Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • s6044

    s6044

    • ARTIST: The Cleveland Painter (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A: Komos, woman playing pipes, between men, one draped, with staffs and skyphos. B: Komos, youths, one with staff
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, red-figure column krater vase
    • DATE: -475
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Attica, Athens
  • p4988

    p4988

    • ARTIST: José Ch?vez Moeado
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "El sue?o y la presencia"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1951
    • COMMENTS: For the performance at the Palacio de Bellas Artes, in Mexico City, in 1951.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Mexico
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p3429

    p3429

    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from the opera buffa "Osteria di Marechiaro" by Giacomo Insanguine
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1768
    • COMMENTS: Painting by an unknown Neapolitan painter
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • KEYWORDS: opera
  • p2629

    p2629

    • ARTIST: Leon Bakst (Russia, 1866-1924)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "La Péri": La Péri (danced by Natalia Troukhanova)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, hand-colored lithograph
    • DATE: 1911
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p8822

    p8822

    • ARTIST: G. Broling (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sketches from Saint Petersburg. The First of May (St. Petersburger Skizzen. Der 1. May)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1877
    • DIMENSIONS: 32 x 49.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, Saint Petersburg, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p5152

    p5152

    • ARTIST: Frederic Villiers (U.K., 1851-1922) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Soudan advance: Funeral dance at Wady Halfa
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1897
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.5 x 23.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sudan
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s1512

    s1512

    • ARTIST: Wilhelm Heise (Germany, 1892-1965)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Macabre dance (Danse macabre)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1928
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: macabre, death
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • s2818

    s2818

    • ARTIST: Eugène Ronjat (1822-1912) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Children's dance at Marken (Danse d'enfants à Marken)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1880
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.9 x 15.9 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "La Néerlande" by Charles de Coster
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Netherlands, Holland, Marken
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • s2487

    s2487

    • ARTIST: Edouard Zier (France, 1856-1924) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ballet of the Morphine & End of the Century Ballet (Le ballet de la Morphine & Le ballet Fin de Siècle)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1891
    • DIMENSIONS: 30 x 20 cm
    • COMMENTS: "Voyages dans Paris", pièce de MM. E. Blum et R. Toché, représentée au Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, theatrical
  • p6040

    p6040

    • ARTIST: de Lascazas
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of the natural people of New Caledonia (Danse des naturels de la Nouvelle-Calédonie)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 12 x 22.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, New Caledonia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, folk
  • s2706

    s2706

    • ARTIST: Vladimir Kirin (Croatia, 1894-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Croatian national dances, no. 3
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, postcard
    • DATE: 1970
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From a series of postcards, no. 3
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Croatia, Yugoslavia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, folk
  • p3513

    p3513

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers and musicians from a mural in the Monastery I of the Ajanta caves
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mural
    • DATE: 500
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Photograph taken from a copy by G. C. Haloi. The scene illustrates one of the former lives of Buddha, the Mahajanaka jataka.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, India
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • p1074

    p1074

    • ARTIST: Demêtre Chiparus (Romania, 1888-1950)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Anaesthesia
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, bronze patiné and ivory; marble socle
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 41 cm height x 67 cm length
    • COMMENTS: Inspired by Isadora Duncan
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.S.A., Romania
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p3042

    p3042

    • ARTIST: Giulio Aristide Sartorio (Italy, 1860-1932)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1911
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p8861

    p8861

    • ARTIST: Konstantin Alekseyevich Korovin (Russia, 1861-1939)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Don Quixote"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1865
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Choreography by Alexander Gorsky
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, Spain
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p9726

    p9726

    • ARTIST: Cyprien Boulet (France, 1877-1927)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A Spanish dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1925
    • DIMENSIONS: 190 x 115 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated "1925" at lower right
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, flamenco, Spanish dance, solo, Spanish dance
  • p8237

    p8237

    • ARTIST: Mar Todt (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance in a Dutch inn (Tanz in einer niederländischen Schenke)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1884
    • DIMENSIONS: 18.6 x 31.4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Holland, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple
  • p2446

    p2446

    • ARTIST: August Macke (Germany, 1887-1914)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Russian Ballet II. Vaslav Nijinsky and Tamara Karsavina (Russisches Ballett II. Nijinsky und Karsawina)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1912
    • DIMENSIONS: 45 x 45 cm
    • COMMENTS: From a performance of the Ballets Russes. The work was lost during the 2nd World War.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s4385

    s4385

    • ARTIST: Albert Guillaume (France 1873-1942)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Lona Barrison. Folies-Bergère
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1909
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 131 x 100 cm
    • COMMENTS: The Sisters Barrison were the first "girls" to appear on a French scene. They sang, danced, undressed and performed acrobatic tricks
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, cabaret, solo
    • KEYWORDS: horse
  • p7837

    p7837

    • ARTIST: Daniel Rabel (France, 1578-1637)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Ballet of the forests of Saint-Germain". Entry of the Great Khan ("Ballet des fées des forests de Saint-Germain". Entrée du Grand Khan)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1625
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court, ballet
  • p8386

    p8386

    • TITLE OF WORK: Figures of La Polka
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1844
    • DIMENSIONS: 9 x 24 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustrating a description of five figures of La Polka
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, polka, couple
  • s3552

    s3552

    • ARTIST: Candido Portinari (Brazil, 1903-1962)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer - blue sweater (Bailarino - Blusa azul)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache, pen and ink and pencil on paper
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 25.4 x 17.2 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed with initials "C.P." at lower right
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Brazil
    • DANCE FORM: folk, solo, popular
  • p8517

    p8517

    • TITLE OF WORK: Hungarian, Rumanian, Serbian and Czech men dancing together
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1742
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
  • s3259

    s3259

    • ARTIST: Suzanne Massicotte (attributed)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The wedding ball (Le bal des noces)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1920
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Canada
    • DANCE FORM: couple, traditional
  • p9088

    p9088

    • ARTIST: Eugène Pavy (France, 1850-1905)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A Tunisian dancing girl
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on panel
    • DATE: 1885
    • DIMENSIONS: 36 x 18.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated "Tunis 1885"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, France, Tunisia,
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental, stage, solo
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p7372

    p7372

    • ARTIST: Paul Philippoteaux (France, 1845-1923) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The rifle dance before sharing the buffalo (La danse du fusil avant le partage du buffle)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1895
    • DIMENSIONS: 22 x 31.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: Workers digging in an archeological excavation site in Dahchour, Egypt
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Egypt, France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: weapon
  • p0680

    p0680

    • ARTIST: Frédéric de Haenen (Netherlads, 1853-1928) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tahitian dance before the court of king Pomaré V
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1882
    • DIMENSIONS: 21 x 29 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Tahiti
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • p5781

    p5781

    • TITLE OF WORK: A dancing girl in Cairo
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1884
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.7 x 11.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Egypt, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, Oriental
  • p0884

    p0884

    • ARTIST: Epiktetos Painter (Greece, 500?-400? BC)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Comastes dancer holding vase and double-flute player
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on vase
    • DATE: -515
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 18.7 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Attic plate found in Vulci, Italy
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Italy
  • s0930

    s0930

    • ARTIST: Frank Richards (U.K., 1863-1935) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: ... the little maid came nearer to the bed with her pretty dancing movement…
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1898
    • DIMENSIONS: 19.6 x 23 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the novel "The red axe" by S. R. Crockett
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular, solo
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p1616

    p1616

    • ARTIST: Sonia Delaunay (France, 1885-1979)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tango dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache and watercolor
    • DATE: 1923
    • DIMENSIONS: 38.4 x 25.4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: tango, ballroom, popular,
  • p0385

    p0385

    • ARTIST: Agostino Veneziano (Italy, 1490?-1540?)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Bacchants and fauns (Baccanti e fauni)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1516
    • DIMENSIONS: 17.1 x 52 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Antiquity
  • p5409

    p5409

    • TITLE OF WORK: The cakewalk
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, cakewalk
  • p6921

    p6921

    • ARTIST: Antonio Canova (Italy, 1757-1822)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer with wreath
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1800
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Antiquity
  • p4482

    p4482

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora dancing and playing the flute I (Isadora dansant et jouant la flute I)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1912
    • COMMENTS: Study for the relief La Danse of the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris. After Isadora Duncan.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p6091

    p6091

    • ARTIST: Denis Boissier
    • TITLE OF WORK: L'étreinte bleue (The blue embrace)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencils, color
    • DATE: 1984
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p4669

    p4669

    • ARTIST: David Vinckboons (Netherlands, 1576-1632?) (painting); Adam Bolswert (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing and playing music in the open
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, copper
    • DATE: 1634
    • DIMENSIONS: 42.1 x 68.4 cm
    • COMMENTS: The dance illustrated is probably a courante
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p4036

    p4036

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917) (after)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer at the foyer - The contrabass (Danseuses au foyer - La contrebasse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1889
    • COMMENTS: Compare with the painting by Degas bearing the same title
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s5898

    s5898

    • TITLE OF WORK: Bearded komast with krotala and flute-case. Attic red-figured kylix
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, red-figured kylix vase
    • DATE: -450
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 12.5 x 32 cm diam.
    • COMMENTS: From Vulci, Italy
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Attica, Athens
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: flute-case, krotala
  • p9564

    p9564

    • TITLE OF WORK: From Dr. Schulz's collection of Persian objects. Trunk with lacquered painting (Aus der Dr. Schulz'schen Sammlung persischer Kunstgegenstände. Truhe mit Lackmalerei)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1900
    • DIMENSIONS: 8 x 10 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Persia, Iran, Orient
    • DANCE FORM: stage
  • p4410

    p4410

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan - Hope (Espoir)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1911
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • s3327

    s3327

    • ARTIST: Raoul Larche (France, 1860-1912)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Figural lamp of Loïe Fuller
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze, gilt lamp
    • DATE: 1901
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 45 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Signed "Raoul Larche" and stamped "Siot-Decauville Paris fondeur"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, solo
    • KEYWORDS: light, veils, drapery
  • p2774

    p2774

    • ARTIST: C. Angerer
    • TITLE OF WORK: The sword dance, by the Bedouins (La danse du sabre, par les Bédouines)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1901
    • DIMENSIONS: 21 x 31 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Sahara
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: Bedouins, peasant, arm
  • s2978

    s2978

    • ARTIST: Marcel-Louis Baugniet (Belgium, 1896-1995)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Exctract from "Kaloprosopie"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, wood
    • DATE: 1925
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: modern
  • p4831

    p4831

    • ARTIST: Antonio Segu?
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tango
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1993
    • DIMENSIONS: 20 x 14 cm
    • DANCE FORM: tango, popular, ballroom, couple
  • s2379

    s2379

    • TITLE OF WORK: Graphic motifs 24
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1995
    • KEYWORDS: clip art
  • p7644

    p7644

    • TITLE OF WORK: Countryside around Dixton Manor (Detail)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1730
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Anonymous British painter
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, sword, Morris
    • KEYWORDS: weapon
  • s1224

    s1224

    • TITLE OF WORK: Gueldy, Paris. Perfume La Feuilleraie (Gueldy, Paris. Son parfum La Feuilleraie)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1918
    • DIMENSIONS: 17.5 x 26.9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
    • DANCE FORM: popular, round
    • KEYWORDS: advertisement, perfume, flute of Pan
  • s1963

    s1963

    • ARTIST: Miquel Roig Nadal (Spain, 1923-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "Violette", Béjart, Jeanine Morin
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache
    • DATE: 1998
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Exhibited at the IXème Biennale dels pintors i escultors de la dansa. Barcelona, 03/02/1999.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p2280

    p2280

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of the Camacans (Danse des Camacans)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 11 x 13 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: South America

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