Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • s1198

    s1198

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Queen's Theatre - Miss Esther (Théâtre de la Reine - Mademoiselle Esther)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1850
    • DIMENSIONS: 14 x 12 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, solo
  • s3903

    s3903

    • ARTIST: Hermann Haller (Switzerland, 1880-1950)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Standing woman, Clotilde Sacharoff - von Derp (Stehende)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze
    • DATE: 1919
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Switzerland
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p0874

    p0874

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Group of dancers (Groupe de danseurs). Study for the ballet "Mercure"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, lead pencil on paper
    • DATE: 1924
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p9090

    p9090

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer in bust (Danseuse en buste)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel
    • DATE: 1898
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 50 x 65 cm
    • COMMENTS: Stamped with the signature (Lemoisne no. 1266). Executed between 1896 and 1899 as a study of the painting "Danseuse aux bouquets" (Lemoisne no. 1264) of the same date.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s4124

    s4124

    • ARTIST: Athena Painter (Greece, active ca. 490-460 BC) (attributed)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Hercules playing a double flute, between two nude dancing Satyrs
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, Attic black-figure vase
    • DATE: -490
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 28 cm height x 6 cm diam.
    • COMMENTS: The dancer steps on a cornucopia
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: religion, deity,
  • p1573

    p1573

    • ARTIST: Emil Nolde (Germany, 1867-1956)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer - with violet veil (Tänzerin - mit violettem Schleier)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 47.6 x 35.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • p1227

    p1227

    • ARTIST: Sonia Delaunay (France, 1885-1979)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer (Danseuse) 2
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1916
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
  • p4802

    p4802

    • ARTIST: Rudolf Joukowsky
    • TITLE OF WORK: Cosack dance (Kosakentanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1843
    • COMMENTS: The Cosack dance adapted to ballroom use
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • p7464

    p7464

    • ARTIST: Jacques François Camille Clère (France, 1825-1919)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The shawl step (Le pas du châle)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1883
    • DIMENSIONS: 30 x 23 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, France
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • p9358

    p9358

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Artists' Masked Ball at München (Der Künstlermaskenball zu München)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1852
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.2 x 23.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Munich
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: disguise
  • s3220

    s3220

    • ARTIST: Ernst Schwartz (Germany, 1883-1932)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Turning dance (Ringeltanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, print, color, postcard
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: couple, Ringeltanz
  • p6915

    p6915

    • TITLE OF WORK: Yam festival of the Ashanti
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1817
    • COMMENTS: Chiefs gather under umbrellas, around the king of the Ashanti, under a red umbrella. British officers of the Royal Africa Company watch the dance.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ghana, Gold Coast
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s3642

    s3642

    • TITLE OF WORK: Jeannette's wedding. Waltzes suite composed for the piano (Les noces de Jeannette. Suite de valses composés pour le piano)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, music score cover
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple
    • KEYWORDS: wedding
  • p6304

    p6304

    • ARTIST: Giacomo Torelli (Italy, 1608-1678)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Apollon - The king (Apollon - Le Roy)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1654
    • COMMENTS: King Louis XIV as Apollo in the ballet "Les nopces de Pelée et Thétis", third entry
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • s5809

    s5809

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing satyr. Attic black-figure cup Type A (eye cup) fragment
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, black-figure cup
    • DATE: -530
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 23 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Athens
  • s1969

    s1969

    • ARTIST: Jerry M. Halsor (U.S.A., 19??-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Flying'
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze, patina
    • DATE: 1990
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 58.4 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Numbered 9
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p5066

    p5066

    • ARTIST: Michel Gyarmathy (Hungary, 1908-1996)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the dancers of Folies-Bergère
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p2909

    p2909

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Quadrille (Le Quadrille)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 8.2 x 12 cm
    • COMMENTS: Au Bon Marché, Paris. Lithographie artistique J. Minot et Cie, Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: quadrille, ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • s2859

    s2859

    • ARTIST: Tommaso Borgonio (Italy, 1620-1683)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Il tabacco", ballet by Filippo d'Agglié, presented in Torino, 1650
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1650
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Torino, Turin
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, stage
    • KEYWORDS: sticks
  • s5603

    s5603

    • TITLE OF WORK: Bronze statuette of a satyr dancing. Hellenistic Greek, 2nd century B.C.
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, bronze
    • DATE: -150
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 6.6 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Similar to the statuette in the National Museum of Naples. The spirit of mirth is admirably represented in the laughing face.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece,
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • p1188

    p1188

    • ARTIST: Max Pechstein (Germany, 1881-1955)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance V (Tanz V)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1910
    • DIMENSIONS: 27 x 31 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • s3472

    s3472

    • ARTIST: Ilse Voigt (Germany, 1905-1997)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Rudolf Nureyev
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1962
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p3174

    p3174

    • ARTIST: Grégoire
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer with cymbals (Danseuse aux cymbales)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, bronze, green patina
    • DATE: 1912
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 40 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • p2440

    p2440

    • TITLE OF WORK: Man dancing holding a big snake
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on vase
    • DATE: 754
    • DIMENSIONS: 25 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Vase found in the Aliar de Sacrificios, south of Peten. The date is inscribed at the border and between the figures depicted
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Guatemala, Maya
    • KEYWORDS: Maya, religion
  • s5759

    s5759

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing Eros. Bronze statuette from Vonitza, Acarnania (Eros)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, bronze
    • DATE: -150
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 12 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Found in Vonitza, Acarnania, Greece
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece,
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • s5128

    s5128

    • ARTIST: Utagawa Hiroshige (Japan)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Old and new festivals in the provinces: The dance Mochibana at the festival of Wakanoura in the province of Kii
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1845
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: 1843-1847
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Japan
    • DANCE FORM: female
    • KEYWORDS: branches
  • s1690

    s1690

    • ARTIST: Georges Clairin (France, 1843-1919) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Aouled Naiels going to the bath (Les Aouled Naiels se rendant au bain)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1895
    • COMMENTS: Salon of 1895
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Egypt, France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, stage
    • KEYWORDS: off-stage
  • p9452

    p9452

    • ARTIST: Walter Frederick Roofe Tyndale (U.K., 1855-1943)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Street performers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor over pencil heightened with bobycolor
    • DATE: 1897
    • DIMENSIONS: 25.5 x 35.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated '97
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient
    • DANCE FORM: popular, acrobatic
    • KEYWORDS: acrobat, child
  • p1745

    p1745

    • ARTIST: Niels Skovgaard (Denmark, 1858-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Girls' dance at Megara (Kvindedansen i Megara)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1889
    • DIMENSIONS: 53 x 95 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Megara
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p2910

    p2910

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Gavotte. 18th century, Italy (La Gavotte. XVIIIème siècle, Italie)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 6.6 x 10.4 cm
    • COMMENTS: Chocolat Poulain
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court, gavotte
  • p8609

    p8609

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of the natives of Brazil
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1800
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Brazil
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p8970

    p8970

    • ARTIST: José Belon (France, 1861-1927)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Too tight shoes (Chaussures trop étroites)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1891
    • DIMENSIONS: 29.1 x 19 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • p2968

    p2968

    • ARTIST: E. Jarytzewski
    • TITLE OF WORK: Another rumba today … (Jeszcze jedna rumba dzisiaj…)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1933
    • COMMENTS: Wojsko w Karykaturach Serja 1-Nr. 7
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • p2706

    p2706

    • ARTIST: David Teniers the Younger (Flanders, 1610-1690)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The kermess
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1660
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s4783

    s4783

    • ARTIST: Carlos Botong Francisco (Philippines, 1912-1969)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for Bayanihan's Rural Suite: Male rice planter
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1959
    • COMMENTS: Carlos "Botong" Francisco is a Filipino national artist, a muralist
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Philippines
    • DANCE FORM: folk
  • p6725

    p6725

    • TITLE OF WORK: Stilt dancers in Meko (La danse des échassiers à Méko)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1897
    • DIMENSIONS: 28 x 22 cm
    • COMMENTS: At the Eastern border of Dahomey
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Dahomey, Benin
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p8873

    p8873

    • ARTIST: Vladimir Dmitriyev (Russia, 1900-1948)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Case-noisette" (The nutcracker)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1919
    • COMMENTS: The décor is composed of moveable panels.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p5191

    p5191

    • ARTIST: Jasper Johns (U.S.A., 1930-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers on a plane. Merce Cunningham
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, graphite on paper
    • DATE: 1982
    • DIMENSIONS: 88.9 x 68.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: abstract
  • p4231

    p4231

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Two dancers in green tutus (Deux danseuses en tutus verts)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1897
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 140 x 80 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p0360

    p0360

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Rehearsal of a ballet on stage (Répétition d'un ballet sur la scène)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, essence with traces of watercolor and pastel on an ink drawing on paper
    • DATE: 1875
    • DIMENSIONS: 54.3 x 73 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed "Degas"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p5424

    p5424

    • ARTIST: Simon "Soliko" Virsaladze (Georgia, 1909-1989)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the dance "Jeirani"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1965
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Georgia
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, folk
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p4013

    p4013

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer with fan (Danseuse à l'éventail)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, charcoal, pastel and heightened with white on paper
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 61 x 41.9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s2593

    s2593

    • ARTIST: George Catlin (U.S.A., 1796-1872) (sketch); Neuville, A. de (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The snake and the castor (Le serpent et le castor)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1869
    • DIMENSIONS: 12 x 8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Escursions parmi les tribus Indiens des bassins de la Colombia et du Haut-Missouri" after G. Catlin, 1832
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., Missouri
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: animal
  • p7015

    p7015

    • ARTIST: Natalia Goncharova (Russia, 1881-1962)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Design for the ballet "Les noces": The Groomsmen
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen
    • DATE: 1923
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, modern
    • KEYWORDS: choreography
  • s0942

    s0942

    • TITLE OF WORK: Roumanian dance "Trei pâzeste", Oltenia
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1970
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Romania
    • DANCE FORM: Trei pâzeste, traditional, duo
  • s0035

    s0035

    • ARTIST: David Teniers the Younger (Flanders, 1610-1690) (manner of)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Village wedding (Noce villageoise)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on panel
    • DATE: 1700
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 77 x 105 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Belgium, Holland
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • s2039

    s2039

    • ARTIST: Ambrosius Benson (Flanders, 1497?-1550) (school of)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, panel, wood
    • DATE: 1540
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland
    • DANCE FORM: couple, popular
  • p8446

    p8446

    • TITLE OF WORK: An artists' festival in the year 2000 - Couple from the year 2000 (Ein Künstlerfest im Jahre 2000 - Paar aus dem Jahre 2000)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1892
    • DIMENSIONS: 9 x 12 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p8453

    p8453

    • ARTIST: Godefroy Durand (France, 1832-1920) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Imperial Academy of Music. "Sakountala", ballet; act 2 (Académie Impériale de Musique. "Sacountala", ballet; 2e acte)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1858
    • DIMENSIONS: 17 x 23 cm
    • COMMENTS: Décoration de MM. Nolau et Rubé
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, India
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1769

    p1769

    • ARTIST: Honoré Daumier (France, 1808-1879)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The director (Le directeur)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet

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