Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • s2307

    s2307

    • ARTIST: Anthony Nellé (U.S.A., 1894-1977)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Set design for "Napoleon": Scene 2, full stage
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1933
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland, U.S.A.
  • p9017

    p9017

    • ARTIST: Hermann Lüders (Germany, 1836-1908) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of the chorus boys before the high altar of the Sevilla cathedral (Tanz der Chorknaben vor dem Hochaltar der Kathedrale zu Sevilla)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1883
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.6 x 23.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: From the journey of the German Crown Prince to Spain
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: religion, child
  • p2409

    p2409

    • ARTIST: Romain de Tirtoff "Erté" (Russia, 1892-1990)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the Lido cabaret in Paris: A Gypsy Dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1942
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p5180

    p5180

    • TITLE OF WORK: Rose of the Rio-Grande. An American love song. Fox-trot
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: score
  • s3539

    s3539

    • ARTIST: Alexander Archipenko (Ukraine, 1887-1964)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing couple
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, colored crayon, wash and collage on paper laid down on card
    • DATE: 1912
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: duo, couple
  • s3459

    s3459

    • ARTIST: Wladyslaw Saldyka (Poland, 1915-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Harvest feast in the fields (Fête de la moisson dans les champs)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on canvas
    • DATE: 1977
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 45 x 79 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s0429

    s0429

    • ARTIST: Friedrich August von Kaulbach (Germany, 1850-1920) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancer Rosario Guerrero (Die Tänzerin Guerrero)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1905
    • DIMENSIONS: 30.4 x 21.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Spain
    • DANCE FORM: stage, Spanish dancer
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • s0820

    s0820

    • TITLE OF WORK: Das Lied von der Glocke. Schiller's "Song of the bell", from an engraving published by Herr Payne, of Leipsic (Leipzig)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1859
    • DIMENSIONS: 13 x 15
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular, processional, mixed
    • KEYWORDS: sickle
  • s4566

    s4566

    • TITLE OF WORK: Two goddesses dancing and playing musical instruments
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, marble
    • DATE: 1250
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 73.7 cm height
    • COMMENTS: A pair of marble bracket figures from the Western Rajasthan, Mount Aby Region
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India, Rajastan
    • DANCE FORM: solo, traditional, court
    • KEYWORDS: religion, deity, divinity
  • s5914

    s5914

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing Lady. Marble statuette
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, marble
    • DATE: -50
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 85.4 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Found in Alexandria (?), Egypt
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Hellenistic
  • s3393

    s3393

    • TITLE OF WORK: Female dancer pouring water
    • TYPE OF WORK: Mosaic
    • DATE: 375
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 100 x 147 cm
    • COMMENTS: From the bath of a mansion found at Sidi Ghrib
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Tunisia, Greece, Roman
    • DANCE FORM: popular, solo
    • KEYWORDS: water
  • s0681

    s0681

    • TITLE OF WORK: Among the brigands in Smyrna. A merry brigand
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1884
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.2 x 8.4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey, Izmir, Smyrna
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, solo
    • KEYWORDS: tambourine
  • p5848

    p5848

    • ARTIST: Georges Crouzat (France, 1904-1976)
    • TITLE OF WORK: La Bigue-biguette - Landes de Gascogne
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, bronze, medal
    • DATE: 1990
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 4.7 cm diameter
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: folk
  • p6137

    p6137

    • ARTIST: Jean René Bazaine (France, 1904-2001)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Janine Charrat
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1962
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s2078

    s2078

    • ARTIST: Antoine Watteau (France, 1684-1721)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The country dance (La danse champêtre)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1720
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: couple, popular
    • KEYWORDS: tambourine, shawm, bagpipe
  • p5401

    p5401

    • TITLE OF WORK: The young Queen Victoria being amused
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1830
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • s0732

    s0732

    • ARTIST: Arthur Hopkins (U.K., 1848-1930) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A ball on board a battleship
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1894
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.5 x 50.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: marine, military, sea, ship, officer, gun
  • s3187

    s3187

    • ARTIST: Stanley Roseman (U.S.A., 1945-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Elisabeth Platel in the ballet "Alegro brillante"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil
    • DATE: 1996
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, solo
  • s3142

    s3142

    • ARTIST: Paul Gaughin (France, 1848-1903)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of the four girls from Britanny (La danse des quatre Bretonnes)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1886
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Britanny, Bretagne
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
  • p9375

    p9375

    • TITLE OF WORK: Furious polka (Polka Furiosa)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1850
    • DIMENSIONS: 11 x 23 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the musical score, composed by H. Hönncher
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, polka, couple
    • KEYWORDS: score
  • p9430

    p9430

    • ARTIST: Adolf Behrmann (Poland, 1876-1943)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance of Salome
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1895
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 99 x 118.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Switzerland, Israel
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental, traditional, solo
    • KEYWORDS: Salome, religion, Bible
  • p9537

    p9537

    • ARTIST: José Villegas y Cordero (Spain, 1848-1922)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Pastora Imperio
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1906
    • DIMENSIONS: 170 x 108 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, flamenco, Spanish dance, stage
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • s1503

    s1503

    • ARTIST: Willy Pogány (Hungary, 1882-1955) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the filn "The devil dancer": The Devil Dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1927
    • DIMENSIONS: 14 x 9.4 cm
    • COMMENTS: Danced by Gilda Gray
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: China, Tibet, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: stage
    • KEYWORDS: cinema, costume
  • p2433

    p2433

    • ARTIST: Max Beckmann (Germany, 1884-1950)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ballet rehearsal - Amazons (Ballettprobe - Amazonen)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil and colored chalks on canvas
    • DATE: 1950
    • DIMENSIONS: 208.5 x 124.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Right part of a triptych
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s5534

    s5534

    • TITLE OF WORK: Chinese ball (Bal chinois)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, hand-colored engraving
    • DATE: 1780
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 29 x 42 cm
    • COMMENTS: Publisher: Basset, rue Saint-Jacques, Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: China
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p1694

    p1694

    • ARTIST: Niels Skovgaard (Denmark, 1858-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance in Megara
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1889
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Megara
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s4233

    s4233

    • ARTIST: Karl Walser (Switzerland, 1877-1943)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Oni-mai, the Devil's dance (Oni-mai, der Teufelstanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, etching, color
    • DATE: 1922
    • DIMENSIONS: 12 x 7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Japan, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: solo, Oni-mai
  • s1631

    s1631

    • ARTIST: Yves Saint Laurent (France, 1936-2008)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the Ballets de Roland Petit: Ouverture
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1962
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s1621

    s1621

    • ARTIST: Yves Saint Laurent (France, 1936-2008)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Notre Dame de Paris"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1965
    • COMMENTS: "Notre Dame de Paris", ballet. Ballets Roland Petit, Opéra de Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p5813

    p5813

    • ARTIST: Godefroy Durand (France, 1832-1920) (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Oh! There! There! This all is silly!" review in 3 acts and 21 scenes ("Oh! Là! Là! Qu' c'est bête tout ça!" revue en 3 actes et 21 tableaux)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1861
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.5 x 23 cm
    • COMMENTS: By Théodore Cogniard et Clairville; decoration by Georges
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p7687

    p7687

    • ARTIST: Mariano Andréü
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for "Don Juan"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • s3369

    s3369

    • TITLE OF WORK: Male dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1550
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From a Persian dictionary of the 16th century
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Persia, Iran
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, solo
    • KEYWORDS: castanets
  • s0510

    s0510

    • ARTIST: François Gall (Hungary, 1912-1987)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Two dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1946
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 41 x 33 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: off-stage
  • s2339

    s2339

    • TITLE OF WORK: Rubbing and copy of the "Drum Dance" on a Han stone relief
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 700
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Stone relief of the Han period from Qufu, Shandong
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: China
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p8419

    p8419

    • ARTIST: Wilhelm Gause (Austria, 1853-1916) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Archduke Franz Ferdinand, successor to the throne, in the ballroom (Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand, Thronfolger, im Ballsaal)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1901
    • DIMENSIONS: 19.5 x 15.3 cm
    • COMMENTS: Das Aschnasfest der wiener Künstler (Festival of the Viennese Artists)
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria, Germany, Vienna
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • s4743

    s4743

    • ARTIST: Bel Delecourt
    • TITLE OF WORK: Group of four dancers (Groupe de quatre danceurs): Quimper, Lorient, Hennebont, Vannes
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, ceramic
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Britanny, Bretagne
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, folk
  • p9642

    p9642

    • ARTIST: Jean Metzinger (France, 1883-1956)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Itinerant feast (Fête foraine)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1922
    • DIMENSIONS: 73 x 100 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: Popular, round, circular, circle
  • p3406

    p3406

    • ARTIST: Joseph Scherer (Germany, 1814-1891
    • TITLE OF WORK: Athenian dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil and white chalk on paper
    • DATE: 1849
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Athens
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p7470

    p7470

    • ARTIST: Georges Rouault (France, 1871-1958)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Le fils prodigue", scene 2
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1929
    • COMMENTS: "Le fils prodigue", ballet in three scenes by the Ballets Russes. First performance by the Diaghilev Ballet at the Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt, Paris, on 20/05/1929. Music by Serge Prokofiev, choreography
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p4793

    p4793

    • ARTIST: Joseph Gabriel Frey (Germany, 1791-1884)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The wedding dance (Der Hochzeitstanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1835
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p5846

    p5846

    • ARTIST: Georges Crouzat (France, 1904-1976)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Jabadao - Britanny (Jabadao - Bretagne)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, bronze, medal
    • DATE: 1990
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 4.7 cm diameter
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: folk
  • p5186

    p5186

    • ARTIST: Félix Comte (France, 1919-1991)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of the Bresse
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1963
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Bresse
    • DANCE FORM: folk,
  • s5141

    s5141

    • ARTIST: Antoni Brodowski (Poland, 1784-1832)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Project of the decoration in one of the rooms of the National Theater in Warsaw
    • TYPE OF WORK: watercolor
    • DATE: 1826
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland, Warsaw
    • KEYWORDS: ancient
  • p4725

    p4725

    • ARTIST: Demêtre Chiparus (Romania, 1888-1950)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Cabaret girl
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze, cold-painted
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 56 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Romania
  • s4275

    s4275

    • ARTIST: Zig
    • TITLE OF WORK: Casino de Paris. Josephine Baker. Paris shakes (Casino de Paris. Josephine Baker. Paris qui remue (Paris shakes))
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1930
    • DIMENSIONS: 218 x 80 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: cancan, quadrille, music-hall, charleston
  • s5318

    s5318

    • ARTIST: John Webber (U.K., 1751-1793)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Hawaiian dancers (Hawaiianischer Tänzer)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor, Fedr, laviert
    • DATE: 1782
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 37.8 x 22.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hawai
    • KEYWORDS: travel
  • p7622

    p7622

    • ARTIST: Paul Colin (France, 1892-1985)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Couple, black man and white woman
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1927
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p5574

    p5574

    • TITLE OF WORK: Celebrating the cutting of the hay
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1855
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p8441

    p8441

    • ARTIST: Pietro Torrini (Italy, 1852-1920) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: In the inn (In der Schenke)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1892
    • DIMENSIONS: 30.6 x 50.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple
  • s5823

    s5823

    • TITLE OF WORK: Scarab with dancing satyr. Carnelian
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, engraved, carnelian
    • DATE: -500
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 0.7 x 1.2 x 1 cm
    • COMMENTS: Scarab gem engraved with a dancing satyr with equine feet. Advancing vigorously to the left, the satyr's right leg is lifted and he raises his right head behind his head, while looking back over his l
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Etruria, Italy

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