Resources and Links

CollectionCountryCity/Loc.No. of DrawingsNo. of Drawings OnlineNotes
Accademia Carrara, Ambrosiana, Brera, Poldi Pezzoli, and other Lombard CollectionsItalyLombardy Region3,223Site of the Beni Culturali, Lombardy
Albertina, Grafische SammlungAustriaVienna50,0005,000 prints and drawings online. Drawings not broken out.
Ambrosiana, BibliotecaItalyMilan12,0008,315
Art Institute of ChicagoUSAChicago11,5006,797
Ashmolean Museum - Oxford Univ.UKOxford5,090
Basel KunstmuseumSwitzerlandBasel300,000 prints, drawings, and watercolors. 2513 online
Biblioteca NacionalSpainMadrid45,000
Bologna – Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna, Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle StampeItalyBologna9,000192
Boston Museum of Fine ArtsUSABoston712
British MuseumUKLondon50,000
Cleveland Museum of ArtUSACleveland3,7333,733
Cologne – Wallraf-RichartzGermanyCologne1,0001,000 19th century drawings in database. 75,000 prints and drawings in coll.
Courtauld Inst. of ArtUKLondon7,260
Detroit Institute of Fine ArtsUSADetroit2,50035,000 prints, drawings, photographs, watercolors, posters and artists books
Dresden – Staatliche KunstsammlungGermanyDresden377500,000 works on paper
École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-ArtsFranceParis65,00033,69420,000 drawings and 45,000 architectural drawings
Fitzwilliam Museum - Cambridge UniversityUKCambridge17,40640,000 paintings, drawings, and prints
Flemish Art Collections – Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, the Groeninge Museum Bruges and the Museum of Fine Arts GhentBelgiumAntwerp, Bruges, Ghent40,000
Getty MuseumUSALos Angeles700700
Harvard University Art Museums - Fogg, Busch-Reisinger etc.USACambridge24,451Fogg has 12,000 drawings.
LA County Museum of ArtUSALos Angeles
Leiden UniversityNetherlandsLeiden12,489
LouvreFranceParis140,000140,000
Metropolitan Museum of ArtUSANew York15,00056,663 prints and drawings
Morgan LibraryUSANew York10,0007,444Strangely, no images in database
Museum of Modern ArtUSANew York10,0005,960
National Gallery of CanadaCanadaOttawa11,13624,000 prints and drawings. 5,595 drawings with images
National Gallery of ScotlandUKEdinburgh20,000525
National Gallery, Washington, DCUSAWashington DC32,1071,953 with images
National Library of IrelandIrelandDublin100,000 prints and drawings
National MuseumSwedenStockholmsee note21,235500,000 prints and drawings. 2,000 French drawings of Carl Gustaf Tessin.
Philadelphia Museum of ArtUSAPhiladelphia652150,000 prints, drawings, and photographs
Prado, Museo Nacional delSpainMadrid6,300556
Princeton University Art MuseumUSAPrinceton7,0001,133
RijksmuseumNetherlandsAmsterdam3,495800,000 prints, drawings, and photographs
Royal Collections - Windsor etc.UKWindsor40,0001,072
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of BelgiumBelgiumBrussels2,018
Smith College Museum of ArtUSANorthampton1,600Smith shares database w. area colleges
TateUKLondon48,041Unique Works of Art is phrase used on site.
Uffizi and other State Museums in FlorenceItalyFlorence3,780145,000 records of paintings, sculptures etc. drawings not broken out. Uffizi has 120,000 prints and drawings.
Victoria & Albert UKLondon1,000,000 objects online. Data for drawings not broken out.
Yale University Art GalleryUSANew Haven8,1748,174

January 2010

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