Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • s5427

    s5427

    • ARTIST: Serge Ivanoff (Russia, 1893-1983)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Sacha Lio, dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1932
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p7171

    p7171

    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume of Andymion in the ballet "Le triomphe de l'amour" (Habit d'Andimion du ballet du Triomphe de l'amour)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1681
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s5811

    s5811

    • ARTIST: Onesimos (Greece, active c. 500-480 BC) and Euphronios (Greece, active c. 520-480 BC) (attributed)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Attic red-figure cup Type B
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, red-figure cup
    • DATE: -490
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 10.3 x 31.4 cm
    • COMMENTS: Mended from several fragments. On the interior, a youth (wreathed, himation over shoulder, slippers) stoops to hold the head of his elder (wreathed and wearing a fillet, otherwise nude) who is vomitin
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Athens
    • KEYWORDS: krotals
  • p9557

    p9557

    • ARTIST: David Teniers the Elder (Flanders, 1582-1649) (attributed to)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Peasants merrymaking outside an inn
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on copper
    • DATE: 1680
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 13.5 x 20.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s5595

    s5595

    • TITLE OF WORK: Marble relief with a dancing maenad. Adaptation of work attributed to Kallimachos
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, pentelic marble
    • DATE: -27
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: height 143 cm
    • COMMENTS: The maenad, wearing an ivy wreath and carrying a thyrsos (fennel stalk) bedecked with ivy leaves and berries, moves forward, trancelike, her drapery swirling about her. She was copied from a famous re
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece,
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: maenad, thyrsus
  • s2666

    s2666

    • ARTIST: H. Linton (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "The magician", an opera by Mr. Halévy - decor of the 4th act "La magicienne", opéra de M. Halévy, décor du 4e acte)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1858
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.6 x 32.6 cm
    • COMMENTS: Académie impériale de musique, Paris. Illustration for an article by Maxime Vauvert
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, classical, theatrical
  • s3721

    s3721

    • ARTIST: Daniel Rabel (France, 1578-1637)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Ballet of the Bicêtre Casstle": Entry of the Egyptian Men and Women ("Ballet du Château de Bicêtre": Entrée des Egiptiens et Egiptiennes)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen, wash and gouache, touched with silver
    • DATE: 1632
    • DIMENSIONS: 28.7 x 44 cm
    • COMMENTS: The three Bohemian roles were played by the Counts of Maurever, Saultz and Fiasque
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Egypt, France,
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, court
  • p8583

    p8583

    • ARTIST: S. Glücklich (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Joyous round dance (Fröhlicher Reigen)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving
    • DATE: 1899
    • DIMENSIONS: 28.9 x 50 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular, round
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • s1211

    s1211

    • ARTIST: Marcelin Delechaux (France, 1821-1902) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Review of theaters. "The follies of Spain" to "Folies-News". Upa! Lasses, alert! (Revue des théâtres. "Les folies d'Espagne" au "Folies-Nouvelles". Upa! Mignouns, alerte!)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1855
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.1 x 10.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: popular, traditional, stage, duo, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • s2941

    s2941

    • ARTIST: Pellicier & Reventos (sketch); Vierge (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Peace celebrations in Spain (Les fêtes de la paix en Espagne)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1876
    • DIMENSIONS: 13 x 21.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, duo, Spanish dance
  • s1043

    s1043

    • TITLE OF WORK: Society in Sierra Leone: a native girls' dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1894
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.2 x 22.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sierra Leone
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p3705

    p3705

    • ARTIST: Paul Heuzé (France, 1878-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Montmartre dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p9680

    p9680

    • ARTIST: Ernst Herter (Germany, 1846-1917) (sculpture)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The ballet (Das Ballet)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1890
    • DIMENSIONS: 14.2 x 9.9 cm
    • COMMENTS: One of a set of sculptures made for the façade of the Concordia Theater in Berlin
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Berlin
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, duo, Spanish dance?
  • p8637

    p8637

    • ARTIST: Auguste Rodin (France, 1840-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Cambodian dancers (Danseuses cambodgiennes)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, lead pencil, crayon and watercolor
    • DATE: 1906
    • DIMENSIONS: 25.8 x 19.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Attributed to Rodin
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Cambodia, France
    • DANCE FORM: stage, solo
  • p7572

    p7572

    • ARTIST: Edvard Lehmann (Denmark, 1815-1892)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A ball
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1853
    • COMMENTS: The scene is from a party at the home of Mr Eschrict, councillor of State, in Copenhagen
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Denmark
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: music
  • s1864

    s1864

    • TITLE OF WORK: We meet again for a snack and we dance… (Nous nous retrouvons pour le goûter, et nous dansons…)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1931
    • COMMENTS: Illustration from an article
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: ski, winter sports
  • p6315

    p6315

    • TITLE OF WORK: Marie Taglioni
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1840
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p9957

    p9957

    • ARTIST: José Simont (Spain, 1875-1968) (watercolor)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Class of the coryphées. A lesson by Miss Mante (La classe des coryphées. La leçon de Mlle Mante)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1937
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.5 x 21 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for an article by Emile Vuillermoz "Le ballet à l'Académie Nationale de Musique et de Danse"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s4802

    s4802

    • ARTIST: Richard Bloos (Germany, 1878-1956)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer and musicians (Tänzerin und Musiker)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 64.6 x 81 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and iscribed "Paris" at lower right
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
    • KEYWORDS: Musicians
  • p1456

    p1456

    • ARTIST: Thanassis Spyropoulos (Greece, 1931-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance scene in a taverna
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1968
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s1114

    s1114

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Bal Mabille at the Champs-Elysées (Le bal Mabille aux Champs-Elysées)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1846
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 23.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p5268

    p5268

    • ARTIST: Natalia Goncharova (Russia, 1881-1962)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Clotilde von Derp and Alexander Sakharoff
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1935
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s4010

    s4010

    • ARTIST: Amahiguere Dolo (Mali, 1955-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer with raised leg (Binou Gô, danseuse à la jambe levée)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, wood
    • DATE: 1988
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 130 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Mali, Bamako
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
  • s5272

    s5272

    • ARTIST: Ville Vallgren (Finland, 1855-1940)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of the roses (Rosendansen (Rosentanz))
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, Bronze
    • DATE: 1899
    • DIMENSIONS: 28,5 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Art nouveau
  • s4763

    s4763

    • TITLE OF WORK: Basque folklore. The Bi-Harri group, Biarritz. Fandango (Folklore basque. Groupe Bi-Harri, Biarritz. Fandango)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, postcard
    • DATE: 1960
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Basque, Biarritz
    • DANCE FORM: popular, traditional, couple, folk
  • p4914

    p4914

    • TITLE OF WORK: My great-grandmother's first dancing lesson
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1877
    • DIMENSIONS: 30 x 22.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: court
    • KEYWORDS: instruction
  • p6532

    p6532

    • ARTIST: Charles Maurin (France, 1856-1914)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Loïe Fuller
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel
    • DATE: 1898
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p1312

    p1312

    • ARTIST: Georg Christoph Killian (Germany, 1709-1781)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Flying figure (Fliegende Figur)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1770
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Copy of a mural in the Herculaneum.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, U.K., Naples
  • p4337

    p4337

    • ARTIST: Eugène Berman (Russia, 1899-1972)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Yvette Chauviré
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1950
    • COMMENTS: Les Ballets des Champs-Elysées, program for the 1950 season
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p4976

    p4976

    • ARTIST: José Clemente Orozco (Mexico, 1883-1949)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Obertura republicana"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1943
    • COMMENTS: For the performance at the Palacio de Bellas Artes, in Mexico City, in 1943, for the 33rd anniversary of the Mexican Revolution; choreography by Nellie Campobello?, music by Carlos Chavez, sets and co
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Mexico
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • s1838

    s1838

    • ARTIST: Pietro Longhi (Italy, 1701-1785)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Rehearsal of a ballet in Venice
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1740
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Venice
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s4144

    s4144

    • TITLE OF WORK: Eight Nymphs dance around Pan playing the aulos
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, clay statuette
    • DATE: -450
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 18 cm height x 30 cm diam.
    • COMMENTS: Found in the Korykeion cave on Mount Parnassos
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: Traditional, round, circular, circle
    • KEYWORDS: musical instrument, Pan flute
  • p5438

    p5438

    • ARTIST: Olivier Perrin (France, 1761-1832)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The gavotte of Kerfeunteun (La gavotte de Kerfeunteun)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1840
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Danse des pauvres à la noce. Le début en ronde. Bretagne
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Britanny, Bretagne
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s4565

    s4565

    • TITLE OF WORK: Two dancing Citipati holding kankaladanda, chakti, and kapalas in their hands
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, silver, parcel-gilt cabinet
    • DATE: 1750
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 40.6 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Tantric altar cabinet, most probably used to house an image of a Tantric deity, possibly the Yi-dam (a personal tutelary deity) of the owner
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: China, Tibet
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: death, skeleton,
  • s2474

    s2474

    • ARTIST: Parys (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Universal Exhibition. Gypsies of Grenada at the Champ-de-Mars. The tango dance (Exposition Universelle. Les gitanes de Grenade au Champ-de-Mars. La danse du tango)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1889
    • DIMENSIONS: 26.3 x 20.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Granada, France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: Tango, traditional, couple, flamenco, Spanish dance,
    • KEYWORDS: guitar
  • s0542

    s0542

    • ARTIST: Zofia Stryjenska (Poland, 1891-1976)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Krzesany dance (Krzesany)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1955
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland
    • DANCE FORM: Krzesany, traditional, couple
  • p1525

    p1525

    • ARTIST: André Derain (France, 1880-1954)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Jack in the box"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil and gouache on paper
    • DATE: 1926
    • COMMENTS: "Jack in the box", a suite by the Ballets Russes on music by E. Satie orchestrated by D. Milaud; choreography by G. Balanchine, sets and costumes by A. Derain
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p2246

    p2246

    • ARTIST: H. Delacroix
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ancient dance (Danse antique)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1915
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity
  • s0569

    s0569

    • ARTIST: F. Issland (sculpture)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Summer. A bronze group (Sommer. Bronzegruppe)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1891
    • DIMENSIONS: 18.5 x 11 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Germany,
    • DANCE FORM: duo, popular
    • KEYWORDS: child, season
  • s0729

    s0729

    • ARTIST: Robert Barnes (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Harmony at the seaside: A morning performance by the inevitable and ever-popular Nigger-Troupe
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1892
    • DIMENSIONS: 32.8 x 49.1 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular, stage
    • KEYWORDS: minstrel, negro, Cockney Ethiopians
  • s3495

    s3495

    • ARTIST: Schaeler (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancer Jòzsef Farkas
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1825
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary
    • DANCE FORM: popular, solo
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • s3530

    s3530

    • ARTIST: Bib.
    • TITLE OF WORK: Marquis Georges de Cuevas won by the example (Le marquis Georges de Cuevas gagné par l'exemple)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch, caricature
    • DATE: 1955
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p3796

    p3796

    • ARTIST: Eugène Ronjat (1822-1912) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Chinese actors (Chineesche tooneelspelers)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 23.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: China
    • KEYWORDS: theater
  • s5159

    s5159

    • ARTIST: Affortunato Gory (Italy, 1895-1925)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer with a ball (Danseuse à la boule)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, chryséléphantine. Epreuve en bronze à patine polychrome.
    • DATE: 0
    • DIMENSIONS: 15,5 x 40,5 x 10,5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed. Fonte d'édition ancienne, sans marque ni cachet de fondeur, visage et boule en ivoire, socle éclairant en marbre et onyx.
    • DANCE FORM: dance with a ball
  • p1948

    p1948

    • ARTIST: Karl Bodmer (Switzerland, 1809-1893)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Bison's dance of the Mandans Indians
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1830
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: Indians, Native Americans
  • p6492

    p6492

    • TITLE OF WORK: Miss Loïe Fuller in one of the latest of her Paris dances
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1893
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Illustration published in an american newspaper
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • s6105

    s6105

    • TITLE OF WORK: Three male dancers and a male lyra player. Boeotian late-geometric kantharos vase
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, black-figure kantharos vase
    • DATE: -740
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.5 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Bought 1897 in the Paris art market
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Boeotia
    • DANCE FORM: line
    • KEYWORDS: music
  • s5561

    s5561

    • ARTIST: Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (Netherlands, 1836-1912)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A private celebration
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on wood
    • DATE: 1871
    • DIMENSIONS: 42.1 x 82.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Greece, Rome
  • p1489

    p1489

    • ARTIST: Jean "PAL" Paléologue (Romania, 1860-1942)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Casino de Paris
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, chromolithograph
    • DATE: 1898
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Romania, Greece, Paris
  • s1443

    s1443

    • ARTIST: Bernard (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Les Huguenots", le bal, publié par M. Giraldon dans "Les beautées de l'Opéra"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1844
    • DIMENSIONS: 12 x 14 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court, couple, stage
    • KEYWORDS: theater

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