Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p1799

    p1799

    • ARTIST: K. Fischer
    • TITLE OF WORK: Anna Pavlova as Giselle
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on photograph
    • DATE: 1903
    • DIMENSIONS: 14.5 x 10.7 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p2918

    p2918

    • TITLE OF WORK: The Basque tambourine - Neapolitan dance (Le tambour basque - Danse napolitaine)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 8 x 12 cm
    • COMMENTS: Chocolat Devinck
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s3099

    s3099

    • ARTIST: Ludmilla Tchérina (France, 1924-2004)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Study for "Le cri bleu" (blue cry) (Etude pour "Le cri bleu")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1975
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: modern, duo
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • p8827

    p8827

    • ARTIST: Leo von Elliot (Germany, 1816-1890) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Scottish popular games. Sword dance (Schottische Volksspiele. Schwertertanz)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1877
    • DIMENSIONS: 8.3 x 10.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: World Exhibition in Philadelpia
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K., Scotland, U.S.A., Philadelphia
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, popular, clanmore
    • KEYWORDS: weapon, sword
  • p7370

    p7370

    • ARTIST: B. Grévin (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A voice from backstage: I say, Lalie, shall I bring it to you? (Une voix, dans la coulisse: Voyons, Lalie, faut-i que j'te l'porte?)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1886
    • DIMENSIONS: 21 x 18 cm
    • COMMENTS: Ballerinas were reputed to be easy conquests of rich gentlemen
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: humor, off-stage, caricature
  • p4264

    p4264

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Purple dancers (Danseuses mauves)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1880
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p3937

    p3937

    • TITLE OF WORK: Caricature of Lola Montez fleeing across the English Channel with her new husband
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1848
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Lola Montez had married George Trafford Heald and feared prosecution for bigamy
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, Spanish dance
  • p9646

    p9646

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Arabesque ouverte sur la jambe droite, le bras gauche en avant
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze, dark brown patina
    • DATE: 1883
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 29 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Signed, numbered and stamped with the foundry mark. The original wax model was executed circa 1882-1885.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • p2509

    p2509

    • ARTIST: Marie-Alexandre Adolphe (France, 1812-1883) (after)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Marie Taglioni in the role of "La fille du Danube" (Taglioni dans le rôle de la "Fille du Danube")
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1838
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p7137

    p7137

    • ARTIST: Leopold Löffler (Poland, 1827-1898) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance and ballet (Tanz und Ballet)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1867
    • DIMENSIONS: 20 x 23 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular, ballroom, ballet, traditional
    • KEYWORDS: humor, caricature
  • p6707

    p6707

    • TITLE OF WORK: Final Sarabande (Sarabande finale)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1888
    • DIMENSIONS: 9 x 21 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • s2190

    s2190

    • ARTIST: Anthony Nellé (U.S.A., 1894-1977)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Set design for "La Gioconda" ballet II, Parody, day
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1928
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland, U.S.A.
  • p4808

    p4808

    • ARTIST: François le Villain (France)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The saltarello dance (Il saltarello)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1823
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: popular, saltarello
  • s0176

    s0176

    • ARTIST: Friedrich Fehr (Germany, 1862-1927) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Excelsior
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1892
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.2 x 48 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Munich, München
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p4744

    p4744

    • TITLE OF WORK: Scene from the new ballet of "The wags of Wapping", at Drury Lane Theatre
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1846
    • DIMENSIONS: 18 x 24 cm
    • COMMENTS: With Sophie Fuoco; music by Ambroise Thomas; choreography by Barrez
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s1077

    s1077

    • ARTIST: John Gulich (U.K., 1864-1898) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A Bank Holiday scene: kiss-in-the-ring on Hampstead Heath
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1895
    • DIMENSIONS: 21.9 x 30.2 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular, round
  • p3233

    p3233

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance mask, Bamileke-Bacham
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, wood
    • DATE: 1925
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 82 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Cameroun
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p3623

    p3623

    • ARTIST: J. G. Zuellhaas (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: At the dance...
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1887
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 10 x 8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: military
  • p4929

    p4929

    • ARTIST: Xavier Sager (France, 1870-1930)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Thanks for the tango (Merci pour le tango)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: tango, ballroom, popular,
  • p1068

    p1068

    • ARTIST: Edvard Munch (Norway, 1863-1944)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The ball (Le bal)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on board
    • DATE: 1887
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 29 x 39 cm
    • COMMENTS: Executed between 1885 and 1889
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Norway
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • s5585

    s5585

    • ARTIST: Albert Moore (U.K., 1841-1893)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancing girl resting
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1864
    • DIMENSIONS: 57.1 x 40.6 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, Greece or Rome
  • p0166

    p0166

    • ARTIST: Alfred Albert
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer, friend of Svanilda, dancing to celebrate her wedding with Franz
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, statuette
    • DATE: 1875
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Original title: Danzatrice, amica di Svanilda, che danza per festeggiare le sue nozze con Franz
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
  • s2682

    s2682

    • TITLE OF WORK: Italian couple dancing (tarantella?)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, postcard
    • DATE: 1900
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
    • DANCE FORM: popular, couple, tarantella
    • KEYWORDS: tambourine
  • p0334

    p0334

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer putting on her chausson (Danseuse mettant son chausson)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache
    • DATE: 1868
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s4041

    s4041

    • TITLE OF WORK: Two men dancing (1)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on black figure vase
    • DATE: -200
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
  • p2352

    p2352

    • ARTIST: Jacques Zwobada (France, 1900-1967)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dancer (La danseuse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, bronze
    • DATE: 1953
    • DIMENSIONS: 51.5 x 18 x 12 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • s5570

    s5570

    • TITLE OF WORK: Fragment of a marble relief with dancing maenads
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief, marble
    • DATE: 110
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 17.8 x 43.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: 1st-2nd century AD. Roman adapration of work attributed to Kallimachos. Imperial period Roman
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Rome
    • KEYWORDS: maenad
  • p1319

    p1319

    • ARTIST: Simone Pomardi (Italy, 1760?-1830)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Explanation of the view of Athens
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, colored
    • DATE: 1805
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Athens
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p9937

    p9937

    • ARTIST: Jean Dupas (France, 1882-1964)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Nude young woman dancing (Jeune femme nue dansant)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, black crayon and sanguine on bistre paper
    • DATE: 1920
    • DIMENSIONS: 102 x 65 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed and dated "Rome 1920"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Italy, Rome
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • p2613

    p2613

    • ARTIST: Leo Rauth (Germany, 1884-1913)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vaslav Nijinsky in "L'après-midi d'un faun"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, gouache on painted paper
    • DATE: 1912
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s5036

    s5036

    • TITLE OF WORK: My Gypsy friend. Jean Richard & Louis de Funès (Mon pote le gitan. Jean Richard et Louis de Funès)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, poster
    • DATE: 1980
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: tambourine
  • s5630

    s5630

    • TITLE OF WORK: Terracotta group of two women dancing, one playing a tympanon drum
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, terracotta pottery statuette
    • DATE: -400
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 20 cm
    • COMMENTS: Attic art. Made in Athens. Found in Athens
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece, Athens
    • KEYWORDS: woman musician
  • s2218

    s2218

    • ARTIST: Kostas Thettalos (Greece, 1905-1992)
    • TITLE OF WORK: In the open air (Stin exohi)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil
    • DATE: 1936
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 66 x 85 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
  • p7653

    p7653

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dionysos among dancers and musicians
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, black-figure vase
    • DATE: -250
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
    • KEYWORDS: music, divinity
  • p0510

    p0510

    • ARTIST: de Ribellès (sketch); Henri Valentin (France, 1820-1855) (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dona Petra Camara, first dancer of the Madrid Theatre, dancing the Vito Step in the ballet of the Seville Fair
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1851
    • DIMENSIONS: 25 x 21.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Dona Petra Camara, first dancer of the Madrid Theater, dancing the Vito step in the ballet of the Seville Festival
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: popular, solo, stage, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: guitar
  • p2076

    p2076

    • ARTIST: P. Lavalley
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Hérodiade" -2)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1945
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • p1476

    p1476

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer (?) on wall of cave
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: -2500
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Algeria
  • p1784

    p1784

    • ARTIST: Hugh William Williams (U.K., 1773-1829) (drawing); William Forest (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Crissa on Mount Parnassus
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1829
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p4580

    p4580

    • ARTIST: Anton Stevens
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Echternach Springprozession. Detail
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on wood
    • DATE: 1604
    • DIMENSIONS: 208 x 136 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Luxemburg, Echternach
    • KEYWORDS: religion
  • s3598

    s3598

    • ARTIST: Kàroly Cser (Hungary, 1880-1965)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancers (Tàncolòk)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, ceramic
    • DATE: 1927
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 39 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Hungary
    • DANCE FORM: modern, duo
  • s3483

    s3483

    • ARTIST: John Roddam Spencer Stanhope (U.K., 1829-1908)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Love and the maiden
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mixed media on canvas
    • DATE: 1877
    • DIMENSIONS: 138 x 202.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed with initials and dated "RSS 1877"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular, closed circle
  • p0002

    p0002

    • ARTIST: Auguste Rodin (France, 1840-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vaslav Nijinsky
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, stucco
    • DATE: 1912
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes, Paris
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia, Poland
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: nude
  • p5688

    p5688

    • ARTIST: Josef Wilhelm Wallander (Sweden, 1821-1888)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Jösse Härads polka (Jössehäradspolska)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1860
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Sweden
    • DANCE FORM: popular
  • p9769

    p9769

    • ARTIST: Pelaghia Kyriazi (Greece, 1960?-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance (Choros)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, charcoal on paper
    • DATE: 1987
    • DIMENSIONS: 150 x 200 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: popular, round
  • p1066

    p1066

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Cloud on the run (La nuée en fuite)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, mural
    • DATE: 1913
    • COMMENTS: Inspired by Isadora Duncan
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p2387

    p2387

    • ARTIST: Léon-Georges Carré (France, 1878-1942) (painting), Muhammad Racim (illumination)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The nude dancer (La danseuse nue)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, gouache
    • DATE: 1912
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: This work served, together with other two of the same artist, to illustrate the book by Franz Toussaint: Le jardin des caresses. Paris, Piazza, 1921.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, France
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental
  • p4663

    p4663

    • ARTIST: Paul Bril (Flanders, 1554-1626) (drawing); Egidius Sadeler (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance in May and June (Tanz im Mai und Juni). Detail
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving, copper
    • DATE: 1600
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: The dance illustrated is probably a galliarde
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • s2470

    s2470

    • TITLE OF WORK: A wedding in Britanny (Une noce bretonne)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1857
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.2 x 22.5 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Britanny, Bretagne
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, couple
  • p2124

    p2124

    • ARTIST: Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov (Russia, 1881-1964)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Ballet scene - Three female and one male dancer
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil, pen and China ink
    • DATE: 1921
    • DIMENSIONS: 22.5 x 28 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s3889

    s3889

    • ARTIST: Boris Bernstein
    • TITLE OF WORK: Alexander Sacharoff in "Golliwog's Cake Walk"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pochoir
    • DATE: 1949
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ukraine, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: modern

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