Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • s3639

    s3639

    • ARTIST: Théo van Rysselberghe (Belgium, 1862-1926)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Baby dance (Babytanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: popular, solo
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p6182

    p6182

    • ARTIST: Jean Target (France, 1910-1997)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of the little bells - Japan (Danse des clochettes - Japon)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1980
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Japan, France
    • DANCE FORM: folk
  • p4204

    p4204

    • ARTIST: Casanova (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A ball in the Royal Palace (Bal au Palais Royal)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1886
    • DIMENSIONS: 23 x 22.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: Cover illustration, for the article "Le mariage de la princesse Amélie de France" (The marriage of Princess Amélie of France)
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: court, ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • s0764

    s0764

    • TITLE OF WORK: The two queens watching the Basque games from the window of the Town Hall
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1889
    • DIMENSIONS: 29.8 x 22.3 cm
    • COMMENTS: The meeting between the queens of England and Spain at San Sebastian
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Basque, San Sebastian
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round, mixed
    • KEYWORDS: drum, handkerchief, flute
  • s4384

    s4384

    • ARTIST: Jean "PAL" Paléologue (Romania, 1860-1942)
    • TITLE OF WORK: La Belle Otero. Alcazar d'Eté
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1897
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 140 x 100 cm
    • COMMENTS: Caroline Otero appeared in Bordeaux on 01/12/1897 and 02/12/1897 at the Bouffes-Bordelais theater
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, cabaret, solo, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: Otero, castanets
  • p7605

    p7605

    • TITLE OF WORK: Aurelia Dimier in the ballet "Giselle", act 2
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1840
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, solo
  • p9059

    p9059

    • ARTIST: Fernand Léger (France, 1881-1955)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancers (Les danseuses)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1929
    • DIMENSIONS: 53 x 65 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • s0421

    s0421

    • ARTIST: Heinrich Stelzner (Germany, 1833-1910) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The jubilee festival in Bayreuth on 30/06/1860: Popular celebration at the Bürgerreuth (Die Jubiläumsfeier in Bayreuth am 30. Juni: Das Volksfest auf der Bürgerreuth)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1860
    • DIMENSIONS: 24 x 35.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Bayreuth
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p5051

    p5051

    • TITLE OF WORK: Folies-Bergère every evening (Folies-Bergère tous les soirs)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, triptych
    • DATE: 1906
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • s4050

    s4050

    • TITLE OF WORK: Attic red-figure pottery cup depicting a symposiastic scene
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, red-figure cup, vase
    • DATE: -495
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 7.6 x 17 cm diam.
    • COMMENTS: Found in Gela
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Attica, Athens
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • p3820

    p3820

    • TITLE OF WORK: Broadway
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1929
    • COMMENTS: Présenté par Carl Laemmle, interprété par Glenn Tryon, Merna Kennedy et Evelyn Brent. Anvers-Palace du 18 au 24 avril
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Belgium, Anvers
    • KEYWORDS: cinema, musical
  • p4028

    p4028

    • ARTIST: Alexander Philadelpheus (Greece, 1866-1955) (?)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan (?). Blue veil
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1903
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Philadelpheus was an archeologist, not a professional painter
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • s2773

    s2773

    • ARTIST: Edmond Morin (France, 1824-1882) & E. Roeven
    • TITLE OF WORK: Christmas celebrations in London (Les fêtes de Christmas, à Londres) - Detail
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1864
    • DIMENSIONS: 12 x 9.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature, cartoon
  • s2926

    s2926

    • TITLE OF WORK: Gilles, a comic juggler at fairground spectacles, dances and parades (Gilles, bateleur comique des spectacles forains, danse et parade)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1700
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: acrobatic, comic
  • p2718

    p2718

    • ARTIST: Victoors
    • TITLE OF WORK: Village wedding
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1650
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p0087

    p0087

    • ARTIST: Giandomenico Tiepolo (Italy, 1727-1804)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The minuet
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1756
    • DIMENSIONS: 78.4 x 111.1 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Venice
    • DANCE FORM: popular, court, minuet
    • KEYWORDS: Carnival, disguise
  • p7570

    p7570

    • ARTIST: Alexandra Exter (Russia, 1882-1949)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "On the road": The Bandits
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil, watercolor and gouache on paper
    • DATE: 1925
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s1860

    s1860

    • TITLE OF WORK: Marie Taglioni
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1840
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, France
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, solo
  • p4403

    p4403

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan - Tendresse (Tenderness)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1911
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p8779

    p8779

    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from the new ballet of "Les quatre saisons", at Her Majesty's Theatre
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1848
    • DIMENSIONS: 14.6 x 22 cm
    • COMMENTS: A ballet by Perrot. Fanny Cerito, Carlotta Grisi, Rosati and Marie Taglioni impersonating (in that order) Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., France, Italy, London
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7406

    p7406

    • ARTIST: Louis Léopold Robert (Switzerland, 1794-1835)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The arrival of the harvesters in the Marais Pontins (L'arrivée des moissonneurs dans les Marais Pontins)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1830
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s5563

    s5563

    • ARTIST: Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (Netherlands, 1836-1912)
    • TITLE OF WORK: On the road to the temple of Ceres
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1879
    • DIMENSIONS: 89 x 53.1 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Greece, Rome
  • p8385

    p8385

    • TITLE OF WORK: Madlle Carlotta Grisi and M. Perrot, in the polka, at Her Majesty's Theatre
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1844
    • DIMENSIONS: 11 x 24 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the score of "The fourth polka by Julien", composed on national Bohemian and Hungarian melodies
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Italy, France
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, polka, couple
  • s5134

    s5134

    • TITLE OF WORK: King Bahram and the Princess of India
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature
    • DATE: 1650
    • COMMENTS: The Pavillion of the Seven Princesses (Haft Peykar) was written on 1197 by Nezami. It relates the story of king Bahram, who had built seven pavillions, one for each princess of a different region of t
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Persia, Ispahan, Iran, India
    • DANCE FORM: duo
    • KEYWORDS: royalty, court,
  • s5470

    s5470

    • ARTIST: Agostino Veneziano (Italy, 1490?-1540?)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of fauns and a maenad
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1530
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity
  • s3260

    s3260

    • ARTIST: J. A. Ferland
    • TITLE OF WORK: A dance of the old times (Une danse du temps passé)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Canada
    • DANCE FORM: couple, traditional
  • s3068

    s3068

    • ARTIST: Pierre Sonnerat (France, 1748-1814) (drawing); Poisson (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Nautch dances (Danses des bayadères)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1782
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p5569

    p5569

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance scene
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1400
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • s3765

    s3765

    • ARTIST: Yannis Chapsis (Greeece, 1925-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Two men in the Arkistis dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1986
    • COMMENTS: Mr. Yannis Chapsis is a folk painter in the village Othos, Karpathos
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Dodecanese, Karpathos, Othos
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, duo
  • p7431

    p7431

    • ARTIST: Olaf Gulbransson (Norway, 1873-1958)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Josephine Baker and Anna May Wong
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1928
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Norway, France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p8107

    p8107

    • ARTIST: Fernand Allard d'Ollivier (Belgium, 1883-1933) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer of Katompé resting (Danseur de Katompé au repos)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, after a watercolor
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 12.5 x 10 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ruanda, Congo, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p5708

    p5708

    • TITLE OF WORK: Bacchanalian dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mural
    • DATE: 50
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From the Villa Pamphilii, Rome
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Italy, Ancient, Etruria, Rome
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p0858

    p0858

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer (Danseuse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, three colors
    • DATE: 1923
    • COMMENTS: Frontispice of the program souvenir of the Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo (Diaghilev), season 1923-1924.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Monaco, Monte Carlo
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1196

    p1196

    • ARTIST: Paul Klee (Switzerland, 1879-1940)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance-Scene (Tanz-Szene)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, brush on black watercolor, glued on carton
    • DATE: 1938
    • DIMENSIONS: 39.5 x 28.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed, titled and dated G14 (94)
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • p7883

    p7883

    • ARTIST: Gösta Adrian-Nilsson, called GAN (Sweden, 1884-1965)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Design for the ballet "La mer glaciale" by Gösta Nystroem for the Ballets Suédois
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, drawing, watercolor and pencils
    • DATE: 1923
    • DIMENSIONS: 35.3 x 24.6 cm
    • COMMENTS: Ishavsbaletten, Paris, Nov. 1923
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sweden
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1248

    p1248

    • ARTIST: David Teniers the Younger (Flanders, 1610-1690)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The king drinks. Detail.
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, copper
    • DATE: 1668
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 58 x 70 cm
    • COMMENTS: with text in source 2
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p3792

    p3792

    • ARTIST: Charles Homualk (France, 1909-1996)
    • TITLE OF WORK: La ridée au Pleyben, Finistère
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1960
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s0792

    s0792

    • TITLE OF WORK: Sydney Exhibition - The Fijians performing a war dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1879
    • DIMENSIONS: 14.9 x 22.4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Fiji, Fidji, Melanesia, South Pacific,
    • DANCE FORM: war, traditional
    • KEYWORDS: weapon, lance
  • p4430

    p4430

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan - Frénésie III
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1911
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p7308

    p7308

    • ARTIST: Claude Gellée "Le Lorrain" (France, 1600?-1682)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Country feast (Fête champêtre)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1639
    • DIMENSIONS: 103 x 135 cm
    • COMMENTS: Collection of Louis XIV, king of France
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s3891

    s3891

    • ARTIST: Boris Bernstein
    • TITLE OF WORK: Clotilde Sacharoff in "Cantique des Cantiques: Sulamite"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pochoir
    • DATE: 1949
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p7080

    p7080

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vaslav Nijinsky - "Carnaval"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1910
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland, Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, modern
  • p7992

    p7992

    • ARTIST: Demêtre Chiparus (Romania, 1888-1950)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Cabaret dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, bronze, ivory
    • DATE: 1915
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 59.2 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Romania
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, solo
  • p1990

    p1990

    • ARTIST: Theyre Lee-Elliott (U.K., 1903-1988)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Mary Honer in "Orpheus and Eurydice"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1947
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p8494

    p8494

    • ARTIST: Alonso Perez (Spain, 1881-1914) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Bändertanz
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1898
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.4 x 50.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, France
    • DANCE FORM: popular, traditional
  • p6700

    p6700

    • TITLE OF WORK: A Saturday half holiday
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1871
    • DIMENSIONS: 34.4 x 23.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular, ballroom
  • p3255

    p3255

    • ARTIST: Monique Lancelot (France, 1923-1982)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Développé à la seconde
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1952
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p0481

    p0481

    • ARTIST: Constantin Guys (France, 1802-1892)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Girls dancing in a cabaret
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1860
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, ballroom
  • s4556

    s4556

    • TITLE OF WORK: Serge Lifar in the ballet "The prodigal son" (Le fils prodigue)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, poster, photograph
    • DATE: 1925
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 160 x 115 cm
    • COMMENTS: From the collection of Claude Bessy, Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, solo
  • p1825

    p1825

    • ARTIST: Jean Cocteau (France, 1889-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Vaslav Nijinsky
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil
    • DATE: 1913
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia, Poland
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait

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