Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • s3023

    s3023

    • ARTIST: Martin (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Voyage of the Prince of Wales - Egypt. Scene of the customs. Dance of the Bicharis (Voyage du Prince de Galles - L'Egypte. Scène de moeurs. Danse de Bicharis)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1875
    • DIMENSIONS: 22 x 31.9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Egypt
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: musical instrument
  • p4373

    p4373

    • ARTIST: Valentine Gross Hugo (France, 1887-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer, from "Le sacre du printemps"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1913
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s1049

    s1049

    • TITLE OF WORK: An incident which recently occurred in London, as the result of a novel advertisement. Beecham's pills
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1892
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.7 x 34 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple
    • KEYWORDS: advertisement
  • p2008

    p2008

    • ARTIST: Theyre Lee-Elliott (U.K., 1903-1988)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Les Sylphides"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1947
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6569

    p6569

    • ARTIST: Pierre Roche or Fernand Massignon (France, 1855-1922)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Loïe Fuller
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1904
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p2424

    p2424

    • ARTIST: Georg Kolbe (Germany, 1877-1947)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance study (Tanzstudie)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, brush, pencil and sepia on paper
    • DATE: 1923
    • DIMENSIONS: 49.5 x 34.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • p2168

    p2168

    • ARTIST: Howard Thain (U.S.A., 1891-1959)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Palais d'Or, New York City
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1928
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., New York
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • p3124

    p3124

    • TITLE OF WORK: Court dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1470
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 44 x 32 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p5601

    p5601

    • TITLE OF WORK: "New Collection of Sicilian villanelles & octaves". Frontispiece ("Nuova raccolta de villanelle & ottave siciliane")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1691
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
  • p8569

    p8569

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of negroes and mulattoes in the streets of Algiers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving
    • DATE: 1865
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.3 x 24 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Algeria, Algiers
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular
  • p8828

    p8828

    • ARTIST: Wilhelm Gause (Austria, 1853-1916) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Scenes from Prince Trubezkoi's new ballet "Pygmalion" (Scenen aus Fürst Trubezkoi's neuem Ballet "Pygmalion")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1882
    • DIMENSIONS: 34.8 x 23.3 cm
    • COMMENTS: From the performance in the Vienna City Opera
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria, Vienna
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s3861

    s3861

    • ARTIST: Marianne von Werefkin (Russia, 1860-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Alexander Sacharoff dancing 3
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1911
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ukraine, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p7626

    p7626

    • ARTIST: Paul Colin (France, 1892-1985)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Josephine Baker dancing the charleston on a piano (Joséphine Baker dansant le charleston sur un piano)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1927
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, charleston, solo
  • p2547

    p2547

    • ARTIST: Nathaniel Currier (U.S.A., 1813-1888) (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Three Graces
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1845
    • DIMENSIONS: 33.5 x 22.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Marie Taglioni, Fanny Elssler and Carlotta Grisi (not Fanny Cerrito as on the print)
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1704

    p1704

    • ARTIST: A. Gasparini (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Temple of Theseus in Athens (Tempio di Teseo in Atene)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, etching
    • DATE: 1843
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 39 x 52.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: One of a series of ten engravings published in Rome from 1842 to 1844
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Athens
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s0452

    s0452

    • ARTIST: Sir Edward John Poynter (U.K., 1836-1919)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Study for "The skirt dance"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, brown chalk
    • DATE: 1898
    • DIMENSIONS: 20.3 x 16.9 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed with monogram and dated 1898
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, U.K.
  • p3403

    p3403

    • ARTIST: Theodor de Bry (Flanders, 1528-1598)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Torch dance at the wedding of emperor Matthias I
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, copper
    • DATE: 1535
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s4022

    s4022

    • ARTIST: Giulio Gioia (Italy, 1945-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance. Havana 2003 (La danza. Havana 2003)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 2003
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Cuba
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s5955

    s5955

    • ARTIST: Engelbert Kaempfer (?)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Recreational scene of two men dancing; single-page painting on an album folio
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on paper
    • DATE: 1684
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.4 x 29.9 cm
    • COMMENTS: Recreational scene of two men dancing; single-page painting on an album folio. Right man plays a stringed instrument while the other (facing directly opposite) holds the scarf hung around his neck. Bo
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Persia, Iran
  • p8149

    p8149

    • ARTIST: Ira Moskowitz (Poland, 1912-)rnDeath Year :rnCountry : Poland
    • TITLE OF WORK: Pueblo Saints' Day at Santa Ana, an escort of Corn Dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1946
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: Indians, Native Americans
  • p9100

    p9100

    • ARTIST: André Masson (France, 1896-1987)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance before a temple (Danse devant un temple)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1968
    • DIMENSIONS: 50 x 61 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p6369

    p6369

    • ARTIST: Thomas Rowlandson (U.K., 1756-1827) (after)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The waltz, 1805
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1899
    • COMMENTS: From "The sorrows of Werther"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • p7026

    p7026

    • ARTIST: Alexandre Falguière (France, 1831-1900) (sculpture)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Cleo de Merode (Cléo de Mérode)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1896
    • DIMENSIONS: 10.5 x 14.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Statue and photographs of Cléo de Mérode
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s0894

    s0894

    • ARTIST: Auguste Leroux (France, 1871-1954) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer (Danseuse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1928
    • DIMENSIONS: 10.6 x 7.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: Salon de la Société des Artistes Français, Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • p3286

    p3286

    • ARTIST: Yannis Tsarouchis (Greece, 1910-1989)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Zeibekiko dance in red shirt
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pastel on craft paper
    • DATE: 1978
    • DIMENSIONS: 27.2 x 16 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: popular, Zeibekiko, Greek, rebetiko
    • KEYWORDS: rebetiko
  • p3736

    p3736

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "La belle au bois dormant" (The sleeping princess): Prince Charming
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor on paper
    • DATE: 1921
    • DIMENSIONS: 29.3 x 19 cm
    • COMMENTS: Music by Piotr Tchaikovsky
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p0963

    p0963

    • ARTIST: Jean Cocteau (France, 1889-1963) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A recital by Jean Cocteau with the contribution of Isadora Duncan, the author and Marcel Herrand. Studio Isadora Duncan, 343 promenade des Anglais, Nice. Tuesday 14/09/1926
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1926
    • COMMENTS: Announcement for a joint recital of Isadora Duncan with Jean Cocteau and Marcel Herrand
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • s2780

    s2780

    • TITLE OF WORK: The 22nd Annual National Dance Festival
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, poster
    • DATE: 1957
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: Native Americans, Indians
  • p3228

    p3228

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance headdress "Nimba", Baga people
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, wood
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 109 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Senegal, Baga
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: Baga
  • p5199

    p5199

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance Studio Alain Bernard. International Summer Course for Dance in Bern 17-30/07/1975 (Tanzstudio Alain Bernard. Internationaler Sommerkurs für Tanz in Bern 17-30/07/1975)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1975
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Switzerland
    • DANCE FORM: jazz
  • s4471

    s4471

    • ARTIST: Edouard Zier (France, 1856-1924) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Soon they formed couples (Bientôt, elles se formèrent par couples)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 14 x 8.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for a novel
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple
  • p1839

    p1839

    • ARTIST: Paul Gavarni or Guillaume Sulpice Chevalier (France, 1804-1866)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A dancer's dressing-room (Une loge de danseuse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1851
    • COMMENTS: Opéra de Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p5355

    p5355

    • TITLE OF WORK: Ballet costume
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, wash
    • DATE: 1780
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Work of the Venitian school
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Venice
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p5086

    p5086

    • TITLE OF WORK: Giovanni Andrea Gallini, presumed
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1772
    • COMMENTS: Gallini became later Sir John Gallini. Here he is shown as a fine exemple of the "danseur noble".
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: court
    • KEYWORDS: instruction
  • p9003

    p9003

    • ARTIST: Reinhold Begas (Germany, 1831-1911)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture
    • DATE: 1911
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • KEYWORDS: nude, portrait
  • p0769

    p0769

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance scene from the Borobodur temple
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief
    • DATE: 800
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Indonesia, Java, Borobodur
  • p0276

    p0276

    • ARTIST: Louis Legrand (France, 1863-1951)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A figure of the cancan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1898
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, cancan
  • s5775

    s5775

    • TITLE OF WORK: Procession of young bacchants. The Campana plaque (Cortège de jeunes bacchants et bacchantes. Plaque Campana)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, terracotta
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Ce relief figure un cortège de jeunes bacchants et bacchantes célébrant le dieu Dionysos par des danses qu'ils exécutent dans l'ivresse du vin dont ils célèbrent la fête. Le style est celui des créati
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Italy
  • s0642

    s0642

    • TITLE OF WORK: Scottish Games at Lillie Bridge. Gillie-Callum
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1880
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.3 x 7.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Scotland
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: weapon, sword
  • p4341

    p4341

    • ARTIST: Jacques Dupont
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Pâris"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1964
    • COMMENTS: "Pâris", Janine Charrat, Ballet de France, 1964
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s0154

    s0154

    • ARTIST: Gustav-Vilhelm Blom (Denmark, 1853-1942)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas laid down on board
    • DATE: 1889
    • DIMENSIONS: 68 x 84.4 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p6320

    p6320

    • TITLE OF WORK: Persian dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1770
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Persia, Iran
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p5842

    p5842

    • ARTIST: Georges Crouzat (France, 1904-1976)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Return from a wedding - Aunis/Angoumois/Saintonge (En revenant de noces - Aunis/Angoumois/Saintonge)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, bronze, medal
    • DATE: 1990
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 4.7 cm diameter
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: folk
  • p4472

    p4472

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan in "La danse des Scythes", 5ème mouvement (Isadora Duncan in "Scyths' dance", 5th movement)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1911
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p2514

    p2514

    • ARTIST: Joseph Bouvier (after a print by)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Fanny Cerrito in the Lituana in "Une nuit de bal"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1839
    • DIMENSIONS: 30.5 x 23 cm
    • COMMENTS: London, Her Majesty's Theatre, 1839
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p4058

    p4058

    • TITLE OF WORK: Satyr and maenad
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture
    • DATE: -10
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: Roman copy after a Greek original
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Rome
  • s1452

    s1452

    • TITLE OF WORK: Thre revel (Le festin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1844
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.5 x 21.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, couple
    • KEYWORDS: music, bagpipes, drum
  • s1208

    s1208

    • TITLE OF WORK: A fandango by Indian miners (Un fandango de mineurs indiens)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1855
    • DIMENSIONS: 7.5 x 11.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Un journal californien" by Edouard Scheffter
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., California
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: stick, flute, music
  • p1648

    p1648

    • ARTIST: Henri Laurens (France, 1885-1954)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Spanish dancer (Danseuse espagnole)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, wood, painted
    • DATE: 1915
    • DIMENSIONS: 34.4 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: Spanish dance
  • s3125

    s3125

    • ARTIST: Pierre Oulevay (Switzerland, 1944-) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Country festival at Santa Croce (Fête champêtre à Santa Croce)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1896
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.7 x 16 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration from the article "Un hiver à Corfou" bu Charles Rabot, 1892
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Ionian Islands, Corfu, Stavros
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: musical instrument, violin, costumes

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