Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p5928

    p5928

    • ARTIST: Achille Boschi (Italy, 1852-1930)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance of the plate
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1870
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Egypt,
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, solo, Oriental, acrobatic
    • KEYWORDS: acrobat
  • p2787

    p2787

    • ARTIST: H. Hornualle (?)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Amélie-les-Bains. The sardana. Folk dance group of Catalan dancers (Amélie-les-Bains. La sardana. Groupe folklorique des danseurs catalans)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1960
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Cayalunia
    • DANCE FORM: Sardana, folk
  • s3901

    s3901

    • ARTIST: Reinhold Rudolf Junghanns (Switzerland, 1884-1967)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Clotilde, dancing to self abandon (Clotilde von Derp-Sacharoff, selbstversunken tanzend) 2
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, etching
    • DATE: 1912
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p4092

    p4092

    • ARTIST: Jan Havickszoon Steen (Netherland, 1626-1679)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dutch amusement
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1670
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p4304

    p4304

    • ARTIST: Alfred Albert
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Coppélia", first performance: Franz
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1870
    • COMMENTS: Choreography by Arthur Saint-Léon, music by Léo Délibes, story by Charles Nuitter and Arthur Saint-Léon; Opéra de Paris 25/05/1870. With Giuseppina Bozzacchi (Swanilda), Eugénie Fiocre (Franz) and Fra
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p9606

    p9606

    • TITLE OF WORK: We never met again
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1850
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.3 x 23 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for a musical score. Poetry by Edward Mordaunt Spencer, composed by G. Herbert Rodwell
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: poetry, music, score
  • p5376

    p5376

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers and acrobat
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1745
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From Surname-i Vehbi
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • s4571

    s4571

    • ARTIST: Jean-Léon Gérôme (France, 1824-1904)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The pyrrhic dance (La danse pyrrhique)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1885
    • DIMENSIONS: 65 x 81.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signé à gauche sur le banc. La scène se passe au Caire. Les "Arnautes" grecs de l'armée irrégulière au service du vice-roi d'Egypte se recréent par des chants et des danses de leur pays.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Egypt, Greece, Albania, Cairo, France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: military, weapon, rifle
  • p2567

    p2567

    • ARTIST: Richard Buckner (U.K., 1812-1883) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Adeline Plunkett of Her Majesty's Theatre
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1854
    • DIMENSIONS: 43 x 24 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3126

    p3126

    • ARTIST: Théophile Wagstaff or William M. Thackeray (U.K., 1811-1863)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Caricature of Marie Taglioni
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1836
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s5920

    s5920

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing Pan, c. 350-500. Egypt, Coptic period, limestone with traces of red polychromy
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, limestone with traces of red polychromy
    • DATE: 420
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 34 x 18.1 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Egypt, Coptic
    • KEYWORDS: Pan flute
  • p9742

    p9742

    • ARTIST: Jacques Villon (France, 1875-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Spanish dancer (Danseuse espagnole)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor and pencil
    • DATE: 1899
    • DIMENSIONS: 25 x 17 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated "99". There is an aquatint of the same title and date.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France
    • DANCE FORM: stage, solo, flamenco, Spanish dance, music-hall
  • p1127

    p1127

    • ARTIST: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (France, 1864-1901)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Bust of Mademoiselle Marcelle Lender (Mademoiselle Marcelle Lender en buste)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p8078

    p8078

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Programme officiel des Ballets Russes (Official program of the Ballets Russes)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, cover
    • DATE: 1911
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7519

    p7519

    • ARTIST: Brian Pinkney (U.S.A., 1961-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Alvin Ailey
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1993
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p2900

    p2900

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Tarantella - Naples (La Tarantella - Napoli)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1918
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Naples
    • DANCE FORM: popular, tarantella, traditional, duo
    • KEYWORDS: tambourine, castanets
  • p6240

    p6240

    • ARTIST: Sergei Gorodetsky
    • TITLE OF WORK: Wearing Duncan's shawl
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1921
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Isadora Duncan, Moscow
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p2551

    p2551

    • TITLE OF WORK: Augusta Nielsen in "La Lithuanienne"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1844
    • DIMENSIONS: 28 x 20 cm
    • COMMENTS: Lithographed by E. Baerentzen, Copenhagen
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Denmark
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s1297

    s1297

    • TITLE OF WORK: An orchestra in itself. Broadwood-Ampico reproducing piano
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1927
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.1 x 10.9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: advertisement
  • s1764

    s1764

    • ARTIST: Alfred Edward Chalon (Switzerland, 1780-1860)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Marie Taglioni in the divertissement of the opera "Le Dieu et la Bayadère"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1830
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, India
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3861

    p3861

    • ARTIST: Valentine Lecomte (France, 1872-?)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Studies of Isadora Duncan dancing (1)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil on paper
    • DATE: 1915
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • s0444

    s0444

    • ARTIST: José Simont (Spain, 1875-1968) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Some gestures, impulses and attitudes with dances improvised on the musical rhythm (Quelques gestes, élans et attitudes des danses improvisées selon le rythme musical)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1920
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 21.9 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Danse et rythme"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p4307

    p4307

    • ARTIST: Eugène Lacoste (France, 1818-1908)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Sylvia"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1876
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s0478

    s0478

    • ARTIST: A. Lewin (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Hänsel and Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1894
    • DIMENSIONS: 10 x 12 cm
    • COMMENTS: From the performance of the folk tale play "Hänsel und Gretel" by Engelbert Humperdinck at the City Theater of Leipzig
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Leipzig
    • DANCE FORM: couple, popular
    • KEYWORDS: broom
  • p3134

    p3134

    • TITLE OF WORK: Caricature of Fanny Elssler in La Cachucha
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1840
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria, Vienna
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • p1536

    p1536

    • ARTIST: Georg Tappert (Germany, 1880-1957)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Can-can
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1911
    • DIMENSIONS: 65.5 x 60.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, cancan
  • p5307

    p5307

    • ARTIST: Adolph Tidemand (Norway, 1814-1876)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sunday evening in a smoking cabin at Hardanger, Norway (En söndagskveld i en hardangersk rökstue)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1844
    • DIMENSIONS: 104 x 126 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Norway, Denmark
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s3274

    s3274

    • TITLE OF WORK: Cancan, a Cole Porter musical directed by György Böhm (Kànkàn, cole Porter musical. Rendezö Böhm György)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, monochrome
    • DATE: 2002
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary
    • DANCE FORM: modern, musical, solo, cabaret
    • KEYWORDS: advertisement
  • p7130

    p7130

    • ARTIST: Johann-Salomon Hegi (Switzerland, 1814-1896) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Fandango. An evening company in Mexico (Der Fandango. Eine Abendgesellschaft in Mexiko)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1863
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.5 x 32 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Mexico, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular
  • p3930

    p3930

    • ARTIST: José de Arrue y Valle
    • TITLE OF WORK: Aurresku in the Romeria (Aurresku en la romer?a)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on panel
    • DATE: 1943
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 80 x 65 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Basque
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, Spanish dance
  • p0236

    p0236

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of the caps of the Chambioa Indians in Brazil
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1847
    • DIMENSIONS: 10 x 16 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Brazil
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p5194

    p5194

    • ARTIST: Ingrid Schaar (Germany, 1937-2004)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Alain Bernard 2
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1982
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Switzerland
    • DANCE FORM: jazz
  • p7073

    p7073

    • ARTIST: Eugène Siberdt (Belgium, 1851-1931)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Oriental dancer (Danseuse orientale)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, wood
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 61 x 43.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, Oriental
  • s0135

    s0135

    • ARTIST: Michele Cataneo
    • TITLE OF WORK: Neapolitan dance called the tarantella (Ballo napolitano detto la tarantella)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil and watercolor on paper
    • DATE: 1820
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 32 x 43 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Naples
    • DANCE FORM: tarantella, couple, traditional, popular
  • p4705

    p4705

    • TITLE OF WORK: A position of Bharata Natyam dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief
    • DATE: 1300
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From the Madurai temple in South India
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
  • p4622

    p4622

    • ARTIST: Daniel Grund
    • TITLE OF WORK: Wandering people
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on wood
    • DATE: 1750
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 24.5 x 36 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s1702

    s1702

    • ARTIST: Theodor Aman (Romania, 1831-1891)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Briulet (Le Briulet)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on wood
    • DATE: 1879
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 48 x 60.6 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed at lower left
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Romania
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p4241

    p4241

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers on stage (Danseuses sur la scène)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, charcoal and sanguine on tracing paper
    • DATE: 1898
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 56.8 x 60.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s1437

    s1437

    • ARTIST: Francesco Albani "l'Albano" (Italy, 1578-1660)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of the Putti (Danza degli amorini). Detail
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1659
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: One of several similar works by Alnani
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Antiquity
    • DANCE FORM: popular, round
    • KEYWORDS: child, tree
  • p6434

    p6434

    • ARTIST: Jacques Moatti
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance foyer of the Paris Opera (Le foyer de la danse à l'Opéra de Paris)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1875
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Palais Garnier
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p5977

    p5977

    • ARTIST: Denis Boissier
    • TITLE OF WORK: The studio (Le studio)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1984
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p8816

    p8816

    • ARTIST: Smyth (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene the last from the new ballet of "Electra, or the lost Pleiad", at Her Majesty's Theatre
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1849
    • DIMENSIONS: 17.6 x 23 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p5834

    p5834

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, ink and watercolor
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • s0078

    s0078

    • ARTIST: Victor-Marie-Félix Danvin (France, 1802-1842) (drawing); Joliot (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Buru. Dance (Bourou. Danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.9 x 14.4 cm
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, duo
    • KEYWORDS: duel, arm
  • s2105

    s2105

    • ARTIST: Federico Mialhe (France, 1810-1881)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Kings' Day in Havana (D?a de Reyes en la Habana)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1848
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Cuba, Habana
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s3354

    s3354

    • ARTIST: Théodore Chassériau (France, 1819-1856)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Moorish dancers - Kerchief dancers (Danseuses mauresques - Danseuses aux mouchoirs)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on wooden panel
    • DATE: 1849
    • DIMENSIONS: 32 x 40 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed at lower right. Chasseriau made a sketch for this dance in 1842.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Algeria
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, duo, m'bita, Oriental
    • KEYWORDS: kerchief
  • s2611

    s2611

    • ARTIST: Rapine (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Idols at the sanctuary of Djaghernaut (Idoles dans le sanctuaire de Djaghernaut)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1869
    • DIMENSIONS: 8 x 13.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Voyage dans l'Inde" by Alfred Grandidier
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p5451

    p5451

    • TITLE OF WORK: La chaîne anglaise. Figure de quadrille
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1820
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • s5085

    s5085

    • ARTIST: Boris Kustodiev (Russia, 1878-1927)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Autumn. Country festival
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1914
    • DIMENSIONS: 82,5 x 119 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Latvia, Riga
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, folk dances
  • p7670

    p7670

    • TITLE OF WORK: Auguste Maywood, incomparable dancer, in "Ancona in the Spring of '53" (Auguste Maywood, imparegiabile danzatrice, in "Ancona nella primavera de 53")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1853
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., Italy
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait

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