Skip to main content
recto overall
Underneath, at l'Opera
recto overall
recto overall

Underneath, at l'Opera

Original Language TitleDessous de l'Opera
Artist Willy Ronis (French, 1910 - 2009)
Date1948
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 11 3/16 × 9 1/2 inches (28.42 × 24.13 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2015.67.47
SignedArtist's stamp on sheet verso, center, in black ink: "PHOTO / WILLY / RONIS / 7 PASS DES CHAR...[?] / SEG. 57-91 PAR S.XVe"
InscribedOn sheet verso, top, in blue pen: " [?] Photography 1958"
MarkingsOn sheet verso, upper left, in blue pencil: "16"; On sheet verso, upper left, in pencil: "N 1"; On sheet verso, top, im blue pencil: "A PARIS / 32"; On sheet verso, top, in pencil: "118"; On sheet verso, center, black stamp: "SIGNATURE OBLIGATOIRE / TOUS DROITS RESERVES"; On sheet verso, center, purple stamp: "DOCUMENT COMMUNIQUE PAR / RAPHO / AGENCE PHOTOGRAPHIQUE / 8 Rue d'Alger, PARIS - OPE.42-78 / LA ...[?] DU NOM DU PHOTOGRAPHE EST / OBLIGATOIRE EN OAS DE REPRODUCTION "; On sheet verso, bottom, black stamp: "0 009".
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionImage of several people standing underneath a stage floor surrounded by support beams, ropes, and pulleys. A costumed woman wearing ballet slippers and leotard stands on wooden platform preparing to be lifted up through round opening in the floor out onto the stage.
Copyright© The Estate of Willy Ronis
Information about a particular artwork or image, including provenance information, is based upon historic information and may not be currently accurate or complete. Research on artwork and images is an ongoing process, and the information about a particular artwork or image may not reflect the most current information available to the Museum. If you notice a mistake or have additional information about a particular artwork or image, please e-mail provenance@nelson-atkins.org.


Rue Muller, Montmartre
Willy Ronis
1934; printed later
2007.52.2
La Separation, Paris
Willy Ronis
1963; printed 1985
2012.21
Grandfather Clock
Tiffany & Company
1905
2018.75.1-16
The Arch with a Shell Ornament
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
1761
2006.32
The Circus, New York
André Kertész
1969
2005.27.1595
Untitled
Jerry N. Uelsmann
1968
2016.75.320
Under Card
Richard Dishinger
1990
2024.9.24
Cabinet
ca. 1820-1830
2008.15.11
Interior, Niagara Suspension Bridge
Unknown
ca. 1860
2005.27.239
Chicago Landscape #190
Art Sinsabaugh
1964
2005.27.635
recto overall
Joseph Sterling
ca. 1955
2017.64.7