Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p7309

    p7309

    • TITLE OF WORK: Maria Medina Vigano
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1790
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p4285

    p4285

    • ARTIST: Mary Wigman (Germany, 1886-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Choreographic sketch for "Le sacre du printemps" by Igor Stravinsky
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1957
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p9999

    p9999

    • ARTIST: Fabio Fabbi (Italy, 1861-1946)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Arab dancing girls
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1895
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 70.5 x 40.4 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed "F Fabbi"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental, solo, popular
    • KEYWORDS: scarf
  • p7135

    p7135

    • ARTIST: Gustav Rour (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Wedding celebrations in Hungary (Hochzeitsfeierlichkeiten in Hungarn)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1864
    • DIMENSIONS: 7.5 x 11 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular
  • p3306

    p3306

    • ARTIST: Yannis Tsarouchis (Greece, 1910-1989)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Two Zeibekiko dancers in blue and red bathing trunks
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pastel on white paper
    • DATE: 1978
    • DIMENSIONS: 24.5 x 17.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: popular, Zeibekiko, Greek, rebetiko
    • KEYWORDS: rebetiko
  • p0503

    p0503

    • TITLE OF WORK: Ballerina and gallant officer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1891
    • DIMENSIONS: 7.5 x 5.5 cm
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: military
  • p4185

    p4185

    • ARTIST: Pieter Brueghel the Elder (Flanders, 1525-1569)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The bride's dance (Der Tanz der Braut - La danse de la mariée)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on wood
    • DATE: 1560
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 115 x 166 cm
    • COMMENTS: One of four known versions. Old copy
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p7875

    p7875

    • ARTIST: Gösta Adrian-Nilsson, called GAN (Sweden, 1884-1965)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Design for the ballet "La mer glaciale" by Gösta Nystroem for the Ballets Suédois
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor and paint
    • DATE: 1923
    • DIMENSIONS: 35.3 x 24.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: Ishavsbaletten, Paris, Nov. 1923
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sweden
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p2357

    p2357

    • ARTIST: Berthe Noufflard (France, 1886-1971)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The carnival. After Diaghilev's Ballets Russes (Le carnaval)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1910
    • DIMENSIONS: 92 x 100 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s4502

    s4502

    • TITLE OF WORK: Country amusements no. 2 - Musician: Flour yourselves!!.. (Plaisirs champêtres no. 2 - Le musicien : Farinez !!..)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, postcard, monochrome, cartoon
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: couple, folk
  • s2892

    s2892

    • ARTIST: Georges Scott (France, (1873-1943) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Chatelet Theater - "Rothomago", grand extravaganza in 25 scenes by Mr d'Ennery, Mr Clairville et Mr Albert Nonnier
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1877
    • DIMENSIONS: 18 x 30.4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: stage, ballet
  • s3044

    s3044

    • TITLE OF WORK: "The getaway" - Oh! Madam, I beg your pardon … ("L'escapade" - Oh! Madame, je vous demande pardon…)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1896
    • DIMENSIONS: 7.5 x 5.5 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
  • p7453

    p7453

    • ARTIST: Rik Wouters (Belgium, 1882-1916)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The crazy virgin or The dancing virgin
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze
    • DATE: 1912
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Belgium
  • p2577

    p2577

    • ARTIST: Marie-Alexandre Adolphe (France, 1812-1883) (drawing and engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Célestine Emarot in the ballet "Guillaume Tell"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 27.5 x 19 cm
    • COMMENTS: Revival, Opéra de Paris. Printed in Paris.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s3514

    s3514

    • ARTIST: Giovanni Mauro della Rovere (Italy, 1575?-1640?) (drawing); Leone Pallavicini (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Couple dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1604
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: court, couple
    • KEYWORDS: instruction
  • s1988

    s1988

    • ARTIST: Lucien Fontanarosa (France, 1912-1975)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Seated dancer, grey background (Danseuse assise, fond gris)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel
    • DATE: 1963
    • DIMENSIONS: 65 x 50 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s4064

    s4064

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Javanese gamelan. A Javanese female dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1883
    • DIMENSIONS: 9 x 10.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Indonesia, Java
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, solo
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p2756

    p2756

    • ARTIST: Bartolomeo Pinelli (Italy, 1781-1835)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Saltarello in the Campagna Romana, or Two Neapolitan dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and black ink
    • DATE: 1820
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 40 x 62.1 cm
    • COMMENTS: Inscribed "Pinelli" in pencil. Probaly among the illustrations of the book "Moeurs et usages de Rome et de Naples", 1816.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Rome, Naples, Napoli
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, saltarello, couple
    • KEYWORDS: music, bagpipe
  • s3011

    s3011

    • TITLE OF WORK: Turkestan - Danse of the Batschas at Tachkend (Turkestan - Danse des Batschas, à Tachkend)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1893
    • DIMENSIONS: 20 x 30.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkestan, Tashkent
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, stage
  • s3630

    s3630

    • ARTIST: Adolf Menzel (Germany, 1815-1905)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ballroom (Ballsaal)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: couple, ballroom
  • p1548

    p1548

    • ARTIST: Théodore Leblanc (France, 1800-1837) (drawing); Gihaut frères (France, 1815-1871) (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Romaica, Greek dance (La romaique, danse grecque)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1833
    • DIMENSIONS: 14.5 x 23 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Athens
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, romaica
  • s4250

    s4250

    • ARTIST: Ramiro Arrue (Spain, 1892-1971)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Basque dance in front of a village (Danse basque devant un village)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 21 x 28 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed at lower right
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Basque Country
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple, popular
    • KEYWORDS: drum
  • s1883

    s1883

    • ARTIST: Graham Simmons
    • TITLE OF WORK: The sin of the night club
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, monochrome
    • DATE: 1922
    • DIMENSIONS: 12.3 x 22.4 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for an article
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • s4219

    s4219

    • ARTIST: Alfredo Bortoluzzi (Germany, 1905-1995)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Siva, Master of the Dance (Schiwa, der Herr des Tanzes)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, monochrome
    • DATE: 1938
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, India
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: religion, deity, divinity
  • s5567

    s5567

    • TITLE OF WORK: Church festival in Gross-Hessellohe. On the dance floor (Die Kirchwih in Gross-Hessellohe. Auf dem tanzplatze)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 0
  • s4362

    s4362

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance couple
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: couple
  • p2273

    p2273

    • TITLE OF WORK: Buffalo dancers. Detail.
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, buffalo or antelope skin
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 142.4 x 111.3 cm
    • COMMENTS: Quapaw Indians, Arkansas Sioux, Prairies Region, USA
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: Indians, Native Americans
  • s1538

    s1538

    • ARTIST: Henry Cheffer (France, 1880-1957) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: During the examinations of the Conservatory: album sketches (Pendant les concours du Conservatoire: croquis d'album)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1934
    • DIMENSIONS: 8 x 14.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, solo
  • p5837

    p5837

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance on 500 meticals banknote
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1990
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 8 x 15.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Mozambique
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s4036

    s4036

    • TITLE OF WORK: Woman dancer with crotales
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on red figure vase
    • DATE: -200
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • s4592

    s4592

    • ARTIST: Mathieu Barathier (France, 1784-1867)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ballet scene (Scène de ballet)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel on paper
    • DATE: 1849
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 77 x 96 cm
    • COMMENTS: Unsigned, undated
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, France
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, Oriental
  • p1847

    p1847

    • ARTIST: Nicholas Roerich (Russia, 1874-1947)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Le sacre du printemps", scene 2
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, tempera on carton
    • DATE: 1912
    • COMMENTS: Dedicated "notre enfant" to Igor Stravinsky
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • s1997

    s1997

    • ARTIST: Ifwares Daniel Andersson (Sweden, 1799-1870)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The blessed and the damned. W: The children of the world
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, tempera
    • DATE: 1850
    • COMMENTS: Made in Rättvik
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sweden, Delecarla
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
    • KEYWORDS: fiddle, children
  • p2096

    p2096

    • ARTIST: Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov (Russia, 1881-1964)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Rehearsal of the ballet on stage
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and China ink
    • DATE: 1916
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 23 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7879

    p7879

    • ARTIST: Gösta Adrian-Nilsson, called GAN (Sweden, 1884-1965)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Design for the ballet "La mer glaciale" by Gösta Nystroem for the Ballets Suédois
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, drawing, watercolor and pencils
    • DATE: 1923
    • DIMENSIONS: 35.3 x 23.4 cm
    • COMMENTS: Ishavsbaletten, Paris, Nov. 1923
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sweden
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p5106

    p5106

    • ARTIST: Réné Gruau (Italy, 1909-2004)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Lido, cabaret-restaurant, Champs-Elysées, Paris. Quelle nuit!
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1964
    • COMMENTS: Revue enchantée de Pierre Louis Guerin et Réné Fraday, mise en scène de Donn Arden, costumes de Folco
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • s1579

    s1579

    • ARTIST: Louis-René Boquet (France, 1717-1814)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the opera-ballet "Les caractères de la folie"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, China ink and wash
    • DATE: 1743
    • COMMENTS: "Les caractères de la folie", opera-ballet by Bernard de Bury. First performed at the Opera of Paris on 20/08/1743.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p1864

    p1864

    • ARTIST: Alméry Lobel-Riche (France, 1880-1950)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Flamenco dance (3)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1890
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, flamenco, Spanish dance
  • p1658

    p1658

    • ARTIST: Theo van Doesburg (Netherlands, 1883-1931)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Heroic movement - The dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil and tempera on canvas
    • DATE: 1916
    • DIMENSIONS: 136 x 110.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Holland
  • p5546

    p5546

    • TITLE OF WORK: A Thanksgiving dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1858
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p2119

    p2119

    • ARTIST: Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov (Russia, 1881-1964)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Serge Diaghilev, Slavinsky and two dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen, pencil and China ink
    • DATE: 1916
    • DIMENSIONS: 41.5 x 26 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Poland, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p0322

    p0322

    • ARTIST: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (France, 1864-1901)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Miss Eglantine's troup (Troupe de Mlle Eglantine)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1896
    • DIMENSIONS: 73 x 92 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris, London
    • DANCE FORM: quadrille naturaliste
  • s1557

    s1557

    • ARTIST: Georges Goursat or SEM (France, 1863-1934) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: At the times of the charleston: Jean-Gabriel Domergue (Au temps de charleston: J.-G. Domergue)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1934
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.6 x 5.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: charleston, solo, ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • s2304

    s2304

    • ARTIST: Anthony Nellé (U.S.A., 1894-1977)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Set design for "Finale" II
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland, U.S.A.
  • s3690

    s3690

    • TITLE OF WORK: Sailors dancing with prostitutes in a Gatlin Street saloon, New Orleans, Louisiana
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., Louisiana, New Orleans
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple
  • p7356

    p7356

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "The fairy doll" (Die Puppenfee)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1903
    • COMMENTS: Saint Petersburg
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s5647

    s5647

    • TITLE OF WORK: Satyre playing the double aulos, two maenads dancing. Pottery: black-figured oinochoe
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pottery, black-figured oinochoe
    • DATE: -490
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 25.4 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Dionysiac thiasos: In the centre a Satyr to right with hair looped up, playing the double flute; the sybenè (flute case) hangs from his left arm. On either side of him is a Maenad dancing and looking
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Athens
    • KEYWORDS: maenad, musician, aulos
  • s0491

    s0491

    • ARTIST: Mars (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: National celebration in Paris. A popular ball (La fête nationale à Paris. Un bal populaire)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1885
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 15.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: popular, ballroom, couple
  • s3656

    s3656

    • ARTIST: Paul Gavarni or Guillaume Sulpice Chevalier (France, 1804-1866)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The open air balls (Les bals en plein air)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1845
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • p8502

    p8502

    • ARTIST: Domenico Mastaglio (Germany, 1851-?) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance class (Tanzstunde)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1898
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.4 x 30.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: court, couple
    • KEYWORDS: instruction

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