Île Saint-Louis, Paris
1932
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image/sheet: 20.8 × 28.4 cm (8 3/16 × 11 3/16 in.) mount: 28 × 35.6 cm (11 × 14 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Russell and Anne Byers, in Honor of the 25th Anniversary of Photography at the National Gallery of Art
Accession Number
2015.136.1
About the Artist
Ilse Bing
Ilse Bing, born on March 23, 1899, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, into a prosperous Jewish merchant family, grew up immersed in music and art. The daughter of Louis Bing and Johanna Elli Bing (née Katz), she pursued studies in mathematics and physics at the University of Frankfurt starting in 1920, later shifting to art history and architecture. A semester at Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Institut in...