Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • s6026

    s6026

    • TITLE OF WORK: Young man balancing an amphora vase on his foot
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, red-figured cap, vase
    • DATE: -505
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 22 cm diam.
    • COMMENTS: Bilingual vase. The amphora is crowned with ivy
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: acrobatic
  • s5103

    s5103

    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for Felix Fibich as "Menachem Mendel", choreographed by Judith Berg and Felix Fibich
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, gouache and pencil on paper
    • DATE: 1950
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Jewish
    • DANCE FORM: solo, male
  • p4178

    p4178

    • ARTIST: Maurice Denis (France, 1870-1943)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Study for "Presto, a figure of the Exèdre. Natacha Trouchanova
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, charcoal heightened with white chalk and pastel on paper
    • DATE: 1913
    • DIMENSIONS: 78 x 103 cm
    • COMMENTS: Natacha Trouhanowa, Russian dancer, posed for this sketch. It was one of the 11 panels to decorate the scene of the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. The series was named "Les mouvements et les nuances". Th
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • s1617

    s1617

    • ARTIST: Yves Saint Laurent (France, 1936-2008)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Notre Dame de Paris", act 1: La Foule
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1965
    • COMMENTS: "Notre Dame de Paris", ballet. Ballets Roland Petit, Opéra de Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p7739

    p7739

    • ARTIST: Natalia Goncharova (Russia, 1881-1962)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Curtain design for the ballet "Le coq d'or". Detail
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1914
    • COMMENTS: This project was not executed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p6405

    p6405

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of the whirling dervishes
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1580
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Persia, Iran
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p1276

    p1276

    • ARTIST: Edward Seago (U.K., 1910-1974)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The mirror, Théâtre de Monte Carlo
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1935
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Monte Carlo, Monaco
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s3148

    s3148

    • TITLE OF WORK: The May tree (L'orme de mai)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1550
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: maypole
  • s3396

    s3396

    • TITLE OF WORK: Bacchant. Lalique crystal vase (Bacchantes, vase de Cristal Lalique)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, glass vase
    • DATE: 1975
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • p3030

    p3030

    • ARTIST: G. Maurand
    • TITLE OF WORK: An evening in the house of a rich Tartar, in Sciamaki (Una serata presso un ricco Tartaro, a Sciamaki)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1875
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.7 x 23.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, Tatar
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: Tatar
  • s4117

    s4117

    • TITLE OF WORK: Figurine of a female dancer (?)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze
    • DATE: -1500
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 4.6 x 2.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Late Minoan period (1580-145 BC)
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Crete
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • p9160

    p9160

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Le tricorne"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor on paper
    • DATE: 1919
    • COMMENTS: "Le tricorne", ballet in one act by the Ballets Russes, in Paris. Music by M. de Falla, composed for the pantomime by Martinez-Sierra. Scenario by Serge Diaghilev after the play "Le tricorne" by Alarc
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Spain
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, Spanish dance?
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • s0736

    s0736

    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from the new ballet of "Les quatre saisons", at Her Majesty's Theatre
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1856
    • DIMENSIONS: 17.5 x 24 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s1638

    s1638

    • ARTIST: Yves Saint Laurent (France, 1936-2008)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Le diable amoureux": Entrée de la gloire
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1965
    • COMMENTS: "Le diable amoureux", ballet de Jean Anouilh and Roland Petit
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p9151

    p9151

    • ARTIST: André Derain (France, 1880-1954)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "La boutique fantasque"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1919
    • COMMENTS: "La boutique fantasque", ballet in one act by the Ballets Russes, in Paris. Music by G. Rossini, arranged by O. Respighi, choreography by L. Massine adapted from the ballet "La fée des poupées" de J.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p4719

    p4719

    • TITLE OF WORK: Fanny Elssler and Gustavo Carey in the ballet "Faust" by Jules Perrot
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1851
    • COMMENTS: Elssler chose, in Vienna, this role as her last one.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p8962

    p8962

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Czar visiting the ambassador of France in Saint Petersbourg. The honour quadrille (Le Tsar chez l'ambassadeur de France à Saint-Pétersbourg. Le quadrille d'honneur)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1893
    • DIMENSIONS: 31 x 26.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: The czar at the French ambassador's in Saint Petersburg. The quadrille of honor
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, quadrille
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • p0043

    p0043

    • ARTIST: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (France, 1864-1901)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Moorish dance or The Goulue as oriental dancer (La danse mauresque ou la Goulue en almée)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1895
    • DIMENSIONS: 285 x 307.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed at lower right. This is a panel painted for the caravan of La Goulue. Among the persons represented are Jane Avril and Oscar Wilde.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, France, Paris,
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: art nouveau
  • p6069

    p6069

    • TITLE OF WORK: National Dance at Bergen utstillingen (Nationaldans paa Bergensutstillingen)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1910
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Norway
    • DANCE FORM: popular, ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • p1482

    p1482

    • ARTIST: Curti Painter
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dionysos with maenad and satyr
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on vase
    • DATE: -450
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 30 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Red-figure bell krater.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • s2219

    s2219

    • ARTIST: Armando Arpaja (Italy, 1943-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Zeibekiko
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1981
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: zeibekiko, traditional, popular
    • KEYWORDS: cigarette
  • p8908

    p8908

    • ARTIST: Umbertos Argyros (Greece, 1884-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer (Tänzerin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, Oriental
    • KEYWORDS: cabaret
  • p6578

    p6578

    • ARTIST: Koloman Moser (Austria, 1868-1918)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The butterfly girl
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, China ink and gouache
    • DATE: 1897
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Inspired by Loïe Fuller
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p8474

    p8474

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing bouffets, Ash Wednesday, in Uzes, Gard (La danse des bouffets, le mercredi des Cendres, à Uzès, Gard)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1857
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.3 x 23 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Uzès, Gard
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular
    • KEYWORDS: disguise
  • s4852

    s4852

    • ARTIST: Triptolemus Painter (Greece, active ca. 490-470 BC)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dithyrambic dance around a musician and a dance master
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on vase
    • DATE: -485
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: Red figure vase
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
  • p9509

    p9509

    • ARTIST: Henri Taurel (French, 1843-1927)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Terpsichore (Terpsychore)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1872
    • DIMENSIONS: 131 x 79.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated; exposed at the Paris Salon of 1872. Terpsichore was the Muse of dance
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
    • KEYWORDS: religion, divinity
  • p0999

    p0999

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers and flutist
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mural
    • DATE: -480
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Etruria, Italy
  • s4748

    s4748

    • ARTIST: Valentine Gross Hugo (France, 1887-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vaslav Nijinsky as "The Blue God" (Vaslav Nijinsky, Le Dieu Bleu)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, wax
    • DATE: 1913
    • DIMENSIONS: 79 x 62 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: ballet
    • KEYWORDS: religion, deity, flute
  • p1363

    p1363

    • ARTIST: Nicolas Lancret (France, 1690-1743)
    • TITLE OF WORK: L'été (The summer)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil
    • DATE: 1738
    • DIMENSIONS: 68 x 88 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, folk
    • KEYWORDS: country
  • p7151

    p7151

    • ARTIST: Nicolaes de Bruyn (Flanders, 1571-1656)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Branle dance (Le branle)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1617
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, France
    • DANCE FORM: court, popular
  • s2686

    s2686

    • ARTIST: G. Rosa
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tarantella
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1946
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: popular, traditional, tarantella, solo
    • KEYWORDS: tambourine
  • s0687

    s0687

    • TITLE OF WORK: The costume ball given by the Baden Club
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1883
    • DIMENSIONS: 14.3 x 22.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: The Prince of Wales at Baden-Baden - The jubilee of the International Club
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Baden Baden, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, popular
    • KEYWORDS: disguise
  • s4317

    s4317

    • TITLE OF WORK: Grand ballet by Manzotti. Masked ball on ice in Montreal (Canada) - Grand ballet of the snow (Grand ballet de Manzotti. Bal masqué sur la glace à Montréal (Canada) - Grand ballet de la neige)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, chromolithograph, color, card
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Canada, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3437

    p3437

    • ARTIST: Abraham Walkowitz (U.S.A., 1878-1965)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Study of Isadora Duncan dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1913
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p2169

    p2169

    • ARTIST: Martin Engelbrecht (Germany, 1684-1756)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancing (Das Tanzen)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1730
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: instruction
  • p9049

    p9049

    • ARTIST: Jean-Louis Forain (France, 1852-1931)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancers (Les danseuses)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1895
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 50.5 x 62 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3111

    p3111

    • TITLE OF WORK: Augusta Maywood, aged 12, in "Le dieu et la bayadère"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1837
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p4707

    p4707

    • TITLE OF WORK: Variations of the Mazurka (2)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1750
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • s5249

    s5249

    • TITLE OF WORK: Lying-in-state with mourners
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on geometric amphora
    • DATE: -800
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
  • p8272

    p8272

    • TITLE OF WORK: The festivities at Venice. Masquerade in St. Mark's piazza
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1866
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 23.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: disguise
  • p5272

    p5272

    • TITLE OF WORK: Internationaal Folkloristisch Danstheater. Moresca/Saltarella
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, poster
    • DATE: 1981
    • COMMENTS: Stadsschouwburg Utrecht 23/09/1981
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Holland
    • DANCE FORM: folk
  • s0784

    s0784

    • ARTIST: Sydney Prior Hall (U.K., 1842-1922) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: View of the ball from the gallery
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1885
    • DIMENSIONS: 10 x 14 cm
    • COMMENTS: The coming of age of Prince Albert Victor - The festivities at Sandringham
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Sandringham
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, round, mixed
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • p1880

    p1880

    • TITLE OF WORK: Spanish dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, flamenco, Spanish dance
  • p5677

    p5677

    • TITLE OF WORK: The tarantella (La tarantella)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1870
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Naples
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s4680

    s4680

    • TITLE OF WORK: Basque Country (Pays Basque)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, postcard
    • DATE: 1960
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Pays Basque
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, couple
  • p0017

    p0017

    • ARTIST: Georges Barbier (France, 1882-1932)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vaslav Nijinsky in the ballet "Petrouchka"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, colored au pochoir
    • DATE: 1913
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France, Paris, Poland,
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1787

    p1787

    • ARTIST: Jean-Pierre Peytier (France, 1793-1863)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Two dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1832
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s5913

    s5913

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing Group. Terracotta. Mexico, Western Nyarit, 5th-6th Century
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, figurine, terracotta
    • DATE: 500
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 8.5 x 9.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Mexico, Western Nyarit
    • DANCE FORM: circle
  • p4020

    p4020

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Three studies of a dancer's head (Trois études de la tête d'une danseuse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3140

    p3140

    • TITLE OF WORK: Carlotta Grisi dancing the polka
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1870
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, polka

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