The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 20, 2025

Blérancourt

1933

Ilse Bing

(American, 1899–1998)
America
gelatin silver print
Image: 21.6 x 28.3 cm (8 1/2 x 11 1/8 in.); Mounted: 34.6 x 41.6 cm (13 5/8 x 16 3/8 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 2007.31
© Estate of Ilse Bing
Location: Not on view

Description

This study of light and shadow was shot north of Paris in Blérancourt, perhaps on the grounds of the city’s 17th-century chateau.
  • (Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY)
    2007
    David Raymond [b.1979], New York, NY
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Schaffner, Ingrid, Julien Levy, and Colin Westerbeck. Accommodations of Desire: Surrealist Works on Paper Collected by Julien Levy. Pasadena, Calif: Curatorial Assistance, Inc, 2004. p. 66
    Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E. Hinson, Ian Walker, and Lisa Kurzner. Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography : the David Raymond Collection in the Cleveland Museum of Art. 2014. cat. no. 128, p. 176
    Schaffner, Ingrid, Julien Levy, and Colin Westerbeck. Accommodations of Desire: Surrealist Works on Paper Collected by Julien Levy. Pasadena, Calif: Curatorial Assistance, Inc, 2004. p. 66
    Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E. Hinson, Ian Walker, and Lisa Kurzner. Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography : the David Raymond Collection in the Cleveland Museum of Art. 2014. cat. no. 128, p. 176
  • Ilse Bing: Queen of the Leica. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 6-October 11, 2020).
    Forbidden Games: Surrealist and Modernist Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 19, 2014-January 11, 2015).
    Accommodations of Desire: Surrealist Works on Paper Collected by Julien Levy. Palmer Museum of Art (September 14-December 5, 2004); McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, MA (January 16-March 27, 2005); Crocker Art Museum, Sacaramento, CA (July 9-September 11, 2005); Portland Museum of Art (January 1-March 19, 2006).
  • {{cite web|title=Blérancourt|url=false|author=Ilse Bing|year=1933|access-date=20 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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