Bal Collection

Fashion plate, Album de Bal, Atelier Bachwitz
Fashion plate, Album de Bal, from Atelier Bachwitz, showing three women in the latest fashions. 1920s

Art deco bedroom
A spacious Art Deco bedroom designed by Roger Bal

The interior of the Paris Opera showing Le Bal du Grand Prix (1925) Date: 1925

Lord Balcarres MP, Vanity Fair, Spy
DAVID ALEXANDER EDWARD LINDSAY, 27th Earl of Crawford and 10th Earl of BALCARRES (1871-1940), styled Lord Balniel between 1880 and 1913. British Conservative politician and art connoisseur

Scheherazade / Bal. Russes
SCHEHERAZADE Set design by Leon Bakst

C18TH COSTUME / 1913
C18th costume for a masked ball: gold dress with panniers & echelles, white petticoat ornamented with a garland of roses, black lace engageantes, a high white wig with roses

Beaux-Arts des Modes, Album de Bal
French fashions, Beaux-Arts des Modes, Album de Bal Date: 1921-1922

Le Cortege Du Canape (1830) Au Bal Gavarni
A scrapbook page filled with various sketches of mostly French figures. Date: circa 1901

The Jealous Devil, Alfred Crowquill's sketches from Jullien's Bal Masque, Date: 1850

Bal Suzette
An oil painting depicting the scene of a man wearing a green clown suit, engaging in dance with a woman in a pink red dress, they are accompanied by an array of formal servants and other performers

A sketch of the Bal Negre, Montparnasse, Paris, 1930 described at the time as the Bal des Cafe Cremes Date: 1930

Woman and child near an omnibus station, Paris, 1875
Near an omnibus station, the Palais-Royal, 1875. Woman in violet crinoline dress with train, velvet mantelet and feather bonnet. Men in top hats behind

Young women roller skating at the Bal Bullier, 1876
The skating rink in the Bal Bullier, 1876. Fashionable woman in dress with train and ribbon bows watching girls roller skating at Francois Bulliers ballroom, avenue de l Observatoire, Paris

Watching the comet, Paris, 1857
Fashionable people watching the comet of 1857 from a boulevard balcony, Paris. Woman in crinoline with binoculars. Handcoloured lithograph by R.V

Woman in a blue pagoda dress with necklaces and pantaloons. Pagode. Handcoloured pochoir (stencil) etching after an illustration by Adrien Etienne Drian from Tommaso Antonginis Journal des Dames et

Return from the masked ball
Return from the ball: a young man flirts with several women undressing after a costume ball. During carnival you must be especially vigilant, old husbands of young wives, outdated lovers

Coryphees at a ball. Incroyables in jackets with outsize buttons and collars, long cravat, huge bicorn hat, and merveilleuses with decollete dresses and large lace collars

Glamorous lady
The Bal Masque Girl. Glamorous lady in brown and orange evening wear holding mask. Artist: JM Flagg Date: circa 1903

Advert for Bal Tabarin, 34 Rue Victor Masse Date: 1920s

VERSAILLES SALLE DE BAL
BOSQUETS DE LA SALLE DE BAL an outdoor dancing-floor, with provision for spectators so doubtless stage performances took place here on fine summer evenings Date: 1688

In the garden of the Bal Bullier, Paris
Le jardin du Bal Bullier Date: 1898

Bal Tabarin Nightclub, Paris
A glitzy show at the Bal Tabarin nightclub in Paris is appreciated by the smartly-dressed audience. Seen here is the final show on 3 June 1966 before the club closed down. Date: 1966

The entrance to the Bal Bullier, Paris
The entrance to the Bal Bullier, the famous dancing venue in Paris Date: circa 1910

Fontainebleau C17
Exterior view of the chateau showing the great chapel and the salle du bal (ballroom)

Scenes from the French film La Cle de Voute, 1925 directed by Roger Lion starring Gina Palerme (probably featured in these shots)

Sketches showing the interior of the Bal Tabarin night-spot in Paris, 1920s Date: 1920s

An interior view of the Bal Tabarin with the show in progres
An interior view of the Bal Tabarin with the show Les Heures Sont Belles in progress, Paris, 1938 Date: 1938

Seen in Danceland: Kyasht, Price, Morgan and Sandrisi and Co
Seen in Danceland - four dancers: Lydia Kyasht (former premier ballerina at the Empire Theatre), Gwen Price (who dances with Vincent Davico)

Bal Tabarin Nightclub, Paris
Some of the audience members and waiters during a glitzy show at the Bal Tabarin nightclub in Paris. It was the final show on 3 June 1966 before the club closed down

Paris Ball - Bal Mobile. mid-19th century

Paris Ball - Bal d Asnieres. mid-19th century

Bal Des Livres 1909
Le Bal des Livres : M et Mme Adolphe Brisson invite their friends to a ball where each must come as a character from a famous book Date: 1909

Bal Gavarni 1904
Le Bal Gavarni : to raise money for a monument to the artist Gavarni, a ball is held in Montmartre where guests come dressed as characters from his illustrations Date: 1904

Bal Champetre / 18th Frnc
A grand Bal Champetre Date: 18th century

Bal Masque, Paris
The Grand Bal Masque at the Opera, Paris Date: circa 1840

Ball at the Moulin Rouge club in Paris
Le bal du Moulin Rouge, Paris, France Date: 1898

Bal de L Opera, an event during the Paris Carnival, France
Bal de L Opera, an event during the annual Paris Carnival, France. circa 1850

Le Bal Musette by De Robec
Bohemian society in a caf頩 n Paris enjoying le bal musette - dancing the tango and other dances to traditional music in which the accordion takes centre stage. Tres Francais! Date: 1929

Paris, France - Champs-Elysees - open-air concert. Date: 1836

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