Dance in Art
Motion frozen without being killed: ballet rehearsals, kabuki performers, court dances, and folk celebrations across five centuries.
496 public-domain artworks from six world museums · free to view and download
Carmencita
William Merritt Chase, 1890
Dance in a Subterranean Roundhouse at Clear Lake, California
Jules Tavernier, 1878
The Dance Class
Edgar Degas, 1874
西漢 彩繪陶舞俑|Female Dancer
Bronze statuette of a veiled and masked dancer
The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer
Edgar Degas|A. A. Hébrard, 1922 (cast), 2018 (tutu)
Panel from a Rectangular Box
The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, Queen of France
Jean Pucelle, ca. 1324–28
北齊 胡人舞伎紋青釉陶扁壶|Pilgrim’s flask with Central Asian dancers
Miss Loïe Fuller
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec|André Marty|Edward Ancourt, 1893
Jane Avril (from Le Café Concert)
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec|Edward Ancourt|l'Estampe Originale|Georges Montorgueil, 1893
Hortense, from the Ballet Queens series (N182) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.
William S. Kimball & Company, 1889
French Shepherdess Dancer, from the Dancing Women series (N186) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.
William S. Kimball & Company, 1889
Portuguese Dancer, from the Dancing Women series (N186) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.
William S. Kimball & Company, 1889
Antique East Indian Dancer, from the Dancing Women series (N186) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.
William S. Kimball & Company, 1889
Petita, from the Ballet Queens series (N182) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.
William S. Kimball & Company, 1889
Corinne, from the Ballet Queens series (N182) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.
William S. Kimball & Company, 1889
Muzette, from the Ballet Queens series (N182) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.
William S. Kimball & Company, 1889
Italian Dancer, from the Dancing Women series (N186) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.
William S. Kimball & Company, 1889
Clown Dancer, from the Dancing Women series (N186) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.
William S. Kimball & Company, 1889
Bolivia, from the Dancing Girls of the World series (N185) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.
William S. Kimball & Company, 1889
Louis XVth Dancer, from the Dancing Women series (N186) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.
William S. Kimball & Company, 1889
Annam, from the Dancing Girls of the World series (N185) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.
William S. Kimball & Company, 1889
Moorish Dancer, from the Dancing Women series (N186) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.
William S. Kimball & Company, 1889
Donna, from the Ballet Queens series (N182) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.
William S. Kimball & Company, 1889
Estudiantina Dancer, from the Dancing Women series (N186) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.
William S. Kimball & Company, 1889
Etta, from the Ballet Queens series (N182) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.
William S. Kimball & Company, 1889
Grotesque Dancer, from the Dancing Women series (N186) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.
William S. Kimball & Company, 1889
Highland Fling, from National Dances (N225, Type 2) issued by Kinney Bros.
Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company, 1889
Circassian Dancer, from the Dancing Women series (N186) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.
William S. Kimball & Company, 1889
Stephanie, from the Ballet Queens series (N182) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.
William S. Kimball & Company, 1889
Scene from Noh Dance
Totoya Hokkei, ca. 1820
娘道成寺図の錦絵|Print of a Kabuki Dancer from the Maiden of the Dōjōji Temple (Musume Dōjōji)
Utagawa Toyokuni I, ca. 1810s
Painting of a Dancer
舞伎図屏風|Screen of Two Dancers (Bugi zu byōbu)
Unidentified, 18th century
Dancing Couple Stepping to the Left, from "The Small Wedding Dancers"
Heinrich Aldegrever, 1538
Ornamental Engraving with Morris Dancers
Israhel van Meckenem, n.d.
Vase Fragments, joined
Female ring dancer
Dancer in Ukrainian Dress
Edgar Degas, 1899
Dancer Putting on Her Stockings (Second State)
Edgar Degas|A.-A. Hébrard et Cie, modeled possibly ca. 1900, cast 1920
Two dancers with high kick, from the Actresses series (N245) issued by Kinney Brothers to promote Sweet Caporal Cigarettes
Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company, 1890
Gothia, from the Dancing Girls of the World series (N185) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.
William S. Kimball & Company, 1889
Julette, from the Ballet Queens series (N182) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.
William S. Kimball & Company, 1889
Polish Mazurka, from National Dances (N225, Type 2) issued by Kinney Bros.
Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company, 1889
Highlands, from the Dancing Girls of the World series (N185) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.
William S. Kimball & Company, 1889
Andalusia, from the Dancing Girls of the World series (N185) issued by Wm. S. Kimball & Co.
William S. Kimball & Company, 1889
Polish Mazurka, from National Dances (N225, Type 1) issued by Kinney Bros.
Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company, 1889