Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • s1822

    s1822

    • ARTIST: Johann Gottfried Schadow (Germany, 1764-1850)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Salvatore Vigano and his wife Maria Medina Vigano
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1790
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, duo
  • s0919

    s0919

    • TITLE OF WORK: After the Dance - a Mustard Bath. Colman's Bath Mustard
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1920
    • DIMENSIONS: 35 x 23 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: advertisement, publicity
  • s3608

    s3608

    • ARTIST: Milein Cosman (Germany, 1921-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Uday Shankar
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1938
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, folk, solo
  • s2529

    s2529

    • ARTIST: Jean-Baptiste Révillon (France, 1819-1869) (sculpture)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer of the Opéra. Plaster plaque - 3 (Danseuse de l'Opéra. Plaquette plâtre)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, monochrome, from a relief
    • DATE: 1904
    • DIMENSIONS: 4.5 x 3.4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p2760

    p2760

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan, daughter of Prometheus
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1919
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p0669

    p0669

    • TITLE OF WORK: Tamara Karsavina (Tamar Karsavina)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1912
    • DIMENSIONS: 17 x 12 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s1734

    s1734

    • ARTIST: Bernard Daydé (France, 1921-1986)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sketches for the ballet "Sylvia"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil
    • DATE: 1979
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1521

    p1521

    • ARTIST: Serge Shart (France, 1927-2011)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The merry sleepwalkers (Les joyeux noctambules)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1977
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p5158

    p5158

    • ARTIST: Katherine "Kay" Ambrose, (U.K., 1914-1971)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers of the Feldman Swing Club performing in London
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1942
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: folk
  • s0446

    s0446

    • ARTIST: H. Lambiotte
    • TITLE OF WORK: A dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on panel
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 41 x 27 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: stage, solo
  • s1366

    s1366

    • ARTIST: Paul Renouard (France, 1845-1924) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Rehearsing for the christmas pantomimes: drilling the troops
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1893
    • DIMENSIONS: 19.8 x 30.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: stage
    • KEYWORDS: weapon, rapier
  • p3122

    p3122

    • TITLE OF WORK: Marie Taglioni in the ballet "La Sylphide"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1830
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s6100

    s6100

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing Marsyas with cymbals. Roman copy of a hellenistic bronze original of ca. 200 BC
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statue, marble
    • DATE: -200
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 205 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Called The Borghese Satyr
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Hellenistic, Rome, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: cymbals
  • p0469

    p0469

    • TITLE OF WORK: Three women with child dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief
    • DATE: -490
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: According to some archaeologists the three women are the Aglaurides, the child is Erichthonios and the flutist is the god Hermes.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Attica, Athens
    • DANCE FORM: line, traditional
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • s2282

    s2282

    • TITLE OF WORK: Phul-Nana perfume
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1896
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 10 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental, solo
    • KEYWORDS: advertisement
  • s0058

    s0058

    • ARTIST: Pierre Carrier-Belleuse (France, 1851-1933)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The ballet lesson
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on board
    • DATE: 1895
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 64.8 x 53.3 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: instruction
  • p6033

    p6033

    • ARTIST: Gustav Klimt (Austria, 1862-1918)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Study for "Dancer" - Stoclet-Fries (Studie für "Tänzerin" - Stoclet-Fries)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil on paper
    • DATE: 1907
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 55.9 x 36 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria
  • p8244

    p8244

    • TITLE OF WORK: A popular Circassian dance (Danse populaire circassienne)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1879
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 22.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • p9524

    p9524

    • ARTIST: Louis Legrand (France, 1863-1951)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers at the barre (Danseuses à la barre)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, charcoal and pastel on tan paper
    • DATE: 1893
    • DIMENSIONS: 50 x 65 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed. A study for the etching in the series "Les petites du ballet"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s3964

    s3964

    • ARTIST: Constantin Starck (Germany, 1866-1939)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette
    • DATE: 1903
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
  • p8587

    p8587

    • ARTIST: Freferick Arthur Bridgman (U.S.A., 1847-1928) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A negro festival in Blidah (Ein Negerfest in Blidah)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving
    • DATE: 1896
    • DIMENSIONS: 31 x 49.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: Blidah is a town in Algeria, which was under French rule at that time.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Algeria, France, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, solo
  • s1497

    s1497

    • ARTIST: Marguerite Mackain-Langlois (France, 1896-1979) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tahitian dancer in "moré" (Danseuse tahitienne en "moré")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1931
    • DIMENSIONS: 10.5 x 6 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "L'heure du ballet" by Paul-Emile Cadilhac
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Tahiti, Polynesia
    • DANCE FORM: Traditional, solo
  • p1726

    p1726

    • ARTIST: Jean Hugo (France, 1894-1984)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Les mariés de la tour Eiffel": The Bridesmaid
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pencil and gouache
    • DATE: 1921
    • DIMENSIONS: 28.5 x 21.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p7546

    p7546

    • TITLE OF WORK: A lady of the second rate dancing the Sama cueca (Una Se?ora de 2o Rango baylando la Samba cueca)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1845
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Peru
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • p8137

    p8137

    • ARTIST: Ira Moskowitz (Poland, 1912-)rnDeath Year :rnCountry : Poland
    • TITLE OF WORK: Study for the leader of the Taos Turtle Dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1946
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: Indians, Native Americans
  • s1862

    s1862

    • ARTIST: Henri Matisse (France, 1869-1954)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Peinture
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1917
    • COMMENTS: Salon de Paris 1917
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s2786

    s2786

    • TITLE OF WORK: The loves of Gombault and Macée. Branle dance of May (Les Amours de Gombault et Macée. Branle de mai)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Tapestry
    • DATE: 1585
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From a series of tapestries
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p0474

    p0474

    • ARTIST: Abdulcelil Levni (Ottoman Empire, ?-1732)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing girl (?engi)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1725
    • COMMENTS: Levni
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p8941

    p8941

    • ARTIST: Boris Israëlevich Anisfeld (Russia, 1878-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Sadko": A Woman
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil, watercolor, blanc de céruse, silver on paper
    • DATE: 1911
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s2090

    s2090

    • ARTIST: Harry Baker
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Waltz without end": Chorus ballet
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, drawing, color
    • DATE: 1960
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Ballet "Waltz without end" on music by Frederic Chopin, staged for the Central School of Art, London
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: New Zealand, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, waltz
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p4252

    p4252

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers at the barre (Danseuses à la barre)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 125 x 107 cm
    • COMMENTS: Lemoisne catalogue number 808
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: exercise
  • p9760

    p9760

    • ARTIST: Jean-Baptiste Pater (France, 1695-1736) (after)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance (La danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1760
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 83 x 106 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: couple
  • s2590

    s2590

    • ARTIST: C. Schwaner (sketch); Lançon (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Night dance of the Ot-Danom (Danse nocturne des Ot-Danoms)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1862
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.9 x 15.9 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Voyages dans l'île de Bornéo" by Dr. C. A. L. M. Schwaner
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Borneo
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: fire, night
  • s4627

    s4627

    • ARTIST: René-Paul Marquet (France, 1875-1939)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Gypsy dancer (La danseuse gitane)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, gilt bronze, patiné, onyx base
    • DATE: 1905
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 47 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Epreuve d'une édition ancienne, vers 1900-1910. Signed. Base in onyx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Gypsy
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular
  • p9833

    p9833

    • ARTIST: Henry Thomas Alken (U.K., 1785-1851) (drawing and engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Masquerade. Tom and Bob. keeping it up in real character
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1821
    • DIMENSIONS: 10 x 18.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • s0371

    s0371

    • ARTIST: Antoni Clavé (Spain, 1913-2005)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Suzanna and the Barber": Sir Valiant
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache, India ink, watercolor and pencil on paper
    • DATE: 1956
    • DIMENSIONS: 36.2 x 25.4 cm
    • COMMENTS: From the collection of Ruth Page. The ballet "Suzanna and the Barber" on music by Rossini arranged by Isaac Van Grove, choreography by Ruth Page and decors and costumes by Antoni Clavé, was first prod
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, Spanish dance?
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p7600

    p7600

    • TITLE OF WORK: Miss Sylvia Grey
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1889
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Australia, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, music-hall, pantomime
  • s5492

    s5492

    • ARTIST: Bernard Daydé (France, 1921-1986)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Don Juan, Milorad Miskovitch, Senor de Manara
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1959
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p8202

    p8202

    • ARTIST: Alexandre Moitte (France, 1750-1828) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Characters from the opera "Alcindor" by Dezède: Marie-Louise Hiligsberg, Louise-Françoise Langlois, Anne Zacharie
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1787
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: opera
  • s4908

    s4908

    • ARTIST: Elli Solomonidi-Balanou (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: From the performance in honor of Roland Petit, at the Megaron Mousikis of Athens
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 2006
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3802

    p3802

    • TITLE OF WORK: Ball of the ardent (Le bal des ardents)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, illumination on velin
    • DATE: 1385
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: During the reign of Charles VI (1368-1422), in January 1393, during the "bal des sauvages" (later to be called "bal des ardents") several noblemen disguised as savages were burnt alive while dancing w
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p5779

    p5779

    • ARTIST: S. Durand
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Castle of steel", at Covent Garden
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1870
    • DIMENSIONS: 19.9 x 22.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7497

    p7497

    • ARTIST: Sergei Soudeikin (Russia, 1882-1946)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Untitled
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor and pencil on green paper
    • DATE: 1919
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.9 x 15.9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p0770

    p0770

    • ARTIST: Hanabusa Itcho (Japan, 1652-1724)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Bugaku dances by 34 persons
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on a screen
    • DATE: 1730
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Japan, Edo
    • KEYWORDS: Edo
  • p5378

    p5378

    • ARTIST: Juan Gris (Spain, 1887-1927)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Les tentations de la bergère": A Peasant Woman
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1924
    • COMMENTS: "Les tentations de la bergère", ballet in one act; music by Monteclair (1666-1737) recinstituted by H. Casadesus; sets and costumes by Juan Gris; choreography by Nijinska. Created in Monte-Carlo on 03
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p3252

    p3252

    • ARTIST: Monique Lancelot (France, 1923-1982)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Composition after cabriole beaten and thrown by turning (Composition d'après cabriole battu et jeté en tournant)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1952
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s4590

    s4590

    • ARTIST: Jules Pierre van Biesbroeck (Belgium, 1873-1965)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The beautiful Ouled Nail (La belle Ouled Naïl)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on panel
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 48 x 33.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Algeria
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental, traditional
  • p7305

    p7305

    • ARTIST: Edward McKnight Kauffer (U.S.A., 1890-1954)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Checkmate": Black Queen
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1938
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s4205

    s4205

    • ARTIST: Ferdinand Freiherr von ?ezní?ek (Austria, 1868-1909)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Festival in the Kindl tavern of Munich (Redoute in Muenchner Kindl-Keller)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1906
    • DIMENSIONS: 38 x 27 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Munich
    • DANCE FORM: redoute, popular, couple, ballroom
  • p8987

    p8987

    • ARTIST: Ph. Montoréano (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Pictures from Constantinople: Dancing dervishes in a cloister at Pera (Bilder aus Konstantinopel: Tanzende Derwische in einem Kloster zu Pera)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1878
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.6 x 34.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey, Constantinople, Istanbul
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental, traditional, sema, whirling
    • KEYWORDS: religion

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