ARTIST: Adrien Marie (France, 1848-1891) (drawing)
TITLE OF WORK: "Christmas tree", fantasia by Messrs Leterrier, Vanloo and Mortier, presented at Porte-Saint-Martin. Scene of "Montreuse d'ours": Bagatelle (Miss Zulma-Bouffar) and Eucalyptus (Mr. Alexandre)
TYPE OF WORK: Print
DATE: 1880
DIMENSIONS: 30.3 x 21.4 cm
COMMENTS: "The Christmas treel", extravaganza by Messrs. Leterrier, Vanloo and Mortier, presented at the theater of the Porte-Saint-Martin. Scene of the "Bear tamer": Bagatelle (Misse Zulma-Bouffar) and Eucalyp
ARTIST: Denis Auguste Marie Raffet (France, 1804-1860)
TITLE OF WORK: El olé
TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, charcoal heightened with watercolor and white bodycolor
DATE: 1847
DIMENSIONS: 26 x 35.5 cm
COMMENTS: The entry in the artist's diary for 07/10/1847 reads: "This evening I dined with the marquis, and after dinner the olé and the "vito sevillano" were danced, but on the table and to the great applause
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Andalusia, France
DANCE FORM: traditional, stage, popular, olé, flamenco, Spanish dance, solo
TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Mercure": Apollo and Venus
TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pastel and charcoal on paper
DATE: 1924
DIMENSIONS: 30 x 23 cm
COMMENTS: "Mercure", ballet in three scenes, by the Ballets Russes, 1924. Music by Eric Satie; story and choreography by Leonid Massine; curtain, décors and costumes by Pablo Picasso
TITLE OF WORK: Black-figure plate. Young woman dancing with krotala
TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pottery, black-figure plate
DATE: -495
DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
DIMENSIONS: 22.9 cm diameter
COMMENTS: In the black-figure technique, an image was applied to a vessel in black lacquer, which contrasted with the natural colour of the fired clay. Here a dancing girl, possibly a maenad (a follower of the
ARTIST: Johann Michael Wittmer (Germany, 1802-1880)
TITLE OF WORK: The Sweet Waters of Asia
TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
DATE: 1837
DATE DETAILS: approx.
DIMENSIONS: 81 x 118.5 cm
COMMENTS: Signed. At the center is shown the crown prince of Bavaria Maximilian. The Sweet Waters of Asia is where two streams, the Göksu and the Küçüksu flow into the Bosphorus opposite Constantinople (Istanbu
LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Turkey, Constantinople, Istanbul
TITLE OF WORK: Copy of the program of the Ballets Russes (Copie du programme des Ballets Russes)
TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
DATE: 1920
COMMENTS: Idzikovsky in "La tricorne", December 1920. The artist made this copy at the age of 9. 59 years later he was asked to design the poster of the exhibition "Diaghilev - Les Ballets Russes" fot the Bibli
TITLE OF WORK: Saryr dancing. Attic black-figure Nikosthenic amphora fragment
TYPE OF WORK: Painting, terracotta black-figure vase
DATE: -545
DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
DIMENSIONS: 16.8 x 13.3 cm
COMMENTS: Greek, Attic. Four joined fragments of an amphora (see main entry 86.AE.96). On the broad handle is a dancing satyr, facing right. On the shoulder of the vessel, adjacent to the handle, is a male clad
