Les Amoureux de la Bastille

Willy Ronis

1957, printed 2003

  • Titles Les Amoureux de la Bastille (Proper)
  • Artist Willy Ronis, French, 1910 - 2009
  • Medium gelatin silver print
  • Dimensions sheet: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm) image: 9 1/4 × 13 3/4 in. (23.5 × 34.9 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of John Hagefstration, AFI.200.2015
  • Work Type photograph
  • Classification Photographs

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