Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p3605

    p3605

    • TITLE OF WORK: Carnival in Germany. Dance of the barrel-makers in Munich
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1879
    • DIMENSIONS: 14 x 22 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Munich
    • DANCE FORM: folk
  • s4799

    s4799

    • ARTIST: Pieter Balten (Flanders, 1527-1584) (follower of)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Interior scene in a kitchen (Scène d'intérieur de cuisine)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on panel parqueté
    • DATE: 1650
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 49 x 73 cm
    • COMMENTS: Flemish school of the 17th century
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: egg dance, traditional, solo, acrobatic
    • KEYWORDS: acrobatics
  • s0682

    s0682

    • ARTIST: Frederic Villiers (U.K., 1851-1922) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of the Groomsmen at an Abyssinian wedding, Adowa
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1884
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.2 x 22.6 cm
    • COMMENTS: With Admiral Sir W. Hewett's embassy to King John of Abyssinia
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Abyssinia, Ethiopia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: wedding, wine
  • s2052

    s2052

    • ARTIST: Elli Solomonidi-Balanou (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Illustration for the poem "The lyra player" by Sotiris Skipis
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and black ink
    • DATE: 1999
    • DIMENSIONS: 21 x 29.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
  • p7408

    p7408

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing Apsara
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture
    • DATE: 1050
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: religion, divinity
  • p7062

    p7062

    • ARTIST: George Cruikshank (U.K., 1792-1878) (drawing); Isaac Robert (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Lancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, aquatint
    • DATE: 1830
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • p2445

    p2445

    • ARTIST: August Macke (Germany, 1887-1914)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Chord dancer (Seiltänzer)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil
    • DATE: 1913
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: chord dance, acrobatic
    • KEYWORDS: acrobat
  • p0248

    p0248

    • TITLE OF WORK: A ball given on 19/01/1850 for the benefit of the por (Bal donné le 19/01/1850 au profit des pauvres)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1850
    • DIMENSIONS: 18 x 22 cm
    • COMMENTS: Bal donné le 19/01/1850 au profit des pauvres des 3e et 7e arrondissements de Paris, salle de Sainte-Cecile
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • s0278

    s0278

    • ARTIST: Th. Scharfetter (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Huttler dance. Carnival custom in Junthale (Der Huttlertanz, Carnevalssitte im Junthale)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1868
    • DIMENSIONS: 19.5 x 23.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s4389

    s4389

    • TITLE OF WORK: Sem tango. The most Parisian of tangos (Sem tango. Le plus parisien des tango)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, program
    • DATE: 1913
    • COMMENTS: Program of the Olympia music hall in Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris, Argentina
    • DANCE FORM: tango, couple, ballroom
  • p0564

    p0564

    • ARTIST: Alfred Edward Chalon (Switzerland, 1780-1860) (drawing); J. S. Templeton (lithograph)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Marie Taglioni in the ballet "La sylphide"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1832
    • COMMENTS: "La sylphide". a ballet in two acts by Ph. Taglioni, created on 12/03/1832 in the Paris Opera. Music by J. Schneitzhöffer, decors by P. Ciceri.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, solo
  • p1913

    p1913

    • TITLE OF WORK: Spanish dance couple
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1885
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, flamenco, Spanish dance
  • s2204

    s2204

    • ARTIST: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (France, 1780-1867)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Turkish bath (Le bain turc)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1863
    • DIMENSIONS: 108 cm diam.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Turkey,
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental, solo
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • p3163

    p3163

    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Joseph Grimaldi
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1869
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p2907

    p2907

    • ARTIST: Karl Feiertag (Austria, 1874-1944)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Two children dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: K. W. I. 777-1
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p5974

    p5974

    • ARTIST: Denis Boissier
    • TITLE OF WORK: Small ballet (Petit ballet)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1984
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s2728

    s2728

    • ARTIST: Vladimir Kirin (Croatia, 1894-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Montenegrin national dances, no. 28
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, postcard, color
    • DATE: 1970
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From a series of postcards, no. 28
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Montenegro, Yugoslavia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, folk
  • p8354

    p8354

    • TITLE OF WORK: Shadow Dance - Cerito as "Ondine"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1843
    • DIMENSIONS: 12.3 x 15.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: Dancing the "pas de l'ombre" at Her Majesty's Theatre. London
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, solo
  • p9792

    p9792

    • ARTIST: David Teniers the Younger (Flanders, 1610-1690) (manner of)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A village kermesse
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1700
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 98.5 x 135.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s1974

    s1974

    • ARTIST: Jerry M. Halsor (U.S.A., 19??-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Leap
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze, patina
    • DATE: 1990
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 63.5 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Numbered 15
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s0611

    s0611

    • ARTIST: A. Krauss (sculpture)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Proposal for the "Dancing maenad" Competition
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1897
    • DIMENSIONS: 25.6 x 10.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: music, crotals, castanets
  • s4816

    s4816

    • ARTIST: Emmy Leuze-Hirschfeld (Austria, 1884-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Negro dancer, Marrakesh 1927 (Danseur nègre, Marrakech 1927)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache
    • DATE: 1927
    • DIMENSIONS: 58.5 x 41.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed at lower left; titled, situated and dated at upper left. Austrian school
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Morocco, Marrakesh
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, solo, Oriental
  • s2185

    s2185

    • ARTIST: Anthony Nellé (U.S.A., 1894-1977)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Self portrait at Grotesque Theare in Rostov
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch, pencil
    • DATE: 1919
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland, U.S.A.
  • p2183

    p2183

    • ARTIST: Joseph Carlier (France, 1849-1927)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Gold-heeled Pannyre (Pannyre aux talons d'or)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • s5976

    s5976

    • TITLE OF WORK: Cast solid group of seven nude women dancing in a circle
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, figurine,
    • DATE: -760
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: circle
  • p4230

    p4230

    • ARTIST: Paul Klee (Switzerland, 1879-1940)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Geniuses - Figures from a ballet (Genien - Figuren aus einem Ballett)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1922
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p2631

    p2631

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Le dieu bleu": Bayadère
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil and watercolor on paper
    • DATE: 1911
    • COMMENTS: Ballet "Le diable bleu", Théâtre du Chatelet, Paris. Costumes and stage design by Leon Bakst; music by Reynaldo Hahn, choreography by M. Fokine.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France, Paris, India
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p7000

    p7000

    • ARTIST: André Dunoyer de Segonzac (France, 1884-1974)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from the ballet "Schéhérazade"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen
    • DATE: 1910
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s4402

    s4402

    • 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
  • s1320

    s1320

    • TITLE OF WORK: At the dance. Kia-Ora lemon squash or orange squash
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1925
    • DIMENSIONS: 17.5 x 23 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: advertisement
  • p1879

    p1879

    • TITLE OF WORK: Spanish dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1885
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, flamenco, Spanish dance
  • p1861

    p1861

    • ARTIST: Georges Bergès (France, 1870-1934)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The opera flamenca (La opera flamenca)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1925
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, flamenco, Spanish dance
  • s4558

    s4558

    • TITLE OF WORK: Marie-Madeleine Guimard (La Guimar)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette
    • DATE: 1800
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 38 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Maufacture in Naples
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, solo
  • p4697

    p4697

    • ARTIST: Etienne de La Vallée Poussin (1735-1802) (drawing); Etienne Fessard (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The ball in Saint Cloud (Le bal de Saint-Cloud)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, copper
    • DATE: 1760
    • COMMENTS: The dance shown is a contredanse or a gavottte. Dedicated to "Monseigneur le Duc de Chartres, Prince du Sang".
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p2579

    p2579

    • ARTIST: Marie-Alexandre Adolphe (France, 1812-1883) (drawing and engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Eugénie Fiocre in the ballet "L'amour de Pierre de Médicis"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1860
    • DIMENSIONS: 27.5 x 19 cm
    • COMMENTS: Opéra de Paris, 1860. Printed in Paris.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p9911

    p9911

    • ARTIST: Richard Bankes Harraden (U.K., 1778-1862)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Athens from the Museum Hill
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1828
    • DIMENSIONS: 75 x 117 cm
    • COMMENTS: Inscribed on the original lining on reverse "Athens from the Museum Hill / R.B.Harraden Pinx. 1828/Cambridge"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Athens
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
  • p4961

    p4961

    • TITLE OF WORK: Mister Taglioni (Herr Taglioni)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1844
    • DIMENSIONS: 12 x 7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7432

    p7432

    • ARTIST: Jean Cocteau (France, 1889-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Serge Lifar
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • s5278

    s5278

    • ARTIST: Alexandre-Louis-Marie Charpentier (France, 1856-1909)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Two female dancers, detail on cupboard for string instruments - detail
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief
    • DATE: 1901
    • COMMENTS: Dimenions refer to the cupboard. Art Nouveau
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: women, art nouveau
  • p0090

    p0090

    • ARTIST: Dante Gabriel Rossetti (U.K., 1828-1882)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Bower Meadow
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1872
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 85 x 67.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular, duo
    • KEYWORDS: music, dulcimer, mandoline
  • p5980

    p5980

    • ARTIST: Denis Boissier
    • TITLE OF WORK: Torse force
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, acrylic and oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1984
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3694

    p3694

    • ARTIST: Pol Rab (France, 1898-1933)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the Moulin Rouge music-hall: Le Paradis Fermé
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1928
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p5236

    p5236

    • ARTIST: Sir Edward John Poynter (U.K., 1836-1919) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Serene hours (Horae serene)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1896
    • DIMENSIONS: 8.3 x 22.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: The original painting was executed on a piano plate
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, U.K.
  • s3545

    s3545

    • ARTIST: Jean Dubuffet (France, 1901-1985)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Barebreasted dancer (Danseuse aux seins nus)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, brush, India ink and paper collage on paper mounted at the edges on board
    • DATE: 1957
    • DIMENSIONS: 57.8 x 41.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated "J. Dubuffet 57" at lower left
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • p1293

    p1293

    • TITLE OF WORK: Athenian women - Moreote Greek
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sepia on paper
    • DATE: 1799
    • DIMENSIONS: 36 x 49.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Athens, Peloponnese
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s2900

    s2900

    • TITLE OF WORK: Symbol of the ball given by Monsieur to the Duke de Patrane, ambassador of Spain, on the occasion of the Carousel of 1612
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1612
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p6849

    p6849

    • ARTIST: Jean-Charles Duval (France, 1880-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Miss Binois in "Tha?s" (Mlle Binois dans "Tha?s)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1947
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6639

    p6639

    • ARTIST: Paul Destez (France, 1851-1919) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers' breakfast during rehearsals (Le déjeuner des danseuses pendant les répétitions)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1885
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s4903

    s4903

    • ARTIST: Hubert Robert (France, 1733-1808)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Paysage animé à l'obélisque cassé et tris pyramides
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1800
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 114.5 x 82.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Egypt, Antiquity
    • DANCE FORM: popular, round
  • s0957

    s0957

    • ARTIST: Frederic Villiers (U.K., 1851-1922) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: With Lord Dufferin in Burma. Ladies of the ballet - behind the scenes in the palace, Mandalay
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1886
    • DIMENSIONS: 14.9 x 22.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Burma
    • DANCE FORM: stage, traditional
    • KEYWORDS: off-stage

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