Dance History Gallery

D.H.G. (Dance History Gallery)

Dance History Gallery
  • p2746

    p2746

    • ARTIST: François Lafon (France, 1846-1920)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of the Nymphs
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1910
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
  • p6111

    p6111

    • ARTIST: Henri Matisse (France, 1869-1954)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Creole dancer (Danseuse créole)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, gouache on cut paper
    • DATE: 1950
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
  • p5056

    p5056

    • TITLE OF WORK: Folies-Bergère. Programme
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, program cover
    • DATE: 1919
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall
  • p4402

    p4402

    • ARTIST: Emile-Antoine Bourdelle (France, 1861-1929)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Isadora Duncan - Rêverie
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1911
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: modern
    • KEYWORDS: Isadora Duncan
  • p3982

    p3982

    • ARTIST: Edgar Degas (France, 1834-1917)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Nonnes dansant, étude pour "Ballet de Robert le Diable"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, essence on paper
    • DATE: 1871
    • DIMENSIONS: 28.3 x 45.4 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p8938

    p8938

    • ARTIST: Boris Israëlevich Anisfeld (Russia, 1878-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Costume design for the ballet "Sadko": Goldfish
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil, watercolor and oil on carton
    • DATE: 1911
    • COMMENTS: Ballets Russes
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France, Paris
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: costume
  • s1337

    s1337

    • TITLE OF WORK: Fox trot, enveloping caressing perfume. Perfumes by Arys make flowers jealous (Fox trot, parfum enveloppant caressant. Les parfums d'Arys rendent les fleurs jalouses)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1920
    • DIMENSIONS: 35.5 x 27.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
    • KEYWORDS: advertisement
  • s3332

    s3332

    • ARTIST: René Jeandelle (France, 1883-1935)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Vase Loïe Fuller vase
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, sandstone (grès cérame), vase, statuette
    • DATE: 1906
    • DIMENSIONS: 31 cm height
    • COMMENTS: Marked "Jeandelle" and "Céramique Rambervillers"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A., France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, solo
    • KEYWORDS: light, veils, drapery
  • p0509

    p0509

    • ARTIST: Edward Goodall (U.K., 1794-1870) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Wedding feast in Britanny (Fête de mariage en Bretagne)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1851
    • DIMENSIONS: 15.5 x 21 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Britanny, Bretagne
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p1307

    p1307

    • ARTIST: Joseph Cartwright (U.K., 1789?-1829)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance of Greek peasants
    • TYPE OF WORK: Watercolor
    • DATE: 1820
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p7648

    p7648

    • TITLE OF WORK: Melle Fanny Elssler's quadrilles arranged for the piano forte
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1835
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, ballet
    • KEYWORDS: music score
  • p7700

    p7700

    • ARTIST: Paul Destez (France, 1851-1919) (drawing); Casanova (sketch)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The wedding of Princess Amélie of France - A ball at the Royal Palace (Le mariage de la Princesse Amélie de France - Bal au Palais Royal)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1886
    • DIMENSIONS: 23 x 22.8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • p7925

    p7925

    • TITLE OF WORK: Aztec acrobatic dances
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color
    • DATE: 1600
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: According to Clavigero
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Mexico
    • DANCE FORM: acrobatic
    • KEYWORDS: acrobat
  • s2133

    s2133

    • ARTIST: George Romney (U.K., 1734-1802)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Leveson-Gower children
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1777
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: popular, round
    • KEYWORDS: children, tambourine
  • p7110

    p7110

    • TITLE OF WORK: Lola Montez, a film by Max Ophuls. Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov, Anton Walbrook (Lola Montez, un film de Max Ophuls. Martine Carol, Peter Ustinov, Anton Walbrook)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1955
    • COMMENTS: Lola Montez was lover of King Ludwig I of Bavaria
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, Spanish dance
    • KEYWORDS: cinema
  • p8716

    p8716

    • TITLE OF WORK: Coorg harvest dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1852
    • DIMENSIONS: 14.5 x 23.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: Coorg was a portion of the Madras Presidency
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: India, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • s3469

    s3469

    • ARTIST: Czes?aw Wielhorski (Poland, 1911-1980)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Chudzony corner (Chudzony rozny)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print from a drawing, postcard
    • DATE: 1950
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Poland
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, duo
  • p3232

    p3232

    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance headdress of the Anyang-Ekoi people, north bank of the Cross River
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, wood with leather cap
    • DATE: 1920
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 40 cm height
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Cameroun
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p9020

    p9020

    • TITLE OF WORK: Theater at the front (Le théâtre sur le front)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1915
    • DIMENSIONS: 36 x 27 cm
    • COMMENTS: 1st World War
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: military, theater
  • p6909

    p6909

    • ARTIST: Johann Gottfried Schadow (Germany, 1764-1850)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Salvatore Vigano and his wife Maria Medina Vigano
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pen
    • DATE: 1796
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, duo
  • p2074

    p2074

    • ARTIST: Jean-Charles Duval (France, 1880-1963)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Serge Peretti in a Greek dance -3)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p9006

    p9006

    • ARTIST: Fritz Reiz (drawing)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Country costumes' ball in the Citizens' Society. The wedding celebrations in Karlsruhe (Ball der Landestrachten im Bürgerverein. Die Hochzeitsfeierlichkeiten in Karlsruhe)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1881
    • DIMENSIONS: 11.7 x 14.9 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Germany, Karlsruhe
    • DANCE FORM: popular, ballroom, couple
  • s0057

    s0057

    • ARTIST: Jean-Baptiste Le Prince (France, 1734-1781)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A village feast (Une fête villageoise)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1768
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 92 x 156.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: A similar theme with his other painting "Les jeux russiens"
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia, France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
  • p5594

    p5594

    • TITLE OF WORK: Representation of the sign of Venus (Rappresentazione del segno di Venere)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1764
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Copy of an earlier engraving by Baccio Baldini. Florentine school.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, Florence
    • DANCE FORM: court
  • p1311

    p1311

    • ARTIST: Miquel Strebel
    • TITLE OF WORK: Stand up for yourself
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing
    • DATE: 1997
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Holland
    • KEYWORDS: politics
  • p6599

    p6599

    • ARTIST: Jules Chéret (France, 1836-1932)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Valentino. Grand midnight ball (Valentino. Grand bal de nuit)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color, poster
    • DATE: 1869
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: popular
    • KEYWORDS: disguise
  • s3183

    s3183

    • ARTIST: Stanley Roseman (U.S.A., 1945-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Kader Belarbi in the ballet "L'après-midi d'un faune"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, pencil
    • DATE: 1991
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, U.S.A.
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet, solo
  • p9634

    p9634

    • ARTIST: Fabio Fabbi (Italy, 1861-1946)
    • TITLE OF WORK: In the courtyard of the harem
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, oil on canvas
    • DATE: 1898
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • DIMENSIONS: 59 x 77.5 cm
    • COMMENTS: Signed at lower left
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Italy
    • DANCE FORM: solo, stage, traditional, popular, Oriental
  • p2905

    p2905

    • TITLE OF WORK: Oriental snake dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph, color
    • DATE: 1905
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient
    • DANCE FORM: Oriental, solo, traditional
    • KEYWORDS: animal, snake
  • p8133

    p8133

    • ARTIST: Georges Reverdy (France, 1529-1557) (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A village Branle (Un branle de village)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1550
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, round
  • s0972

    s0972

    • ARTIST: Gennaro Befani (Italy, 1866-1949) (painting)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Street comedians (Baladins)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1927
    • DIMENSIONS: 8.7 x 11.1 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: stage
  • p8899

    p8899

    • ARTIST: Célestin Nanteuil (France, 1813-1873)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Carlotta Grisi as Giselle and Lucien Petipa as Albert in act 2 of the ballet "Giselle"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, lithograph
    • DATE: 1840
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy, France
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s4550

    s4550

    • ARTIST: Marius-Ernest Sabino (Italy, 1878-1961)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dancer and two musicians
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture, relief
    • DATE: 1925
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: modern ballet
  • s3080

    s3080

    • ARTIST: Serge Lifar (Ukraine, 1905-1986)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Suite en blanc, Opéra 1943
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1943
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Russia
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p6317

    p6317

    • TITLE OF WORK: Fanny, the fairy of the century. Caricature (Fanny, la fée du siècle. Caricature)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1845
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Germany
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • s3518

    s3518

    • ARTIST: Jean Toth (France, 1899-1972)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Carmita Garcia
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, sketch
    • DATE: 1954
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, France
    • DANCE FORM: flamenco, Spanish dance, traditional, solo
  • p0938

    p0938

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Male and female dancers (Danseur et danseuse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, ink
    • DATE: 1925
    • DIMENSIONS: 35 x 25 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain, Monaco, Monte Carlo
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
  • p8570

    p8570

    • TITLE OF WORK: Ball given in the concert-hall of the Dublin International Exhibition Building in aid of the funds of the Irish Academy of Music
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, engraving
    • DATE: 1865
    • DIMENSIONS: 24 x 34.3 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ireland
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom, couple
  • p0697

    p0697

    • ARTIST: Giletta (sketch)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The Great Cavalcade of the Carnival of Nizza on 16 March
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1882
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Nice
    • KEYWORDS: Carnival
  • s1090

    s1090

    • ARTIST: William Hatherell (U.K., 1855-1928) (drawing); J. A. Cray (sketch)
    • TITLE OF WORK: A nautch girl dancing before the Amir of Afghanistan
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1893
    • DIMENSIONS: 30.5 x 21.8 cm
    • COMMENTS: From sketches by J. A. Cray, surgeon to H. H. Abdurahman Khan
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Orient, Afghanistan
    • DANCE FORM: traditional, stage, solo, Oriental
    • KEYWORDS: royalty
  • s3621

    s3621

    • ARTIST: Boucher (painting); Demarteau (engraving)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The dance (La danse)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, pencil drawing
    • DATE: 1740
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Antiquity, France
    • DANCE FORM: solo
    • KEYWORDS: nude, tambourine
  • s4061

    s4061

    • ARTIST: Dinos Painter (Greece, -350?)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Two maenads dancing, one with tambourine, the other with thyrsos
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting on pottery, vase
    • DATE: -415
    • DATE DETAILS: BC approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Ancient, Greece
  • p9593

    p9593

    • ARTIST: Pedro Pruna (Spain, 1904-1977)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Décor design for the ballet "Les matelots"
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1925
    • COMMENTS: "Les matelots", ballet in five scenes, by the Ballets Russes. Music by G. Auric, story by Boris Kochno; choreography by L. Massine; décors, curtain and costumes by Pedro Pruna
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Spain
    • DANCE FORM: classical ballet
    • KEYWORDS: scenery
  • s2094

    s2094

    • ARTIST: Lorenzo Mattotti (Italy, 1954-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting
    • DATE: 1990
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Italy
  • s2171

    s2171

    • TITLE OF WORK: Couple dancing
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, monochrome
    • DATE: 1890
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • COMMENTS: Postcard D. H. C. No. 1463
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: couple, court
    • KEYWORDS: musical instrument, piano
  • p8383

    p8383

    • TITLE OF WORK: New Zealand war dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print, woodcut
    • DATE: 1844
    • DIMENSIONS: 16.3 x 8 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: New Zealand, U.K.
    • DANCE FORM: traditional
    • KEYWORDS: weapon
  • s5392

    s5392

    • ARTIST: Alméry Lobel-Riche (France, 1880-1950)
    • TITLE OF WORK: Russian dancer (Danseuse russe)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Drawing, aquatint/etching
    • DATE: 1930
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Russia
  • p2156

    p2156

    • ARTIST: Maurice le Jeune
    • TITLE OF WORK: The masked ball (Le bal masqué)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Print
    • DATE: 1782
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France
    • DANCE FORM: ballroom
    • KEYWORDS: mask, disguise
  • p0584

    p0584

    • ARTIST: Pablo Picasso (Spain, 1881-1973)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The carnival (Le cancan)
    • TYPE OF WORK: Painting, pastel
    • DATE: 1900
    • DIMENSIONS: 41 x 55 cm
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: France, Spain
    • DANCE FORM: music-hall, cancan
  • p3488

    p3488

    • ARTIST: Irene M. Kokkinou (Greece, 1928-)
    • TITLE OF WORK: The captain's dance
    • TYPE OF WORK: Sculpture
    • DATE: 1980
    • DATE DETAILS: approx.
    • LOCALITY OF REFERENCE: Greece, Dodecanese, Kalymnos
    • DANCE FORM: traditional

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