Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • s3557

    s3557

    • ARTIST: Enzo Plazzotta (Italy, 1921-1981)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze with brown patina
    • DATE: 1965
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 37.4 x 22.3 x 21 cm
    • COMMENTS: Stamped "Plazzotta 5/9" on the base
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, modern, duo
  • s1060

    s1060

    • TITLE OF WORK: "The Spanish dancers", at the Haymarket Theatre
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1854
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 23.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Senora Perea Nena and Senora Nena in "The star of Andalusia" and the "Flower of the Port"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: stage, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: tambourine, castanets
  • p9170

    p9170

    • ARTIST: Henri Matisse (France, 1869-1954)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Sketches of costumes and accessories for the ballet "Le chant du rossignol"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, ink and pen on paper
    • DATE: 1920
    • COMMENTS: "Le chant du rossignol", ballet in one act by the Ballets Russes. Music from the opera "Le rossignol" by Igor Stravinsky; choreography by L. Massine, scenery and costumes by Henri Matisse.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, China
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • s5926

    s5926

    • ARTIST: KX Group of Painters (Greece)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Black-figure drinking cup (skyphos) with revellers
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, black-figure skyphos vase
    • DATE: -575
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: duo
  • p4135

    p4135

    • ARTIST: Nicolas Lancret (France, 1690-1743)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene with shepherds
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1735
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • s0856

    s0856

    • TITLE OF WORK: Christmas in British Columbia - A half-breed ball
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, color
    • DATE: 1881
    • DIMENSIONS: 9.8 x 22.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Canada, British Columbia
    • DANCE FORM: popular, mixed couple
    • KEYWORDS: drum, violin
  • p3173

    p3173

    • ARTIST: Lyée
    • TITLE OF WORK: Pavlova Stowittz in "La Péri"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze plaque, brown patina
    • DATE: 1912
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 48 x 48 cm
    • COMMENTS: A replica in aluminium is found in the Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s4259

    s4259

    • ARTIST: Georges de Feure (France, 1868-1928) (design)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Folies-Bergère. Jane Derval
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color poster
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 150 x 110 cm
    • COMMENTS: Imprimerie Minot
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, solo
  • s3678

    s3678

    • ARTIST: Christoffel Jacobsz van der Lamen (1610?-1651)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Interior with a lady and a gentleman dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on board
    • DATE: 1645
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 47 x 62.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed "Van der Lamen fecit"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Netherlands, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: court, couple, popular
    • KEYWORDS: luth, viola
  • p8876

    p8876

    • ARTIST: Nikolay Erdman (Russia, 1900-1970)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Le beau Joseph"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1925
    • COMMENTS: Choreography by Kassian Goleizovsky
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p0078

    p0078

    • ARTIST: Konstantin Lomykin (Russia, 1924-1993)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Pre The Dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1965
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s0570

    s0570

    • TITLE OF WORK: With the Russians - Soldiers rejoicing after the fall of Plevna
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1877
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.1 x 30 cm
    • COMMENTS: From the Russo-Turkish War, Bulgarian front
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, Bulgaria, Plevna
    • DANCE FORM: Traditional, solo
    • KEYWORDS: fire, military, tambourine, zurna
  • p4442

    p4442

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan - L'avertissement du destin (The warning of destiny)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1911
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • s4753

    s4753

    • ARTIST: André Derain (France, 1880-1954)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Bathers - or Dancers (Baigneuses - ou Danseuses)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1906
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 50 x 45 cm
    • COMMENTS: Stamped with the stamp of the atelier. Estimated at 300,000 euros
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • s3556

    s3556

    • ARTIST: Enzo Plazzotta (Italy, 1921-1981)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze with brown patina
    • DATE: 1965
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 70.9 x 20.3 x 18.1 cm
    • COMMENTS: Stamped "Plazzotta 2/9" on the base
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: ballet, modern, solo
  • s0700

    s0700

    • TITLE OF WORK: The war in the East - With the Russians. A dance of the Thirty-First Regiment of Foot
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1877
    • DIMENSIONS: 15 x 22.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, duo
    • KEYWORDS: military
  • p7353

    p7353

    • ARTIST: Lejeune (after)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The three graces: Fanny Cerrito, Fanny Elssler, Marie Taglioni
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1846
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p8627

    p8627

    • TITLE OF WORK: Mayahuel entertained by a dancer; underneath, an ascetic person dances under a serpent
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1600
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Mexico
  • p1036

    p1036

    • ARTIST: Henri Matisse (France, 1869-1954)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance (La danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor and gouache
    • DATE: 1910
    • DIMENSIONS: 31 x 46 cm
    • COMMENTS: Alias "de Chtchoukine". Ordered by Sergei Chtchoukine for his residence in Moscow. There are two other versions, one in New York's Museum of Modern Art and one in the Ermitage in Saint Petersburg. Fra
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • p4671

    p4671

    • ARTIST: Christoffel Jacobsz van der Lamen (1610?-1651)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance scene
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on wood
    • DATE: 1640
    • DIMENSIONS: 73 x 105 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Flanders, Holland, Belgium
    • DANCE FORM: court, couple
  • p4422

    p4422

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan - Invocation
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1911
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p7765

    p7765

    • ARTIST: Maum Gabo (Russia, 1890-1977)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Design for the ballet "La chatte"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1927
    • COMMENTS: "La chatte": a ballet for the Ballets Russes, on music by Henri Sauguet, choreography by Balanchine
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • s0735

    s0735

    • ARTIST: Robert Walker Macbeth (U.K., 1848-1910) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: "On pleasure bent": A street scene in Madrid during the carnival
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1896
    • DIMENSIONS: 30.2 x 49.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Madrid
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: disguise, tambourine
  • p7201

    p7201

    • TITLE OF WORK: Miss Mauri and Mr. Delmas
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1894
    • DIMENSIONS: 10 x 12 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for a short play
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • p6633

    p6633

    • ARTIST: William-Adolphe Bouguereau (France, 1825-1905)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Tarantella (Tarentelle)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1873
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular
  • p1328

    p1328

    • ARTIST: Esperon
    • TITLE OF WORK: Harem scene (Scène de harem)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1889
    • DIMENSIONS: 110 x 149 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Egypt,
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental, traditional
  • p6173

    p6173

    • ARTIST: J. Palacios
    • TITLE OF WORK: Before and after (Antes y despues)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1830
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: popular, Spanish dance
  • p7671

    p7671

    • TITLE OF WORK: Giovanna Viocca
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1850
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., Italy
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s4511

    s4511

    • ARTIST: Alexandre Cabanel (France, 1823-1889)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer with a tambourine (Danseuse au tambourin)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, fusain
    • DATE: 1870
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • p1478

    p1478

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Serge Diaghilev and Selisburg
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil
    • DATE: 1917
    • DIMENSIONS: 63.5 x 48 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6612

    p6612

    • ARTIST: Elihu Vedder (U.S.A., 1836-1923) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: La Regina, a Venitian dancing girl
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1872
    • DIMENSIONS: 33.2 x 17.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, U.K., Venice
  • p1690

    p1690

    • ARTIST: Gerda Wegener (Denmark, 1885-1940)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancer, or My friends of Capri (La danseuse, or Mes amies de Capri)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 123 x 80 cm
    • COMMENTS: Painted in Marrakesh, Morocco, where the artist lived between 1927-1932.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: popular, music-hall
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • p2490

    p2490

    • ARTIST: Joseph Bouvier (drawing); Haguental (lithograph)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Fanny Elssler dancing La Cracovienne in the ballet "Gipsy"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1839
    • DIMENSIONS: 30.5 x 23 cm
    • COMMENTS: Paris, Opéra, 1832
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p5500

    p5500

    • TITLE OF WORK: Pas des déesses. Mr. Perrot, Fanny Cerrito, Taglioni, Herr St. Léon, Lucile Grahn
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1846
    • DIMENSIONS: 16 x 22 cm
    • COMMENTS: At the Queen's Theater in London
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., France, Denmark
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p1433

    p1433

    • ARTIST: Edward Goodall (U.K., 1794-1870) (drawing); J. Taylor (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: An inn in Gor
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1826
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Gor
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, flamenco, Spanish dance
  • s5374

    s5374

    • ARTIST: Adriaen van der Werff (Netherlands, 1659-1722)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing nymphs
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1700
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Greece
    • DANCE FORM: duo
  • p9455

    p9455

    • ARTIST: Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov (Russia, 1881-1964)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Le bouffon": Le Vieux Bouffon
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil and watercolor on paper
    • DATE: 1915
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p5227

    p5227

    • ARTIST: Lucien Davis (U.K., 1860-1941) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Washington Post
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1898
    • DIMENSIONS: 31.7 x 49.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
  • p8329

    p8329

    • TITLE OF WORK: Fanny Cerrito in "Ondine", scene 5
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1843
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, London
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7775

    p7775

    • ARTIST: Charles-Louis Müller (France, 1815-1892) (drawing); H. Koch (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: An Oriental dancer (Eine Almeh)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1874
    • DIMENSIONS: 28.1 x 21.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient
    • DANCE FORM: solo
  • p0548

    p0548

    • TITLE OF WORK: Entry of the "popoli abitatori" (the natives) from the ballet "Il dono del re dei Alpi"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1645
    • COMMENTS: Ballet by Filippo d'Aglie for the duchess of Savoia
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
  • s5723

    s5723

    • TITLE OF WORK: Coin from Abdera. Female dancer with basket (kalathiskos) in short tunic (chiton). (Abdera, Münze. Tänzerin mit Korb (kalathos) in kurzem Gewand (chiton)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, silver coin
    • DATE: -397
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 2.3 cm diameter
    • COMMENTS: From Thrace, Greece
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Thrace
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: kalathiskos
  • s3778

    s3778

    • TITLE OF WORK: Russian soldiers in the barracks - The popular dance Trepak (Les soldats russes aux camps - La danse populaire Trepak)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, postcard
    • DATE: 1904
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: trepak, traditional
    • KEYWORDS: military, army
  • p2653

    p2653

    • ARTIST: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Germany, 1880-1938)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Color dance (Farbentanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen and ink
    • DATE: 1932
    • DIMENSIONS: 26 x 16 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
  • p4436

    p4436

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan - Résignation
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1911
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • s1786

    s1786

    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Le lac des cygnes" (Swan lake): act 3
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1895
    • COMMENTS: "Le lac des cygnes" (Swan lake) ballet at the Mariinski Theater, Saint Petersburg, 1895
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, Saint Petersburg
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • p1049

    p1049

    • ARTIST: Augustin de Saint-Aubin (France, 1736-1807) (painting), Duclos, Antoine-Jean (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The costumed ball. To Mr de Villemorien junior (Le bal paré. A Monsieur de Villemorien Fils)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, copper
    • DATE: 1774
    • DIMENSIONS: 12 x 21 cm
    • COMMENTS: The dance represented is probably a "contredanse française à huit"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: court, contredanse
  • p2889

    p2889

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance scene. Cave I, Ajanta, Mahajanaka Jataka (?)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mural
    • DATE: 1770
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Archaeological Department, Hyderabad. Printed in Great Britain at the Oxford University Press.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s1085

    s1085

    • ARTIST: P. G. Mathews (sketch)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Resting after a performance: a sketch signed by the dancer (Maud Allan)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1909
    • DIMENSIONS: 10.5 x 13.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: After every performance Miss Allan, by her doctor's orders, is compelled to take a two hours' rest in her dressing-room at the Palace Theatre, London
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., London
    • DANCE FORM: stage, modern
    • KEYWORDS: off-stage
  • p7219

    p7219

    • TITLE OF WORK: Types and costumes of Java. From left to right: Rebab player, dancer, Kromo player, Kentan player, masked actor, Gong player
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1870
    • DIMENSIONS: 12 x 18.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Illustration for the article "Types et costumes de Java"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Java, Indonesia
    • DANCE FORM: court, stage

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