Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p6854

    p6854

    • ARTIST: F. Alexandre Bida (France, 1813-1895) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Moorish dancer (Maurische Tänzerin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1880
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.7 x 24 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Algeria, Tunisia,
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, Oriental
  • p1342

    p1342

    • ARTIST: Gaëtano Merchi (Italy, 1747-1823)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Marie-Madeleine Guimard
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bust
    • DATE: 1779
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6847

    p6847

    • ARTIST: G. Monin
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Romeo and Juliette"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1947
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: decor
  • s4386

    s4386

    • ARTIST: Dascher (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The wonderful adventures of a ricksaw runner (Aventures merveilleuses d'un pousse-pousse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1889
    • COMMENTS: Poster for the exhibition of 1889 in Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, cabaret, solo, traditional, Oriental
  • s3115

    s3115

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer's certificate (Brevet de danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Nous soussignés Maîtres et Professeurs déclarens… et après nous être assurés de ses talens d'invention et d'exécution comme de sa tenue…
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: instruction
  • p3552

    p3552

    • ARTIST: Mario Delitala (Italy, 1887-1990)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sardinian dance (Ballo sardo)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1928
    • DIMENSIONS: 29 x 19.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Sardinia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s5227

    s5227

    • ARTIST: Johann Christian Schoeller (Austria, 1782-1851) & Andreas Geiger
    • TITLE OF WORK: Marie Taglioni as Sylphide (Marie Taglioni als Sylphide)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, copper engraving, colored
    • DATE: 1840
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballet
    • KEYWORDS: solo
  • s3616

    s3616

    • TITLE OF WORK: Fanny Elssler caricature on the cover of the New York Polyanthos
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, drawing, sketch, caricature
    • DATE: 1841
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s2453

    s2453

    • TITLE OF WORK: Boy dancers and buffoons during a performance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1550
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p4718

    p4718

    • ARTIST: Johann Gottfried Schadow (Germany, 1764-1850)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Marie Vigano (Maria Medina Vigano)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1796
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, duo
  • p0241

    p0241

    • ARTIST: Prosper-Guillaume Dartiguenave (France, 1815-1885) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Lola Montez
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1847
    • DIMENSIONS: 17 x 11.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Lola Montez was lover of King Ludwig I of Bavaria
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3777

    p3777

    • ARTIST: Jacques Joseph Tissot or James Tissot (France/U.K., 1836-1902)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Too early
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
  • p9288

    p9288

    • ARTIST: Franz de Paula Ferg (Austria, 1689-1740)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A village fair
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on copper
    • DATE: 1700
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 35 x 47 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
  • s3008

    s3008

    • TITLE OF WORK: Illustration from the book "Geneviève Delmas" by Th. Bentzon
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1893
    • DIMENSIONS: 13 x 9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • s0157

    s0157

    • ARTIST: Friedrich Schlegel (Austria, 1865-1935)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 87.7 x 115.6 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and inscribed "Friedr. Schlegel / Wien"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Austria
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • p9266

    p9266

    • ARTIST: Amédée Forestier (France, 1854-1930) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: One of the ballet. "Irmengarda", the new opera at Covent Garden
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1892
    • DIMENSIONS: 11 x 5.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: The story is founded upon an historical episode that occured in the year 1140 in the Suabian town of Weinsberg, at the end of a long siege, when Conrad III, king of Franconia, impressed by the bravery
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Germany
    • DANCE FORM: solo, stage, ballet
    • KEYWORDS: opera
  • p3050

    p3050

    • ARTIST: Pedro Pruna (Spain, 1904-1977)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet-pantomime "Le triomphe de Neptune": A Woman
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil, watercolor and gouache on paper
    • DATE: 1926
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s4535

    s4535

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Couple of dancers (Couple de danseurs)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil
    • DATE: 1919
    • DIMENSIONS: 26.5 x 39.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: Unsigned. Drawin in London
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • p0986

    p0986

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer posing at the photographer's (Danseuse posant chez un photographe)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1875
    • DIMENSIONS: 65 x 50 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed at lower right "Degas"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3198

    p3198

    • ARTIST: Max Jacob (France, 1876-1944)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vaslav Nijinsky in the ballet "Les orientales". La danse siamoise
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache
    • DATE: 1913
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 21 x 13 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7243

    p7243

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for Buffon Russe
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1921
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p2977

    p2977

    • ARTIST: Zofia Stryjenska (Poland, 1891-1976)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Kujawiak dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1956
    • COMMENTS: Wyd. "Galeria Polska" Krakow 943
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland
    • DANCE FORM: folk, krakowiak
  • s4422

    s4422

    • ARTIST: Jules Grandjouan (France, 1875-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pastel on colored paper
    • DATE: 1915
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Grandjouan executed a great number of pastels of Isadora Duncan between 1905 and the end of the 1920s. The are untitled and undated.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
  • s0486

    s0486

    • TITLE OF WORK: Austrian military - The Hungarian Hussars - Willing conscripts
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1881
    • DIMENSIONS: 9 x 11.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria, Hungary
    • DANCE FORM: popular, recruitment
    • KEYWORDS: military
  • p4934

    p4934

    • ARTIST: Ernest Desurmont (France, 1870-1930)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tango tea (Thé tango)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1914
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: tango, ballroom, popular,
  • p1046

    p1046

    • ARTIST: Eugène Lami (France, 1800-1890)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Juvenile fancy ball, Paris
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1860
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 10.5 x 16.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Published by Fisher, Son & Co., London
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p8400

    p8400

    • ARTIST: S. Hachatrian
    • TITLE OF WORK: Armenian dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Armenia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p2725

    p2725

    • ARTIST: François-Louis-Joseph Watteau (France, 1758-1823)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Pastorale
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1715
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: folk,
  • p6460

    p6460

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Veil play (Jeu de voile)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture
    • DATE: 1910
    • COMMENTS: Inspired by Loïe Fuller
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p1661

    p1661

    • ARTIST: Carl Bantzer (Germany, 1857-1941)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Hessian peasants' dance or Schwälmer dance (Hessischer Bauerntanz oder Schwälmer Tanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1898
    • DIMENSIONS: 95 x 165 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, Schwälmer
    • KEYWORDS: country
  • p8778

    p8778

    • ARTIST: Abraham Solomon (U.K., 1824-1862) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A ball in the year 1700
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1848
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.2 x 22.1 cm
    • COMMENTS: Exhibition of the Royal Academy, London 1848
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p7676

    p7676

    • TITLE OF WORK: Mr. Giovanni Guidetti from Florence, first dancer and inventor of dances. Similar dress with Mrs. Anichini
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1768
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p2997

    p2997

    • TITLE OF WORK: Turkish dance couple
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1980
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey
    • DANCE FORM: folk
  • s1991

    s1991

    • ARTIST: Lucien Fontanarosa (France, 1912-1975)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers on a bench (Danseuses au banc)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel
    • DATE: 1965
    • DIMENSIONS: 50 x 56 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p0956

    p0956

    • ARTIST: Edward Gordon Craig (U.K., 1872-1966)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1908
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p5181

    p5181

    • ARTIST: J.-J. Grandville (France, 1803-1847) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Apocalypse du ballet
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1845
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • s2246

    s2246

    • ARTIST: Erwin Lang (Austria, 1886-1962) (drawing & engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Grete Wiesenthal - 4
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood engraving
    • DATE: 1921
    • DIMENSIONS: 7.5 x 7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • s2095

    s2095

    • TITLE OF WORK: Region of Orcines - La bourrée dance (Région d'Orcines - La bourrée)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, monochrome
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Auvergne
    • DANCE FORM: bourrée, folk, traditional, couple
    • KEYWORDS: musical instrument, bagpipes,
  • p6147

    p6147

    • ARTIST: Georges Wakhévitch (Ukraine, 1907-1984)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Alerte... puits 21"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1964
    • COMMENTS: "Alerte... puits 21", ballet by Janine Charrat, with Luis Diaz and Philippe Salem; Genève 1964
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Switzerland
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p0661

    p0661

    • ARTIST: Edouard Despléchin (France, 1802-1870) (sketch)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from the ballet "The star of Messina", 1st act, 1st scene
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1861
    • DIMENSIONS: 18 x 22 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Italy, Messina
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7480

    p7480

    • ARTIST: David Teniers the Younger (Flanders, 1610-1690)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Flemish kirmess (Kermesse flamande)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1650
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 80 x 104 cm
    • COMMENTS: Contemporary copy of the original painting
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Belgium, Holland
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p8409

    p8409

    • ARTIST: B. Juncker (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Hänsel and Gretel" - A dance duet ("Hänsel und Gretel" - Tanzduett)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1894
    • DIMENSIONS: 8.6 cm diameter
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • s4450

    s4450

    • ARTIST: Elli Solomonidi-Balanou (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from the ballet "Bolero" on music by Maurice Ravel, by the "Ballets du 20e Siècle" of Maurice Bérart, at the Herodus Atticus Roman Theater in Athens
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch, pen and black ink
    • DATE: 1964
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Greece, Athens
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: table, chairs
  • p9383

    p9383

    • TITLE OF WORK: New Year's Eve ball on board H.M.S. Caledonia, at Malta
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1869
    • DIMENSIONS: 17.1 x 23.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Malta
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: military, navy, officer, sea, ship
  • s2668

    s2668

    • ARTIST: Maurice de Lambert (France, 1873-1952) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Les saisons 2: L'été (The seasons 2: Summer)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1928
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • p3519

    p3519

    • ARTIST: Louis Legrand (France, 1863-1951)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Petit rat" and her mother
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p3780

    p3780

    • ARTIST: Bernardo Buontalenti (Italy, 1531?-1608)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the Florentine "Intermezzi": Two female performers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor, pen and ink
    • DATE: 1589
    • DIMENSIONS: 26.5 x 28.1 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Florence
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p0140

    p0140

    • ARTIST: Mohammed Racim (Algeria, 1896-1975)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Algerian dance of the shawl (Danse algérienne de l'echarpe)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1830
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Algeria,
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental
  • p9626

    p9626

    • ARTIST: Robert Anning Bell (U.K., 1863-1933)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A triumphal procession
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on board
    • DATE: 1917
    • DIMENSIONS: 32 x 42.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, U.K.
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • s0845

    s0845

    • ARTIST: Sir Edward John Poynter (U.K., 1836-1919) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Serene hours (Horae serene)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1897
    • DIMENSIONS: 6.7 x 17.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular, round, female

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