Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p3139

    p3139

    • TITLE OF WORK: Fanny Cerrito in the ballet "La Sylphide"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1870
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s3007

    s3007

    • ARTIST: Parys (watercolor)
    • TITLE OF WORK: At the ball - During the cotillon (Au bal - Pendant le cotillon)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1893
    • DIMENSIONS: 33 x 46.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: cotillon, ballroom, couple
  • p5739

    p5739

    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancers - Bharata Natyam
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1970
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.4 x 15.9 cm
    • COMMENTS: The dancers: 1. Urdhva Janu - raised knee. 2. Karisata - elephant's trunk. 3. Nikuncita - plié. 4. Nupura - heel's ring
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: theater
  • p0735

    p0735

    • TITLE OF WORK: Casket with warriors and dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, ivory and bone
    • DATE: 1100
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 23 x 19 x 28.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Formerly in the Hoentschele collection
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Byzantium
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: weapon
  • s5155

    s5155

    • ARTIST: Walter Howell Deverell (U.K., 1827-1854)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Twelfth night
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1850
    • COMMENTS: Pre-Rapfaelites
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
  • p3110

    p3110

    • ARTIST: Ancora (drawing); P. S. Duvat (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Miss Lee as Fatima in "The maid of Cashmere", aged 13 years
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1836
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3838

    p3838

    • TITLE OF WORK: Vaud - Waadt
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Artist. Atelier H. Guggenheim & Co. Zürich, No. 13776
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Switzerland
    • DANCE FORM: folk
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • s1601

    s1601

    • ARTIST: Yves Saint Laurent (France, 1936-2008)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Cyrano de Bergerac"
    • 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
  • s4441

    s4441

    • ARTIST: F. David
    • TITLE OF WORK: Comeodia Ilustré. L'après-midi d'un faune
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, terracotta
    • DATE: 1912
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: ballet
  • s5426

    s5426

    • ARTIST: Thomas Theodor Heine (Germany, 1867-1948)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Viola & Isis
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, monochrome
    • DATE: 1897
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: cancan, cabaret
  • p1988

    p1988

    • ARTIST: Theyre Lee-Elliott (U.K., 1903-1988)
    • TITLE OF WORK: In the wings
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1947
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p8650

    p8650

    • ARTIST: Georges Barbier (France, 1882-1932)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tamara Karsavina
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1914
    • DIMENSIONS: 28.3 x 17.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p9794

    p9794

    • TITLE OF WORK: A figure of a girl dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, porcelain
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 37 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Royal Dux
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Europe
  • p9063

    p9063

    • ARTIST: André Bauchant (France, 1873-1958)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Two dances in pink (Deux danseuses en rose)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1928
    • DIMENSIONS: 100 x 65 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated 1928
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, duo
  • p8905

    p8905

    • ARTIST: Maleuvre
    • TITLE OF WORK: Jules Perrot in the ballet "La révolte au sérail"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1830
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7974

    p7974

    • ARTIST: Georges Barbier (France, 1882-1932)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vaslav Nijinsky
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, colored au pochoir
    • DATE: 1913
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Poland
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p9637

    p9637

    • ARTIST: Jean Dufy (France, 1888-1964)
    • TITLE OF WORK: In the cabaret (Au cabaret)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache, watercolor and pen and indian ink
    • DATE: 1928
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 42 x 56 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p2880

    p2880

    • TITLE OF WORK: Volendam, Holland
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1895
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Holland
    • DANCE FORM: folk
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p6957

    p6957

    • ARTIST: Jean-Baptiste Martin (France, 1659-1735) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for a village belle
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, colored
    • DATE: 1750
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p5456

    p5456

    • TITLE OF WORK: Les ronds, a figure of the cotillon dance (Les ronds. Figure de cotillon)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1855
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • s5988

    s5988

    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer in light blue dress, musicians, lady lying in bed under canopy. Nur Jahan at ease in the Zenana
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on paper, manuscript illumination,
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India, Mughal
    • KEYWORDS: bed
  • p1519

    p1519

    • ARTIST: Michel No (France, 1939-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Folk festival in Panalda (Fête folklorique à Panalda)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1977
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Panalda
    • DANCE FORM: folk,
  • p1818

    p1818

    • ARTIST: Periklis Vyzantios (Greece, 1893-1972)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Salome's dance" by Oscar Wilde
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, tempera
    • DATE: 1925
    • DIMENSIONS: 31 x 40 cm
    • COMMENTS: First architectural set design in plastic, for the National Theater, Athens 1925.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • KEYWORDS: Salome, religion, theater
  • s0220

    s0220

    • ARTIST: Anton Muttenthaler (Germany, 1820-1870) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Subscription ball for the benefit of the Albert Association in the Gaurds' House of Leipzig on 24 February (Subscriptionsball zum besten des Albert-Vereins in Schützenhause zu Leipzig am 24. Februar)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1869
    • DIMENSIONS: 23 x 34.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Leipzig
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: ball,
  • p6730

    p6730

    • ARTIST: Carlos Llobet Busquets (Spain, 1857-1927)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The sardana - Catalonia (La sardana - Catalu)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1929
    • DIMENSIONS: 13 x 18 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: sardana, traditional, Spanish dance
  • p9728

    p9728

    • ARTIST: Pieter Brueghel the Younger (Flanders, 1564-1638) (circle of)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The village festival of Saint George (La kermesse de la Saint-Georges)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on panel
    • DATE: 1560
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 50 x 68 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
  • p1729

    p1729

    • ARTIST: Hélène Perdriat (France, 1894-1969)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Marchand d'oiseaux" (Bird-seller): The Young Bird-Seller"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache
    • DATE: 1923
    • DIMENSIONS: 43 x 30 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p6118

    p6118

    • ARTIST: Jacek Malczewski (Poland, 1854-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vicious circle (Cercle vicieux) - Detail
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1896
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland
  • p9125

    p9125

    • ARTIST: Josep Maria Sert i Badia (Spain, 1874-1945)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Las Meninas"
    • 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
  • p6297

    p6297

    • TITLE OF WORK: Illustration No. 3. Position at the beginning of the minuet
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1800
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Denmark
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • p5666

    p5666

    • TITLE OF WORK: Slängpolska dance (Slängpolska)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Tapestry
    • DATE: 1650
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sweden
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s4606

    s4606

    • ARTIST: Francesco Ballesio (Italy, 1861-1923)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Harem beauty with tambourine (Bauté du harem au tambourin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 54 x 36 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and located "Roma"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental, traditional, solo
    • KEYWORDS: tambourine
  • s0130

    s0130

    • ARTIST: Marie Laurencin (France, 1883-1956)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Les faents
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor over pencil on paper
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 20 x 28 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: Popular, round, circular, circle
  • s3429

    s3429

    • ARTIST: Richard le Corrone (France, 1909-1977)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Musician, dancers and players (Musicien, danseurs et joueurs)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Ceramic vase, grès, enamelled sandstone
    • DATE: 1960
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 48 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Basque Country
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
    • KEYWORDS: flute, drum
  • s4536

    s4536

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Faun musician and female dancer (Faune musicien et danseuse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, black pencil and gouache on print proof
    • DATE: 1945
    • DIMENSIONS: 25 x 33.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Dated at lower right ANTIBES-24-9-45
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: music, double flute
  • p1009

    p1009

    • ARTIST: Theophilos Hadjimichail (Greece, 1867-1934)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Women of Ayassos dancing at Karini (Aghiassotisses chorevontes eis tin Karinin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1930
    • DIMENSIONS: 74 x 180 cm
    • COMMENTS: Ayassos is a small town in Lesbos Island
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Lesbos, Ayassos
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
  • s3106

    s3106

    • ARTIST: Ludmilla Tchérina (France, 1924-2004)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Movement 6 (Mouvement 6)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1975
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
  • p1871

    p1871

    • TITLE OF WORK: Collection of Sevillanas for piano by José Melendez (Colecci?n de sevillanas para piano por José Melendez)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Cover of a music score
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, flamenco, Spanish dance
  • p6527

    p6527

    • ARTIST: Théodore Rivière (France, 1857-1912)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Loïe Fuller
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, marble, white
    • DATE: 1899
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • s1292

    s1292

    • ARTIST: Tony Johannot (France, 1803-1852) (drawing & engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Salon Nodier, at the Arsenal. At left, against the wall, Charles Nodier
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1831
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p1238

    p1238

    • ARTIST: Sonia Delaunay (France, 1885-1979)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance (Danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache
    • DATE: 1925
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • p5766

    p5766

    • ARTIST: Lanté (drawing); Gatine (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Shawl dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1820
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • p5931

    p5931

    • ARTIST: Jan Brueghel the Younger (Flanders, 1601-1678)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The rose garland festival (Rosenkranzfest)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1615
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, folk
  • p8357

    p8357

    • TITLE OF WORK: Celebrated pas de deux danced on the occasion of Her Majesty's visit to the Opera (Fanny Cerrito and Fanny Elssler
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1843
    • DIMENSIONS: 12.5 x 15.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, U.K., Austria
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, duet, pas de deux
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • p3331

    p3331

    • ARTIST: Yannis Tsarouchis (Greece, 1910-1989)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Zeibekiko dance, blue door and red lilies, 12/02/1981
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache on acrylic preparation
    • DATE: 1981
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.4 x 24.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Dated 12/02/1981
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: popular, Zeibekiko, Greek, rebetiko
    • KEYWORDS: rebetiko
  • p7217

    p7217

    • TITLE OF WORK: "Thamara", an opera in 4 scenes; the women's chorus of scene 2 ("Thamara", opéra en quatre tableaux; le coeur des femmes, au 2ème tableau)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut, music score
    • DATE: 1892
    • DIMENSIONS: 10 x 22 cm
    • COMMENTS: Poem by Louis Gallet, music by Bourgault-Ducoudray
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: stage
    • KEYWORDS: opera
  • p2140

    p2140

    • ARTIST: Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov (Russia, 1881-1964)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Four sketches for the ballet "Port Sa?d"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil, pen and China ink
    • DATE: 1935
    • DIMENSIONS: 14 x 19.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6679

    p6679

    • ARTIST: H. K. Browne (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The shadow dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1861
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.1 x 23.9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
  • s4229

    s4229

    • ARTIST: Alfredo Bortoluzzi (Germany, 1905-1995)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Satyr with Kantharos (Satyr with Kantharos)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, monochrome
    • DATE: 1938
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Germany, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • p4930

    p4930

    • ARTIST: Xavier Sager (France, 1870-1930)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The tango (Le tango)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: tango, ballroom, popular,

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