Antique Ballet

The act was shown everyday containing ballets, gymnasts, acrobats, pantomimes, and more.

He also produced drawings and lithographs for Le Figaro Illustré. Best known for his ballet scenes and pastels, he also did landscapes, portraits and genre works.

Three mischievous putto, those cherubic embodiments of innocent joy, engage in a playful ballet astride the sinuous back of a majestic koi fish.

The work features two dancing figures- a woman leaning against the male figure behind her, perhaps moments before being hurled into the air or spun in a graceful twirl. She dons a tu...

Many medallions surround this chandelier and makes you feel like you are in a palace with the Swan Lake Ballet.

All of which are at ease, the dancer at rest. The subject of the ballet attracted Matisse like many of the Impressionists.

After her mother became well-established in the royal court of Louis XIV, 17-year-old Françoise-Marguerite made her court debut in the Royal Ballets des Arts, dancing a lead role as ...

Amid the flowering vinery, a dynamic tension animates the scene—predators in motion, birds mid-flight, leopards and tigers caught in a mythic ballet of the hunt, while phoenixes rise...

He designed scenery and costumes for ballets, opera and the theatre, working closely with the actor-manager Nigel Playfair and for the D’Oyly Carte.

He worked briefly for the Russian ballets, and in 1921, he returned to Paris where in 1927 he took French citizenship.

He studied at the Slade School of Art and in Paris, but abandoned painting for theatre design in the 1930s, becoming well known for his settings and costumes for plays, ballets and f...

From 1935 to 1950 he also devoted himself to the theater, taking care of sets and costumes for numerous operettas, ballets and performances at the Scala in Milan and for the Milanese...

From 1935 to 1950 he also devoted himself to the theater, taking care of sets and costumes for numerous operettas, ballets and performances at the Scala in Milan and for the Milanese...

The costume and poster designs of Walter Schnakenberg defined ballet and cabaret during Germany’s Weimar Republic.

The costume and poster designs of Walter Schnakenberg defined ballet and cabaret during Germany’s Weimar Republic.

He was very well connected to the art world of New York and New England, and painted a stunning portrait of Lincoln Kirstein, who co-founded the New York City Ballet. (Dimensions inc...

Arpino is an well-known American ballet dancer and co-founded the Joffrey troupe in 1953.

Keller was also an enthusiast of Diaghelev's Ballets Russes, which he saw on their American tour.

Later, Kirstein asked him to do stage sets for "Serenade" and "Mozartiana," the first two productions of the School for American Ballet in Hartford, before the company moved to New Y...

Part of the Paris scene, Forain was close friends with Edgar Degas, with whom he shared a love of ballet, as well as several prominent poets and writers, such as Arthur Rimbaud, Paul...

Part of the Paris scene, Forain was close friends with Edgar Degas, with whom he shared a love of ballet, as well as several prominent poets and writers, such as Arthur Rimbaud, Paul...

The President of the Republic chose to reward Brianchon's work at the Paris Opera, notably the design of the sets and costumes for the Aubade ballet in 1952. He was awarded the insig...

He also designed scenery and costumes for ballets, opera and the theatre, working closely with the actor-manager Nigel Playfair and for the D’Oyly Carte.

With the beginning of the Second Spanish Republic, López Júlvez formed her own ballet company called Bailes Españoles de la Argentinita together with her sister, Pilar López Júlvez, ...

Influenced by Impressionist theories on light and color, Forain preferred to depict scenes of everyday life focusing on Parisian popular entertainments and themes of modernity—the ra...

"[4] Duncan was the quintessence of modernism, shedding the rigid shackles of the balletic form and exploring movement through a combination of classical sculpture and her own inner ...

The remarkable filigree clasp has been designed to close in the front and additionally act as a feature of the transition between the beautiful ballet pink morganite beads and the r...

Degas made the monotypes to illustrate Halévy’s book, La Famille Cardinal, a satire of social-climbing ballet dancers, controlling stage mothers and the backstage sex-trade.

"Pas de Deux," Superb Satyr and nude women pairing inspired by Ballets Russes. Glazed Ceramic Sculpture - Figure By Le Faguays & E.

Charles Martin was an important figure in Art Deco, as illustrator, poster-designer, fashion, ballet, and theatre designer, as well as contributor to fashion journals such as the Gaz...

Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement begun in Paris that revolutionized painting and the visual arts, and influenced artistic innovations in music, ballet, litera...

Degas made the monotypes to illustrate Halévy’s book, La Famille Cardinal, a satire of social-climbing ballet dancers, controlling stage mothers and the backstage sex-trade.

Jules Herve (French, 1887 - 1981) Entre Acte - Ballerinas at the Opera Oil on canvasboard 10 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches Signed lower left Provenance: Private Collection, Palm Beach, Florida...

He designed scenery and costumes for ballets, opera and the theatre, working closely with the actor-manager Nigel Playfair and for the D’Oyly Carte.

His works in the 1920s were heavily influenced by the excavation of the tombs in Egypt and the Ballet Russe. He worked in bronze, ivory, ceramic and spelter and he is now considered ...

Charles Martin was an important figure in Art Deco, as illustrator, poster-designer, fashion, ballet, and theatre designer, as well as contributor to fashion journals such as the Gaz...

Part of the Paris scene, Forain was close friends with Edgar Degas, with whom he shared a love of ballet, as well as several prominent poets and writers, such as Arthur Rimbaud, Paul...

Part of the Paris scene, Forain was close friends with Edgar Degas, with whom he shared a love of ballet, as well as several prominent poets and writers, such as Arthur Rimbaud, Paul...

In 1926, he designed stage scenery and costumes for Djaghilev's Ballets Russes. He received public recognition in 1928, when he was made a member of the Legion of Honour.

Part of the Paris scene, Forain was close friends with Edgar Degas, with whom he shared a love of ballet, as well as several prominent poets and writers, such as Arthur Rimbaud, Paul...

Part of the Paris scene, Forain was close friends with Edgar Degas, with whom he shared a love of ballet, as well as several prominent poets and writers, such as Arthur Rimbaud, Paul...

Part of the Paris scene, Forain was close friends with Edgar Degas, with whom he shared a love of ballet, as well as several prominent poets and writers, such as Arthur Rimbaud, Paul...

Part of the Paris scene, Forain was close friends with Edgar Degas, with whom he shared a love of ballet, as well as several prominent poets and writers, such as Arthur Rimbaud, Paul...

Part of the Paris scene, Forain was close friends with Edgar Degas, with whom he shared a love of ballet, as well as several prominent poets and writers, such as Arthur Rimbaud, Paul...

Part of the Paris scene, Forain was close friends with Edgar Degas, with whom he shared a love of ballet, as well as several prominent poets and writers, such as Arthur Rimbaud, Paul...

Part of the Paris scene, Forain was close friends with Edgar Degas, with whom he shared a love of ballet, as well as several prominent poets and writers, such as Arthur Rimbaud, Paul...

Part of the Paris scene, Forain was close friends with Edgar Degas, with whom he shared a love of ballet, as well as several prominent poets and writers, such as Arthur Rimbaud, Paul...

Part of the Paris scene, Forain was close friends with Edgar Degas, with whom he shared a love of ballet, as well as several prominent poets and writers, such as Arthur Rimbaud, Paul...

Dame Laura Knight (1877-1970) "The Circus Dressing Room" 1925 Aquatint Engraving Signed in Pencil Lower Right Image Size: approx 14 x 9 inches Framed Size: approx. 23.5 x 18.5 inche...

Dame Laura Knight "The Circus Dressing Room" 1925 Etching Ed. 20 Signed Lower Right Image Size: approx. 14 x 10 inches Framed Size: approx. 23.5 x 17.75 inches An English impressio...

He also appeared as an extra in Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes. De Diego emigrated to the United States in 1924.

Suspended weightlessly across the field, three butterflies drift in a quiet ballet, their presence adding a touch of whimsy to this masterpiece of Art Deco symbolism.

His celebrated print series, such as 'La Faune Parisienne' (1893), 'Les Petites du Ballet' (1893), 'La Femme' (1900), and 'L'Amour' (1908), documented the lives of working-class wome...

He was the official artist of the Milwaukee Ballet. Lichtner also painted murals for industry and private clients.

Not only did he continually improve his style, and the works he created, he is well known because of the fact that he had the ability to create in any style which was prominent durin...

The influence of the painter François Boucher and of contemporary theater and ballet are equally in evidence in Falconet's subjects, and his sweet, elegantly erotic, somewhat coy man...

Dead or alive, his dead weight is shouldered by a warrior with an improbably balletic lift of leg -- one that should send both crashing to the ground.