La Rue Mirebeau, Bourges
Medium
drypoint
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.7445
Art Historical Context
### La Rue Mirebeau, Bour Step into the charming streets of Bourges, France, through Louis Conrad Rosenberg's *La Rue Mirebeau, Bour* (1925). This drypoint print captures the intimate architecture of a quiet provincial lane, with its half-timbered houses leaning gracefully together under a soft sky. Rosenberg, an American renowned for his meticulous depictions of European towns during the 1920s, traveled extensively to sketch such scenes firsthand, preserving the everyday poetry of historic France amid the interwar era's cultural fascination with the past. The drypoint medium shines here: Ro...
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...