Carrera del Darro, Granada
Medium
drypoint on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 16.7 × 19.8 cm (6 9/16 × 7 13/16 in.) sheet: 25.5 × 32.7 cm (10 1/16 × 12 7/8 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.7468
Art Historical Context
Step into the sun-dappled streets of Granada with Louis Conrad Rosenberg's *Carrera del Darro Granada* (1925), a delicate drypoint print that captures the charm of this historic Spanish thoroughfare. Nestled along the Darro River beneath the looming Alhambra, the Carrera del Darro was vibrant artery of Moorish and Renaissance architecture in the 1920s, drawing artists like Rosenberg—an American printmaker renowned for his meticulous renderings of European landmarks. Created during a period of cultural fascination with Spain's romantic past, this work evokes the narrow, shadowed alleys alive wi...
About the Artist
Louis Conrad Rosenberg
Louis Conrad Rosenberg (1890–1983), born in Portland, Oregon, to Charles and Hannah Rosenberg, emerged as one of America's foremost architectural etchers, blending his training as an architect with masterful printmaking. A precocious draftsman from childhood, he apprenticed under T. Chapell Brown in Portland starting at age sixteen in 1906, advancing to draftsman under mentor Ellis Fuller Lawrence...