Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • s2629

    s2629

    • ARTIST: Paul Meyerheim (Germany, 1842-1915) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Performance of wild Indians (Schaustellung wilder Indianer)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood, from a painting
    • DATE: 1877
    • DIMENSIONS: 34 x 48 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., Germany
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, stage
    • KEYWORDS: Indians, Native Americans
  • p0663

    p0663

    • ARTIST: Collin (painting), Baude (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance (La danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1884
    • DIMENSIONS: 19.9 x 13.1 cm
    • COMMENTS: Decorative panel
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
    • DANCE FORM: popular, solo
    • KEYWORDS: tambourine
  • p2187

    p2187

    • ARTIST: Pierre Carrier-Belleuse (France, 1851-1933)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The arabesque (L'arabesque)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1912
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1345

    p1345

    • TITLE OF WORK: Gaetano and Auguste Vestris in "Ninette à la Cour", ballet de Maximilien Gardel
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1778
    • COMMENTS: Gaetano was called "god of dance" and Auguste "new Proteus of the dance"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s1946

    s1946

    • ARTIST: Agnes
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance in Venice (Danse à Venise)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1998
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Exhibited at the IXème Biennale dels pintors i escultors de la dansa. Barcelona, 03/02/1999.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • p7096

    p7096

    • TITLE OF WORK: Ballet dancer wearing the traditional costume of the Cracow region
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1835
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, traditional
  • p2717

    p2717

    • ARTIST: Arthur Verona (Romania, 1868-1946)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dances in the woods (Joc in padure)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Romania
    • DANCE FORM: folk
    • KEYWORDS: flute
  • s2874

    s2874

    • TITLE OF WORK: Mandrin - Kight of Valjoly and Dame Juana in the theatre box of Camargo at the Opera (Mandrin - Chevalier de Valjoly et Dona Juana dans la loge de la Camargo à l'Opéra)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1879
    • DIMENSIONS: 12 x 15.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: From the play "La Camargo" in 2 acts, by A. Vanloo and E. Leterrier, presented at the Théâtre de la Renaissance, Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s0565

    s0565

    • ARTIST: Julius L. Stewart (U.S.A., 1855-1919) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A Hunt ball
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1886
    • DIMENSIONS: 27 x 44 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: ball,
  • p1123

    p1123

    • ARTIST: Pablo Gargallo (Spain, 1881-1934)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Little Spanish dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, copper, green-grey patina
    • DATE: 1927
    • DIMENSIONS: 37 x 14 x 11 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: Spanish dance
  • s5942

    s5942

    • TITLE OF WORK: A dancing girl. Figure with hennaed hands sitting on an ornate chair placed on a white rug with foliate decoration
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on paper
    • DATE: 1830
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.4 x 18 cm
    • COMMENTS: Portraits of celebrities of the Persian Court. A dancing girl; single-page painting mounted on album folio. Figure with hennaed hands sitting on an ornate chair placed on a white rug with foliate deco
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Persia, Iran
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • s0649

    s0649

    • ARTIST: J. Begg (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The geisha dancing before the friars at the gate of the Buddhist Monastery of Dôjô-j,i. Madame Sada Yacco
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1901
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.2 x 29.3 cm
    • COMMENTS: The Japanese players at the Criterion: Scene from act II of "The Geisha and the Knight"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Japan, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: stage
    • KEYWORDS: theater
  • p3808

    p3808

    • ARTIST: Pierre Welcomme (France, 1912-2013)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The bourrée in Auvergne (La bourrée en Auvergne)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: folk, bourée
  • s2989

    s2989

    • ARTIST: Jean-Jacques Gailliard (Belgium, 1890-1976)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sets design for "Le ballet de la toupie" in an adaptation by Albert Lepage
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1925
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Belgium, Bruxelles
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: sets
  • p3697

    p3697

    • ARTIST: G. Dalle
    • TITLE OF WORK: Publicity for the revue "Allô, ici Paris"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1929
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p8669

    p8669

    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from the new Watteau ballet of "L'île des amours". Opening of Her Majesty's Theatre
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1851
    • DIMENSIONS: 36 x 24 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s2595

    s2595

    • ARTIST: George Catlin (U.S.A., 1796-1872) (sketch); Neuville, A. de (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Night and day (Le jour et la nuit)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1869
    • DIMENSIONS: 12 x 8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Escursions parmi les tribus Indiens des bassins de la Colombia et du Haut-Missouri" after G. Catlin, 1832
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., Missouri
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: Indians, Native Americans
  • p1047

    p1047

    • ARTIST: Eugène Lami (France, 1800-1890) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The actors' foyer at the Opera (Le foyer des acteurs à l'Opéra)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1841
    • DIMENSIONS: 11 x 17 cm
    • COMMENTS: Published by Fisher, Son & Co., London. Maria Jacob on pointe in center
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: off-stage
  • p1678

    p1678

    • ARTIST: Alexandre Steinlen (Switzerland, 1859-1923)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Man with a cape
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, Indian ink and watercolor
    • DATE: 1920
    • DIMENSIONS: 24.5 x 20 cm
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Suédois
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s5172

    s5172

    • ARTIST: Christian Mac Entyre
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tango couple
    • TYPE OF WORK: painting
    • DATE: 2000
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Argentine
    • DANCE FORM: tango, ballroom, couple
  • s0840

    s0840

    • TITLE OF WORK: A school treat in a Scotch country-house. A reel
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1885
    • DIMENSIONS: 10.4 x 12.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Scotland
    • DANCE FORM: reel, traditional, mixed
    • KEYWORDS: instruction, bagpipes, children
  • p4521

    p4521

    • TITLE OF WORK: Feast in honnor of Ceres in the Antiquity (Fête en l'honneur de Cérès dans l'antiquité)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 6.7 x 9.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Véritable extrait de viande Liebig
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, France
  • s4396

    s4396

    • 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
  • s2945

    s2945

    • ARTIST: Martin (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Native girl at the tomb of her ancestors (Madagascar - Jeune fille indigène au tombeau de ses ancêtres)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1886
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 20 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Madagascar
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: funerary
  • p7582

    p7582

    • ARTIST: Theobald Stein (Denmark, 1829-1901)
    • TITLE OF WORK: August Bournonville
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, marble bust
    • DATE: 1869
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Denmark, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: Choreographer
  • s1743

    s1743

    • ARTIST: Ted Scapa (Switzerland, 1931-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Untitled
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1998
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Switzerland
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature, cartoon
  • p0391

    p0391

    • ARTIST: Luca della Robbia (Italy, 1399-1482)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Children dancing and playing music
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief
    • DATE: 1600
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Florence
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p4358

    p4358

    • ARTIST: Louis-René Boquet (France, 1717-1814)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Melle Peslin and Jean Dauberval in "Tancrède"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1800
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p9403

    p9403

    • ARTIST: Louis Léopold Robert (Switzerland, 1794-1835) (after)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The arrival of the harvesters in the Pontine Marshes (L'arrivée des moissonneurs dans les Marais Pontins)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1860
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 53 x 63 cm
    • COMMENTS: Copy by a painter of the Italian school, of part the painting by Léopold Robert which is in the Louvre
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, solo
  • s4679

    s4679

    • ARTIST: Jacques Le Tanneur (France, 1887-1935)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The fandango (Le fandango)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, gouache, postcard
    • DATE: 1960
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Pays Basque
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, couple
  • s1947

    s1947

    • ARTIST: Yves Alcaïs (France, 1938-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: On the steps of Gupla II (Sur le pas de Gupka II)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1998
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Exhibited at the IXème Biennale dels pintors i escultors de la dansa. Barcelona, 03/02/1999.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p0006

    p0006

    • ARTIST: Pierre-Auguste Renoir (France, 1841-1919)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance in town (La danse à la ville)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1883
    • DIMENSIONS: 180 x 90 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed, dated on the right: Renoir, 83.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • s3368

    s3368

    • TITLE OF WORK: The wedding of Akhbar's brother at Agra in 969 (1561 AD)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1600
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p2536

    p2536

    • ARTIST: Rudolf Marcuse (Germany, 1878-1930)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance (Der Tanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture
    • DATE: 1915
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • p4423

    p4423

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan - Etonnement
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1911
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • s2878

    s2878

    • ARTIST: Adrien Marie (France, 1848-1891) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Mr. Louis Mérante in the role of Nori, in the ballet "Yedda" (M. Louis Mérante, dans le rôle de Nori, ballet de "Yedda")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1879
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.1 x 15.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: stage, classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • s3399

    s3399

    • ARTIST: Filippo Baratti (Italy, 1849-1936)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Juggler in a harem (Jongleuse dans un harem)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1889
    • DIMENSIONS: 96 x 137 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated "London 1889"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Spain, Granada, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: solo, Oriental, acrobatic
    • KEYWORDS: acrobatic, snake
  • s5431

    s5431

    • ARTIST: Serge Ivanoff (Russia, 1893-1983)
    • TITLE OF WORK: La Gavotte
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1937
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DANCE FORM: couple, gavotte
  • p9993

    p9993

    • ARTIST: Giuseppe Zais (Italy, 1709-1784)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Elegant figures dancing and making music before a fountain in a garden (Trattenimento in giardino)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1750
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 113.4 x 147.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: The theme derives from prints by L. Cars of 1732, which are copied from paintings by Watteau
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: court, couple, popular
  • p2007

    p2007

    • ARTIST: Theyre Lee-Elliott (U.K., 1903-1988)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The skaters ("Les patineurs")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1947
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p2666

    p2666

    • ARTIST: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, 1880-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Two red dancers (Zwei rote Tänzerinnen)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1914
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • s1730

    s1730

    • ARTIST: Nicolai Legat (Russia, 1869-1937)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Marius Petipa
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1898
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • p4665

    p4665

    • ARTIST: David Vinckboons (Netherlands, 1576-1632?)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Company in the open
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil, tempera on wood
    • DATE: 1610
    • DIMENSIONS: 41 x 68.4 cm
    • COMMENTS: The dance is probably a galliarde, and the position seems to be the Grue
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p7914

    p7914

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, clay figurine
    • DATE: 500
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 39 cm height
    • COMMENTS: From Colima
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Mexico
  • p8014

    p8014

    • TITLE OF WORK: The festival of 10 August in the garden of the Elysée (La fête du 10 août dans le jardin de l'Elysée)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1900
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.2 x 2 cm
    • COMMENTS: Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: theater
  • s4176

    s4176

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing Maenad
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1956
    • COMMENTS: From a Greek vase
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • p3587

    p3587

    • ARTIST: Valery Kosoroukov (Russia, 1937-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from the ballet "Nutcracker"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1989
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6980

    p6980

    • ARTIST: H. R. Robinson (drawing); Sarony (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Paul and Amelia Taglioni in the ballet "La sylphide"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1839
    • COMMENTS: Park Theater, New York, 22/05/1839
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p9219

    p9219

    • ARTIST: David Teniers the Elder (Flanders, 1582-1649) (after)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance scene
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, enamel on procelain
    • DATE: 1830
    • DIMENSIONS: 40.5 x 49 cm
    • COMMENTS: One of two Berlin plaques by Gaude Derounier, ordered by Charrles Duke of Brunswick in 1830
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Flanders
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • p0303

    p0303

    • ARTIST: Richard Barabandy or Riccardo Barabandi (Italy, 1842-1902)
    • TITLE OF WORK: La Goulue
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1890
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, cancan

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