List of museums with major collections of European prints and drawings
This is a list of museums or print rooms with major collections of European old master prints and drawings. This list is incomplete, and should not be regarded as a correct ranking of the major collections.
- Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France
- 200 000 drawings, 10 millions prints [1]
- British Museum, London, England
- 50,000 drawings, 2 million prints[2]
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art *, New York, US
- 15,000 drawings, 1.5 million prints[3]
- Albertina, Vienna, Austria
- 50,000 drawings, 1 million prints[4] Excludes 25,000 architectural drawings
- Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, Germany
- 110,000 drawings, 500,000 prints[5]
- Royal Library of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
- Over 20,000 drawings and 700,000 prints[6]
- State Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia
- 39,000 drawings, 486,000 prints[7]
- Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England
- 2,000 drawings, 500,000 prints[8] Excludes 600,000 architectural drawings, 100,000 design drawings and 10,000 British drawings [4] (V&A Collecting Plan Including Acquisition & Disposal Policy, August 2004)
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Over 500,000 prints and drawings[9]
- National Gallery in Prague, Collection of Prints and Drawings, Prague, Czech Republic
- 60,000 drawings, 400,000 prints[10]
- Bibliothèque Municipale, Lyon, France
- 203,500 prints[11]
- Cabinet des estampes et des dessins, Strasbourg, France
- Over 200,000 prints and drawings[12]
- Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England
- 20,000 drawings, 180,000 prints[13]
- Royal Collection, London, England
- 40,000 drawings, 150,000 prints[14] Including 600 drawings by Leonardo da Vinci
- Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
- 140,500 drawings, 43,000 prints[15] The main print collection is at the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
- Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, US
- 150,000 drawings and prints[16]
- Uffizi, Florence, Italy
- 120,000 drawings and prints[17]
- École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
- 20,000 drawings, 100,000 prints.[18][19] Excludes 45,000 architectural drawings
- National Gallery of Art, Washington, US
- 105,000 drawings and prints[20]
- Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Paris, France
- 100,000 prints[21]
- Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, US
- 11,500 drawings, 60,000 prints[22]
- Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon, France
- 10,500 drawings, 60,0000 prints[23]
- Musée des Beaux-Arts, Orléans, France
- 10,000 drawings, 50,000 prints[24]
- Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
- 6,000 drawings, 50,000 prints[25]
- Brooklyn Museum, New York, US
- 2,000 drawings, 40,000 prints[26]
- Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain
- 9,000 drawings, 6,000 prints.[27] The main drawing and print collection is at the Biblioteca Nacional de España.
- Zelandia Illustrata, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- 18,000 maps, prints, drawings, photographs, glass negatives, slides and postcards
- Museo ABC de Dibujo e Ilustración, Madrid, Spain
- 200,000 drawings and illustrations by 1,500 artists from 1891 up to the present
- Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
- 17,000 drawings, 60,000 to 70,000 prints[28]
- Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
- 130,000 prints and drawings[29]
- Teylers Museum Haarlem, The Netherlands[30]
- Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- 100,000 prints and drawings[31]
- Museum of Fine Arts Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
- 100,000 prints, 10,000 drawings [32]
- National Art Museum of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
- 50,000 drawings,[33] 70,000 prints[34]
- Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Madrid, Spain
- 15,300 drawings,[35] 35,000 prints[36]
- Hispanic Society of America, New York, US
- 6,000 drawings,[37] 15,000 prints[38]
- Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp, Belgium
- 75,000 drawings and prints[39]
- Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, Munich, Germany
- 400,000 drawings and prints[40]
References
- ^ "Guide de recherche au département des Estampes". Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 2024-03-04.
- ^ "Prints and Drawings". British Museum. 2015-03-20. Retrieved 2015-12-27.
- ^ [1] Archived August 19, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Die Albertina - Grafische Sammlung". Archived from the original on September 28, 2007. Retrieved August 19, 2007.
- ^ Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Generaldirektion. "Home - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin". Smb.spk-berlin.de. Retrieved 2015-12-27.
- ^ Royal Library of Belgium, Print Room. "Prints and Drawings - KBR". kbr.be. Retrieved 2019-12-01.
- ^ "The Hermitage Collections". Hermitagemuseum.org. Retrieved 2015-12-27.
- ^ "Word & Image Department - Victoria and Albert Museum". Vam.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2009-03-21. Retrieved 2015-12-27.
- ^ "Prints - Works of Art - Rijkstudio - Rijksmuseum". rijksmuseum.nl. Retrieved 2018-07-21.
- ^ "Úvod - Národní galerie v Praze". Ngprague.cz. Retrieved 2015-12-27.
- ^ "2021 Annual Report" (PDF). Municipal Library of Lyon. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
- ^ "Bilan des régions (hors musées nationaux)" (PDF). .culture.gouv.fr. French Ministry of Culture. p. 5. Retrieved 7 September 2019.
- ^ "The Fitzwilliam Museum : Overview". Fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk. 2013-10-29. Retrieved 2015-12-27.
- ^ "Royal Collection Trust". Royalcollection.org.uk. 2015-11-13. Retrieved 2015-12-27.
- ^ 2005 Annual Report – Tableau récapitulatif de l’état d'avancement de l'informatisation des collections fin 2005, page 185.
- ^ "Philadelphia Museum of Art - Collections : Curatorial Departments : Prints, Drawings & Photographs". Philamuseum.org. Retrieved 2015-12-27.
- ^ [2] Archived March 3, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Prints at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris". beauxartsparis.fr. Retrieved 2024-03-14.
- ^ "Drawings at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris". beauxartsparis.fr. Retrieved 2024-03-14.
- ^ "Prints and Drawings at the National Gallery of Art". nga.gov. Retrieved 2018-07-21.
- ^ "BNF - Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal". Archived from the original on May 20, 2010. Retrieved June 17, 2010.
- ^ "The Art Institute of Chicago: The Collection: Prints and Drawings". Archived from the original on February 2, 2007. Retrieved March 29, 2007.
- ^ [3] Archived December 11, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Musées de la région Centre : Présentation". www.musees.regioncentre.fr. Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
- ^ "MoMA : Study Centers". Moma.org. 2015-12-27.
- ^ "Brooklyn Museum: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs". Archived from the original on October 4, 2006. Retrieved March 29, 2007.
- ^ "Dibujos, estampas y fotografía - Colección - Museo Nacional del Prado". www.museodelprado.es. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
- ^ https://www.boijmans.nl/.
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- ^ "Teylers Museum – Kunst en wetenschap in Haarlem".
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- ^ "Exhibitions".
- ^ "Drawings | Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya". www.museunacional.cat. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
- ^ "Prints | Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya". www.museunacional.cat. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
- ^ "Catálogo digital de dibujos RABASF". www.academiacolecciones.com. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
- ^ Fernando, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San. "Estampas Calcografía Nacional". Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-05-15.
- ^ "Drawings". Hispanic Society of America. 2015-11-25. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
- ^ "Prints & Photographs". Hispanic Society of America. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
- ^ "The Print Cabinet | Museum Plantin-Moretus". www.museumplantinmoretus.be. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
- ^ "Die Sammlung / The collection - Staatliche graphische Sammlung - München".