Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • s5273

    s5273

    • ARTIST: Hugo Höppener or Fidus (Germany, 1868-1948)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Waltz, from the Dances folder (Walzer, aus der Mappe Tänze)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1894
    • DIMENSIONS: 35,9 x 24, 1 cm
    • COMMENTS: Art nouveau
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: waltz,
  • p0115

    p0115

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance in the ruins of Karnak (Danse dans les ruines de Karnak)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1890
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Egypt, Karnak,
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental
  • p4825

    p4825

    • TITLE OF WORK: Spring (Le printemps, Der Frühling)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 20 x 30 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration from a textbook
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • KEYWORDS: child
  • p2611

    p2611

    • ARTIST: Valentine Gross Hugo (France, 1887-1968)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vaslav Nijinsky in "L'après-midi d'un faune"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil on paper
    • DATE: 1912
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1067

    p1067

    • ARTIST: Félicien Rops (Belgium, 1833-1898)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Death at the ball (La mort au bal)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1893
    • DIMENSIONS: 151 x 85 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: macabre, death
    • KEYWORDS: death, macabre
  • p6408

    p6408

    • ARTIST: John Singer Sargent (U.S.A., 1856-1925)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Portrait of Tamara Karsavina
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1914
    • COMMENTS: Drawn in London
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, U.K., France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: portrait
  • p0281

    p0281

    • ARTIST: Richard Barabandy or Riccardo Barabandi (Italy, 1842-1902)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Valentin and La Goulue - 1
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1890
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p3994

    p3994

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Study of a dancer, arms raised (Etude de danseuse les bras levés)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, charcoal
    • DATE: 1874
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p9279

    p9279

    • ARTIST: Henri Matisse (France, 1869-1954)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer lying on a couch, hands behind the neck (Danseuse étendue au divan, mains à la nuque)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1927
    • DIMENSIONS: 27.9 x 46 cm
    • COMMENTS: From the series "Dix danseuses", published by Galerie d'Art Contemporain, Paris, 1927
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: off-stage
  • p9491

    p9491

    • ARTIST: Robert Huskisson (U.K., 1820-1861) (after)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Come unto these yellow sands
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 35.5 x 40.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s1995

    s1995

    • ARTIST: Jean-Baptiste-François Bosio (Monaco, 1764-1827)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The gavotte (La gavotte)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, black pencil and ink
    • DATE: 1800
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 20.5 x 31 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: Gavotte, couple, ballroom
  • s4341

    s4341

    • ARTIST: Felice Giani (Italy, 1758-1823)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of the Bacchants (Danza delle Baccanti)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mural
    • DATE: 1785
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Rome
  • s2032

    s2032

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance during April. Ardeche and Drome 1-5 April 2000 (Danse au fil d'avril. Ardèche & Drôme 1-5 avril 2000)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, poster
    • DATE: 2000
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • p6680

    p6680

    • ARTIST: José Simont (Spain, 1875-1968) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "The village soothsayer" by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, by the company of Opéra-Comique ("Le devin du village" de Jean-Jacques Rousseau, par la troupe de l'Opéra-Comique)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1912
    • DIMENSIONS: 30.3 x 47.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Un spectacle champêtre dans le parc d'Ermenonville
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Ermenonville
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: theater
  • s0020

    s0020

    • ARTIST: Fernando Guibert (Argentina, 1957)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing the tango (Bailando el tango)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and China ink
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Argentina
    • DANCE FORM: tango, ballroom, popular, couple
  • s6103

    s6103

    • TITLE OF WORK: Satyr dancing in front of a smoking altar, herm of Priam in the background
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, marble
    • DATE: -100
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • COMMENTS: From the Villa Albani, Rome
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Hellenistic, Rome, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: satyr
  • p5306

    p5306

    • ARTIST: August Schneider (Norway, 1842-1873)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sunday evening in Setesdalen (En söndagskveld i Setesdalen)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1867
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Denmark
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s5599

    s5599

    • TITLE OF WORK: Terracotta statuette of a veiled dancer. 3rd century B.C. Greek, Pontic
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, terracotta
    • DATE: -250
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 20.0 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Hellenistic period. This statuette is of similar scale and related type to the bronze veiled and masked dancer in the adjoining Hellenistic Treasury (1972.118.95), but it lacks the exquisite detail of
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Pontos
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • s4457

    s4457

    • TITLE OF WORK: The death dance in the Saint Mary church of Lübeck (Der Todtentanz in der Marienkirche zu Lübeck)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, feather
    • DATE: 1831
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 45.7 x 37.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: death, macabre
  • s3038

    s3038

    • ARTIST: Parys (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Versailles - The representation in Hercule's salon (Versailles - La représentation dans le Salon d'Hercule)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1896
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.7 x 45.9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris, Versailles
    • DANCE FORM: court, couple
    • KEYWORDS: music
  • s3188

    s3188

    • ARTIST: Stanley Roseman (U.S.A., 1945-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isabelle Guérin and Laurent Hilaire in the ballet "La bayadère"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil
    • DATE: 1995
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, solo
  • s4781

    s4781

    • TITLE OF WORK: Turkish musician dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, color
    • DATE: 1625
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From the "Collection of Ottoman and Persian costumes"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Turkey,
    • DANCE FORM: popular, traditional, solo
    • KEYWORDS: tambourine
  • s6072

    s6072

    • TITLE OF WORK: BD: Komos, woman with krotala and youth, between draped youths
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, black-figure lekythos vase
    • DATE: -525
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Attica, Athens
  • p9337

    p9337

    • TITLE OF WORK: Rustic scene
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1750
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 41 x 32 cm
    • COMMENTS: Painter of the Spanish school of the 18th century. One of a pair of works
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple
  • p7591

    p7591

    • ARTIST: Edvard Lehmann (Denmark, 1815-1892)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Juliette and Sophie Price in the Mirror Dance from the ballet "La ventana"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1856
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Denmark
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s1598

    s1598

    • TITLE OF WORK: Ise ondo, Japanese folk dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1800
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Japan
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s3124

    s3124

    • ARTIST: Pellerin (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of the bride in Lorraine (La danse de la mariée en Lorraine)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Image d'Epinal
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Lorraine
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
    • KEYWORDS: musical instrument, violin, drum
  • s1200

    s1200

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of the Gorea primitives (Danse des naturels de Gorée)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1850
    • DIMENSIONS: 8 x 11.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Senegal, Gorea Island
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p5422

    p5422

    • ARTIST: Niklaus Manuel (Switzerland, 1484-1530)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Macabre dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mural
    • DATE: 1517
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Switzerland
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • s5024

    s5024

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette, bronze gilt on vein marble base
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 55 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Signature unreadable. French school
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: solo, modern
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • s5180

    s5180

    • ARTIST: John William Waterhouse (U.K., 1849-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: After the dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1876
    • DIMENSIONS: 76.2 x 127 cm
    • COMMENTS: In After the Dance, Waterhouse employed Alma-Tadema's compositional strategies to powerful effect.
  • p8561

    p8561

    • ARTIST: Francisco Pradilla Ortiz (Spain, 1848-1921) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Beach amusements (Strandvergnügen)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving
    • DATE: 1899
    • DIMENSIONS: 22 x 31 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular, ballroom, couple
  • s0109

    s0109

    • TITLE OF WORK: Minuet for the Queen, arranged for the piano by E. Rathgeber (Menuet à la Reine, für Piano arrangirt von E. Rathgeber)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1892
    • DIMENSIONS: 7 x 25 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the musical score
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: minuet, court
    • KEYWORDS: musical score
  • p7307

    p7307

    • ARTIST: Anton Brioschi (Austria, 1855-1912)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Sonne und Erde" (Sun and earth)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1780
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Produced at the Opera of Vienna
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Austria, Vienna
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • s1197

    s1197

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Maltese at the Mahonnaise (Le Maltais chez la Mahonnaise)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1850
    • DIMENSIONS: 10 x 12.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Malta
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
    • KEYWORDS: musical instrument, ud, flute
  • p0733

    p0733

    • ARTIST: Angel Cortellini (Spain, 1819-1887)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Bullfighter and girl (Torero y maja)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1847
    • DIMENSIONS: 40 x 37 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, bolero
  • p9005

    p9005

    • TITLE OF WORK: Devil's Dance of the natives at Kandy on the Island of Ceylon. Journey to India by the Prince of Wales
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1876
    • DIMENSIONS: 23.4 x 34.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ceylon, Sri Lanka, India, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, devil
  • p7682

    p7682

    • ARTIST: Natalia Goncharova (Russia, 1881-1962)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for "Bogatyri"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s2000

    s2000

    • ARTIST: Luigi Gargiulo
    • TITLE OF WORK: Two Tarantella dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Marqueterie, wood inlay
    • DATE: 1850
    • COMMENTS: On a round table with a central nedaillon and six lateral ones.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: tarantella, traditional, couple
  • s1169

    s1169

    • TITLE OF WORK: Supper at Kettner's: The only real French atmosphere in London. Arthur Giordano, managing director
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1926
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.4 x 31.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London, France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: advertisement
  • s3482

    s3482

    • TITLE OF WORK: Erratum. Olive tree, Night Belle, Immortal, Myrtle, Tobacco, Laurel (Erratum. Olivier, Belle de Nuit, Immortelle, Myrte, Tabac, Laurier)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, hand-colored
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: stage
  • s1667

    s1667

    • ARTIST: Jean-Louis Forain (France, 1852-1931)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance director at the Opera: Mr. Pluque (Le régisseur de la danse à l'Opéra: M. Pluque)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1888
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 30.8 x 23.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: off-stage, administration
  • s1612

    s1612

    • ARTIST: Yves Saint Laurent (France, 1936-2008)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Maldoror"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1962
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p1866

    p1866

    • ARTIST: Alex Lenoir (?)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Flamenco dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1890
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, flamenco, Spanish dance
  • s2719

    s2719

    • ARTIST: Vladimir Kirin (Croatia, 1894-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Croatian national dances, no. 18
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, postcard, color
    • DATE: 1970
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: From a series of postcards, no. 18
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Croatia, Yugoslavia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, folk
  • p9860

    p9860

    • ARTIST: Jean-Frederic Schall (France, 1752-1825)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A young dancer before a park with a waterfall (Une jeune danseuse devant un parc avec une cascade)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on panel
    • DATE: 1795
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.5 x 24 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • p3480

    p3480

    • ARTIST: Sébastien Louis Guillaume Norblin de la Gourdaine (France, 1796-1884)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Golden Age (L'âge d'or)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1863
    • DIMENSIONS: 144.8 x 200.7 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated NORBLIN 1863. Exibited at the Salon de Paris of 1863, no. 1401. Artist of the French school.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
    • DANCE FORM: round, circular, circle
  • s0697

    s0697

    • TITLE OF WORK: Military life on board a troopship - An evening dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1879
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 22.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, solo
    • KEYWORDS: marine, military, ship, accordion
  • p6070

    p6070

    • TITLE OF WORK: Halling and upholstered in Røros (Halling og pols paa Röros)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1799
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Norway
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s2205

    s2205

    • ARTIST: Albert Maignan (France, 1845-1908)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The death of Carpeaux (La mort de Carpeaux)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil
    • DATE: 1892
    • DIMENSIONS: 42 x 52 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • KEYWORDS: woman, child

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