id:			372006
accession number:	2020.295
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.295
updated:		2023-09-13 11:02:59.080000

Cheval de Marly, Paris, 1934, printed 1988. Ilse Bing (American, 1899–1998). Gelatin silver print; image: 26.1 x 34 cm (10 1/4 x 13 3/8 in.); paper: 27.8 x 35.4 cm (10 15/16 x 13 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg 2020.295 © Estate of Ilse Bing

title:				Cheval de Marly, Paris
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creation date:			1934, printed 1988
creation date earliest:		1934
creation date latest:		1934
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creditline:			Gift of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg
copyright:			© Estate of Ilse Bing

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culture:	America, 20th century
technique:	gelatin silver print
department:	Photography
collection:	PH - American 1900-1950
type:		Photograph
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CREATORS

* Ilse Bing (American, 1899–1998)  - artist
American and German photographer, born 1899 or 1900, died 1998
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measurements: Image: 26.1 x 34 cm (10 1/4 x 13 3/8 in.); Paper: 27.8 x 35.4 cm (10 15/16 x 13 15/16 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	Written in black ink, lower left, recto: “ILSE BING/1934”
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	inscription:	Written in pencil on verso: “ILSE/BING/1934/PARIS/Cheval de Marly/pr 1988”
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	inscription:	Written in pencil on verso: “IBMB-322.5 3500”
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Ilse Bing: Queen of the Leica
	opening date:   2020-03-07T05:00:00
	<i>Ilse Bing: Queen of the Leica</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 7-October 11, 2020).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Estate of the Artist
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	Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg, Scarsdale, NY
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: December 7, 2020
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fun fact:
Ilse Bing used a technique called solarization to produce dreamlike, supernatural scenes.

digital description:
Bing employed it for night views of Paris to impart what she described as “a surrealistic atmosphere.” The technique involves briefly re-exposing a partially developed negative or print to light, which caused positive and negative values to reverse in some, but not all, areas of the image. This sculpture, <em>Mercury Mounted on Pegasus, </em>1702, stands in the Tuileries Garden in the center of Paris.

wall description:
In 1934 Ilse Bing experimented with solarization, often employing it for night views of Paris to impart what she described as “a surrealistic atmosphere.” Her use of it yielded dreamlike, supernatural scenes. The technique involves briefly reexposing a partially developed negative to light, which caused positive and negative values to reverse in some, but not all, areas of the image. The mythological figure shown in the top picture is <em>Mercury Mounted on Pegasus</em> (1702) by French sculptor Antoine Coysevox (1640–1720), which was commissioned by Louis XIV of France for the Château de Marly, a royal residence near Versailles.
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