Bayadere Collection

Indian Dancing Girl / 1840
A Bayadere. Indian dancers performed for entertainment and for religious purposes. Some were attached to temples

Bayadere Dancer
A Bayadere, dancer from Chemakha, presumably in the East Indies but not found in Google or atlases

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - The God And The Bayadere
Poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - The God And The Bayadere (The Temple Dancer) - An Indian Legend. Date: circa 1925

Dolls representing courtiers Sir William Arnold and Lady Nina Morton with toy chair and table. Wooden dolls dressed by the young Princess Victoria

Ballerinas Proche, Duvernay and Ancilin as dolls
Ballet dancers Mlle. Proche Giubelei in La Sommambula, Mlle. Pauline Duvernay in Sleeping Beauty and Mlle. Euphrosine Ancilin as dolls dressed by young Princess Victoria

Mlle. Genevieve-Adelaide Gosselin as Bayadere
French ballet dancer Mlle. Genevieve-Adelaide Gosselin (1791-1818) as Bayadere in La Bayadere at the Opera. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Charles Malos Almanach des Spectacles par K. Y

Russian beauty as an exotic Indian Dancer
Russian beauty in the costume of a Devadasi - an Indian Temple Dancer Date: 1901

Tartar Bayadere
Bayadere (dancing girl) of Tartary, with her tambourine

Bayadere Dance
BAYADERE DANCE

Dance / Nautch Girl / India
A Nautch or dancing girl (also known as a Bayadere). Besides entertainment their dancing had religious functions & these women were sometimes connected to temples

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