Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p8281

    p8281

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of the Russian Gypsies before the Prince of Wales at Moscow
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1866
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.5 x 24 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular, traditional
    • KEYWORDS: Gypsy
  • p4535

    p4535

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dances of Helen (Danses d'Hélène)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From the series "Danses de l'Ancienne Grèce". Produits Liebig
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Greece
  • s0577

    s0577

    • TITLE OF WORK: Spain - Sunday in the market-place, Hernani - The fandango
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1875
    • DIMENSIONS: 29.9 x 22.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: fandango, traditional, popular, cople
    • KEYWORDS: drum
  • s2883

    s2883

    • ARTIST: Jules Kossak (Poland, 1829-1899) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Cracow - National celebration in honour of Kraszewski, famous Polish writer - The promenade called "Polonaise" executed at the opening of the grand ball given in the hall of Sukiennice
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1879
    • DIMENSIONS: 20 x 31.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland, Cracow
    • DANCE FORM: Polonaise, ballroom, couple
  • s3795

    s3795

    • ARTIST: Sigurd Leeder (Germany, 1902-1981)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ludmila Mlada in "Figura tragica" by Sigurd Leeder, 1956
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, charcoal
    • DATE: 1956
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
  • p3978

    p3978

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance class (La classe de danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1873
    • DIMENSIONS: 48.3 x 62.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed "Degas"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: instruction
  • p6433

    p6433

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer's certificate (Brevet de danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1830
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Delivered by dance masters and professors to qualified dancers
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: instruction
  • p2314

    p2314

    • ARTIST: Antonio Carenzano (Italy, 15??-16??)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The most beautiful dance of Zan Trippu, executed at his wedding… (Il bellissimo ballo di Zan Trippu fatto nelle sue nozze...)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, eau-forte
    • DATE: 1583
    • COMMENTS: A scene from a Commedia dell' Arte play
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • KEYWORDS: theater
  • p3926

    p3926

    • ARTIST: Josep Clarà i Ayats (Spain, 1878-1958)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A tragic destiny - Isadora with her two children (Un destin tragique - Isadora avec ses deux enfants)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, ink on paper
    • DATE: 1927
    • DIMENSIONS: 34 x 26 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan, child
  • p8792

    p8792

    • ARTIST: Margaret Murray Cookesley (U.K., 1850?-1927) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The poetry of motion
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1896
    • DIMENSIONS: 10 x 7.6 cm
    • COMMENTS: Exhibited at the Royal Institute
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, U.K.
  • p3589

    p3589

    • ARTIST: Theodor Aman (Romania, 1831-1891)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Hora faraneasca
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Romania
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, hora
  • s5245

    s5245

    • TITLE OF WORK: Ludwig - Lola. Newest sheet from the fashionable history of Bavaria (Ludwig - Lola. Neuestes Blatt aus der Gunst-Geschichte Bayern's
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, monochrome
    • DATE: 1847
    • DIMENSIONS: 28 x 23.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: Lola Montez with her lover of King Ludwig I of Bavaria in the English Garden of Munich
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Munich
    • DANCE FORM: flamenco, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: humor, royalty, politics, caricature, Lola Montez, satire
  • p3103

    p3103

    • TITLE OF WORK: Even the bears danced!
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1790
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • KEYWORDS: animal
  • p1314

    p1314

    • ARTIST: Grasset d'Orcet (1828-1900) (sketch)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Wedding dance in Salamina (La danse nuptiale à Salamine)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1878
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 23.6 cm
    • COMMENTS: From the album by Amedée Damour
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Cyprus, Greece, Salamis
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p5743

    p5743

    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture
    • DATE: 1050
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p3791

    p3791

    • ARTIST: W. M. Thackeray
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer leaping off a cliff into space
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1832
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • p1285

    p1285

    • ARTIST: Elène Usdin (Fance, 1971-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Around midnight (Autour de minuit)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1997
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: disco
  • p7520

    p7520

    • ARTIST: Brian Pinkney (U.S.A., 1961-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Blues Suite" by Alvin Ailey
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1993
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p1752

    p1752

    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Rosa Colinet
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1790
    • DIMENSIONS: 6.2 x 5.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p7168

    p7168

    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "L'orphelin de la Chine"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1774
    • COMMENTS: Choreography and libretto by Gasparo Angiolini; music by C. W. Gluck; first performance in Vienna on 01/04/1774
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p2001

    p2001

    • ARTIST: Theyre Lee-Elliott (U.K., 1903-1988)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Margot Fonteyn in "Apparitions"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1947
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s5895

    s5895

    • TITLE OF WORK: Satyr balancing a kantharos vase on his back. Attic red-figured kylix vase
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, red-figured kylix vase
    • DATE: -450
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 13 x 33 cm
    • COMMENTS: From Etruria. Inscription: ????????? ???????
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Attica, Athens
    • DANCE FORM: solo, acrobatic
  • p5110

    p5110

    • ARTIST: Folco
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for a dancer in the Lido cabaret, Paris. Debbie
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1970
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s5828

    s5828

    • TITLE OF WORK: Woman between two men. Attic black-figure Siana cup fragment (comprised of 4 joined fragments)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, black-figure Siana cup terracotta vase
    • DATE: -525
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 8.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Athens
  • s2275

    s2275

    • ARTIST: Dora Brandenburg-Polster (Germany, 1884-1958)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Gertrud Leistikow - "Faun" - 1
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1912
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Germany,
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p7657

    p7657

    • ARTIST: Pierre Bonnard (France, 1867-1947)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The summer - The dance (L'été - La danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1912
    • DIMENSIONS: 202 x 254 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed at lower right "Bonnard". Painted at Grasse, a village in the South of France, where Bonnard lived from 1912 in a "Villa Antoinette".
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p6075

    p6075

    • TITLE OF WORK: Long dance in Mora (Longg danzen i mora)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, wood
    • DATE: 1780
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From Mora and Dalarna, Sweden
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sweden
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s0903

    s0903

    • ARTIST: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (France, 1780-1867) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Golden Age (L'âge d'or)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1921
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 22.3 cm
    • COMMENTS: The original painting is dated 1862
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • p0604

    p0604

    • ARTIST: Karl Stauber (Germany, 1815-1902) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Gypsy dance (Zigeunertanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1887
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 10 X 7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: Gypsy
  • p2581

    p2581

    • ARTIST: Théo
    • TITLE OF WORK: Giuseppina Bosacchi as Coppélia in the ballet "Coppélia"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1870
    • DIMENSIONS: 26.5 x 21.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7363

    p7363

    • ARTIST: Pierre Carrier-Belleuse (France, 1851-1933) (drawing); Calvet, Grégoire (sculpture)
    • TITLE OF WORK: One of the two table end pieces (Un des deux bouts de table)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, porcelain, biscuit
    • DATE: 1908
    • COMMENTS: Manufacture de Sèvres
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6181

    p6181

    • ARTIST: Jean Target (France, 1910-1997)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Jota
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1980
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France
    • DANCE FORM: folk, Spanish dance
  • p1717

    p1717

    • ARTIST: Andrée Parr
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "L'homme et son désir": Aeolian harp
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor glued to blue paper
    • DATE: 1921
    • DIMENSIONS: 24 x 34 cm
    • COMMENTS: Detail of the work. "L'homme et son désir", danced poem by Paul Claudel, music by Darius Milhaud, choreography by Jean Börlin, sets and costumes by Andrée Parr
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3461

    p3461

    • ARTIST: Salvador Dalí (Spain, 1904-1989)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Backcloth design for the ballet "Bacchanale"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1939
    • COMMENTS: "Bacchanale", a ballet on music by Wagner; design by Dali, choreography by Massine. First performed by the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, on 09/11/1939
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: abstract, scenery, surrealist
  • p1240

    p1240

    • ARTIST: André Derain (France, 1880-1954)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance (La danse). Detail
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1933
    • DIMENSIONS: 72 x 92 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
  • s3662

    s3662

    • ARTIST: Charles Amédée de Noé or Cham (France, 1818-1879)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Avant-deux du Taureau furieux
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, vignette
    • DATE: 1845
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • s5716

    s5716

    • TITLE OF WORK: Tetrahedral prismatic seal: Dancing woman
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, cornelian, gold, carved
    • DATE: -350
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 2.1 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Attica
  • p7066

    p7066

    • ARTIST: J. K. Haur
    • TITLE OF WORK: A couple dances in an inn
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1693
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p6954

    p6954

    • TITLE OF WORK: Final dance from "Wit at several weapons", a comedy of trickery by Beaumont and Fletcher
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1711
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: theater
  • p5865

    p5865

    • TITLE OF WORK: The reel (La ronde)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1905
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • s4105

    s4105

    • TITLE OF WORK: Myriam and the women of Israel
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mural, fresco
    • DATE: 1560
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Byzantium, Greece, Ioannina
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, circle
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • s5167

    s5167

    • ARTIST: Georges Rouault (France, 1871-1958)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Pierrot and woman dancer (Pierrot et danseuse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on paper mounted on canvas (huile sur papier marouflé sur toile)
    • DATE: 0
    • DIMENSIONS: 28 x 22 cm
  • p0659

    p0659

    • ARTIST: Simone Manca di Mores (Italy, 1809-1900)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costumes of Campidano. Dance "sa danza cum, is launeddas" (Costumi del Campidano. Ballo "sa danza cum, is launeddas")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1880
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Sardinia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p9966

    p9966

    • TITLE OF WORK: Allégorie des fêtes pour le marriage de Philippe le Bon et Isabelle de Portugal
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on wood
    • DATE: 1550
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: School of Burgundy. Copy made in the 17th century. Allegory of the feasts for the marriage of Philip le Bon and Isabella of Portugal
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court, couple
  • p7004

    p7004

    • ARTIST: André Dunoyer de Segonzac (France, 1884-1974)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from the ballet "Schéhérazade"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen
    • DATE: 1910
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p0953

    p0953

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Male and female dancers (Danseur et danseuse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, ink
    • DATE: 1925
    • DIMENSIONS: 62 x 47.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Monaco, Monte Carlo
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1223

    p1223

    • ARTIST: André Derain (France, 1880-1954)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancer or The woman in shirt (La danseuse ou La femme en chemise)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1907
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p4246

    p4246

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Russian dancers (Danseuses russes)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pastel on tracing paper applied on carton
    • DATE: 1899
    • DIMENSIONS: 62.2 x 62.9 cm
    • COMMENTS: Lemoisne 1183
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: folk
  • p6235

    p6235

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of the negros in Mascate (Danse de nègres à Mascate)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1852
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.5 x 15.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Oman
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p0137

    p0137

    • ARTIST: Etienne Dinet (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance in the moonlight on the terrace (Une danse au clair de lune sur la terrasse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil
    • DATE: 1916
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Algeria, Ouled-Naïl,
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, solo, professional, Oriental

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