Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • s4135

    s4135

    • TITLE OF WORK: Women dancing in line, held by the wrists. Relief on a Pithos vase.
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, pithos clay vase
    • DATE: -565
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 11 x 8 cm
    • COMMENTS: The movement suggests a slow walking dance
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: line, traditional
  • p6587

    p6587

    • ARTIST: Edouard Halouze (France, 1895-1958)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Cortège. Scene for the film "Les ballets fantastiques de Loïe Fuller"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1935
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: cinema
  • p1327

    p1327

    • TITLE OF WORK: Two female dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief
    • DATE: -1400
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Egypt, Ancient
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p4648

    p4648

    • ARTIST: Anton Möller (Germany, 1563-1611)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A maiden at the dance (Jungfraw am Tanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1601
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • p8278

    p8278

    • TITLE OF WORK: Ball-room scene from "Don Giovani", at Her Majesty's Theatre
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1867
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 23.6 cm
    • COMMENTS: "Don Giovani", an opera on music by Mozart, directed by Mapleson, upon the occasion of the visit of the Viceroy of Egypt
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: opera
  • p7478

    p7478

    • ARTIST: David Teniers the Younger (Flanders, 1610-1690) (painting); Boel, Coryn (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vielle player (Joueur de vielle)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1670
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 35 x 48.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • p1204

    p1204

    • ARTIST: Hubert Robert (France, 1733-1808)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Porch of a country house (Le portique d'une maison de campagne). Detail
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1783
    • DIMENSIONS: 168 x 59.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Probably a monument in Florence, since this could be the painting exposed in the Salon of 1775 with the mention in the title "near Florence".
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Italy, Florence
  • p7978

    p7978

    • TITLE OF WORK: Five couples dance before Venus and Eros
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1450
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular, round, couple
  • p1477

    p1477

    • ARTIST: Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (France, 1827-1875)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance (La danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, group
    • DATE: 1869
    • DIMENSIONS: 420 x 298 x 145 cm
    • COMMENTS: Copy of the original, by Belmondo
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France, Paris
  • p0299

    p0299

    • TITLE OF WORK: Ball of the Moulin Rouge - 5 (Bal du Moulin Rouge -5)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1890
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, cancan
  • s5923

    s5923

    • TITLE OF WORK: Two women at a religious ritual and ecstatic dance in an outdoor shrine. Mycenean gold signet ring
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, gold ring
    • DATE: -1450
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: Found at a Mycenean chamber tomb
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Mycenean
    • DANCE FORM: duo
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p1924

    p1924

    • ARTIST: Gustave Doré (France, 1832-1883)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Spanish dance couple
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1862
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: Spanish dance
  • s1832

    s1832

    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from the ballet "Ballet de jeunesse"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1660
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, court
  • p2358

    p2358

    • TITLE OF WORK: Month of May from the calender in the "Livre d'heures de la Duchesse de Bourgogne"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1450
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • s4921

    s4921

    • ARTIST: Jean-Baptiste A.-H. Hilaire or Hilair (France, 1753-1822)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance in the harem (Danse au harem)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1810
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 53 x 45 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Turkey
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, court
  • p5167

    p5167

    • TITLE OF WORK: Professional Indian dancer performing for the rajah and his European guests
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1800
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p9884

    p9884

    • ARTIST: Auguste Rodin (France, 1840-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Six studies of Cambodian dancers (Six études de danseuses cambodgiennes)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1906
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Cambodia, France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, stage
  • p9434

    p9434

    • ARTIST: Jean-Louis-Marcel Cosson (France, 1878-1956)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A salon at the Opéra
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on board
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.5 x 40 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: off-stage
  • p8864

    p8864

    • ARTIST: Nicolai Legat (Russia, 1869-1937) and Sergei Legat (Russia, 1875-1905)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sergei Legat
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1895
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • s3287

    s3287

    • ARTIST: Annibale Carracci (Italy, 1560-1609)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The triumph of Dionysus and Ariadne
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, fresco, mural
    • DATE: 1600
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Antiquity
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: tambourine
  • p8235

    p8235

    • ARTIST: Leonard Campbell Taylor (U.K., 1874-1969) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A ballet class around 1830 (Eine Ballettstunde um 1830)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1909
    • DIMENSIONS: 20.9 x 29.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: instruction
  • s3448

    s3448

    • ARTIST: Daniel Prat
    • TITLE OF WORK: Waltz (Valse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1997
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: Waltz, couple
  • s3523

    s3523

    • ARTIST: Maurice Tassart
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Serge Lifar
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1955
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p7694

    p7694

    • TITLE OF WORK: The grape harvest at Fouilly-les-Torboyaux (Les vendanges à Fouilly-les-Torboyaux)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1868
    • DIMENSIONS: 7.1 x 6.9 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for a satirical account of celebrations in a French village
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p0444

    p0444

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer. Shadow theater figure from the Tholu Bomalatta
    • TYPE OF WORK: Leather
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 115 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India, Andhra Pradesh
  • p1102

    p1102

    • ARTIST: Lucien Métivet (France, 1863-1931?)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance and the dancers (La danse et les danseurs)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1897
    • COMMENTS: Eva, first dancer of Eden, learned the serpentine dance. Cover of the magazine "Le rire"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p4034

    p4034

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer at the foyer - The contrabass (Danseuses au foyer - La contrebasse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1884
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 39 x 89.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s4823

    s4823

    • ARTIST: Valentine Gross Hugo (France, 1887-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pastel on Emeri canvas
    • DATE: 1913
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 32 x 22 cm
    • COMMENTS: One of three pastel drawings of Isadora Duncan auctionned together. Compare with other version
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
  • p0961

    p0961

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Serge Lifar
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, lead pencil
    • DATE: 1960
    • DIMENSIONS: 43 x 28 cm
    • COMMENTS: Dated Cannes 15/09/1960
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Cannes, Russia
  • p1418

    p1418

    • TITLE OF WORK: We had a dance. The Rev. Charles seemed the favoured one. The captain looked daggers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1884
    • DIMENSIONS: 21 x 25 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • s1715

    s1715

    • ARTIST: David Walker (U.K., 1900?-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "The nutcracker": Mother Ginger
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1995
    • COMMENTS: For the production by the Boston Ballet
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s0409

    s0409

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Illustrated. Carnival waltz by Johann Strauss (Die Illustrirten. Faschingswalzer von Johann Strauss)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1870
    • DIMENSIONS: 23 x 23.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria
    • DANCE FORM: waltz, ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: musical score
  • s3694

    s3694

    • TITLE OF WORK: Figurine of a dancing girl
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, terracotta figurine, ceramic statuette
    • DATE: -250
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 27.2 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • p2271

    p2271

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929) (sculpture); J. Combet (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance (La danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color, postage stamp
    • DATE: 1968
    • COMMENTS: Portraying Isadora Duncan and Vaslav Nijinsky
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • s3120

    s3120

    • ARTIST: Daniel Hopfer (Germany, 1470?-1536)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Spring festival around the May Tree (Fête du printemps autour de l'Arbre de mai)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1550
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
    • KEYWORDS: tree, maypole
  • p6429

    p6429

    • TITLE OF WORK: Frieze with dancers (Frise de danseuses)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1830
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Opéra de Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s3122

    s3122

    • TITLE OF WORK: New Year in the Vosges. Girls dancing the Branle around the May tree (Jour de l'an vosgien. Jeunes filles dansant le branle autour du Mai)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
    • KEYWORDS: tree, maypole
  • s4666

    s4666

    • TITLE OF WORK: Tourbillon eau de Cologne, parfum incomparable. Monternier, Montpellier
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color, card
    • DATE: 1925
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Perfume card
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Montpellier
    • DANCE FORM: popular, ballroom, couple
  • p1417

    p1417

    • TITLE OF WORK: Tchenka, or Persian public dancer (Tchenka ou danseuse publique persane)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1838
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Persia, Iran, Orient
    • DANCE FORM: popular, Oriental
  • p3582

    p3582

    • ARTIST: Valery Kosoroukov (Russia, 1937-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from the ballet "Nutcracker"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1989
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s2827

    s2827

    • ARTIST: Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (France, 1796-1875) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of the Nymphs (La danse des Nymphes)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood, from a painting
    • DATE: 1895
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.7 x 18.9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular
    • KEYWORDS: religion, deity,
  • p4819

    p4819

    • ARTIST: Johann Peter Hasenclever (Germany, 1810-1853)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance class (Die Tanzstunde)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1835
    • DIMENSIONS: 30 x 40 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: instruction
  • p3359

    p3359

    • ARTIST: Ronald Wilson (Canada, 1907-1984)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Spanish dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1960
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, flamenco, Spanish dance
  • p1165

    p1165

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dervishes dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1610
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.3 x 5.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Mogol school. From the manuscipt book "Diwan" of Hafiz, written during the first years of the reign of Djahangir.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, India,
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental
    • KEYWORDS: religion, music
  • p3963

    p3963

    • ARTIST: Alexandra Exter (Russia, 1882-1949)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Lapitzky and Bronislava Nijinska in the ballet "Jazz"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil, watercolor and gouache on paper
    • DATE: 1925
    • DIMENSIONS: 47.5 x 37.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, duo
  • p9286

    p9286

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Three dancers in rose (Trois danseuses en rose)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1895
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 98 x 53 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s3854

    s3854

    • ARTIST: Nerida Duprak-Black
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tango
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 2000
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Argentina, Australia
    • DANCE FORM: tango, couple, ballroom
  • p5501

    p5501

    • TITLE OF WORK: Ottokaren-Polka for piano (Ottokaren-Polka für das Pianoforte)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1846
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.5 x 22.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • s4682

    s4682

    • ARTIST: Pieter Codde (Netherlands, 1599-1678)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing party
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on panel
    • DATE: 1630
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Netherlands
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, couple
  • p1054

    p1054

    • ARTIST: William de Leftwich Dodge (U.S.A., 1867-1935)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Eighth Olympiad (Huitième Olympiade)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1890
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece

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