Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • s2120

    s2120

    • ARTIST: Auguste Gérardin (France, 1849-1924?) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Carribeans at the Jardin d'Acclimatation (Les Caraïbes au Jardin d'Acclimatation)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1890
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 11 x 21 cm
    • COMMENTS: From the French Guyana, natives from various tribes. The women do not dance.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Guyana
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s4343

    s4343

    • TITLE OF WORK: Lady from the court of Peleas, from the ballet "Wedding of Peleas and Thetis" (Dame de la cour de Pelée, ballet "Les noces de Pélée et Thétis")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1654
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Greece, France
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • s0174

    s0174

    • TITLE OF WORK: René Le Cœur: The dancer (René Le Coeur: La danseuse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 10 cm
    • COMMENTS: Book cover
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p0841

    p0841

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer seated (Danseuse assise) - Olga Picasso
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, lead pencil
    • DATE: 1920
    • DIMENSIONS: 62.5 x 48 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Juan-les-Pins
  • s5206

    s5206

    • ARTIST: Torvald Mitreiter (Denmark, 1860?-1890?)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing Georgian woman
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, salt, watercolor
    • DATE: 1875
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 34.8 x 28.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Mitreiter was active as photographer in Moscow from 1879 to the mid 1890s. Photographs on salt paper, watercolour tinted.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Georgia, Russia, Caucasus
    • DANCE FORM: solo, female
  • p3034

    p3034

    • ARTIST: Josep Clarà i Ayats (Spain, 1878-1958)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1913
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 28 x 20 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France, Spain
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p2468

    p2468

    • ARTIST: Valentine Gross Hugo (France, 1887-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vaslav Nijinsky in "Daphnis et Chloé"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1912
    • COMMENTS: "Daphnis et Chloé", a ballet of the Ballets Russes on music by Maurice Ravel and choreography by Michel Fokine. Théâtre du Chatelet, 1912.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p0162

    p0162

    • ARTIST: Monika Kaiblinger (Germany, 1954-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tunisian dancer (Danseuse tunisienne)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil
    • DATE: 1986
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Tunisia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, Oriental
  • s2154

    s2154

    • ARTIST: Jean-Baptiste Hilaire (France, 1753-1822) (drawing); Pietro Antonio Martini (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Greek dance at Paros (Danse grecque à Paros)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, monochrome
    • DATE: 1782
    • COMMENTS: The original engraving, after which many variations were made.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Cyclades, Paros
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
    • KEYWORDS: flute
  • p9126

    p9126

    • ARTIST: Josep Maria Sert i Badia (Spain, 1874-1945)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Las Meninas": Day and Night
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1916
    • COMMENTS: "Las meninas", ballet by the Ballets Russes in Paris. Pavane on music by Gabriel Fauré; choreography by Leonid Massine, ddécors by C. Socrate, costumes by José-Maria Sert.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p0059

    p0059

    • ARTIST: Marie-Félix Hippolyte-Lucas (France, 1854-1925)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers at the foyer of the dance (Danseuses au foyer de la danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1890
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 68 x 45 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed at lower left
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: off-stage
  • p9011

    p9011

    • ARTIST: Constantin Dausch (Germany, 1841-1908) (sculpture)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The four seasons: 1. Autumn (Die vier Jahreszeiten: I. Der Herbst)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1875
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.7 x 16.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Engraving after a relief
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Germany,
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p4383

    p4383

    • ARTIST: André Dunoyer de Segonzac (France, 1884-1974)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, lead pencil on paper
    • DATE: 1909
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 40.4 x 25.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p1848

    p1848

    • ARTIST: Nicholas Roerich (Russia, 1874-1947)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Le sacre du printemps" (Rites of Spring)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, tempera on paper
    • DATE: 1913
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p3955

    p3955

    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, silver vase
    • DATE: 600
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: This vase has been identified by Volbach as byzantine of the 6th or 7th century. It has been called "the silver vase of Cleveland"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Byzantium
  • s1339

    s1339

    • TITLE OF WORK: Shakespeare in silhouette
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1882
    • DIMENSIONS: 10 x 10 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: stage
    • KEYWORDS: theater
  • p6907

    p6907

    • ARTIST: G. Sanesi
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sofia Fuoco performing the tatantella. Detail
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1855
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, ballet
  • p0455

    p0455

    • ARTIST: Kees van Dongen (Netherlands, 1877-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Miss Geneviève Vix in the role of Salome (Mlle Geneviève Vix dans le rôle de Salomé)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1920
    • DIMENSIONS: 255 x 124 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Holland, France,
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental
    • KEYWORDS: Salome, religion
  • s1166

    s1166

    • ARTIST: Ed. P. Dowd (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Lila, with her bowler cocked on one side and her slim arms and legs all aflutter, really did suggest the spirit of youth and dancing"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1926
    • DIMENSIONS: 13 x 11.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the novel "Half a sovereign" by Ian Hay
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
  • s1798

    s1798

    • ARTIST: Charlotte Trowbridge
    • TITLE OF WORK: Martha Graham
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1980
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, modern
  • s6076

    s6076

    • ARTIST: The Group of Athens Painter (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: BD: Komos, men, one playing lyre, dog
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, black-figure olpe vase
    • DATE: -505
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Attica, Athens
  • s0300

    s0300

    • ARTIST: Frederick Vezin (U.S.A., 1859-1933)
    • TITLE OF WORK: At the ball
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1925
    • DIMENSIONS: 78 x 94 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated 1925
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: ball,
  • p4967

    p4967

    • ARTIST: Alexander Nikolaevich Benois (Russia, 1870-1960)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Petrouchka"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1934
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From the performance given in Mexico by the "Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo" of colonel Vassili de Basil
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Mexico, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • s3923

    s3923

    • ARTIST: Alexander Sacharoff or Sakharoff (Ukraine, 1886-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Design for "Orpheus"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, tempera and collage
    • DATE: 1912
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ukraine, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • s1826

    s1826

    • TITLE OF WORK: Round dance in the open at Florence
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1500
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Laurent le Magnifique et Politicien
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Florence
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
  • p0189

    p0189

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Shéhérazade": Odalisque
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor and gouache on paper
    • DATE: 1910
    • COMMENTS: "Sheherazade", 1910, Théâtre National de l'Opéra, Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Russia, France, Paris,
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, Oriental
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s1065

    s1065

    • TITLE OF WORK: The open-air "Pastoral ballet divertissement", "Daphnis and Chloé", at the Crystal Palace
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1886
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.1 x 22.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p5547

    p5547

    • TITLE OF WORK: Fashionable Americans perform a country dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1860
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • s0589

    s0589

    • TITLE OF WORK: A Newhaven firsherman's wedding. Dancing the reel
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1876
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.8 x 17.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Newhaven
    • DANCE FORM: reel, traditional, round, circle
  • s2910

    s2910

    • TITLE OF WORK: "Ballet d'Armide" - Fourth entry
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, colored
    • DATE: 1617
    • COMMENTS: Danced by king Louis XIII in 1617.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, theatrical, stage
    • KEYWORDS: royalty, court,
  • s0831

    s0831

    • TITLE OF WORK: At the close of our stay in Samoa we give a dance to the natives. The Prime Minister unbends still further
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1887
    • DIMENSIONS: 14.3 x 17.3
    • COMMENTS: Summer among the Coral Islands - A visit to Samoa
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., Samoa Islands, Polynesia, Pacific
    • DANCE FORM: popular, mixed, couples
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p9485

    p9485

    • ARTIST: August Lentz (Germany, 1827-1898) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Verbena of San Antonio on 13 June in Madrid (Die Verbena von San Antonio am 13. Juni in Madrid)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1861
    • DIMENSIONS: 17.9 x 24.1 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Madrid
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular
  • s1600

    s1600

    • ARTIST: Yves Saint Laurent (France, 1936-2008)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Cyrano de Bergerac", act 2: Cadets de Gascogne
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1959
    • COMMENTS: "Cyrano de Bergerac", ballet; choreography by Roland Petit, after Edmond Rostand; music by Marius Constant; costumes by Yves Saint Laurent. Distribution: Zizi Jeanmaire, Tessa Beaumont, Danièle Jossi,
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p7854

    p7854

    • 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: Drawing, ink
    • DATE: 1923
    • DIMENSIONS: 35.3 x 24.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Ishavsbaletten, Paris, Nov. 1923
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sweden
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p8966

    p8966

    • TITLE OF WORK: A dance hall in fire (Une salle de bal en feu)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1910
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.6 x 26.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: 400 persons died during the fire, including the two orchestras, in the village Oekoerito, Hungary
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary, France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, popular
    • KEYWORDS: accident
  • p3078

    p3078

    • TITLE OF WORK: Marie Taglioni
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1832
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s1201

    s1201

    • ARTIST: Henri Valentin (France, 1820-1855) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Theater of the Opera. "Stella", ballet. Act 2, scene 2. Decors by Thierry and Gambon (Théâtre de l'Opéra. "Stella", ballet. 2e acte, dernier tableau, décoration de M. Thierry et Gambon)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1850
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 23 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6763

    p6763

    • ARTIST: Job
    • TITLE OF WORK: The clark's strike (La grève des commis)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1869
    • COMMENTS: Parody of "The dance" by Carpeaux
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • p2405

    p2405

    • ARTIST: Max Ernst (Germany, 1891-1976)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Lion of Belfort. Mud (Le lion de Belfort. La boue)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1934
    • COMMENTS: From the collage-novel "Une semaine de bonté ou Les sept éléments capitaux". Premier cahier. Dimanche - Elémemt : La boue. Exemple : Le lion de Belfort
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, France
    • KEYWORDS: animal
  • s4023

    s4023

    • 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
  • p4833

    p4833

    • ARTIST: Antonio Segu?
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tango
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1993
    • DIMENSIONS: 20 x 14 cm
    • DANCE FORM: tango, popular, ballroom, couple
  • p8702

    p8702

    • TITLE OF WORK: The festival of St. Gregory
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1845
    • DIMENSIONS: 17.5 x 23.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: The Queen's visit to Coburg
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • p1972

    p1972

    • ARTIST: Theyre Lee-Elliott (U.K., 1903-1988)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Sylphs (Les Sylphides)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1947
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s5197

    s5197

    • TITLE OF WORK: Traversée. A negroes' dance (Traversée - Danse de Nègres)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1810
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 14.3 x 23 cm
    • COMMENTS: 3ème vol. p. 178. Paris, Imp. Chardon Jne & Fils, r Racine, 3
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, colonies
    • DANCE FORM: male, solo
    • KEYWORDS: torture, sea, ship, vessel, whip, navy, slaves
  • p7926

    p7926

    • TITLE OF WORK: Maya dancer disguised as a bat
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, color
    • DATE: 1600
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 28.5 cm diameter
    • COMMENTS: Ceremonial plate
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Mexico
    • KEYWORDS: animal
  • s5191

    s5191

    • ARTIST: Frank Brangwyn (U.K., 1867-1956)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1895
    • COMMENTS: Art Nouveau
    • KEYWORDS: women, flowers, boy
  • s3171

    s3171

    • 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
  • p3822

    p3822

    • TITLE OF WORK: L'homme au masque de cire (House of wax)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1953
    • COMMENTS: Mise en scène par André de Toth. Starring: Vincent Price, Phyllis Kirk, Frank Lovejoy
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • KEYWORDS: cinema, musical
  • p5040

    p5040

    • ARTIST: Joseph Bouvier
    • TITLE OF WORK: Fanny Elssler as Lauretta in the comic ballet "La tarantule"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1840
    • COMMENTS: The ballet "La tarantule" was created by the French choreographer Jean Coralli for Fanny Elssler at the Paris Opéra in 1839.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7728

    p7728

    • TITLE OF WORK: Ballet Aglaé. Mr. Turchetto (Satyr), Miss Taglioni (Aglaé) (Ballet Aglaé. Herr Turchetto (Satyr), Mlle Taglioni (Aglaé))
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1827
    • COMMENTS: Erinnerungen an das Ballet des Kgl. Hoftheaters (Ballet souvenirs of the Royal Theater), Stuttgart
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet

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