Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • s2685

    s2685

    • ARTIST: Nisa (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Giuseppe Piccioli, la Tarantola, ballet in one act by Aurel M. Miloss (Giuseppe Piccioli, la Tarantola, balletto in un atto di Aurel M. Miloss)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1942
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: popular, traditional, tarantella, solo
  • p6773

    p6773

    • TITLE OF WORK: During the symbolic ballet of Mr G. Charpentier (Pendant le ballet symbolique de M. G. Charpentier)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1898
    • DIMENSIONS: 13 x 22 cm
    • COMMENTS: Music by Gustave Charpentier, who directed the orchestra. Mlle Blanche Mante and fifteen other dancers of the Paris Opera danced for the centenary of Michelet in the Hôtel de Ville
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s1306

    s1306

    • ARTIST: A. Jiwer (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Anatol Wilzaf
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1925
    • DIMENSIONS: 14 x 10 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Why not a British ballet?" by Anton Dolin
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6158

    p6158

    • ARTIST: Leo Ziemssen Moll
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Rudolf Laban
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze plaque
    • DATE: 1931
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 7.5 x 10.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p4789

    p4789

    • TITLE OF WORK: The flowing can
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1791
    • DIMENSIONS: 28.5 x 25.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s4352

    s4352

    • ARTIST: Vano Xojabekyan (Armenia, 1825-1922)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance of the glass or Shushambari
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1905
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Armenia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, solo
    • KEYWORDS: jar, glass
  • s3061

    s3061

    • ARTIST: Martinet (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: May ball given at Versailles palace during Carnival of 1763 (Bal de May donné à Versailles pendant le Carnaval de 1763)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1763
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Versailles
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: tree
  • p8301

    p8301

    • ARTIST: Teresa Rondelli (drawing); Vassalli (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Fanny Cerrito
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1845
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • s2535

    s2535

    • ARTIST: Freferick Arthur Bridgman (U.S.A., 1847-1928)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Negro festival at Bridah
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1886
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 120 x 163 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Algeria
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, solo, Oriental
  • p7382

    p7382

    • ARTIST: Friedrich August von Kaulbach (Germany, 1850-1920)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1902
    • DIMENSIONS: 98 x 47 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed at lower left "F. a v Kaulbach / Nov. 1902"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • s1103

    s1103

    • TITLE OF WORK: Sergeants' monthly quadrille party
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1888
    • DIMENSIONS: 12.5 x 25.1 cm
    • COMMENTS: With the Ninth (Queen's Royal) Lancers at York
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., York
    • DANCE FORM: quadrille, ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: military officers
  • p3384

    p3384

    • ARTIST: Lila De Nobili (Italy, 1916-2002)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "The sleeping beauty": Bluebeard and Cinderella
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1968
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p4404

    p4404

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan - Souffrance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1911
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p4454

    p4454

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan - Irritation
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1911
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p9300

    p9300

    • ARTIST: Eugenio Oliva y Rodrigo (Spain, 1852-1925)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A Spanish dancer in a courtyard
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on panel
    • DATE: 1885
    • DIMENSIONS: 20.5 x 32.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated "Madrid 1885"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, solo, Spanish dance
  • s4336

    s4336

    • ARTIST: Tuser
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Bolero by Ravel, with Pilar Lopez and Roberto Ximenez (Bolero (Ravel). Pilar Lopez y Roberto Ximenez)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color, postcard
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Andalucia
    • DANCE FORM: Bolero, traditional, couple, flamenco, Spanish dance
  • p2715

    p2715

    • ARTIST: Louis Denis-Valvérane (France, 1870-1943)
    • TITLE OF WORK: In Arles (En Arles)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1911
    • COMMENTS: Presented at the Salon de Paris in 1911.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: folk,
  • p0686

    p0686

    • ARTIST: Ch. Lenoir
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing girl of Pompey (Danseuse de Pompei)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print from a painting
    • DATE: 1913
    • COMMENTS: Exhibited at the Salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts 1913
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Pompei, Italy, France
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: nude, flute
  • s0803

    s0803

    • ARTIST: Robert Thomas Landells (U.K., 1833-1877) (sketch); W. Thomas (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Evacuation of the Crimea- Interior of a cafe at Kadikoi
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1856
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.5 x 35
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Turkey, Kadikoi, Crimea, U.K., Russia
    • DANCE FORM: popular, duo, male
    • KEYWORDS: military
  • p5553

    p5553

    • TITLE OF WORK: A ball given by Martha Washington
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1770
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p6479

    p6479

    • ARTIST: Ferdinand Bac (France, 1859-1952)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Loïe Fuller at the Folies-Bergère (La Loïe Fuller aux Folies-Bergère)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1892
    • DIMENSIONS: 79.5 x 59.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Fuller appeared for the first time under her own name at Folies-Bergère on 05/11/1892
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, solo
    • KEYWORDS: light, veils, drapery
  • p5769

    p5769

    • ARTIST: Paul Gavarni or Guillaume Sulpice Chevalier (France, 1804-1866)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Opera Ball - Let's go merrily (Le bal de l'Opéra - Allons-y gaiement)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature, cartoon, disguise, mask
  • p8837

    p8837

    • TITLE OF WORK: Children's quadrille (Kinderquadrille)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1882
    • DIMENSIONS: 14.5 x 18 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: couple, ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p6430

    p6430

    • ARTIST: Alexander Nikolaevich Benois (Russia, 1870-1960)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Giselle", act 2 - 2nd version
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1914
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Opéra de Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • s6107

    s6107

    • TITLE OF WORK: Pan and the nymphs
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, marble
    • DATE: 50
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Found at Stobi
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Serbia
    • KEYWORDS: Pan flute, nymphs
  • p2921

    p2921

    • TITLE OF WORK: Children dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1915
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 8.8 x 13.9 cm
    • COMMENTS: Amag 0436
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p3191

    p3191

    • ARTIST: Alexander Nikolaevich Benois (Russia, 1870-1960)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Giselle", act 2 - 1st version
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1926
    • DIMENSIONS: 50 x 65 cm
    • COMMENTS: Annotated "Giselle II Acte Version Rubinstein"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p2552

    p2552

    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Antoine Bournonville
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1820
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Denmark, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait, choreographer
  • s0868

    s0868

    • TITLE OF WORK: An afternoon dance on board a man-of-war - "This is to the ship what you are to the dance", "Don't be silly"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1882
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.5 x 9.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: ship. marine, officer, sea, bell
  • p8265

    p8265

    • ARTIST: Mathias Schmid (Austria, 1835-1923) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A Sunday dance at Zillerthal (Ein Sonntagstanz im Zillerthal)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1866
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.3 x 35 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple
  • p3230

    p3230

    • TITLE OF WORK: White dance mask representing a death spirit, Afo people
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, wood painted white and black
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 30 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Nigeria
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p6486

    p6486

    • TITLE OF WORK: Loïe Fuller
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1893
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • s4584

    s4584

    • ARTIST: Oscar Spielmann (Czechoslovakia, 1901-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Arab dance (Danse arabe)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1940
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 86 x 65 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed at lower left "Oscar Spielmann"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Algeria
    • DANCE FORM: solo, Oriental
  • p6632

    p6632

    • ARTIST: Jean-Michel Atlan (France, 1913-1960)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Samba zapoteca (Samba zapothèque)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1957
    • DIMENSIONS: 116 x 73 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated at lower left
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Brazil, France
  • s3151

    s3151

    • TITLE OF WORK: Les Dansaïrés du ballet de la Fête-Dieu à Aix-en-Provence en costume du 18e siècle
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1800
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Aix-en-Provence
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s4424

    s4424

    • ARTIST: Jules Grandjouan (France, 1875-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pastel on colored paper
    • DATE: 1915
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Grandjouan executed a great number of pastels of Isadora Duncan between 1905 and the end of the 1920s. The are untitled and undated.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern, solo
  • p0536

    p0536

    • ARTIST: André Derain (France, 1880-1954)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The gavotte (La gavotte)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1906
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular, gavotte
  • p4360

    p4360

    • ARTIST: Valentine Gross Hugo (France, 1887-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer, from "Le sacre du printemps"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1913
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s5048

    s5048

    • ARTIST: Christine Miller
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture
    • DATE: 2000
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DANCE FORM: solo, modern, classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • p0951

    p0951

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Five dancers practicing (Cinq danseuses à l'exercice)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, ink
    • DATE: 1925
    • DIMENSIONS: 35 x 29 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Monaco, Monte Carlo
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1455

    p1455

    • TITLE OF WORK: Tchenky, or Persian public dancer (Tchenky, ou danseur public persan)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1838
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Persia, Iran, Orient
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental, popular
  • s2628

    s2628

    • ARTIST: Gustave Doré (France, 1832-1883) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A Andalusian bolera and her daughter (Une bolera andalouse et sa mère)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1866
    • DIMENSIONS: 17 x 11 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Voyage en Espagne" by Ch. Davillier, 1862
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Andalusia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, bolero, Spanish dance
  • p8411

    p8411

    • ARTIST: Josef Anton Engelhart (Austria, 1864-1941) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A ball in the washday drying yard (Ball auf dem Waschhängeplatz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1894
    • DIMENSIONS: 22 x 32 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular, ballroom, couple
  • p5449

    p5449

    • ARTIST: Rouben Ter-Arutunian (Georgia, 1920-1992)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for Gwen Verdon in "Redhead"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1959
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s1472

    s1472

    • TITLE OF WORK: Tanagra dancer with kalathiskos
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture
    • DATE: -450
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • p9930

    p9930

    • ARTIST: André Dunoyer de Segonzac (France, 1884-1974)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • s0626

    s0626

    • ARTIST: G. Roux (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ball of the German Society at the Louvre Hotel of Paris on 26 March for the benefit of the German hospital to be founded
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1859
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.3 x 12.4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p7345

    p7345

    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the royal ballet "La nuit": La Nuit
    • 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: royalty, costume
  • p8754

    p8754

    • TITLE OF WORK: Young man dancing among revellers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on vase
    • DATE: -400
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
  • p8963

    p8963

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Paï-Pi-Bri at the Acclimatation Garden (Les Paï-Pi-Bri au Jardin d'Acclimatation)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1893
    • DIMENSIONS: 26 x 37 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ivory Coast, France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: weapon

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