Art, literature & history
Les Filets (The Nets)
1771
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching and aquatint printed in brown on laid paper
- Collection no.
- 1974.33.58
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jean-Baptiste Le Prince. Les Filets (The Nets). Jean-Baptiste Le Prince; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Les Filets (The Nets) — Jean-Baptiste Le Prince. 1771.
Medium: etching and aquatint printed in brown on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): .
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1974.33.58. Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.