Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p3586

    p3586

    • ARTIST: Valery Kosoroukov (Russia, 1937-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from the ballet "Nutcracker"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1989
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p5618

    p5618

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Little dancer aged fourteen (Petite danseuse de quatorze ans)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p4234

    p4234

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer examining her right foot (Danseuse regardant la plante de son pied droit)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, green wax
    • DATE: 1897
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 46 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3445

    p3445

    • ARTIST: Jules Grandjouan (France, 1875-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan dansant "Valse" par Schubert (Isadora Duncan dancing "Valse" by Schubert)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving from chalk drawing
    • DATE: 1912
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern, waltz, solo
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p7065

    p7065

    • ARTIST: Wojciech Gerson (Poland, 1831-1901) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance around the fire for the summer solstice, South Eastern Poland
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1865
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p7677

    p7677

    • TITLE OF WORK: Corte Angioina. Musicians and dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1450
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Italy
    • KEYWORDS: music
  • p9751

    p9751

    • ARTIST: Juho Rissanen (Finland, 1873-1950)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1939
    • DIMENSIONS: 75 x 105 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated 1939 at lower left
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Finland
    • DANCE FORM: couple, popular, ballroom
  • s3255

    s3255

    • ARTIST: André Bourgault (Canada, 1898-1958) (attributed to)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Canadian dance (Danse canadienne)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, wood, colored
    • DATE: 1940
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Canada
    • DANCE FORM: couple, traditional
  • s3051

    s3051

    • TITLE OF WORK: Tanagra dancer - 2
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, terracotta
    • DATE: -100
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: popular, solo
  • p7262

    p7262

    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Lola Montez
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1845
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Ireland
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • s4345

    s4345

    • ARTIST: Nicolas Gysis (Greece, 1842-1901)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Grandmother dancing with her grandchildren
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1883
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: Popular, round, circular, circle
  • p4885

    p4885

    • ARTIST: P. Mataux
    • TITLE OF WORK: Torch dance at the Berlin court (Falkentanz am Berliner Hof)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1913
    • COMMENTS: The torch dance was danced for the last time officially in the German imperial court as part of the wedding ceremony in 1913, for the wedding of Princess Viktoria Luise, daughter of the Kaiser, with t
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, torch
  • p1804

    p1804

    • ARTIST: Konstantin Alekseyevich Korovin (Russia, 1861-1939)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for "Le petit cheval bossu"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, tempera on paper
    • DATE: 1912
    • DIMENSIONS: 47.4 x 60.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Music by C. Pugni, choreography by A. Gorski (after M. Petipa). Mariinsky Theater, Saint Petersburg, 1912
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p7738

    p7738

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Parade": The Acrobat
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor on paper
    • DATE: 1917
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Spain
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p0631

    p0631

    • ARTIST: H. de la Laurencie (sketch)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costumed ball on a French warship
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1855
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.5 x 23 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • KEYWORDS: military, navy, costume, ship
  • s2602

    s2602

    • ARTIST: L. Crépon (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance in costume of the priests of Odji-Gonghen at the cereals festival (Danse costumée des prêtres d'Odji-Gonghen, à la fête des céréales)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1869
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.9 x 23.4 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Le Japon" by Aimé Humbert, 1863-1864
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Japan
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • s2678

    s2678

    • TITLE OF WORK: Capriccio - Tarentella for piano by Théodore Lack op. 190 (Caprice- Tarentelle pour piano par Théodore Lack op. 190)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1899
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple, tarantella
    • KEYWORDS: tambourine, castanets
  • s1539

    s1539

    • ARTIST: José Simont (Spain, 1875-1968) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The ball of the Comédie Française: handing out accessories for the cotillon (Le bal de la Comédie Française: La distribution des accessoires de cotillon)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1934
    • DIMENSIONS: 26.9 x 21 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: cotillon, ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: theater
  • s4616

    s4616

    • TITLE OF WORK: Las Alegrias
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Andalusia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, folklore, solo, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: guitar
  • p7032

    p7032

    • ARTIST: Carl von Binzer (Germany, 1824-1902) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The rapid one (Der Schleunige)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1871
    • DIMENSIONS: 20.3 x 32.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular, traditional
  • s4670

    s4670

    • TITLE OF WORK: Couple dancing a courtly dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color, card
    • DATE: 1925
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Perfume card
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: couple, court
  • p0204

    p0204

    • ARTIST: Paul Gavarni or Guillaume Sulpice Chevalier (France, 1804-1866)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The cotillon and the waltz in two times, by Gavarni (Le cotillon. La valse à deux temps, par Gavarni)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1847
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.5 x 22 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, cotillon, waltz
  • p4972

    p4972

    • ARTIST: Gabriel Fernández Ledesma (Mexico, 1900-1983)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "La coronela"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1940
    • COMMENTS: From the performance given in Mexico at the Palacio de Bellas Artes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Mexico
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p5484

    p5484

    • TITLE OF WORK: Illustrated Polka (Illustrirte Polka)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1847
    • DIMENSIONS: 12 x 23 cm
    • COMMENTS: Musical score
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p5240

    p5240

    • ARTIST: André Derain (France, 1880-1954)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Backcloth design for the ballet "La boutique fantasque"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1919
    • COMMENTS: First performance by the Ballets Russes at the Alhambra Theatre, LOndon, 05/07/1919; choreography by Massine, music by Rossini
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • s2932

    s2932

    • ARTIST: La Serre (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Festivals and amusements in Madrid for the marriage of the king (Festins et réjouissances à Madrid pour le marriage du roi)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1616
    • COMMENTS: Celebrations in Madrid on the wedding of the king
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Madrid
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p2747

    p2747

    • ARTIST: Bufon (?)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Nymphs
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
  • s1191

    s1191

    • ARTIST: H. de la Laurencie (sketch)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costumed ball (Bal costumé)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1855
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.1 x 22.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: On the canon boat "La fusée"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: disguise, ship, marine, sea
  • p8664

    p8664

    • ARTIST: Samuel Melton Fisher (U.K., 1859-1939) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing the saltarello in the Bay of Naples
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1895
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.6 x 30.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular. traditional, couple, country
  • p4217

    p4217

    • ARTIST: Paul Destez (France, 1851-1919) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The surroundings of Paris. The Thursday evening ball at the "Grenouillère"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1885
    • DIMENSIONS: 22 x 29.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Les environs de Paris. Le bal du jeudi soir à "La Grenouillère". Dessin d'après nature
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p6285

    p6285

    • ARTIST: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, 1880-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Three dancing female nudes (Drei tanzende weibliche Akte)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1930
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • s2015

    s2015

    • ARTIST: Bernhard Wosien (Germany, 1908-1986)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Rumanian dancing couple with drummer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1970
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Romania, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
    • KEYWORDS: drum
  • s0249

    s0249

    • ARTIST: Edward Cucuel (U.S.A., 1875-1954) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Berlin pictures: A dunes charity party at the Philharmonic (Berliner Bilder: Ein Wohlthätigkeits-Dünenfest in der Philharmonie)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1902
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.3 x 33.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Berlin
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: ball,
  • p4904

    p4904

    • ARTIST: Frédéric Lix (France, 1830-1897) (drawing); C. Petit (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: American War. Camp of the Federals in South Carolina Guerre d'Amérique. Bivouac des fédéraux dans la Caroline du Sud)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1862
    • DIMENSIONS: 23 x 33 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, solo
    • KEYWORDS: African American, Black
  • p6170

    p6170

    • ARTIST: Antonio Chamán (Spain, 1830-1860) (drawing); C. Santigosa (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The festival of Sevilla. In every place a fandango is danced (La Feria de Sevilla. En cualquier parte se baila un fandango)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1852
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: popular, Spanish dance
  • p2578

    p2578

    • ARTIST: Marie-Alexandre Adolphe (France, 1812-1883) (drawing and engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Emma Livry in the ballet "Herculanum"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1859
    • DIMENSIONS: 27.5 x 19 cm
    • COMMENTS: Opéra de Paris. Printed in Paris.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p9889

    p9889

    • ARTIST: Auguste Rodin (France, 1840-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing figure (Figure dansant)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, graphite with orange wash
    • DATE: 1906
    • DIMENSIONS: 32.6 x 25 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • s1659

    s1659

    • TITLE OF WORK: Rooster's dance. Alsatia (Danse du coq. Alsace)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 10.1 x 6.4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Alsatia, Alsace
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, couple
  • p7202

    p7202

    • ARTIST: Daniel Vierge (Spain, 1851-1904) (drawing); Pellicer (drawing); Reventos (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Peace festivals in Spain (Les Fêtes de la Paix en Espagne)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1876
    • DIMENSIONS: 14 x 21.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, Spanish dance
  • p7730

    p7730

    • TITLE OF WORK: Ballet Jocko. Miss Mées St. Romain, Mr. Taglioni son (Ballet Jocko. Mlle Mées St. Romain, Hr Taglioni Sohn)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1827
    • COMMENTS: Erinnerungen an das Ballet des Kgl. Hoftheaters (Ballet souvenirs of the Royal Theater), Stuttgart
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p0898

    p0898

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Centaurs' dance (Danse des Centaures)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1948
    • COMMENTS: Executed for the cover of the program of the "Ballets des Champs-Elysées, 1948 season.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
  • p3620

    p3620

    • ARTIST: Pedro Muñoz Condado (Spain, 1903-1988)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance in the Albaicin (Danza en el Albaic?n)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1940
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 115 x 85 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Basque
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, flamenco, Spanish dance
  • p0721

    p0721

    • TITLE OF WORK: A dance in Otaheite
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 13.5 x 18.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Otaheite is the original name of Tahiti, discovered in 1767 by Captain Samuel Wallis, of the British navy
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Tahiti
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s2938

    s2938

    • ARTIST: Georges Scott (France, (1873-1943) (drawing); G. Janet & Valney (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Centenary of Petrarca at Avignon. The Farandole of Provence (Le centenaire de Pétrarque à Avignon. La farandole provençale)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1874
    • DIMENSIONS: 7.7 x 7.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Provence, Avignon
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, farandole
  • p3599

    p3599

    • ARTIST: Emilio Vasarri (Italy, 1862-1928) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Littre patricians learning to dance (Petites patriciennes apprenant à danser)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1904
    • DIMENSIONS: 12 x 22 cm
    • COMMENTS: Exposed at the Paris Salon 1904
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: child, instruction
  • p6233

    p6233

    • ARTIST: Henri Valentin (France, 1820-1855) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Returning from carnival and Opera balls (Le retour du carnaval et des bals de l'Opéra)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1852
    • DIMENSIONS: 32.5 x 24 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • s4629

    s4629

    • ARTIST: Omez
    • TITLE OF WORK: John Hair shirts: The make of a hero (John Hair: L'étoffe d'un héros. Chemises)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color, postcard
    • DATE: 1990
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple
    • KEYWORDS: advertisement
  • p2202

    p2202

    • TITLE OF WORK: The waltz (La walse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1801
    • COMMENTS: From "Le Bon Genre", 1801
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, waltz
  • p4746

    p4746

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Pas des Déesses at Her Majesty's Theatre. Lucile Grahn, Louise Taglioni, Cerrito, St. Léon and Perrot.
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1846
    • DIMENSIONS: 17 x 22 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Denmark
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s1165

    s1165

    • ARTIST: Frank Craig (U.K., 1874-1918) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The ball at Chatsworth House
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1899
    • DIMENSIONS: 10.5 x 7.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple

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