Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • s3488

    s3488

    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Yekaterina Sankovskaia
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, Moscow
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p0871

    p0871

    • ARTIST: Robert Henri (U.S.A., 1865-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan, from memory
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen
    • DATE: 1916
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Drawn in New York
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p2722

    p2722

    • ARTIST: Mikhail Vrubel (Russia, 1856-1910)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Madame Zabela in Swan Queen costume
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1900
    • DIMENSIONS: 142.5 x 93.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes of Serge Diaghilev
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6524

    p6524

    • ARTIST: François-Rupert Carabin (France, 1862-1932)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Loïe Fuller
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, ceramic
    • DATE: 1898
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, solo
    • KEYWORDS: veils, drapery
  • s0973

    s0973

    • ARTIST: Heinrich Leinweber (Germany, 1836-1908) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The first waltz (Der erste Walzer)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1877
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.8 x 31.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: waltz, ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: children, violin, music
  • p5326

    p5326

    • ARTIST: Robert Wilhelm Ekman (Finland, 1808-1873
    • TITLE OF WORK: Bond dance (Bonddans)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1865
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 77 x 101 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Finland
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p1767

    p1767

    • ARTIST: Sultan Muhammad (Iran, 14??-15??)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The angel of mercy took the cup of rejoices
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1527
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 28.9 x 17.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Persia, Iran
  • s2407

    s2407

    • TITLE OF WORK: Graphic motifs 52
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1995
    • KEYWORDS: clip art
  • p7906

    p7906

    • ARTIST: Louis-René Boquet (France, 1717-1814)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Marie-Madeleine Guimard in the title role of "Théonis ou le Toucher"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1770
    • COMMENTS: "Théonis ou le toucher", pastorale héroique par P.-M. Berton et Jean-Claude Trial; Fontenaibleau 1770
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p8213

    p8213

    • ARTIST: Christian Bérard (France, 1902-1949)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Symphonie fantastique", scene 2
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1936
    • COMMENTS: First performed by the Ballet Russe of de Basil, at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden on 24/07/1936
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p6860

    p6860

    • ARTIST: Léon Comerre (France, 1850-1916) (painting); Riou (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancer (La danseuse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1884
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.7 x 8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Nice-Exposition, Section des Beaux-Arts
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s6032

    s6032

    • TITLE OF WORK: Fragmentary diadem with centaurs, dancers and boxers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, gold
    • DATE: -717
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: In 3 pieces, thin hammered gold, possibly made in Euboia
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Euboia
  • p6676

    p6676

    • ARTIST: Sir Edward John Poynter (U.K., 1836-1919) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Ionian dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1895
    • DIMENSIONS: 11 x 16 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, U.K., Greece, Ionia
    • DANCE FORM: stage, solo
    • KEYWORDS: music, double flute
  • p5645

    p5645

    • TITLE OF WORK: Entry of the Vice-regent Joao de Castro into Goa
    • TYPE OF WORK: Tapestry
    • DATE: 1550
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Portugal, Belgium, Goa
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: miltary
  • s5081

    s5081

    • ARTIST: Alejandra Díaz Goberna (Argentina)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tango passion
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 2007
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Argentina
    • DANCE FORM: tango, ballroom, couple
  • p9506

    p9506

    • ARTIST: Jan Miense Molenaer (Netherlands, 1610-1668)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Peasant feast (Fête paysane)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on panel
    • DATE: 1655
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 44.5 x 57 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Holland, Belgium, Flanders
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • p1221

    p1221

    • ARTIST: André Derain (France, 1880-1954)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance (La danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1906
    • DIMENSIONS: 185 x 228 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p6642

    p6642

    • ARTIST: Jules Chéret (France, 1836-1932)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "The two pigeons", a ballet in two acts by Henry Régnier & Louis Mérante. Music by André Messager("Les deux pigeons", ballet en deux actes par Henry Régnier & Louis Mérante. Musique de André Messager)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1886
    • COMMENTS: Opéra de Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p8391

    p8391

    • ARTIST: William Etty (U.K., 1787-1849) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from "Comus" - from a picture by Etty, in the Royal Academy exhibition
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1844
    • DIMENSIONS: 12 x 23.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: Painted for one of the frescoes to the Chinese summer house, Backingham Palace Gardens
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, U.K.
  • s0453

    s0453

    • ARTIST: Dante Gabriel Rossetti (U.K., 1828-1882)
    • TITLE OF WORK: La Castagnetta, or The dancing girl, or The daughter of Herodias
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1863
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 40.4 x 37.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: The model was probably Agnes Manetti, called Fatty Aggie, who often posed for Rossetti.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: castanets
  • s5150

    s5150

    • ARTIST: Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (U.K., 1833-1898)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Mill (detail)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1871
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Pre-Rapfaelites
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
  • p2019

    p2019

    • ARTIST: Theyre Lee-Elliott (U.K., 1903-1988)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Margot Fonteyn in "The haunted ballroom"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1947
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p8584

    p8584

    • ARTIST: Federico Andreotti (Italy, 1847-1930) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tarantella
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving
    • DATE: 1899
    • DIMENSIONS: 31 x 43.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • s2459

    s2459

    • TITLE OF WORK: Eight Köçek dancers performing on a raft on water
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1750
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Köçek are professional boy dancers
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p1095

    p1095

    • TITLE OF WORK: Women dancing a funeral dance in cross-hold
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mural
    • DATE: -425
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 53 x 108 cm
    • COMMENTS: Tomb painting from Ruvo
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Italy
  • p1414

    p1414

    • ARTIST: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, 1880-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Masks' dance (Maskentanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1928
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 82 x 73 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: mask, disguise
  • p8939

    p8939

    • ARTIST: Boris Israëlevich Anisfeld (Russia, 1878-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Sadko": Le Ruisseau
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil, watercolor, blanc de céruse and silver on paper and carton
    • DATE: 1911
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s2353

    s2353

    • TITLE OF WORK: Folk dancing in Russia
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1450
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From the "Radziwill or Koenigsberg Chronicle"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: drum
  • p9445

    p9445

    • ARTIST: Paul Delvaux (Belgium, 1897-1994)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1969
    • DIMENSIONS: 30.5 x 23.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and numbered
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular, stage
  • p7870

    p7870

    • ARTIST: Gösta Adrian-Nilsson, called GAN (Sweden, 1884-1965)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Design for the ballet "La mer glaciale" by Gösta Nystroem for the Ballets Suédois
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, drawing, watercolor and pencils
    • DATE: 1923
    • DIMENSIONS: 35.3 x 24.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Ishavsbaletten, Paris, Nov. 1923
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sweden
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s5425

    s5425

    • ARTIST: Thomas Theodor Heine (Germany, 1867-1948)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Symphony in black, The Barrisons (Sinfonie in Schwartz. Die Barrisons)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1897
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: cancan, cabaret
  • p4351

    p4351

    • ARTIST: Monique Lancelot (France, 1923-1982)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Musical drama (Dramma per musica)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s4203

    s4203

    • ARTIST: Ferdinand Freiherr von ?ezní?ek (Austria, 1868-1909)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Bliss (Seligkeit)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1906
    • DIMENSIONS: 38 x 27 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple, ballroom
  • p8693

    p8693

    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from the new ballet of "Rosida", at Her Majesty's Theatre
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1845
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 15.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: Cerito danced the Sicilienne with St. Léon
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s2790

    s2790

    • ARTIST: Angèle-Blanche Denvil (France, 1874-1934)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance contest at Quipmer (Concours de danse à Quimper)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1910
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Britanny, Quimper
    • DANCE FORM: gavotte, traditional
  • p2267

    p2267

    • ARTIST: Ferdinand Roybet (France, 1840-1920) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The sarabande dance (La sarabande)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1895
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: sarabande, court
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p4202

    p4202

    • ARTIST: Daniel Vierge (Spain, 1851-1904) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: February (Février)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1904
    • DIMENSIONS: 29.5 x 21.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • s2889

    s2889

    • ARTIST: Frédéric Lix (France, 1830-1897) (drawing); Dick (sketch)
    • TITLE OF WORK: In the Baniasa barracks - Entertainments of the Russian soldiers - The Trepaka national dance (Au camp de Baniasa - Divertissements des soldats russes - La Trépaka, danse nationale)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1877
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.2 x 30.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, Trepak, solo
    • KEYWORDS: military, army
  • s4184

    s4184

    • ARTIST: Sandro Botticelli (Italy, 1445-1510)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Young women dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1500
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Part of a drawing for the Purgatorio of Dante's "Divina comoedia" canto XXXI
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: popular, round
  • p0361

    p0361

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ballet rehearsal (Répétition de ballet)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel and gouache on monotype
    • DATE: 1877
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Ballet master Jules Perrot, wearing his usual red shirt.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7192

    p7192

    • ARTIST: Paul Baudry (France, 1828-1886) (painting); Jules Lavée (drawing); A. Gusman (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Orpheus and the maenads (Orphée et les ménades)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1875
    • DIMENSIONS: 18.5 x 21 cm
    • COMMENTS: Le Nouvel Opéra de Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s5843

    s5843

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing Maenad. Relief (oscillum), marble
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief (oscillum), marble
    • DATE: 25
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 42 x 2 cm
    • COMMENTS: Medaillonartige Reliefs (oscilla; vgl. Inv.-Nr. I 43) dienten zur Ausschmückung römischer Privathäuser und Villen sowie ihrer Gartenanlagen. Hier hält die in Ekstase tanzende Mänade in der Rechten ein
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Rome
    • KEYWORDS: maenad, phallus
  • s0079

    s0079

    • ARTIST: Charles Vernier (France, 1813-1892) (drawing); Lemaître (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of the Eskimo children (Danse d'enfants esquimaux)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.6 x 14 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Canada, North Pole
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • s1035

    s1035

    • ARTIST: captain Guglielmo Guastalla (sketch)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Italians in Africa. Arab women dancing in honour of their husbands killed in the war
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1896
    • DIMENSIONS: 6.5 x 11.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: Arab women at Monkullo engaged in a kind of religious dance in honour of their husbands killed in battle. This seems to be the Arab widow's manner of swearing fidelity to her dead spouse and also of e
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Abyssinia, Erythrea, Adigrat
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • s2305

    s2305

    • ARTIST: Anthony Nellé (U.S.A., 1894-1977)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Self portrait
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1933
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland, U.S.A.
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature, cartoon, off-stage
  • p5730

    p5730

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Monfreda dance. No. 7
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, steel engraving
    • DATE: 1853
    • DIMENSIONS: 14.5 x 11.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Switzerland
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s1935

    s1935

    • ARTIST: Miquel Roig Nadal (Spain, 1923-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Romeo y Julieta", Margot Fonteyn, Royal Ballet, London
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache
    • DATE: 1985
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6348

    p6348

    • TITLE OF WORK: The female dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1970
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • DANCE FORM: Bharata Natyam, traditional
  • s2870

    s2870

    • ARTIST: Leslie Hurry (U.K., 1909-1978)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Le lac des cygnes", by Petipa and Ivanov
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1943
    • COMMENTS: Presented by the Sadler's Wells Ballet at the New Theatre, London 1943
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • KEYWORDS: costume design
  • p7263

    p7263

    • ARTIST: B. Baltzer
    • TITLE OF WORK: Lola Montez displays her dancing capacities
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1845
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Lola Montez was lover of King Ludwig I of Bavaria
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Ireland
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature

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