Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p6326

    p6326

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers of the Opera (Danseuses de l'Opéra)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1840
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3641

    p3641

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Le carnaval": Florestan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor and pencil heightened with white on paper
    • DATE: 1910
    • DIMENSIONS: 20 x 21 cm
    • COMMENTS: Music by Robert Schumann
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p9777

    p9777

    • ARTIST: Hugo Vildfred Pedersen (Denmark, 1870-1959)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The triumph of Pan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1915
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 85.7 x 214 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed with monogram at lower right
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Greece, Denmark
    • DANCE FORM: stage
  • p2729

    p2729

    • ARTIST: Sigismund Wernekinck (Germany, 1872-1921)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Prelude (Prélude)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • s4406

    s4406

    • ARTIST: Jules Grandjouan (France, 1875-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, print
    • DATE: 1912
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
  • p4599

    p4599

    • ARTIST: Dietrich Mayer (Switzerland, 1571-?)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Country couple-dance figures (Ländlicher Paartanz - Positionen)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1599
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • p0687

    p0687

    • ARTIST: Edouard Henry-Baudot (France, 1871-1953)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance (Danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1913
    • COMMENTS: Exhibited at the Salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts 1913
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
  • p0247

    p0247

    • TITLE OF WORK: The noble gentleman - The dance class (Le bourgeois gentilhomme - La leçon de danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1844
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.7 x 9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: theater, instruction
  • p9450

    p9450

    • ARTIST: Etienne Jeaurat (France, 1699-1789) (after)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Innocents' Market (Le Marché des Innocents)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on panel
    • DATE: 1720
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 31 x 41 cm
    • COMMENTS: One of a pair of paintings on views in Paris. They are based on engravings after original paintings in the Beauchamp Collection
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: court, couple
  • p3891

    p3891

    • ARTIST: Adolfo Bellocq (Argentina, 1899-1972)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tango scene
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1922
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Argentina
    • DANCE FORM: tango, ballroom, couple
  • p8532

    p8532

    • ARTIST: Jean-Léon Gérôme (France, 1824-1904)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Whirling dervish (Le derviche tourneur)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1889
    • DIMENSIONS: 73.5 x 95.3 cm
    • COMMENTS: Sotheby's New York 1997, estimated at 1,020,000 dollars
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey,
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, solo, sema
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p8271

    p8271

    • TITLE OF WORK: Peasants dancing before the Crown Prince of Prussia and the Duke of Saxe-Coburg, at Eisgrub, Moravia
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1866
    • DIMENSIONS: 24 x 34.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Moravia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • p3148

    p3148

    • TITLE OF WORK: Ballet Divertissement in the Marble Courtyard at Versailles
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1650
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p4011

    p4011

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers preparing themsleves - Dance examinations (Danseuses à leur toilette - Examen de danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pastel and charcoal on velin grey paper
    • DATE: 1897
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 63.4 x 48.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: Digned "Degas"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6465

    p6465

    • TITLE OF WORK: Apollo, god of music
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1970
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Caricature
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Greece
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • s0516

    s0516

    • ARTIST: Alexander Calder (U.S.A., 1898-1976)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Score for ballet 0-100
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, drypoint printed with tone
    • DATE: 1942
    • DIMENSIONS: 35.5 x 46 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s5365

    s5365

    • ARTIST: Filippo Indoni (Italy, 1800-1884)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Peasants in the Roman campagna
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, sickle dance
  • p2591

    p2591

    • ARTIST: Dosso
    • TITLE OF WORK: Wedding dance of the Negritos (Danse de mariage chez les Negritos)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1860
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 13 x 16 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Philippines
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p2088

    p2088

    • ARTIST: René Piot (France, 1869-1934)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Stage design for "La prise de Troie"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1899
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, stage
  • s5283

    s5283

    • TITLE OF WORK: Invocation of a disease (Beschwoerung einer Krankheit)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From the German colonies in Africa
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Africa, German colonies
    • KEYWORDS: therapy
  • p7927

    p7927

    • TITLE OF WORK: Xochililli, god of dance, music and flowers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color, manuscript illumination
    • DATE: 1600
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Mexico
    • KEYWORDS: religion, deity,
  • p7891

    p7891

    • TITLE OF WORK: Private ball, with two figures of contredanses and one couple dnce (Bal privé, avec deux figures de contredanses et une dnse en couple)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1750
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, contredanse, couple
  • p3023

    p3023

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen, brush and India ink on paper
    • DATE: 1907
    • DIMENSIONS: 48.9 x 33.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., Russia
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • s2020

    s2020

    • ARTIST: Bernhard Wosien (Germany, 1908-1986)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Polish dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1970
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • s0099

    s0099

    • ARTIST: George Cruikshank (U.K., 1792-1878) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Mistletoe Sprig of Oldstone Hall
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1879
    • DIMENSIONS: 10.3 x 19.4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: court, couple
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • p8578

    p8578

    • ARTIST: Marie "Mizzi" Wunsch (Germany, 1862-1898) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: First attempt (Erster Versuch)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1896
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.5 x 31.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular, solo
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p1296

    p1296

    • ARTIST: Polykleitos Rengos (Greece, 1903-1984)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Festival in Skyros (Skyriano panegyri)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1938
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 97 x 116 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Skyros Island
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
  • p8710

    p8710

    • TITLE OF WORK: "Pas de patineurs" in the new ballet, at Her Majesty's Theatre
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1849
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 23.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Ballet "Les plaisirs de l'hiver", with Miss Rosati and Mr. Charles
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s2965

    s2965

    • ARTIST: Anto Carte (Belgium, 1886-1954)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Design for "Le martyre de Saint Sebastien" performed by Akarova. Sets and costume
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1934
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p9501

    p9501

    • ARTIST: August Kraus (Germany, 1868-1934) (sculpture)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing maenad (Tanzende Mänade)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1897
    • DIMENSIONS: 23 x 10.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: One of the three winners of the Kaiser Wilhelm's prize for the enlargement of the marble figures of daaancing maenads in the Royal Museum of Berlin
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Germany
  • s4113

    s4113

    • TITLE OF WORK: The women's procession at the fantastic dance of the Massais (Le défilé des femmes dans la danse fantastique des Masaïs)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1910
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 27 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Uganda, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p9449

    p9449

    • ARTIST: David Rijckaert III (Fladers, 1612?-1661)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A group of peasants outside a tavern
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1670
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 87 x 118 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p6972

    p6972

    • ARTIST: Fedor Petrovich Tolstoi (Russia, 1783-1873) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from "The Aeolian harp", ballet by Fedor Tolstoi
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1830
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Russia,
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7969

    p7969

    • ARTIST: Georges Barbier (France, 1882-1932)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vaslav Nijinsky
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, colored au pochoir
    • DATE: 1913
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Poland
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p8377

    p8377

    • ARTIST: Amédée Forestier (France, 1854-1930) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Irish jig (La gigue irlandaise)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1894
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.1 x 22.1 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Ireland
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • p2742

    p2742

    • ARTIST: Albert Pénot (France, 1862-1930)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer with red scarf (Danseuse à l'écharpe rouge)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1918
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • p6259

    p6259

    • ARTIST: Jean-Etienne Liotard (Switzerland, 1702-1789)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Anne-Marie de Cupis, called Mademoiselle Camargo (Portrait de Anne-Marie de Cupis, dite Mademoiselle Camargo)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sanguine and black stone, heightened with white chalk on paper
    • DATE: 1750
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 26.3 x 21.9 cm
    • COMMENTS: This portrait was made just before Camargo left the scene at the age of 40 years
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Switzerland
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p1757

    p1757

    • TITLE OF WORK: Helena Andre?anova in the Italian dance Saltarello
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1838
    • DIMENSIONS: 30.5 x 20.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p9028

    p9028

    • TITLE OF WORK: Festival given at the Lude castle (Fête donnée au château de Lude)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1857
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.5 x 32 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • p0185

    p0185

    • ARTIST: Thanassis Spyropoulos (Greece, 1931-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Zeibekiko dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1968
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Inpired by "I meraklides", a song by Vassilis Tsitsanis.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, zeibekiko
  • p0119

    p0119

    • TITLE OF WORK: Tahitian dancers entertaining the queen (Danseuses tahitiennes récréant la reine)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, taille-douce
    • DATE: 1770
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, France, Tahiti
    • DANCE FORM: court
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • p4968

    p4968

    • ARTIST: Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov (Russia, 1881-1964)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for "Baba-Yaga", a part of the ballet "Russian tales"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1915
    • COMMENTS: From the performance given in Mexico by the "Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo" of colonel Vassili de Basil
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Mexico, France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p9161

    p9161

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Le tricorne"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor on paper
    • DATE: 1919
    • COMMENTS: "Le tricorne", ballet in one act by the Ballets Russes, in Paris. Music by M. de Falla, composed for the pantomime by Martinez-Sierra. Scenario by Serge Diaghilev after the play "Le tricorne" by Alarc
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Spain
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, Spanish dance?
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p6190

    p6190

    • ARTIST: Jean Target (France, 1910-1997)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Lysette Darsonval in "Giselle" acte 3 (Lysette Darsonval dans "Giselle Iie acte")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1980
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1940

    p1940

    • TITLE OF WORK: Hares dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • KEYWORDS: animal
  • p0869

    p0869

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Study for "Mercure" (Etude pour "Mercure")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pastel and lead pencil
    • DATE: 1924
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p0052

    p0052

    • ARTIST: František Kupka (Czech Republic, 1871-1957)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Two dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1905
    • DIMENSIONS: 38 x 46.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Dated and signed at lower right "Kupka 1905"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Czech
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • p9136

    p9136

    • ARTIST: Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov (Russia, 1881-1964)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for "Kikimora", a part of the ballet "Contes russes". Decorative panel
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil and watercolor on paper
    • DATE: 1917
    • COMMENTS: "Contes russes" (Russian tales), a suite of dances composed by four "choreographic miniatures", with an epilogue and an interlude, by the Ballets Russes in Paris. The dances were: Kikimora, Bova Korol
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • s4817

    s4817

    • ARTIST: Isidorius van Mens (Netherlands, 1890-1985)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Night feast at Ghardaïa (Fête de nuit à Ghardaïa)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1933
    • DIMENSIONS: 88 x (69+148+69) cm
    • COMMENTS: Triptych signed, situated and dated 1933 at lower right of the central part
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Ghardaïa
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, Oriental
  • s2385

    s2385

    • TITLE OF WORK: Graphic motifs 30
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1995
    • KEYWORDS: clip art

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