Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • s0587

    s0587

    • TITLE OF WORK: Nautch fencing dance before the Prince of Wales at Jummoo
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1876
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.7 x 14.9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India, Jummoo, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: stage, fencing
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • p5841

    p5841

    • ARTIST: Georges Crouzat (France, 1904-1976)
    • TITLE OF WORK: La Lauterbach - Alsace
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, bronze, medal
    • DATE: 1990
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 4.7 cm diameter
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Alsatia, Alsace
    • DANCE FORM: folk, Lauterbach
  • p0901

    p0901

    • ARTIST: Josep Clarà i Ayats (Spain, 1878-1958)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 27 x 26 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p7461

    p7461

    • ARTIST: Georges Lepape (France, 1887-1971)
    • TITLE OF WORK: At the ball (Au bal)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1919
    • DIMENSIONS: 10 x 45 cm
    • COMMENTS: Auctioned at the Hotel Drouot on 25/06/1971
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • s1799

    s1799

    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume picture for a theater magazine (Costume-Bild zur Theaterzeitung)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, solo
    • KEYWORDS: female
  • p6931

    p6931

    • TITLE OF WORK: Four figurines of dancers (?)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette
    • DATE: 700
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: They probabaly carried symbolic objects in their hands. Found in Teotihuac?n, Mexico
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Mexico, Aztec
    • KEYWORDS: Aztec
  • p6974

    p6974

    • ARTIST: Johann Christian Schoeller (Austria, 1782-1851) (drawing); Zinke (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene 2 from the ballet "Die Nachtwandlerin" ("La somnambule")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, colored
    • DATE: 1830
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p0855

    p0855

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Love, naked woman, Harlequin dancing and Pierrot playing the guitar
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, lead pencil
    • DATE: 1918
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.5 x 31.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
  • s5543

    s5543

    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene of entertainement Qajar (Scène de divertissement Qajar)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Ceramic tile, wooden frame
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 26.5 x 20.5
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Persia, Iran, Orient
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental
  • p0957

    p0957

    • ARTIST: Edward Gordon Craig (U.K., 1872-1966)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1908
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p1668

    p1668

    • ARTIST: Theodor Hosemann (Germany, 1807-1875)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance amusement (Tanzvergnügen)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on wood
    • DATE: 1839
    • DIMENSIONS: 22 x 17 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • s3048

    s3048

    • TITLE OF WORK: "The getaway" - Well, madam, it is important to prove that dancers are useful ("L'escapade" - Bah! Madame, il faut bien prouver que les danseuses servent à quelque chose)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1896
    • DIMENSIONS: 7.5 x 5.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Une scène de la pièce "L'escapade", par Auguste Germain, de la série "Scènes de la vie parisienne", interprétées par Mmes Mariquita, Marie Pernot, Amélie Guerra, Jeanne Chasle, Céleste Riganti, Claire
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: instruction, theater
  • s2486

    s2486

    • ARTIST: Georges Scott (France, (1873-1943) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Congress of the French Milling - The ball (Le Congrès de la Meunerie Française - Le bal)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1891
    • DIMENSIONS: 20 x 14.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • s3231

    s3231

    • TITLE OF WORK: Kolo, professional ensemble of popular dances and songs of the Republic of Serbia
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color, poster
    • DATE: 2000
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Yugoslavia, Serbia, Beograd
    • DANCE FORM: folk
  • p7176

    p7176

    • ARTIST: Henry Inman (U.S.A., 1801-1846) (painting); Kohler (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Fanny Elssler in her loge in New York
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1845
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: off-stage, portrait
  • p4026

    p4026

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers on stage (Danseuses en scène)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, charcoal and pastel
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • s0783

    s0783

    • ARTIST: Sydney Prior Hall (U.K., 1842-1922) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The ball - the royal quadrille
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1885
    • DIMENSIONS: 12.5 x 22.4 cm
    • COMMENTS: The coming of age of Prince Albert Victor - The festivities at Sandringham
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Sandringham
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple, quadrille, mixed
    • KEYWORDS: royalty, kilt
  • s3950

    s3950

    • ARTIST: André Derain (France, 1880-1954)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Les archidanses" on music by Erik Satie: La Danseuse
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil and watercolor on Bristol paper
    • DATE: 1922
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p0639

    p0639

    • ARTIST: Henri Matisse (France, 1869-1954)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ballerina (Ballerine)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1927
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s0049

    s0049

    • ARTIST: Val Havers (U.K., 1873-1912)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Wood nymphs
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1904
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 61 x 91.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, U.K.
  • p7379

    p7379

    • ARTIST: Friedrich August von Kaulbach (Germany, 1850-1920)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Rosario Guerrero as Carmen
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1908
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 120 x 91 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed "F A v Kaulbach"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Spain
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p5220

    p5220

    • ARTIST: Samuel Begg (U.K., 1854-1936)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Maori warriors performing the "Haka" war-dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1897
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.3 x 31.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: New Zealand
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p5626

    p5626

    • ARTIST: Nikolaus Meldemann (Germany, 1518-1552)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance around the maypole
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1550
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p8971

    p8971

    • TITLE OF WORK: Carnival parade of the Patrician Association of Basel (Fastnachts-Umzug der Patrizier-Gesellschaft von Basel)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1857
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.5 x 23.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Switzerland
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: Carnival, disguise, street
  • p0837

    p0837

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Lydia Lopokova
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, lead pencil
    • DATE: 1919
    • DIMENSIONS: 35.7 x 25.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p8947

    p8947

    • ARTIST: Alexander Nikolaevich Benois (Russia, 1870-1960)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Petrouchka": Masquerade 2
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil and watercolor on paper
    • DATE: 1911
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s2747

    s2747

    • ARTIST: G. Vallon
    • TITLE OF WORK: Improvisation
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sanguine
    • DATE: 1950
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 11 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p4569

    p4569

    • ARTIST: David Teniers the Younger (Flanders, 1610-1690) (painting); Hollar, Wenzel (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Hopping round dance (Gesprungener Reigen)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1649
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.6 x 33.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
  • s5961

    s5961

    • TITLE OF WORK: Youthful female dancing figure clad in a chiton and a himation that covers the lower part of her face
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, figurine, terracotta
    • DATE: -325
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: Made in a Boeotian workshop
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Boeotia
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • p7133

    p7133

    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance class (Die Tanzstunde)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1868
    • DIMENSIONS: 17 x 22.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: instruction
  • p5335

    p5335

    • ARTIST: Anders Zorn (Sweden, 1860-1920)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Waltz (Valsen)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, charcoal
    • DATE: 1891
    • DIMENSIONS: 32 x 24.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sweden
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, waltz
  • p2709

    p2709

    • ARTIST: Friedrich Paul Thumann (Germany, 1834-1908)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Wanderers in front of a cloister (Fahrendes Folk vor einem Kloster)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • KEYWORDS: religion, Gypsy
  • s3940

    s3940

    • ARTIST: Pierre de Régnier "Tigre" (France, 1898-1943)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vaslav Nijinsky and Tamara Karsavina in "Carnaval" (Nijinsky et Karsavina) (Carnaval)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, China ink on paper
    • DATE: 1913
    • DIMENSIONS: 14.5 x 9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland, Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: modern, duo
  • p2344

    p2344

    • ARTIST: Heinrich Zille (Germany, 1858-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: You can even rotate the roller to me, You're so (Du kannst mir mal die Rolle drehn, Du bist so)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1925
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Berlin
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s0413

    s0413

    • TITLE OF WORK: Austrian barracks camp at Rzeszow in Galicia (Das österreichische Barackenlager zu Rzeszow in Galizien)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1889
    • DIMENSIONS: 5.5 x 7.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria
    • DANCE FORM: popular, solo
    • KEYWORDS: military
  • p5776

    p5776

    • ARTIST: Allanson
    • TITLE OF WORK: New Year celebrations on Turkey (Neujahrsfeier in der Türkei)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1848
    • DIMENSIONS: 14 x 23 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p2528

    p2528

    • TITLE OF WORK: A "black" ballet dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1750
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p1153

    p1153

    • ARTIST: Marc Chagall (Russia, 1887-1985)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Paris Opera (L'Opéra de Paris)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1974
    • DIMENSIONS: 78.5 x 59 cm
    • COMMENTS: From Chagall's work for the ceilings of the Paris Opera, started in 1963 after a commission by André Malraux, Minister of Culture.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p4608

    p4608

    • ARTIST: Januarius Zick (Germany, 1730-1797)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance in front of the bouquet shop (Tanz vor der Strausswirtschaft)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1775
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 70 x 96.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s0002

    s0002

    • ARTIST: Albert Bertalan (Hungary, 1899-1957)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Seated dancer (Danseuse assise)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 116 x 89 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed at lower left
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6735

    p6735

    • ARTIST: Carlos Llobet Busquets (Spain, 1857-1927)
    • TITLE OF WORK: La dulzaina dance of Castilla la Vieja (La dulzaina - Castilla la Vieja)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1929
    • DIMENSIONS: 13 x 18 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, Spanish dance
  • s3213

    s3213

    • ARTIST: Sigurd Leeder (Germany, 1902-1981)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Jean Cébron dancing his piece "Aquatic Vision", 1957
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1959
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
  • s1987

    s1987

    • ARTIST: Lucien Fontanarosa (France, 1912-1975)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Two seated dancers (Deux danseuses assises)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel
    • DATE: 1965
    • DIMENSIONS: 65 x 51 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p4174

    p4174

    • TITLE OF WORK: Greek dances and folk songs for singing, piano, violin or mandoline - The dance at Zalongo (O choros tou Zalogou)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 35 x 25 cm
    • COMMENTS: Score cover
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: folk
  • p1445

    p1445

    • TITLE OF WORK: Village women dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Textile, embroidery
    • DATE: 1930
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p6162

    p6162

    • TITLE OF WORK: Apsara, celestial dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bas-relief
    • DATE: 1120
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Khmer art. The temple was built under king Suryavarman II
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Cambodia, Khmer
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p4842

    p4842

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Sabbath among slaves
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1850
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: African American
  • p8185

    p8185

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Le tricorne"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1919
    • COMMENTS: Inscribed: sur la chemise le bleu clair sur le pantalon le bleu foncé
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, Spain, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s3773

    s3773

    • TITLE OF WORK: An artist's impression of an old style fair
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1980
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Wales
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • p5551

    p5551

    • TITLE OF WORK: A birthnight ball in Virginia
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1780
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple

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