Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p5995

    p5995

    • ARTIST: Denis Boissier
    • TITLE OF WORK: Lyrical passion (Passion lyrique)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, acrylic and oil on wood
    • DATE: 1984
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3835

    p3835

    • ARTIST: Marc Chagall (Russia, 1887-1985)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The fire-bird - dancer (L'oiseau de feu - danseuse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1945
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • p6189

    p6189

    • ARTIST: Jean Target (France, 1910-1997)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Madeleine Lafon in "Suite in white" (Madeleine Lafon dans "Suite en blanc")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1980
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s4579

    s4579

    • ARTIST: Henri Fantin-Latour (France, 1836-1904)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tannhäuser. Venusberg
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1885
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Germany,
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p4263

    p4263

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancers (Danseuses)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel
    • DATE: 1898
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 62.5 x 75 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3264

    p3264

    • ARTIST: Yannis Tsarouchis (Greece, 1910-1989)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance in life and theater (detail, left)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1968
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: military
  • p0949

    p0949

    • ARTIST: Michail Dobrov (Russia)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan dancing "Air gai" from "Iphigenia in Aulis" by Gluck
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1908
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., Russia
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan, solo, female
  • p5352

    p5352

    • ARTIST: Petit
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Marie Sallé
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1765
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p4419

    p4419

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan - Déchainement II
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1911
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p7255

    p7255

    • TITLE OF WORK: Miss Busc and Mr. Corset (Mlle Busc et M. Corset)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1830
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: humor, satire, costume
  • p5943

    p5943

    • ARTIST: Denis Boissier
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Maurice Béjart
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, acrylic and oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1984
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p8410

    p8410

    • ARTIST: B. Juncker (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Hänsel and Gretel" - The baked Here ("Hänsel und Gretel" - Die gebackene Here)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1894
    • DIMENSIONS: 10.3 x 23 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular, round
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p4247

    p4247

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Russian dancer (Danseuse russe)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pastel and charcoal on tracing paper
    • DATE: 1899
    • DIMENSIONS: 62 x 45.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: Lemoisne catalogue no. 1184
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: folk
  • s5305

    s5305

    • ARTIST: Henryk Siemiradzki (Poland, 1843-1902)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The judgement of Paris (S?d Parysa)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1892
    • DIMENSIONS: 99 x 227 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Greece,
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • p6995

    p6995

    • ARTIST: Frank Haviland (France, 1886-1971) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vaslav Nijinsky as Armida's Slave in the ballet "Le pavillon d'Armide", scene 2
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1909
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland, Russia, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p8921

    p8921

    • ARTIST: Alexander Nikolaevich Benois (Russia, 1870-1960)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Le pavillon d'Armide": Armida and his Pages
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1909
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s1113

    s1113

    • TITLE OF WORK: Midday in Paris, 1:47 hours evening in Constantinople (Midi à Paris, 1h 47 soir à Constantinople)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, chromolithograph
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.1 x 7.1 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, France, Turkey
    • DANCE FORM: solo, stage, Oriental
    • KEYWORDS: tambourine
  • p5363

    p5363

    • TITLE OF WORK: Académie et salle de danse. Les graces parisiennes
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, taille-douce, hand-colored
    • DATE: 1820
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: instruction
  • p8663

    p8663

    • ARTIST: John Gulich (U.K., 1864-1898) (drawing); captain C. L. Newman (sketch)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Entertaining visitors in Matabeleland. A native dance at Buluwayo
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood engraving
    • DATE: 1895
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.3 x 30.4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Zimbabwe, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: weapon
  • s5226

    s5226

    • ARTIST: Anton Elfinger (Austria, 1821-1864) & Andreas Geiger
    • TITLE OF WORK: Jenny Lind
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, copper engraving, colored
    • DATE: 1846
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p8755

    p8755

    • ARTIST: Roger Chapelain-Midy (France, 1904-1992)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "La fl?te enchantée". Le Temple des Pyramides (Temple of the Pyramids)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1954
    • COMMENTS: For the Paris Opéra
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • s1148

    s1148

    • ARTIST: James Dowd (U.K., 1884-1956) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The grown-up children's celebration of the peace pageant. An impromptu dance for the King and Queen
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1919
    • DIMENSIONS: 18 x 22.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • p9580

    p9580

    • ARTIST: Marie Laurencin (France, 1883-1956)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Les biches"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1924
    • COMMENTS: "Les biches", ballet in one act with songs. Music by Francis Poulenc, choreography by Bronislava Nijinska; curtain, décors and costumes by Marie Laurencin
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • s1614

    s1614

    • ARTIST: Yves Saint Laurent (France, 1936-2008)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Maldoror"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1962
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p3077

    p3077

    • TITLE OF WORK: Marie Sallé
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1740
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s2627

    s2627

    • ARTIST: Gustave Doré (France, 1832-1883) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: La Malaguena of the bull-fighter dance (La Malaguena del Torero, danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1866
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.7 x 11.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Voyage en Espagne" by Ch. Davillier, 1862
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, Malaguena del Torero, Spanish dance
  • p9871

    p9871

    • TITLE OF WORK: Fan dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, colors on paper
    • DATE: 1670
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Style of the beauties of Kambun. About 1661-1673.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Japan
    • KEYWORDS: fan
  • s2794

    s2794

    • TITLE OF WORK: Macabre dance (Danse macabre). Drawing after a detail
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1985
    • COMMENTS: Gothic art. France, Haute-Loire, church of Chaise-Dieu
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: macabre, death
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • s0495

    s0495

    • ARTIST: Theodor Helmbreeker (Netherlands, 1633-1696) (follower of)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Peasants dancing and making music in a landscape
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1700
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 51 x 65 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
    • KEYWORDS: music
  • p6660

    p6660

    • ARTIST: René Piot (France, 1869-1934)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "The tragedy of Salome". National Opera Theatre ("La tragédie de Salomé". Théâtre National de l'Opéra)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1919
    • COMMENTS: Ballet on a poem by Raoul d'Humières, music by Florent Schmitt, presented at the Paris Opera on 01/04/1919 with Ida Rubinstein as Salome
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, Oriental?
  • p8458

    p8458

    • ARTIST: Ph. Blanchard (drawing); Godefroy Durand (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Itinerant illumination of the guilds at Tiflis (Illumination ambulante des corporations, à Tiflis)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1857
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.5 x 23 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Georgia, Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular
  • s4913

    s4913

    • ARTIST: Robert-Adrien Deletang (France, 1874-1951)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance in Basque Country (Danse au Pays Basque)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas mounted on carton
    • DATE: 1944
    • DIMENSIONS: 38 x 61.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed at lower right and dated 1944
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Basque Country
    • DANCE FORM: popular, traditional, couple
  • p3653

    p3653

    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer with Krotala
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, terracotta, color
    • DATE: -350
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 17.4 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Attic figurine bearing traces of color
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
  • p1838

    p1838

    • ARTIST: Allen Jones (U.K., 1937-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Darcey Bussell
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1994
    • DIMENSIONS: 182.9 x 152.1 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
  • p0716

    p0716

    • ARTIST: Franz von Stuck (Germany, 1863-1928) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Round dance (Ringeltanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1902
    • DIMENSIONS: 21 x 23 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: duo
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • p5955

    p5955

    • ARTIST: Denis Boissier
    • TITLE OF WORK: The sign of Sarastro (Le signe de Sarastro)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencils, color
    • DATE: 1984
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s4008

    s4008

    • TITLE OF WORK: Hawaiian favorites. Akoni Kani and his islanders
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1960
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hawaii, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: hula, traditional, popular
  • s1765

    s1765

    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from the ballet "Sacountala"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1858
    • COMMENTS: "Sacountala", a ballet by Lucien Petipa
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, India
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s1847

    s1847

    • TITLE OF WORK: Olimpia Priora
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1855
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s2822

    s2822

    • ARTIST: B. Gautier (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Illustration study from "Barfüssele" (Illustrationsprobe aus "Barfüssele")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1882
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.1 x 22.9 cm
    • COMMENTS: A sample from illustrations of the publishing house
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p1541

    p1541

    • ARTIST: Pars,
    • TITLE OF WORK: The temple of Jupiter Olympius, called also The Columns of Hadrian
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1794
    • DIMENSIONS: 30.5 x 46 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Athens
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p8228

    p8228

    • ARTIST: Peter Doherty (U.K., 1900?-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Ephemeron"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1968
    • COMMENTS: "Ephemeron", a ballet on music by Darius Milhaud, design by Peter Docherty, choreography by Darrell; first performed by the Western Theatre Ballet at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, on 20/06/1968
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p0473

    p0473

    • ARTIST: Yannis Gaitis (Greece, 1923-1984)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing (Choreftiko)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1996
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 21 x 29 cm
    • COMMENTS: 200 copies
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: couple
  • s2770

    s2770

    • ARTIST: Edouard Riou (France 1833-1900) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A nativity at Velille (Un nacimiento à Velille)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1875
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.9 x 15.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Voyage dans l'Entre-Sierra" by Paul Marcoy
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Peru
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: religion, Christmas
  • s0770

    s0770

    • TITLE OF WORK: Eastern dance, by Miss Kate Vaughan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1889
    • DIMENSIONS: 13.9 x 8.3 cm
    • COMMENTS: Kate Vaughan was the stage name of Catherine Alice Candelin or Candelon (U.K., 1852-1903), a dancer and actress. Performance of "Ivanhoe" by the Gurads Burlesque Company at the Chelsea barracks.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, U.K., Chelsea,
    • DANCE FORM: solo, female, stage, popular, Oriental
  • s1660

    s1660

    • ARTIST: F. Boilly (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance in Tahiti (Danse à Taïti)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1700
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 10.5 x 12.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Tahiti
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p9427

    p9427

    • ARTIST: Nicolas Gysis (Greece, 1842-1901)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Putti dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on panel
    • DATE: 1875
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 31 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed "N. Gysis" and dated 1875
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: couple, populaar
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p7142

    p7142

    • ARTIST: Nicolaes de Bruyn (Flanders, 1571-1656)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance in a park
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1650
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p5711

    p5711

    • ARTIST: David Vinckboons (Netherlands, 1576-1632?)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Behold this peasant folk
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1610
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Holland
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s6013

    s6013

    • ARTIST: Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, (Netherlands, 1836-1912)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The vintage festival
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1870
    • DIMENSIONS: 77 x 177 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Greece, Rome
    • DANCE FORM: procession
    • KEYWORDS: double aulos, tambourine

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