Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p7596

    p7596

    • TITLE OF WORK: The hat, a figure of the cotillon dance (Le chapeau. Figure de cotillon)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1855
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, cotillon
  • s5831

    s5831

    • TITLE OF WORK: Grecian dancing. Two girls in archaic dresses. Wishing card, blue nackground
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: duo
  • s0763

    s0763

    • ARTIST: John Reinhard Weguelin (U.K., 1849-1927) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The garden of Adonis
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1889
    • DIMENSIONS: 8.9 x 15.1 cm
    • COMMENTS: From the painting, exhibited at the "New Gallery", London
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: flute, seaside, beach
  • s0993

    s0993

    • ARTIST: William Theobald Maud (U.K., 1865-1903) (sketch)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The advance in the Soudan: A national dance at Kenneh
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1897
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.7 x 16.4 cm
    • COMMENTS: On the way to the front, our special artist, W. T. Maud, writes: "We happened to pass through Kenneh during a fête. The market square was filled with booths in which very stout Egyptian and Abyssinian
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Abyssinia, Ethiopia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: tambourine, shawm
  • p3192

    p3192

    • ARTIST: Alexander Nikolaevich Benois (Russia, 1870-1960)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Le moulin enchanté", act 1
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1949
    • DIMENSIONS: 36 x 55 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p9850

    p9850

    • ARTIST: Pieter Brueghel III (Flanders, 1589-1640?) (atelier of)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The townspeople's ball (Le bal des bourgeois)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1630
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 107 x 151 cm
    • COMMENTS: One of a set of two paintings
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Belgium, Holland
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular
  • p8558

    p8558

    • TITLE OF WORK: View of the hall of the Opera the day of the gala performance given in honnor of H.M. the Emperor of Russia
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood, engraving
    • DATE: 1867
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.3 x 48.1 cm
    • COMMENTS: Aspect of the space of the Opera the day of the gala performance given in honor of His Majesty the Emperor of Russia
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • s2518

    s2518

    • TITLE OF WORK: Coon songs and dances 1
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, monochrome, from a photograph
    • DATE: 1904
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.5 x 10.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, cake-walk
  • p0966

    p0966

    • ARTIST: Claude Lorrain (France, 1600-1682)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Scenery with dancing satyr and figures (Paysage avec satyre dansant et figures)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1641
    • DIMENSIONS: 99.5 x 133 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • KEYWORDS: religion, divinity
  • p6230

    p6230

    • ARTIST: Alfons Mucha (Chechoslovakia, 1860-1939)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance (La danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1898
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Czech Republic, France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p2126

    p2126

    • ARTIST: Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov (Russia, 1881-1964)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Léonide Massine
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and China ink
    • DATE: 1920
    • DIMENSIONS: 20.5 x 13 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s0024

    s0024

    • ARTIST: Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (France, 1758-1823) (after)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer playing cymbals (Danseuse jouant des cymbales)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1886
    • DIMENSIONS: 19.8 x 10 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: music, cymbals,
  • p2854

    p2854

    • ARTIST: Elli Solomonidi-Balanou (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from the ballet "Paquita"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, black marker on paper
    • DATE: 1985
    • COMMENTS: Music by L. Minkus, Kirov Ballet of Leningrad. Athens, Herod Atticus Theater, 31/08/1985.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, Spanish dance
  • s2680

    s2680

    • ARTIST: A. Valle
    • TITLE OF WORK: La Tarantella, Neapolitan dance (La Tarantella, Ballo napoletano)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, postcard
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Napoli, Naples
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple, tarantella
    • KEYWORDS: tambourine, castanets
  • p0213

    p0213

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Spanish dancers (Les danseurs espagnols)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1843
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 11.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, Spanish dance
  • s5042

    s5042

    • TITLE OF WORK: Scala. The Legs-in-the-air dance in the review "On edge" by de Gorsse & Nanteuil (Scala. La danse des jambes en l'air dans "A fleur de peau" révue de MM. de Gorsse & Nanteuil)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, poster, lithograph
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 76.5 x 112.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, cabaret, cancan
  • p2353

    p2353

    • ARTIST: Henri Matisse (France, 1869-1954)
    • TITLE OF WORK: La Serpentine
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze
    • DATE: 1909
    • DIMENSIONS: 56 x 28.8 x 19.1 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, serpentine
  • s3190

    s3190

    • ARTIST: Stanley Roseman (U.S.A., 1945-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Patrick Dupond in the ballet "Giselle"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil
    • DATE: 1993
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, solo
  • p7426

    p7426

    • ARTIST: André Dunoyer de Segonzac (France, 1884-1974)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan - Danse statique
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1910
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • s3294

    s3294

    • ARTIST: Jacques Carrey (France, 1649-1726) (attributed)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Turkish dancers and musicians in a harem (Danseuses et musiciens turcs dans un harem)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and ink
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 30.2 x 45.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Turkey,
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, duo
    • KEYWORDS: musical instrument
  • s0607

    s0607

    • ARTIST: Pavle "Paja" Jovanovi? (Serbia, 1859-1957)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sword dancer (Scwerttänzerin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1897
    • DIMENSIONS: 22 x 31.4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Serbia, Albania, Macedonia
    • DANCE FORM: solo, stage, popular, Oriental
    • KEYWORDS: weapon, sword
  • p7802

    p7802

    • TITLE OF WORK: Invârtita, Maramures
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1952
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.7 x 8.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Romania
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • p1783

    p1783

    • ARTIST: Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (France, 1757-1810) (drawing); Mixelle (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Greek ladies of Smyrna (Dames grecques de Smyrne)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1801
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s2606

    s2606

    • ARTIST: L. Crépon (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Coske?s dance asking for their Christmas bonus (Danse de coske?s quêtant leurs étrennes)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1869
    • DIMENSIONS: 8 x 12 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Le Japon" by Aimé Humbert, 1863-1864
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Japan
    • DANCE FORM: popular, duo
    • KEYWORDS: sticks
  • p2616

    p2616

    • ARTIST: Alfred Dehodencq (France, 1822-1882)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of the blacks in Tangiers (Danse des noirs à Tanger)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1874
    • DIMENSIONS: 152 x 202 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, France, Morocco
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s4370

    s4370

    • TITLE OF WORK: Solo male ballet dancer in a Spanish rose
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1997
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Belarus
    • DANCE FORM: solo, classical ballet
  • p5324

    p5324

    • ARTIST: Iivari Honkola (Finland, 1898-1970)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Bridal waltz (Brudvalsen)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on paper
    • DATE: 1964
    • DIMENSIONS: 34 x 47.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Finland
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s2352

    s2352

    • ARTIST: Elli Solomonidi-Balanou (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from "Soul" by Joakin Cortez
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sketch, black ink
    • DATE: 2000
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Athens, Spain
    • DANCE FORM: flamenco, Spanish dance
  • p8350

    p8350

    • TITLE OF WORK: Winterhalter's vendemmia, or vintage of Naples
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1843
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.5 x 22.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple
  • p5863

    p5863

    • TITLE OF WORK: Oriental dance scene
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Czechoslovakia,
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental
  • s3473

    s3473

    • ARTIST: Gabriella Bollobàs (Hungary, 19??-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Rudolf Nureyev
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bust, bronze
    • DATE: 1993
    • COMMENTS: Donated by the artist
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p4754

    p4754

    • ARTIST: Frédéric de Haenen (Netherlads, 1853-1928) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Farandole dance in front of the Palace of Justice in Aix-en-Provence (La farandole devant le Palais-de-Justice en Aix-en-Provence")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1890
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.1 x 22 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, farandole
  • p8041

    p8041

    • ARTIST: Valentine Gross Hugo (France, 1887-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vaslav Nijisnky in the ballet "Le spectre de la rose"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on panel
    • DATE: 1913
    • DIMENSIONS: 41 x 33 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7861

    p7861

    • 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: Drawing, ink
    • DATE: 1923
    • DIMENSIONS: 35.3 x 23.9 cm
    • COMMENTS: Ishavsbaletten, Paris, Nov. 1923
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sweden
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s2051

    s2051

    • ARTIST: Elli Solomonidi-Balanou (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Illustration for the poem "Public ball" by Timos Moraitinis
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and black ink
    • DATE: 1999
    • DIMENSIONS: 21 x 29.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
  • p8776

    p8776

    • TITLE OF WORK: Twelfth-night entertainment at the Hanwell Lunatic Asylum
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1848
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.2 x 23.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: therapy
  • s0563

    s0563

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing in the New Year - A welcome to 1873
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1873
    • DIMENSIONS: 29.8 x 50.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular, round
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • s1335

    s1335

    • ARTIST: Heinrich Kruspe (Germany, 1821-1893) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Erfurt Death Dance - 1 (Der Erfurter Todtentanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1872
    • DIMENSIONS: 32.8 x 24 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Erfurt
    • DANCE FORM: macabre, death
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p6065

    p6065

    • ARTIST: Amalia Lindegren (Sweden, 1814-1891) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sunday evening in Bondgaorden (Söndagsafton I bondgaorden)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1840
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sweden, Dalarna
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: child,
  • p3296

    p3296

    • ARTIST: Yannis Tsarouchis (Greece, 1910-1989)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Yellowish figure with vermillon tiling
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache on background painted black
    • DATE: 1978
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.7 x 22.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p6185

    p6185

    • ARTIST: Jean Target (France, 1910-1997)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Olga Stens in the "Eternal riddle" (Olga Stens dans l'"Enigme éternelle")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1980
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • s1109

    s1109

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Study for the ballet "Mercure"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel gras et mine de plomb
    • DATE: 1924
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3045

    p3045

    • ARTIST: Rudolf Wilke (Germany, 1873-1908) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Society ladies of the Tiergarten district take now dance lessons at Miss Duncan's school
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1904
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: humor, Isadora Duncan, caricature
  • s0963

    s0963

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Naval Volunteer's ball held at Glasgow
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1890
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.5 x 23 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Scotland, Glasgow
    • DANCE FORM: ballrom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: navy, military
  • p8208

    p8208

    • ARTIST: Natalia Goncharova (Russia, 1881-1962)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Les noces"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1923
    • COMMENTS: First performance at the Théâtre Gaîté-Lyrique, Paris, on 13/06/1923
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p5761

    p5761

    • ARTIST: Ryckebusch (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A masquerade at Dunkerque (Une marcarade à Dunkerque)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1872
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 23 x 32 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p8810

    p8810

    • ARTIST: Marc Louis Benjamin Vautier (Switzerland, 1829-1898) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance pause (Tanzpause)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1878
    • DIMENSIONS: 34.9 x 51.4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • s4635

    s4635

    • ARTIST: Michael Parkes (U.S.A., 1944-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ballet mistress
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, stone
    • DATE: 1994
    • COMMENTS: Edition of 160
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, solo
  • s5924

    s5924

    • TITLE OF WORK: Two women and a man 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: couple
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p3455

    p3455

    • ARTIST: Abraham Walkowitz (U.S.A., 1878-1965)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Study of Isadora Duncan dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1913
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan

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