Drying Nets, Villefranche
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drypoint
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.7435
Art Historical Context
**Drying Nets, Villefranche Louis Conrad Rosenberg (1890–1983), an American artist celebrated for his exquisite drypoint prints, captures the everyday rhythm of life in the French Riviera village of Villefranche-sur-Mer in this 1929 work. Created during Rosenberg's travels through Europe in the interwar years, the etching depicts fishermen's nets spread out to dry against the sun-drenched Mediterranean coast—a poignant snapshot of traditional coastal labor amid the glamour of the Côte d'Azur. Drypoint, Rosenberg's favored medium, involves scratching directly into a copper plate with a sharp...
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...