fraser
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Sudan
    • DANCE FORM: folk, Oriental
  • p1453

    p1453

    • ARTIST: Pierre Bonirote (France, 1811-1891)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance at the Pnyx, Athens
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1842
    • DIMENSIONS: 126 x 173 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Athens
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
  • p9252

    p9252

    • ARTIST: Y. Morland (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Beja - The Souk place on a market day - A snake charmer (Béja - La place du Souk un jour de marché - Un charmeur de serpents)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1881
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.2 x 31 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Tunisia, Beja, France
    • DANCE FORM: popular, solo
    • KEYWORDS: animal
  • p0375

    p0375

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dressing room (La loge)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1884
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p5290

    p5290

    • ARTIST: Josef Wilhelm Wallander (Sweden, 1821-1888)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Wedding dance in Vingaker (Bröllopsdans i Vingaker)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1857
    • DIMENSIONS: 110 x 167 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sweden
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s0837

    s0837

    • TITLE OF WORK: Christmas in a country house - Sir Roger de Coverley
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1885
    • DIMENSIONS: 29.3 x 22.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, Sir Roger de Coverley, mixed couples
  • p9624

    p9624

    • ARTIST: Louis-Joseph Watteau (France, 1731-1798)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The comedians comic (Les comédiens comique)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and black ink and watercolor
    • DATE: 1770
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 19.9 x 16 cm
    • COMMENTS: One of a pair of drawings, the other titled "Le rendé-vous comique"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p2937

    p2937

    • ARTIST: Friedrich Perlberg (Germany, 1848-1921)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Two Oriental dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1890
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, Oriental
  • p9196

    p9196

    • ARTIST: Pierre-Auguste Renoir (France, 1841-1919)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer with veil (La danseuse au voile)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze
    • DATE: 1909
    • DIMENSIONS: 70 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Executed ca. 1908-1910; cast in 1964 in 30 additional copies. Founder Valsuani
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • s2123

    s2123

    • TITLE OF WORK: Three Graces (Euphrosyne, Aglaia, Thaleia) 3 Nymphs (Ismini, Kykais, Eranno) and Tilos Island dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, marble
    • DATE: -100
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Dodecanese Islands, Tilos
    • KEYWORDS: religion, personification
  • s0809

    s0809

    • TITLE OF WORK: A Hindoo fair
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1858
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.5 x 34.5
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, stage, female, solo
  • p3896

    p3896

    • ARTIST: Michail Dobrov (Russia)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan dancing - 3
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1910
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., Russia
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan, solo, female
  • s0857

    s0857

    • TITLE OF WORK: Types and costumes in Lima, Peru - The "zamacueca", or national dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1881
    • DIMENSIONS: 10.9 x 7.1 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Peru, Lima
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, mixed couple, popular, zamacueca
    • KEYWORDS: handkerchief
  • p4466

    p4466

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora. Study for a low relief not executed (Isadora. Etude pour un bas-relief non exécuté)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1916
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p4186

    p4186

    • ARTIST: Pieter Brueghel the Younger (Flanders, 1564-1638)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Wedding dance in the open air (Bruiloftsdans in open lucht - Danse de noce an plein air)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on wood
    • DATE: 1607
    • DIMENSIONS: 38 x 41 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p5288

    p5288

    • ARTIST: Hugo Salmson (Sweden, 1843-1894)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Erect maypole (Majstangen reses)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 150 x 218 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sweden
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p5562

    p5562

    • TITLE OF WORK: Country ball (Bal champêtre)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1550
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • s3042

    s3042

    • TITLE OF WORK: "The getaway" - Absolute mutism of Robert ("L'escapade" - Mutisme absolu de Robert)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1896
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.1 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
  • s4399

    s4399

    • 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
  • p3224

    p3224

    • TITLE OF WORK: Antelope dance headdress. Kurumba, Aribinda region
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, wood painted and decorated with seeds and jequirity beans
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 70 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Upper Volta
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p3753

    p3753

    • ARTIST: Harald Kreutzberg (Germany, 1902-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1935
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • s5818

    s5818

    • TITLE OF WORK: Draped female dancer. Terracotta (pale brown clay)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, terracotta (pale brown clay)
    • DATE: -220
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 17.2 x 12.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Southern Italy
  • p6764

    p6764

    • ARTIST: Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (France, 1827-1875)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance of the Graces (La danse des grâces)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, terracotta
    • DATE: 1868
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 77 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
  • p1378

    p1378

    • ARTIST: Nathaniel Sichel (Germany, 1843-1907)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Life in the seraglio
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1890
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental
  • p6349

    p6349

    • TITLE OF WORK: Apsara, celestial dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief
    • DATE: 1050
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p3805

    p3805

    • ARTIST: Pedro Ribera (Spain, 1867-1932)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Fandango in Saint-Jean-de-Luz
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1900
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Basque Country
    • DANCE FORM: popular, traditional, Fandango, couple, Spanish dance
  • p0262

    p0262

    • ARTIST: Georges Goursat or SEM (France, 1863-1934)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Miss Leonora Hugues
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1922
    • DIMENSIONS: 14 x 10 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • p3948

    p3948

    • TITLE OF WORK: The God Shiva dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief
    • DATE: 770
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Partly destroyed by Muslim fanatics
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • KEYWORDS: religion, deity
  • p3405

    p3405

    • TITLE OF WORK: Reinmar the Fiddler and dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1200
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Miniature from the manuscript "Manessische Handschrift"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p9877

    p9877

    • ARTIST: Lucien J. Simon (France, 1861-1945)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ball in the Bigouden country (Bal bigouden)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Britanny, Bretagne, Bigouden
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple, traditional
  • s4170

    s4170

    • ARTIST: Giorgos Sikeliotis (Greece, 1917-1984)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Couple dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1960
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, couple
    • KEYWORDS: handkerchief
  • p5709

    p5709

    • ARTIST: Gustave Doré (France, 1832-1883) (drawing); Fournier (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A funeral dance - Jota - in Jijona, Alicante province (Une danse funèbre - jota - à Jijona, privince d'Alicante)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1867
    • DIMENSIONS: 14.2 x 23 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Voyage en Espagne" by Gustave Doré and Ch. Davillier, 1862
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Alicante, Jijona, France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: castanets
  • s2231

    s2231

    • ARTIST: Fred Barnard (U.K., 1846-1896) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The ideal
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1892
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.4 x 23.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular, solo, reel
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • p2193

    p2193

    • ARTIST: Michele Ciampanti or Stratonice Master (Italy, 1463-1500)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Antiochus and Stratonice. Detail.
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on wood
    • DATE: 1490
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Panel from a cassone, showing a "high dance"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: court

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