Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p3671

    p3671

    • ARTIST: T. Tréjelan (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The boston (Le boston)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1903
    • DIMENSIONS: 13 x 8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Danses d'autrefois, d'aujourd'hui, de demain" by H de Rive.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, boston, couple
  • p3145

    p3145

    • ARTIST: François Meuret (France, 1800-1887)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of ballerina Emma Livry
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1860
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p6761

    p6761

    • ARTIST: Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (France, 1827-1875)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance (La danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on wood
    • DATE: 1868
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 56 x 38 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
  • s5386

    s5386

    • ARTIST: Albert von Keller (Germany, 1844-1920)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Rosario Guerrero
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on wood
    • DATE: 1908
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 54 x 36 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: flamenco, Spanish dance
  • p1134

    p1134

    • ARTIST: Fernand Léger (France, 1881-1955)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance (La danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1942
    • DIMENSIONS: 183 x 154 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • p6284

    p6284

    • ARTIST: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, 1880-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ice-palace dances (Eispalast-Tänze )
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.7 x 23.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • p7224

    p7224

    • ARTIST: E. Garnier (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance master's violins, in mother-of-pearl and marquetry (Pochettes de maître à danser, en écaile et marqueterie)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1876
    • DIMENSIONS: 10 x 5 cm
    • COMMENTS: From the collection of A. Jubinal, recently deceased
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court
    • KEYWORDS: instruction
  • p8404

    p8404

    • ARTIST: Wilhelm Gause (Austria, 1853-1916) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: From the carnival week in Vienna : Washing girl and coachman (Vom Fasching in Wien : Wäschermädel und Fiaker)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1894
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.5 x 15.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Austria
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, popular, couple
  • p9486

    p9486

    • ARTIST: Agamemnon or Memos Makris (Greece, 1913-1993)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Spring dance (Anixiatikos choros)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, forged copper
    • DATE: 1977
    • DIMENSIONS: 240 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • s5237

    s5237

    • ARTIST: Joseph Flüggen (Germany, 1842-1906)
    • TITLE OF WORK: King Ludwig's visit to the studio of Joseph Stieler (Koenig Ludwigs Besuch im Atelier Stielers)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, monochrome
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Lola Montez was the lover of King Ludwig I of Bavaria. Joseph Stieler had painted a famous portrait of Lola Montez.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Munich
    • DANCE FORM: flamenco, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: royalty, politics, Lola Montez,
  • p7196

    p7196

    • ARTIST: Richard Caton Woodville (U.K., 1856-1927) (drawing); Taylor, R. (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The highland schottische: Finale
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1884
    • DIMENSIONS: 37 x 26.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: poem
  • p7745

    p7745

    • ARTIST: Thomas Frederick Luppino (U.K., 1749-1845)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Clara Webster
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Unfinished painting
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p2771

    p2771

    • ARTIST: Edvard Munch (Norway, 1863-1944)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Study for the "Dance of Life"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, ink and pencil
    • DATE: 1899
    • DIMENSIONS: 32.3 x 47.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Norway
  • p7614

    p7614

    • ARTIST: Paul Colin (France, 1892-1985)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Jean Borlin
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1927
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Sweden
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p2979

    p2979

    • TITLE OF WORK: Panel with court scene
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, glaze on ceramic
    • DATE: 1710
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Museu Nacional do Azulejo, Lisbon
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Portugal
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p8554

    p8554

    • ARTIST: Philippe (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A ball offered to LL. MM. by the city of Bordeaux in the hall of the Grand Theatre on 11 October (Bal offert à LL. MM. par la ville de Bordeaux dans la salle du Grand Théâtre, le 11 octobre
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood, engraving
    • DATE: 1859
    • DIMENSIONS: 32.5 x 49.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: A ball offered to their Imperial Majesties by the city of Bordeaux in the hall of the Grand Theater, on 11/10/1859.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Bordeaux
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • p0347

    p0347

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers and landscape (Danseurs et paysage)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel
    • DATE: 1879
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 89 x 65 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p2707

    p2707

    • ARTIST: Henry Tenré (France, 1864-1926)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The cotillon (Le cotillon)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • s2654

    s2654

    • ARTIST: Marcelin Delechaux (France, 1821-1902) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Opéra. "La Sylphide". Debuts of Miss Emma Livry (Opéra. La Sylphide. Débuts de Mlle Emma Livry)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1858
    • DIMENSIONS: 7.5 x 6 cm
    • COMMENTS: - Maman, l'Ecossais qui danse avec des moustaches, est-ce un homme?
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, stage
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature, cartoon
  • s1036

    s1036

    • TITLE OF WORK: The procession of illuminated Taboots during the Mahommedan festival of the Mohurrum
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1857
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.2 x 34.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, processional
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p7433

    p7433

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Design for the frontispiece of the souvenir program of the 1923-1924 season of the Ballets Russes
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1923
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1703

    p1703

    • ARTIST: Warren (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Night dance of warriors around a fire
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, steel engraving
    • DATE: 1841
    • DIMENSIONS: 9 x 9.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Epirus, Souli
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p5420

    p5420

    • ARTIST: Vincènzo di Castua
    • TITLE OF WORK: Macabre dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1474
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Yugoslavia
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p3686

    p3686

    • ARTIST: José de Zamora (Spain, 1889-1971)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the Moulin Rouge music-hall in Paris
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1924
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p3379

    p3379

    • ARTIST: Chiang Yee (China, 1903-1977)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "The birds"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1942
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p9154

    p9154

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Le tricorne": The Picador
    • 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: costume
  • p8728

    p8728

    • TITLE OF WORK: The circus people behind their huts - The rehearsal (Les saltimbanques derrière leurs baraques - La répétition)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1869
    • DIMENSIONS: 9 x 15 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • KEYWORDS: circus, child
  • s2579

    s2579

    • ARTIST: Alphonse de Neuville (France, 1835-1885) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The welcome upon our return (La bienvenue à notre retour)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1867
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 23.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Voyage à l'Albert N'yanza ou Lac Albert"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sudan
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • p8510

    p8510

    • ARTIST: Aristide Maillol (France, 1861-1944)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer (Danseuse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, wood
    • DATE: 1895
    • DIMENSIONS: 22 x 24.5 x 5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • p9461

    p9461

    • ARTIST: Auguste Rodin (France, 1840-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Cambodian dancer (Danseuse cambodgienne)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, lead pencil, crayon and watercolor
    • DATE: 1906
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Cambodia, France
    • DANCE FORM: stage, solo
  • p8445

    p8445

    • TITLE OF WORK: An arrtists' festival in the year 2000 - Minuet (Ein Künstlerfest im Jahre 2000 - Menuett)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1892
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.5 x 15.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: court, couple
  • p5034

    p5034

    • ARTIST: Henri (de) Gissey (France, 1621-1673)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for a ballet dancer in the French court
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1660
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Dancer imperonating a warrior in the court of Louis XIV, probably in a mythological play
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p6401

    p6401

    • ARTIST: Lucien Métivet (France, 1863-1931?)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance afternoon at the Cave-Dwellers (Matinée dansante chez les Troglodytes)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1897
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, popular
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • p2848

    p2848

    • ARTIST: Elli Solomonidi-Balanou (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from the choreodrama "Prometheus Anthropos"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, black marker on paper
    • DATE: 1983
    • COMMENTS: Choreography by Ralou Manou, sts and costumes by M. Makri, Ballet of the Greek Choreodrama. Principal dancers: G. Boltsanov, B. Deyanov, E. Gasouka, N. Thrasyvoulidou. Athens, Herod Atticus Theater, 0
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1676

    p1676

    • ARTIST: Pierre Bonnard (France, 1867-1947)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Preliminary set design for "Jeux"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel
    • DATE: 1920
    • DIMENSIONS: 51 x 65 cm
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Suédois
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3594

    p3594

    • ARTIST: André Edouard Marty (France, 1882-1974) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan dancing with her little pupils
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1909
    • COMMENTS: From the article on Isadora Duncan by André Marty in the magazine Comoedia Illustré, Paris 1909.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan, child
  • s3461

    s3461

    • TITLE OF WORK: Relief on amphora with mythological illustrations
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, ceramic
    • DATE: -650
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: From the excavations directed by prof. Nic. Kontoleon at Ksobourgo during the 1950s, where a temple of Demeter was discovered
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Cyclades Islands, Tinos
    • DANCE FORM: circular
  • p3962

    p3962

    • TITLE OF WORK: Valachian dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1837
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Romania
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p4357

    p4357

    • TITLE OF WORK: Chord dance (La danse de corde)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1750
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, acrobatic
    • KEYWORDS: acrobatics
  • s0147

    s0147

    • TITLE OF WORK: Allegory of Music (Allégorie de la musique)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1800
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 30 x 41 cm
    • COMMENTS: Painter of the French school. Formerly attributed to Anton-Raphael Mengs
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: Popular, round, circular, circle
    • KEYWORDS: music, luth, violin
  • s4580

    s4580

    • ARTIST: Henri Fantin-Latour (France, 1836-1904)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dances (Danses)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1865
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • s4927

    s4927

    • TITLE OF WORK: The village bride (La mariée de village)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut hand colored
    • DATE: 1830
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 19 x 27.4 cm
    • COMMENTS: Lille, Blocquel-Castiaux, between 1828 and 1837.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Lille
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
    • KEYWORDS: musical instrument, violin, drum
  • p8394

    p8394

    • TITLE OF WORK: A cotillon danced in the ball-room of the palace
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1868
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 23.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: The Emperor and Empress of France with their guests
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, cotillon, couple
  • p5676

    p5676

    • TITLE OF WORK: Bolero dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1860
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: popular, Spanish dance
  • p9068

    p9068

    • ARTIST: Sergei Soudeikin (Russia, 1882-1946)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "La tragédie de Salomé": The Executioner
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor on paper
    • DATE: 1913
    • COMMENTS: "La tragédie de Salomé", ballet in one act, first presented in Paris by the Ballets Russes; music by F. Schmitt, choreography by B. Romanov; décors and costumes by S. Soudeikin.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p1832

    p1832

    • ARTIST: Joël
    • TITLE OF WORK: The rites of Spring
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, caricature, cartoon
    • DATE: 1913
    • COMMENTS: Le Théâtre à Paris, 1913
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s3553

    s3553

    • ARTIST: Rene Portocarrero (Cuba, 1912-1986)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Carnival dancers (Bailarinas de carnaval)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel on paper laid down on masonite
    • DATE: 1947
    • DIMENSIONS: 6.7 x 43.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated "Portocarrero 1947" at lower left
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Cuba
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p6482

    p6482

    • ARTIST: F. Gautier
    • TITLE OF WORK: La Loïe Fuller, on her 550th night
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1895
    • COMMENTS: Loïe Fuller
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p5251

    p5251

    • ARTIST: Jean Hugo (France, 1894-1984)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Roméo et Juliette"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1924
    • COMMENTS: Soirées de Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • s0613

    s0613

    • TITLE OF WORK: Proposal for the "Dancing maenad" Competition. Torso
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1897
    • DIMENSIONS: 25.5 x 11.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: solo

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