France

King David dancing and playing the psalterion, accompanied by musicians       

Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color

850 approximately

Dancer with cymbals, representing the 2nd tone of the church scale (hypodorian)

Sculpture, relief

1089 approximately

Devils make four ladies dance

Print, lithograph, color

1310 approximately

La cour du dieu d’Amour (The court of the God of Love)

Sculpture, relief, ivory

1335 approximately

L’Insensé dansant devant le Diable

Drawing, manuscript illumination, miniature, color

1350 approximately

L’enterrement et la danse macabre

Painting and gilt on parchment

1420 approximately

Giovanni di Paolo (1420?-1482)

Five angels dancing

Painting, oil on wood

1460 approximately

Danse macabre (Macabre dance)

Painting, mural

1460 approximately

Danse macabre (Macabre dance) Detail – 1

Painting, mural

1460 approximately

Danse macabre (Macabre dance) Detail – 2

Painting, mural

1460 approximately

Totentanz der Frauen (Death dance of the women)

Print, woodcut

1485

La socière (The sorcerer)

Print, woodcut

1489

Description et figure du sabbat des sorciers (Description and figure of the Sabbath of the sorcerers)

Print

1613

Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665)

Bacchus dancing holding two torches (Bacchus dansant en tenant deux torches)

Drawing

1633 approximately

Claude Lorrain

Apollo and the seasons (Apollon et les saisons

Print, engraving, eau-forte

1640

Salome dancing

Sculpture

1650 approximately

Salome dancing in front of Herod

Sculpture

1650 approximately

Torelli (?); Henry de Gissey (workshop)

Marine demigod (Demy Dieu marin)

Painting, watercolor

1654

Nicolas Poussin (after)

Offrande de fleurs à Hymenée

Painting

1700 approximately

Macabre dance – left side (Danse macabre – côté gauche)

Painting, mural

1700 approximately

Costume design for a Génie du Feu (Fire Spirit)

Drawing, colored

1720 approximately

Gabriel de Saint-Aubin

Momos (Momus)

Drawing, colored

1752

Jean-Michel Moreau

Dancing nymphs

Drawing, pen and black ink on brown wash

1785 approximately

Jacques-Antoine Vallin

La tentation de Saint Antoine

Painting, oil on canvas

1826 

Andrei Geiger

“Scene from “”Robert der Teufel””, act 2 (“”The ballet of the nuns””, “”Robert le Diable””)”

Print, colored

1840 approximately

“Illustration from the book “”Les buses-graves. Trilogie à grand spectacle”” by Mr Tortu-Goth”

Print, advertisement

1843

Louis-René Boquet

Demon

Drawing

1850 approximately

Gustave Doré (drawing)

Danse religieuse des nègres du Homotchl – Culte à la lune      A religious dance by the negroesof Homotchl – Cult of the moon

Print

1858

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

Nymphs’ dance (Danse des Nymphes)

Painting, oil on canvas

1860 approximately

E. Dubuffe (painting); C. Maurand(engraving0)

The prodigal child (L’enfant prodigue)

Print, woodcut

1866

E. Dubuffe (painting)

The prodigal child (L’enfant prodigue)

Print, woodcut

1866

Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827-1875)

Le génie de la danse (The spirit of the dance)

Sculpture, white marble bust

1870 approximately

Henri Regnault (painting); Albert Duvivier(drawing); I. Romini

Salome la danseuse (Salome the Dancer)

Print, woodcut   

1870

Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis

Henri Taurel

Terpsychore (Terpsichore)

Painting, oil on canvas

1872

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

La danse des Nymphes (Nymphs’ dance)

Painting, oil on canvas

1873

Jean-Jacques Le Barbier

Bacchanale avec la danse des Dryades autour d’un chêne

Painting, oil on canvas

1785 approximately

Gustave Moreau

The dance of Salome

Painting

 

1875 approximately

Gustave Moreau

L’Apparition

Painting, watercolor

1876

Jules Joseph Lefebvre

Diana

Painting, oil on canvas

1880 approximately

François Brunery

The musical interlude

Painting, oil on canvas

1880 approximately

Gustave Popelin

Terpsichore

Painting

1884

Adrien Marie (drawing)

“””Brahma””, ballet de M. Monplaisir, musique de M. Dell’Argine; représenté à l’Eden-Théâtre”

Print, wood

1886

Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis

Georges Rochegrosse (painting)

Salomé danse devant le roi Hérode

Print, woodcut

1887

Genius of the dance

Sculpture, marble

1890 approximately

Corot (painting)

La danse des Nymphes (Dance of the Nymphs)

Print, wood, from a painting

1895

Greece, Athens, collection Alkis Raftis

Georges de Feure

“La Loïe Fuller dans “”Salomé””, à la Comédie Parisienne”

Print, lithograph, color, poster

1895

Paul Renouard (drawing)

La procession dansante d’Echternach, dans le Grand-Duché de

Print, woodcut

1895

Lucien Métivet

La danse et les danseurs

Print, lithograph

1897

L. Renout-Margueritte

The Nymphs

Painting, oil on canvas

1910

Lules Desbois

Salome (Salomé)

Sculpture, statuette, bronze

1912 approximately

Jules Desbois

Salome (Salomé)

Sculpture

1914

J. Simont (drawing)

Helba Huara and her malefices. Procession of Holy Friday

Print

1934

Alfred Courmes

Judith et Holopherne

Print, engraving, eau-forte

1945

André Masson

Dance before a temple

Painting, oil on canvas

1968

Gustave Moreau

Etude d’après le modèle pour Salomé (Study after the model for Salome)

Drawing, pen and China ink

1974 approximately

Danse macabre

Drawing

1985

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