TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Le renard": Le Renard-Paysan
TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor on paper
DATE: 1922
COMMENTS: "Le renard", ballet burlesque with songs, in one act, by the Ballets Russes. Music and story by Igor Stravisnsky; choreography by B, Nijinska; decors and costumes by M. Larionov
TITLE OF WORK: Dance of peasantry on the lawn at Carton
TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, wood
DATE: 1849
DIMENSIONS: 15 x 23.5 cm
COMMENTS: Royal visit to the Duke of Leinster ar Carton, near Maynooth, about 16 miles from Dublin. Her Majesty and party witnessed what we may term a genuine Irish jig, danced to the music of an Irish piper, b
TITLE OF WORK: Dancing lessons: teacher and young men. Two scenes on the same vase. Pottery: red-figured skyphos.
TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pottery, red-figured skyphos vase
DATE: -435
DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
DIMENSIONS: 22.86 cm height; 20.32 cm diam
COMMENTS: Made in Attica, found at Nola, Naples, Italy. Dancing lesson (?). Before a youth on left, who wears a mantle shawl-fashion hanging from his arms, and who steps forward as if in time to the chelys whic
ARTIST: Pieter Brueghel the Elder (Flanders, 1525-1569)
TITLE OF WORK: Wedding dance
TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on panel
DATE: 1566
DIMENSIONS: 119.3 x 157.4 cm
COMMENTS: There exist three other versions of this painting. One in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Narbonne, one in the Koninklijk Museum Anvers, the third was sold in 1952 in Florence.
TITLE OF WORK: Costumes design for the ballet "La belle au bois dormant" (Sleeping beauty")
TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
DATE: 1997
COMMENTS: "La belle au bois dormant" (Sleeping beauty) ballet produced by Rudolf Nureiev at the Paris Opera in 1997. The costumes of the Prologue were inspired by the ones Jean Berain (1674-1711) designed for t
