Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • s0721

    s0721

    • TITLE OF WORK: Impromptu Bluejackets' ball on board the "Monarch". Visit of the Channel Fleet to Liverpool
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1888
    • DIMENSIONS: 8.2 x 14 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Liverpool
    • DANCE FORM: popular, ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: military, marine, ship
  • p8913

    p8913

    • ARTIST: Alexander Nikolaevich Benois (Russia, 1870-1960)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Le pavillon d'Armide": Renaud
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil and watercolor on paper
    • DATE: 1907
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s0511

    s0511

    • ARTIST: Nicolas Africano (U.S.A., 1948-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dress form. She's in Europe but he wants to dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, gouache on paper
    • DATE: 1979
    • DIMENSIONS: 28 x 38.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Titled
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p2675

    p2675

    • ARTIST: Auguste Rodin (France, 1840-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Cambodian dancer (Danseuse cambodgienne)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, lead pencil and watercolor
    • DATE: 1906
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Cambodia, France
  • p7525

    p7525

    • ARTIST: Albert or Al Hirschfeld (U.S.A., 1903-2003)
    • TITLE OF WORK: George Balanchine
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1984
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., Russia
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Choreographer
  • s4923

    s4923

    • ARTIST: Léonard-Agathon van Wydeveld (France, 1841-1923)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Javanese dancer (La danseuse javanaise)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, bronze with light brown gilt
    • DATE: 1915
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 44.5 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Signed on the terrace Susse frs. Edts. Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Indonesia, Java
    • DANCE FORM: Traditional, solo
  • p8433

    p8433

    • ARTIST: Lilian
    • TITLE OF WORK: Derstars
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1927
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p0618

    p0618

    • ARTIST: Henri de Montaut (France, 1825-1897) (engraving); Mme de Montaut (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Reception in the seraglio of Cairo (Reception dans le serail du Caire)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1863
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.5 x 22.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Reception of European ladies in the seraglio of Cairo by the vice-queen of Egypt
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Egypt, Cairo
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s1348

    s1348

    • ARTIST: Paul Merwart (Poland, 1855-1902) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Fire in the Comic Opera of Paris: Extras, ballet dancers and dressing room personnel seeking safety through the roof windows
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1887
    • DIMENSIONS: 28 x 19.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: fire, accident
  • s0011

    s0011

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Four dancers (Quatre danseurs)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Ceramic, mural plaque, convex, in faience, black patina background
    • DATE: 1956
    • DIMENSIONS: 25 cm diameter
    • COMMENTS: Produced in 450 copies
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France
    • DANCE FORM: round, circular, circle
  • s0844

    s0844

    • TITLE OF WORK: Advertisement for St. Jacobs Oil
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1890
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.5 x 11.5
    • COMMENTS: The Misses McCarty were able to give a large party / On the First of December at ten ; / And Grandfather McCarty, now quite hale and hearty, / Was the central figure therein.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, popular, mixed couples
    • KEYWORDS: humor, child, advertisement, caricature
  • p6271

    p6271

    • ARTIST: Michael Astrapas & Eutychios Astrapas (Greece, 12??-13??)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The mocking of Christ (Dérision du Christ)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mural
    • DATE: 1317
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Byzantium, Macedonia FYROM
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p5380

    p5380

    • ARTIST: Capuletti
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "La Tertulia"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1952
    • COMMENTS: "La Tertulia", ballet in one act; argument by Ana Ricarda and Irène Lidoca; nusic by Manuel Infante; sets and costumes by Capuletti; choreography by Anna Ricarda. Created on 11/12/1952 by the Grand Ba
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p5486

    p5486

    • ARTIST: Henry Anelay (U.K., 1817-1883) (drawing); Smith & Linton (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The masked ball in the Paris Opera house (Der Maskenball im Opernhaus zu Paris)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1846
    • DIMENSIONS: 14 x 22 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • s4744

    s4744

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer holding a glass ball (Danseuse tenant une bulle de verre)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, bronze patiné
    • DATE: 1925
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 52 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Marble socle
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • p2574

    p2574

    • ARTIST: Marie-Alexandre Adolphe (France, 1812-1883) (drawing and engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Mademoiselle Zina Richard in the ballet "Marco Spada". No. 4.
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1857
    • DIMENSIONS: 27.5 x 19 cm
    • COMMENTS: "Marco Spada, ou La fille du bandit", ballet created at the Opéra de Paris, 1857.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p4739

    p4739

    • TITLE OF WORK: Lola Montez
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1847
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 11 cm
    • COMMENTS: Lola Montez was lover of King Ludwig I of Bavaria
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, Spanish dance
  • p8079

    p8079

    • ARTIST: Roberto Montenegro (Mexico, 1885-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vaslav Nijinsky as The Poet in "Les sylphides"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1913
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p8131

    p8131

    • ARTIST: Wenzel or Wenceslaus Hollar (Germany, 1607-1677)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The English dancing master. Title page
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1651
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • KEYWORDS: instruction, manual
  • p9910

    p9910

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Bacchanal with black bull (Bacchanale au taureau noir)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, linoleum cut printed in colors
    • DATE: 1959
    • DIMENSIONS: 53 x 64.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed in pencil and numbered
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Spain, France
    • KEYWORDS: animal, bull
  • s5418

    s5418

    • ARTIST: Nikolai Kornilievich Bodarevsky (Ukraine, 1850-1921)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Antique dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1913
  • s5151

    s5151

    • ARTIST: Kees van Dongen (Netherlands, 1877-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Anita - The beautiful Fatima and her company (Anita - La belle Fatima et sa troupe)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1906
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental
    • KEYWORDS: orient
  • s3935

    s3935

    • ARTIST: Malvina Hoffman (U.S.A., 1885-1966)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vaslav Nijinsky in "L'après-midi d'un faune" (Vaslav Nijinsky dans "L'après-midi d'un faune")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: flute
  • p0196

    p0196

    • ARTIST: Kurt Seligmann (Switzerland/U.S.A., 1900-1962)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The minuet (Le menuet)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1946
    • DIMENSIONS: 36 x 43 cm
    • COMMENTS: Dated 46-7
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: minuet
  • s3733

    s3733

    • TITLE OF WORK: A mare that will not be easy to ram (Une cavale qui ne va pas être facile à éperonner)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, print, postcard
    • DATE: 1990
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: couple, ballroom, popular
    • KEYWORDS: humor, comic, cartoon, caricature
  • p1144

    p1144

    • ARTIST: Albert Gartmann (Switzerland, 1876-?) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Horo, circle dance (Choro Reigentanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, poster
    • DATE: 1916
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.5 x 33 cm
    • COMMENTS: West Bulgaria
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Bulgaria
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, horo, round
  • p8073

    p8073

    • ARTIST: Edmund Dulac (France, 1882-1953)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Good Fairy Bakst leads Prince Charming Diaghilev to the Shrine of the Sleeping Princess
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1921
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, U.K., Poland
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature, cartoon, management
  • p7713

    p7713

    • ARTIST: H. Linton
    • TITLE OF WORK: Opéra - "Sacountala", a ballet-pantomime, decor of the first act (Opéra - "Sacountala", ballet-pantomime, décor du premier acte)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1858
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.5 x 31.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Paris. Text by Théophile Gautier, decors by Martin, Nolou and Rubé
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, India
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7020

    p7020

    • ARTIST: Pierre Carrier-Belleuse (France, 1851-1933) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The engagement (L'engagement)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1892
    • DIMENSIONS: 22 x 32 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: off-stage, management
  • p2702

    p2702

    • ARTIST: David Teniers the Younger (Flanders, 1610-1690)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Village festival in Holland
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1670
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s6097

    s6097

    • ARTIST: Epeleios Painter (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A,B: Komos, youths with krotala, skyphos, wineskin, draped man playing lyre
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, red-figure cup, vase
    • DATE: -505
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: Fragments
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Attica, Athens
  • p2755

    p2755

    • ARTIST: Jan Poortenaar (Netherlands, 1886-1958)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Wayang dancer, the prince of Awangga. Mangkunegaran, Central Java (Wayangdanser, de vorst van Awangga. Mangkunegaran, Midden-Java)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1925
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 183 x 121 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Java, Indonesia
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • s0987

    s0987

    • ARTIST: Zofia Stryjenska (Poland, 1891-1976)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Oberek
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1956
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Wyd. "Galeria Polska" Krakow 949
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland
    • DANCE FORM: Oberek, traditional, couple
  • p8347

    p8347

    • TITLE OF WORK: Fanny Elssler
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1843
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.5 x 7.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7826

    p7826

    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer holding a tar
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1200
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Tar is a musical instrument, an ancestor of the guitar
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Persia, Iran
    • KEYWORDS: music
  • s5936

    s5936

    • TITLE OF WORK: Priestess (?) holding a plemochoe, a cult vase; she has left her heavy himation on a stool.
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, black-figure plate, vase
    • DATE: -519
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece,
  • p2086

    p2086

    • ARTIST: Valdo Barbey (France, 1880-1964)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Padmavati"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1923
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p6634

    p6634

    • ARTIST: John Hoppner (U.K, 1758-1810)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Girl with tambourine
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1780
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, U.K.
  • p6559

    p6559

    • ARTIST: Georges Lemmen (Belgium, 1865-1916)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Loïe Fuller
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil on paper
    • DATE: 1900
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • s3465

    s3465

    • TITLE OF WORK: Two girls dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print from a drawing, postcard
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular, duo
  • s4078

    s4078

    • TITLE OF WORK: Ball at the Royal Naval Barracks, Devonport, in honour of the Duchess of Edinburgh
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1891
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.6 x 23.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Devonport
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • p0850

    p0850

    • ARTIST: Pan Painter (Greece, active ca. 480-450 BC)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Two women dancers holding krotala. Pottery: red-figured pelike
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery: red-figured pelike vase
    • DATE: -465
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 19.05 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Attic red-figured Philtre, purchased 1814. Provenance unknown.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Attica, Athens
  • p5864

    p5864

    • ARTIST: Josef Kränzle (Austria, 1874-1937)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance scene
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1915
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • p1701

    p1701

    • ARTIST: G. Cochrane (drawing); A. Picken (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Fête of the Pentecost at Kaisariani
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1837
    • DIMENSIONS: 10 x 16 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Athens
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s0104

    s0104

    • TITLE OF WORK: Algerian dance (Algerischer Tanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1893
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 22.6 cm
    • COMMENTS: From the World Exhibition in Chicago
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Algeria, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, solo, Oriental
  • p4998

    p4998

    • TITLE OF WORK: Program cover of the Nuevo Teatro de Danza
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1954
    • COMMENTS: For the performance of the "Ballet Mexicano" at the Palacio de Bellas Artes of Mexico City, in 1954.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Mexico
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s3961

    s3961

    • ARTIST: Arpad Schmidhammer (Germany, 1857-1921)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Beethoven can't be danced…! (Beethoven "tanzt" man nicht…!). Beethoven und Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, sketch, cartoon
    • DATE: 1904
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan, humor, caricature
  • p8951

    p8951

    • ARTIST: Alexander Nikolaevich Benois (Russia, 1870-1960)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Petrouchka": Court Coachman 2
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil, watercolor, gold on paper
    • DATE: 1911
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p5544

    p5544

    • TITLE OF WORK: The annual ball of the model yacht club
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1859
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p9209

    p9209

    • ARTIST: Marie Laurencin (France, 1883-1956)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Two dancers (Deux danseuses)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil on paper
    • DATE: 1946
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.2 x 22.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: Stamped with the initials
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France

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