Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p2127

    p2127

    • ARTIST: Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov (Russia, 1881-1964)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vaslav Nijinsky
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and China ink
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 27 x 21 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Poland, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s5758

    s5758

    • TITLE OF WORK: Part of a candelabrum. Dancing satyr, holding a cup (Élément de candélabre : satyre dansant, tenant une coupe)rnPremière moitié du Ive siècle avant J.-C.
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, bronze
    • DATE: -325
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: Found in Vulci or Falterona. Probably made in Vulci
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Etruria, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: cup
  • p8890

    p8890

    • TITLE OF WORK: Calotta Grisi as Gianina in the ballet "Zingaro"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1830
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p0400

    p0400

    • ARTIST: Callimachos (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing maenad holding sword and dismembered animal. Copy of an earlier work, possibly by Callimachos
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, marble
    • DATE: -405
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: From an original by Callimachus
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Rome
  • p9586

    p9586

    • ARTIST: Georges Braque (France, 1882-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Les fâcheux": A Man
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil and watercolor on paper
    • DATE: 1924
    • COMMENTS: "Les fâcheux", ballet in one act by the Ballets Russes, Paris, 1924. Music by G. Auric; story by B. Kochno, from the comedy-ballet of Molière; choreography by B. Nijinska; décors and costumes by Georg
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p8178

    p8178

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Le tricorne": The Corregidor in the Miller's Cape
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1919
    • COMMENTS: Ballet "Le tricorne"; first performed at the Alhambra Theatre, London, on 22/07/1919. Distribution: Léonide Massine (The miller), Tamara Karsavina (The miller's wife), Léon Woizikowsky (The corregidor
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, Spain, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p9582

    p9582

    • ARTIST: Marie Laurencin (France, 1883-1956)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Les biches": A Woman
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1924
    • COMMENTS: "Les biches", ballet in one act with songs. Music by Francis Poulenc, choreography by Bronislava Nijinska; curtain, décors and costumes by Marie Laurencin
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s3145

    s3145

    • ARTIST: Bour
    • TITLE OF WORK: The "Bourée croisée à huit" dance in the Bourdonnais area (Bourée croisée à huit du Bourdonnais)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: Bourée Croisée à Huit, traditional, couple
    • KEYWORDS: musical instrument, bagpipes, vielle
  • p7112

    p7112

    • ARTIST: Johann Rudolf Füssly (Switzerland, 1737-1806)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The awakening of Titania. Detail
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1790
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 40 x 33 cm
    • COMMENTS: Dimensions of the entire work: 169 x 135 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Switzerland
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p8541

    p8541

    • ARTIST: Leopold Schmutzler (Austria, 1864-1941)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Forward ! (En avant !)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1902
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.2 x 42.9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Austria
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • s4333

    s4333

    • ARTIST: Tuser
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tanguillo
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color, postcard
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Andalucia
    • DANCE FORM: tanguillo, traditional, couple, flamenco, Spanish dance
  • s6010

    s6010

    • TITLE OF WORK: Nude maenad holding a tambourine. Attic red-figure karter vase
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, red-figure karter vase
    • DATE: -410
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Attica, Athens
    • KEYWORDS: maenad
  • p3929

    p3929

    • ARTIST: José de Arrue y Valle
    • TITLE OF WORK: Biribilketa
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 72 x 50 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Basque
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, Spanish dance
  • s4775

    s4775

    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancer Kander Bakhsh (La danseuse Kander Bkhsh)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1835
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Made at the request of James Fraser.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India, Delhi
    • DANCE FORM: popular, traditional, solo
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p4346

    p4346

    • ARTIST: Valentine Gross Hugo (France, 1887-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers, from "Le sacre du printemps"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1913
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p0912

    p0912

    • ARTIST: Charles-Louis Geoffroy Dechaume (France, 1877-1944)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan [5]
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1909
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p0442

    p0442

    • ARTIST: Käthe Kollwitz (Germany, 1867-1945)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tavern in Hamburg (Hamburger Kneipe)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1901
    • DIMENSIONS: 19 x 25 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Hamburg
  • p1993

    p1993

    • ARTIST: Theyre Lee-Elliott (U.K., 1903-1988)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Composition of four dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1947
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s0374

    s0374

    • ARTIST: Isamu Noguchi (U.S.A., 1904-1988)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "The bells": Menace
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor and pencil on paper
    • DATE: 1946
    • DIMENSIONS: 27.9 x 21.6 cm
    • COMMENTS: From the collection of Ruth Page. The ballet "The bells" was first performed in Chicago on 26/04/1946. Choreography and libretto by Ruth Page based on a poem by Edgar Allan Poe, music by Darius Milhau
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Japan, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p4645

    p4645

    • ARTIST: Johann Zoffany (Germany, 1733-1810)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Proposing the hand at the minuet (Das Händereichen im Menuett)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil
    • DATE: 1750
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p0508

    p0508

    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene of the pastorale in the ballet "Raymond", 2nd act (Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique - "Raymond", 2ème acte - Scène de la pastorale)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1851
    • DIMENSIONS: 18 x 22.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6140

    p6140

    • ARTIST: Louis Touchagues (France, 1893-1974)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for Janine Charrat
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1962
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p5851

    p5851

    • ARTIST: Georges Crouzat (France, 1904-1976)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Soyotte loraine - Lorraine
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, bronze, medal
    • DATE: 1990
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 4.7 cm diameter
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: folk
  • p9298

    p9298

    • ARTIST: Baldomero Galofré y Jiménez (Spain, 1845-1902)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A Spanish entertainment
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on panel
    • DATE: 1895
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 34 x 50 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple, solo
  • p4396

    p4396

    • ARTIST: Alfred-Henri Darjou (France, 1832-1874) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Guenieh - A festival offered to the tourists by Mr Bichara, vice-consul of France. Sabre dance (Guenieh - Fête donnée aux touristes, par M. Bichara, vice-consul français. La danse du sabre)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1869
    • DIMENSIONS: 8 x 14 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Egypt,
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, solo
    • KEYWORDS: theater, weapon
  • p1331

    p1331

    • TITLE OF WORK: Hunting dance (?)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mural
    • DATE: -5500
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 50 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Painting in a Mesolithic rock shelter
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • KEYWORDS: Deccan
  • s1014

    s1014

    • TITLE OF WORK: May-day festivities - a pastoral dance at St. Mary's Cray
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1892
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.2 x 22.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular, stage
  • p9312

    p9312

    • ARTIST: Jean-Baptiste Pater (France, 1695-1736) (attributed to)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A country festival (Une fête champêtre)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on paper laid down on panel
    • DATE: 1780
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 29 x 45 cm
    • COMMENTS: Similar to a work by Watteau
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: couple, court
  • s3806

    s3806

    • ARTIST: Sigurd Leeder (Germany, 1902-1981)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Self-portrait
    • TYPE OF WORK: Lino-cut
    • DATE: 1970
    • COMMENTS: Dated Herisau 1970
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Switzerland, Herisau
    • KEYWORDS: portrait, choreographer, teacher
  • p7347

    p7347

    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the royal ballet "La nuit": Gueux, worn by Lully
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1653
    • COMMENTS: The "Ballet royal de la nuit", divided in 4 parts ("veilles") was danced by His Majesty on 23/02/1653
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p8950

    p8950

    • ARTIST: Alexander Nikolaevich Benois (Russia, 1870-1960)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Petrouchka": Street Dancer 2
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1911
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p6415

    p6415

    • ARTIST: Edmund Dulac (France, 1882-1953)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tamara Karsavina in the ballet "Parade"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and ink on paper
    • DATE: 1919
    • COMMENTS: Drawin in London
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s4804

    s4804

    • ARTIST: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, 1880-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer (Tänzerin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor over pencil on paper
    • DATE: 1911
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.4 x 16.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Executed in 1911-1912. Signed with the initials
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
  • s0395

    s0395

    • ARTIST: C. Steinmann (sketch)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Semik festival on Wednesday before Easter in Moscow (Das Semikfest am Donnerstag vor Pfingsten in Moskau)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1873
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.2 x 34.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, Moscow
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, couple
    • KEYWORDS: musical instrument, balalaika
  • s6001

    s6001

    • TITLE OF WORK: Fragment of a plaque with relief of dancing Nymphs 2
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief
    • DATE: -250
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Hellenistic
  • s2633

    s2633

    • ARTIST: Félix Jean Gauchard (France, 1825-1872) & Clément Castelli (France, 1870-1959)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Patagonian dancers (Danseurs patagons)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1861
    • DIMENSIONS: 23 x 16 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Trois ans de captivité chez les patagons", 1856-1859, by A. Guinnard
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Argentina, Patagonia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, duo
    • KEYWORDS: tambourine, flute
  • p3878

    p3878

    • TITLE OF WORK: Tango tea
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1913
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: tango, ballroom, couple
  • s0192

    s0192

    • ARTIST: Franz Paul Guillery (Germany, 1862-1933) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A children's masked festival in Munich (Ein Kindermaskenfest in München)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1899
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.9 x 48 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Munich
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p3887

    p3887

    • TITLE OF WORK: The tango, comedy by Mr. aand Mrs. Richepain (Le tango, comédie de M. et Mme. Richepain)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1914
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: tango, ballroom, couple
  • p8241

    p8241

    • ARTIST: Ferdinand Leefe (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Fidele people in the Sarn Valley (Fidele Leut' im Sarntal)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1907
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.8 x 23 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple
  • p4920

    p4920

    • TITLE OF WORK: Bohemian soul. Concert tango. Roberto Firpo (Alma de bohemio. Tango de concierto. Roberto Firpo)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, cover of a music score
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Argentina
    • DANCE FORM: tango, ballroom, popular,
  • p0467

    p0467

    • ARTIST: Béni Ferenczy (Hungary, 1890-1967)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer (Tancos)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bois de tilleul
    • DATE: 1916
    • DIMENSIONS: 95 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary
  • p0044

    p0044

    • ARTIST: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (France, 1864-1901)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance at the Moulin Rouge (La danse au Moulin Rouge)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, panel
    • DATE: 1895
    • COMMENTS: Painted for the caravan of La Goulue at the Foire du Trône fair, Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: art nouveau
  • p9652

    p9652

    • TITLE OF WORK: The carnival (Le carnaval)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas laid down on panel
    • DATE: 1810
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 25.5 x 30.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed. Painter of the English school.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s1544

    s1544

    • ARTIST: Marcelin Delechaux (France, 1821-1902) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Theatre of the Opera - Green-green ballet (Théâtre de l'Opéra - Vert-vert, ballet)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1851
    • DIMENSIONS: 31 x 23.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature, cartoon
  • p7813

    p7813

    • TITLE OF WORK: Café cantante
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, flamenco, Spanish dance, solo
  • s3722

    s3722

    • ARTIST: Daniel Rabel (France, 1578-1637)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Ballet de la Douairière de Billebahaut": Entry of the Cachique and his suite ("Ballet de la Douairière de Billebahaut": Entrée du Cachique et de sa suite)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen, wash and gouache
    • DATE: 1626
    • DIMENSIONS: 28.7 x 44 cm
    • COMMENTS: The Indian chief Cachique was played by the professional actor Delfin
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, India
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, court
    • KEYWORDS: animal, elephant, kettle-drum, fife
  • p3153

    p3153

    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of ballerina Marie-Thérèse Perdou de Subligny
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mural
    • DATE: 1690
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p2392

    p2392

    • ARTIST: Adolf Menzel (Germany, 1815-1905)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing couples (Tanzende Paare)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil on paper
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • p5622

    p5622

    • ARTIST: Albert Chazelle (France, 19??-1974) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ball of the Moulin Rouge. La Goulue and Grille d'egout (Bal du Moulin Rouge. La Goulue, Grille d'egout)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall

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