Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p0758

    p0758

    • TITLE OF WORK: Athenian maidens at the Panathenaea
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief
    • DATE: 100
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Roman copy of a Greek original. The annual festival of Panathinaea, dedicated to godess Athena, comprised a procession to the Acropolis, sacrifices and games.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Attica, Athens
  • p2190

    p2190

    • ARTIST: Pierre Carrier-Belleuse (France, 1851-1933)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The enchanted dune (La dune enchantée)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1912
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • p7772

    p7772

    • ARTIST: Henri Regnault (France, 1843-1871) (painting); Albert Duvivier (drawing); I. Romini
    • TITLE OF WORK: Salome the Dancer (Salome la danseuse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1870
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.2 x 16 cm
    • COMMENTS: Engraved by I. Romini
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, folk, Oriental
    • KEYWORDS: Salome, religion, Bible, portrait
  • p0211

    p0211

    • TITLE OF WORK: Carlotta Grisi and Lucien Pétipa in "La Péri", ballet fantastique, act 1
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1843
    • DIMENSIONS: 13 x 14 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p8737

    p8737

    • TITLE OF WORK: Lola Montez in Spanish dance costume
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, colored
    • DATE: 1844
    • COMMENTS: Lola Montez was lover of King Ludwig I of Bavaria
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, Spanish dance
  • p6223

    p6223

    • ARTIST: Lucas Cranach the Elder Lucas Cranach the Elder (Germany, 1472?-1553)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Golden Age. The fountain of youth
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1546
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: nude, tree
  • p2549

    p2549

    • ARTIST: John Brandard (U.K., 1812-1863) (drawing and engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Brigand Polka composed by Anton Wallerstein
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1846
    • DIMENSIONS: 32 x 18 cm
    • COMMENTS: Jules Perrot and Lucile Grahn in the Brigand Polka of "Catarina ou La fille du bandit". Her Majesty's Theatre, London, 1846. Music cover lithographed by Hutfurd and Hess, New York.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., U.K., France
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, polka
  • p0485

    p0485

    • ARTIST: Simone Manca di Mores (Italy, 1809-1900)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sardinian dance (Ballo sardo)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1898
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Sardinia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p1184

    p1184

    • ARTIST: James McNeill Whistler (U.S.A., 1834-1903)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A dancing woman in a pink robe, seen from the back
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, charcoal and gouache on brown paper
    • DATE: 1887
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 28 x 18.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: Ispired by the Tanagra ancient Greek statuettes he saw in the collection of his friends of the Ionidis family.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
  • s2208

    s2208

    • ARTIST: Rivero Gil
    • TITLE OF WORK: Caricature of Antonia Mercé
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1930
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: flamenco, Spanish dance, traditional, popular
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • p5746

    p5746

    • ARTIST: William Hogarth (U.K., 1697-1764)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Wanstead Assembly
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1750
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • p9235

    p9235

    • ARTIST: Tsuguharu Foujita (Japan, 1886-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancers (Les danseuses)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, gouache on paper
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 31 x 47.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Japan
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7105

    p7105

    • TITLE OF WORK: The prophet David dances and plays his harp, surrounded by musicians
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: royalty, Bible, religion
  • p1368

    p1368

    • TITLE OF WORK: Male dancers (Danseurs)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1828
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Greece, Turkey,
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental, traditional
  • p4637

    p4637

    • ARTIST: Nikolaus von Riedt
    • TITLE OF WORK: Townsmen dance (Bürgertanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1592
    • COMMENTS: Detail from a design for a glass painting
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Switzerland
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • s5795

    s5795

    • ARTIST: The Medea Group Painter (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Hermes and three nymphs. Woman dancing between two satyrs. Black-figure amphora vase
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, black-figure amphora vase
    • DATE: -520
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
    • KEYWORDS: satyr, maenad, deity
  • p9352

    p9352

    • ARTIST: Eugène Berman (Russia, 1899-1972)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Giselle"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pen and brush, indian ink and wash, heightened with white gouache
    • DATE: 1946
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.8 x 16 cm
    • COMMENTS: "Giselle", ballet performed by the Ballet Theatre, London 1946
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p4784

    p4784

    • ARTIST: C. Schild
    • TITLE OF WORK: Pannkooken-Musikanten in Schleswig-Holstein
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1885
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p4547

    p4547

    • ARTIST: Fernand Léger (France, 1881-1955)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Création du monde": Horned Being (Etre à cornes)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor and India ink on paper
    • DATE: 1923
    • DIMENSIONS: 37 x 19.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p3846

    p3846

    • ARTIST: Gustave Moreau (France, 1826-1898)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Study after the model for Salome (Etude d'après le modèle pour Salomé)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and China ink
    • DATE: 1974
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 25.5 x 22.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • KEYWORDS: Salome, religion
  • p7632

    p7632

    • ARTIST: Costas Mitropoulos
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ballerina's kiss
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1970
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • s3578

    s3578

    • ARTIST: Miklòs Izsò (Hungary, 1831-1875)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing peasant, No. 15
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture
    • DATE: 1867
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, solo
  • p9865

    p9865

    • ARTIST: Giulio Romano (Italy, 1499?-1546) (carton)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Nymphs' dance (La danse des nymphes)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Tapestry
    • DATE: 1690
    • DIMENSIONS: 500 x 467 cm
    • COMMENTS: Made by the Manufacture des Gobelins, Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s5753

    s5753

    • TITLE OF WORK: Veiled female dancer from Boeotia or Attica (La Béotie et l'Attique : "Les danseuses voilées")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, figurine
    • DATE: -375
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 24.2 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Made in Boeotia. Certains textes antiques décrivent l'habitude qu'avaient les femmes mariées, et en particulier les Béotiennes, de porter de lourds manteaux qu'elles utilisaient éventuellement pour se
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Boeotia
    • KEYWORDS: veil
  • p1905

    p1905

    • TITLE OF WORK: Two Spanish dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1875
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, bolero, Spanish dance
  • s3197

    s3197

    • ARTIST: May Néama (1917-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer of the Opera with castanets (Danseur de l'Opéra avec castagnettes)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1969
    • DIMENSIONS: 18 x 12 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the book "80 récits sur la danse" edited by the artist
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: solo, ballet
  • p2102

    p2102

    • ARTIST: Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov (Russia, 1881-1964)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Serge Diaghilev visiting Vaslav Nijinsky ill
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil
    • DATE: 1912
    • DIMENSIONS: 26 x 33 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s3641

    s3641

    • ARTIST: Théo van Rysselberghe (Belgium, 1862-1926)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Children's dance (Kindertanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: popular, solo
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p9806

    p9806

    • ARTIST: Fikret Moualla Saygi (Turkey, 1903-1967)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The three dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, colored pencils
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 23 x 30 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed at lower right
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey
  • p9030

    p9030

    • ARTIST: E. D. Biou
    • TITLE OF WORK: A wedding in Britanny (Une noce bretonne)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1857
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 23 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Britanny, Bretagne
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • p6873

    p6873

    • TITLE OF WORK: Boswell and two Highlanders dancing a reel at the top of Dun Caan, a mountain on the Isle of Raasay
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1775
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From Boswell's journey to Scotland, during the summer of 1773.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Scotland
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • s2310

    s2310

    • ARTIST: Anthony Nellé (U.S.A., 1894-1977)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Set design for "The foundry": Blast furnace
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1935
    • COMMENTS: From "The foundry, a Coliseum vaudeville", presentation set to Beethoven's seventh symphony, London
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland, U.S.A., U.K.
  • s0594

    s0594

    • TITLE OF WORK: View from the Column of Victory - Visitors dancing. Fête in Blenheim Park in aid of the Great Western Railway Provident Society
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1873
    • DIMENSIONS: 14.9 x 22.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • s2565

    s2565

    • ARTIST: Charles Maurand (France, 1824-1904) (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Court balls - The imperial quadrille (Les bals de la cour - Le quadrille impérial)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1890
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.5 x 48 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: court
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • s0584

    s0584

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Prince of Wales at Malta - Dancing the reel at the United Service Ball
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1876
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.2 x 30 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Malta, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: reel, traditional, couple
    • KEYWORDS: royalty, bagpipes, music
  • p4954

    p4954

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Palace Theatre of Varieties. The handsomest music-hall in Europe
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1895
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • s4717

    s4717

    • ARTIST: Auguste Bourote (1853-1939)
    • TITLE OF WORK: An early morning Farandole at the Grand Place of Brussels (Farandole au marché matinal sur la Grande Place de Bruxelles)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 120 x 200 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Belgium, Brussels
    • DANCE FORM: popular, farandole
  • p4041

    p4041

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers on stage (Danseuses en scène)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pastel on paper
    • DATE: 1883
    • DIMENSIONS: 64.8 x 50.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p5832

    p5832

    • ARTIST: Abraham Walkowitz (U.S.A., 1878-1965)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan - Study
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil
    • DATE: 1910
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p9880

    p9880

    • ARTIST: Linder (drawing); Barry (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The waltz at the Mabille ballroom (La valse à Mabille)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple, waltz
  • p6628

    p6628

    • ARTIST: Gyomyo
    • TITLE OF WORK: Mask "emi" of the dance "bugaku ninomai"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, wood, laquered and colored, horsetail hair
    • DATE: 1173
    • DIMENSIONS: 27 cm height
    • COMMENTS: A masculine mask portraying an old man, comic and burlesque in character.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Japan
    • DANCE FORM: bugaku, traditional
  • p5593

    p5593

    • ARTIST: Luca della Robbia (Italy, 1399-1482)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Children dancing under trumpets
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief
    • DATE: 1600
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • s0843

    s0843

    • TITLE OF WORK: Mappin & Webb's presentation silver plate
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1890
    • DIMENSIONS: 10 x 13 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: nude, child, advertisement
  • p6224

    p6224

    • TITLE OF WORK: Celestial dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze, gilded
    • DATE: 750
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Period of the T'ang dynasty (618-907 A.D.)
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: China
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p8586

    p8586

    • ARTIST: Franz Paul Guillery (Germany, 1862-1933) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance in an Italian wine tavern (Tanz in einer italienischen Weinschenke)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving
    • DATE: 1899
    • DIMENSIONS: 29.5 x 49.4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • p7666

    p7666

    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from "The black crook"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1866
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6394

    p6394

    • ARTIST: Edouard de Beaumont (France, 1812-1888) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Pierrot dancing the "Le pas de Pierrot" (Pierrot dansant "Le pas de Pierrot")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • KEYWORDS: theater
  • p5099

    p5099

    • TITLE OF WORK: Arthur Saint Leon in his ballet "Le lutin de la vallée" at the Théâtre Lyrique, Paris
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1853
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s3117

    s3117

    • TITLE OF WORK: The volte dance at the patronal festival of the hermitage of Our Lady of Consolation, near Collioure (La volte lors de la fête patronale à l'ermitage Notre-Dame-de-Consolation, près de Collioure)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: Volte, Bail, traditional
  • p0054

    p0054

    • ARTIST: Osvaldo Peruzzi (Italy, 1907-2004)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tango - 1
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on carton
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 41 x 33 cm
    • COMMENTS: Singed at lower left
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: tango, ballroom, couple

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