Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • s3716

    s3716

    • ARTIST: Daniel Rabel (France, 1578-1637)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Ballet of the fairies in the Saint-Germain Woods". Entry of the Half-Mad (Coupe-testes) ("Ballet des fées de la forêt de Saint-Germain": Entrée des demy foux)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen, wash and gouache
    • DATE: 1625
    • DIMENSIONS: 28.7 x 44 cm
    • COMMENTS: Entry of the half-wits
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, court
    • KEYWORDS: fools
  • s5152

    s5152

    • TITLE OF WORK: Relief on a lid with female godess
    • TYPE OF WORK: Scuplture, relief, marble
    • DATE: 1150
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 122 x 213 cm
    • COMMENTS: The godess is Vidyadevi (godess of wisdom)
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • DANCE FORM: Indian
  • s1867

    s1867

    • ARTIST: Jean-Louis-Marcel Cosson (France, 1878-1956)
    • TITLE OF WORK: In the small foyer (Au petit foyer)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, eau-forte
    • DATE: 1931
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s0160

    s0160

    • ARTIST: Fabio Fabbi (Italy, 1861-1946)
    • TITLE OF WORK: An Arabian dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1890
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 43.2 x 28.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed "F. Fabbi"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: solo, Oriental
    • KEYWORDS: tambourine, castanets, carpet
  • s4653

    s4653

    • ARTIST: M. M. Vienne
    • TITLE OF WORK: Women dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color, postcard
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Nr. 92
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p2292

    p2292

    • ARTIST: Etienne Dinet (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Evening of Chourbah (Soirée de la chourbah)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1904
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 27 x 41.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Benchikou catalogue no. 156
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Algeria
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental, traditional
  • p9518

    p9518

    • ARTIST: George Endicott (U.S.A., 1802-1848)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Fanny Elssler in "La Volière"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, easel
    • DATE: 1840
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., Austria
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, solo
  • p2517

    p2517

    • ARTIST: Alexandre Lacauchie (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Pauline Leroux in the ballet "Le diable amoureux"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1840
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.5 x 18.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Paris, Opéra
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6971

    p6971

    • ARTIST: Théophile Wagstaff (drawing); Edward Moston (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Innocent games of Zephyr and Flore (Jeux innocents de Zéphyre et Flore)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1836
    • COMMENTS: Theophile Wagstaff is a pseudonym of William Makepeace Thackeray
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1125

    p1125

    • ARTIST: Hans Leonhard Schäufelein (Germany, 1480?-1540)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1550
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p2606

    p2606

    • ARTIST: Arthur Grunenberg (Germany, 1886-1927)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tamara Karsavina in "L'oiseau de feu" (1)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1910
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1815

    p1815

    • ARTIST: Tatiana Bruni (Russia, 1902-2001) & Gueorgui Korchikov (Russia, 1899-1942)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Bolt": The American Fleet
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor, gouache, application, paper
    • DATE: 1931
    • DIMENSIONS: 59.2 x 42.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s0475

    s0475

    • ARTIST: E. A. Schmidt (sketch)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Schäffler dance - final group (Der Schäflertanz - Sclussgruppe)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1894
    • DIMENSIONS: 21 x 9.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: From the handicraft festival in Erfurt of Green Monday on 30/07/1894
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Erfurt
    • DANCE FORM: Schäfflertanz, traditional, acrobatic
    • KEYWORDS: acrobat
  • p5712

    p5712

    • ARTIST: Pieter de Bloot (Netherlands, 1601-1658)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Country dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1560
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Holland
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p2141

    p2141

    • ARTIST: Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov (Russia, 1881-1964)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Marjorie Tallchief
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil
    • DATE: 1948
    • DIMENSIONS: 20 x 12.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p5364

    p5364

    • TITLE OF WORK: Aguste Vestris in the ballet "Les amants surpris"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1780
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p4815

    p4815

    • ARTIST: Osvaldo Tofani (Italy, 1849-1915) (drawing); E. Tilly (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Caribeans at the Jardin d'Acclimatation (Les Cara?bes au Jardin d'Acclimatation)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1892
    • DIMENSIONS: 23 x 31.9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Caribbean, West Indies
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s5355

    s5355

    • ARTIST: André Suréda (France, 1872-1930)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Young woman dancing (Jeune femme dansant)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Mixed technique on papier
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 35 x 16 cm
  • p6123

    p6123

    • ARTIST: Jean-Pierre Norblin (France, 1745-1830)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Village festival outside the city (Kermesse en dehors de la ville)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1785
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p2674

    p2674

    • ARTIST: Auguste Rodin (France, 1840-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance movement E (Mouvement de danse E)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze
    • DATE: 1911
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • s4779

    s4779

    • TITLE OF WORK: Story-tellers, dancers and musicians (Conterus, danseurs et musiciens)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1820
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Made at Delhi
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India, Delhi
    • DANCE FORM: popular, traditional, folk
  • p0255

    p0255

    • ARTIST: Edouard Doigneau (France, 1865-1954) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The round dance of the little girls from the Bigoudin, Britanny (La ronde des petites Bigoudennes)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1906
    • DIMENSIONS: 12 x 22 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Britanny, Bretagne
    • DANCE FORM: popular, traditional, round
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • s4507

    s4507

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers and the Bay of Naples
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, postcard, color
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Naples
    • DANCE FORM: tarantrella, traditional, couple
    • KEYWORDS: mandoline, flute
  • p0015

    p0015

    • ARTIST: Achille Devéria (France, 1800-1857)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Marie Taglioni in the ballet "La Sylphide"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1830
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: After the statuette by Barre
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, solo
  • s2733

    s2733

    • ARTIST: Vladimir Kirin (Croatia, 1894-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Slovenian national dances, no. 34
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, postcard, color
    • DATE: 1970
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From a series of postcards, no. 34
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Slovenia, Yugoslavia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, folk
  • s3284

    s3284

    • ARTIST: Abraham Walkowitz (U.S.A., 1878-1965)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora, The Isadorables and Anita Zahn
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and ink, collage
    • DATE: 1936
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: solo, modern
  • s4516

    s4516

    • ARTIST: Ulysse Gémignani (France, 1906-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance (La danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze à patine noire nuancée
    • DATE: 1960
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 60 cm height, 49 cm length
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: solo, ballet, modern
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • p5487

    p5487

    • ARTIST: Allanson
    • TITLE OF WORK: Carolina Rosati, Carlotta Grisi and Fanny Cerrito in "The elements", by Jules Perrot (Fr. Rosati, C. Grisi, Fanny Cerrito. "Die Elemente", ballet von M. Perrot)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1847
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.5 x 22 cm
    • COMMENTS: The Queen's Theatre, London
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Germany
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s1507

    s1507

    • ARTIST: Orovida Pissarro (U.K., 1893-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ceremonial dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1928
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.5 x 13 cm
    • COMMENTS: From an engraving
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient
  • p1942

    p1942

    • ARTIST: J. N. Bonnefoy
    • TITLE OF WORK: Festival of the Saint John in Provence
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, folk
    • KEYWORDS: country
  • s2191

    s2191

    • ARTIST: Anthony Nellé (U.S.A., 1894-1977)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Set design for "Crash"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1928
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland, U.S.A.
  • p7236

    p7236

    • ARTIST: Lucas Cranach the Elder Lucas Cranach the Elder (Germany, 1472?-1553)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The fountain of youth. Detail
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1546
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Cranach painted this work at the age of 74
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p9748

    p9748

    • ARTIST: Gustave Doré (France, 1832-1883)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Midsummer night's dream
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1870
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 275 x 200 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed at lower left
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
    • DANCE FORM: Popular, round, circular, circle
  • p2421

    p2421

    • ARTIST: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, 1880-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Nude girl (Nacktes Mädchen)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, wood, painted
    • DATE: 1912
    • DIMENSIONS: 64.8 x 15.9 x 13.3 cm
    • COMMENTS: The dancer Nina Hard is portrayed, after her photograph taken by the artist in the summer of 1921 in Davos.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • s4462

    s4462

    • ARTIST: Marleen Worbs
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Death Dance of Lübeck (Lübecker Totentanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, figurines
    • DATE: 1992
    • DIMENSIONS: 7.5 x 7.5 cm approximately
    • COMMENTS: Two of 23 pairs of figures
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: death, macabre
  • p5234

    p5234

    • TITLE OF WORK: Parisian polka - Bohemian polka (Pariser Polka - Böhmische Polka)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1844
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.5 x 22 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the score of the "Polka by F. Offenbach" and an article on the polka
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, polka
  • p2625

    p2625

    • TITLE OF WORK: Ritual dance (?)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief on gold ring
    • DATE: -1400
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: Representaion on mycenaean ring, possibly depicting ritual dance.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
  • s2328

    s2328

    • ARTIST: Anthony Nellé (U.S.A., 1894-1977)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Set design for "Folies en parade": Sunshine after rain
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1934
    • COMMENTS: Presented at the Prince of Wales Theatre, London 1934
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland, U.S.A., U.K.
  • p9926

    p9926

    • ARTIST: George Owen Wynne Apperley (U.K., 1884-1960)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A dancer of Ancient Egypt
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1916
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 190.5 x 273.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Egypt, U.K.
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • p2090

    p2090

    • ARTIST: Jean-Charles Duval (France, 1880-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: José Torres in "L'amour sorcier"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1943
    • COMMENTS: With Sirène Adjemova in the ballet "L'Amour Sorcier"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, Spanish dance
  • s2725

    s2725

    • ARTIST: Vladimir Kirin (Croatia, 1894-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Serbian national dances, no. 25
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, postcard, color
    • DATE: 1970
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From a series of postcards, no. 25
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Serbia, Yugoslavia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, folk
  • s5254

    s5254

    • ARTIST: Giovanni Battista Franco (Italy, 1508?-1561)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Drawing from a relief of a Roman Sarcophage on Bacchus with the discovery of Ariadne (Relief eines roemischen Bacchus-Sarkophags mit der Auffindung Ariadnes)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, brown ink on paper
    • DATE: 1510
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 13.4 x 46.6 cm
    • COMMENTS: Drawing of a Roman sarcophage of the first quarter of the 3rd century AD, kept at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire. See photograph of the original.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Rome, antiquity
    • KEYWORDS: musicians
  • p2483

    p2483

    • ARTIST: Alfred Edward Chalon (Switzerland, 1780-1860) (drawing); Herbert Thomas Maguire (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Marie Taglioni in the ballet "La sylphide". Souvenir d'adieu
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1845
    • DIMENSIONS: 43.5 x 28 cm
    • COMMENTS: Opéra de Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s0543

    s0543

    • TITLE OF WORK: Three women dancing and one beating a drum
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1150
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Byzantium, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: couple, solo
  • p4916

    p4916

    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from the ballet "The painter's surprise" by Jules Perrot (Scene aus dem Ballet "Des Malers Entzucken", von Perrot)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1843
    • DIMENSIONS: 12 x 15 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s2508

    s2508

    • ARTIST: Joseph Carlier (France, 1849-1927) (sculpture)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Lay dance (La danse profane)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, monochrome, from a sculpture
    • DATE: 1904
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 10.5 x 6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, solo
    • KEYWORDS: music, cymbals
  • s1356

    s1356

    • ARTIST: Max Mandl (1864-?) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Under the spell of the doll fairy (Im Zauberbann der Puppenfee)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1890
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.7 x 29.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: stage
    • KEYWORDS: child, disguise, tale
  • s5140

    s5140

    • ARTIST: Fritz Zeymer (Austria, 1886-1940)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Proposed illustration: Dancer Miss Gertrude Barrison for the first printed program of the Fledermaus cabaret
    • TYPE OF WORK: xxxxxx
    • DATE: 1907
    • KEYWORDS: costume, cabaret
  • p0071

    p0071

    • ARTIST: Osvaldo Peruzzi (Italy, 1907-2004)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tango - 2
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on carton
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 41 x 33 cm
    • COMMENTS: Singed at lower right
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: tango, ballroom, couple
  • s0920

    s0920

    • ARTIST: Louis Raemaekers (Netherlands, 1869-1956) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The pleasures of Pau in a palatial palmarium
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1920
    • DIMENSIONS: 31 x 50 cm
    • COMMENTS: Palmarium of the Palais d'Hiver at Pau, Basses-Pyrénées, France
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Pau
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple

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