Department XV - Graphic art room
Department XV - Graphic art room
The Room has an impressive collection of prints, drawings, architectural plans, reproductions and printing plates. They are not on view permanently but more than sixty works supplement the gallery on the 1st floor of the Palace and the exhibition devoted to the Czartoryskis’ history and museum at the Monastery.
There are over 46,000 prints and over 6,600 drawings that were an integral part of the historical collection that the family gathered from the second half of the 18th century onwards.
The main body of the collection are iconographic prints. As early as the second half of the 19th century, separate sections for portraits of Polish and foreign celebrities, historical prints, religious prints and views of Polish and foreign towns were established. Images of Polish rulers and their families demonstrate the masterly skills of their makers, among them Virgil Solis, Aegidius Sadelera, Wolfgang and Lucas Kilian and Romeyn de Hooghe. The prints on Polish topics are definitely the best collection of polonica in Europe.
Collections of individual printmakers’ output deserve special attention as they often represent the bulk of the artists’ graphic oeuvre. The most valuable are prints by Jacques Callot, Stefano Della Bell, Jean Baptiste Le Prince, Jeremiasz Falck, Daniel Chodowiecki, Antoni Oleszczyński and Aleksander Orłowski.
The works that demonstrate exceptionally high quality include a collection of early Italian prints from the 15th and 16th centuries (e.g. copperplates by Mantegna, Marcantonio Raimondi and the Master with the Dice) and a group of prints by Antwerp Mannerists. Among the finest are Albrecht Dürer’s prints, the suit ‘Twelve Grand Landscapes’ after Pieter Brueghel the Elder, published by Hieronim Cock, and Rembrandt’s Landscape With Three Trees. The last three items listed were a part of Josef Carl Klinkosch’s famous Viennese collection, which was bought at auction in 1889 by the Polish art collector Bolesław Wołodkowicz, and presented in 1897 to the Princes Czartoryski Museum. The same bequest comprised the collection’s key drawing masterpieces: Gerard David’s Three Female Heads, Pieter Brueghel the Elder’s Landscape With A Rocky Island, Hans Bol’s Spring In The Castle Garden, Jan van Goyen’s Winter Landscape With A Frozen Canal, and 21 drawings from Giandomenico Tiepolo’s ‘Cupids And Putti’. The collection of foreign drawings at Puławy was enlarged during the emigration period in Paris and additionally through a generous gift of works by Sinibald Scorza, Baltassare Peruzzi, Hubert Robert, Jakob Philipp Hackert and others, as well as an assemblage of oriental miniatures - not very numerous but unique for Poland
The Graphic Art Room has in its possession works by Teofil Kwiatkowski, Jacek Malczewski and Tadeusz Kosciusko, as well as some 600 drawings and sketches by Jean Pierre Norblin, a French artist who was brought to Poland to the court of Izabela and Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski to take the position of their kids’ drawing teacher. The collection has a wealth of sketches made by members of the Czartoryski family and their kindred.
Moreover, the Room stores architectural plans of some 700 buildings, notably the complete set of designs for the conversion of the houses at the corner of św. Jana and Pijarska St., the former Piarist Monastery and the Arsenal, to the Museum and Library of Princes Czartoryski.
Also at this Department, there is a small group of 33 printing plates dating from the 17th-19th centuries, which represent all the major old printing techniques, from copper engraving and etching to aquatint and lithography.
There are over 46,000 prints and over 6,600 drawings that were an integral part of the historical collection that the family gathered from the second half of the 18th century onwards.
The main body of the collection are iconographic prints. As early as the second half of the 19th century, separate sections for portraits of Polish and foreign celebrities, historical prints, religious prints and views of Polish and foreign towns were established. Images of Polish rulers and their families demonstrate the masterly skills of their makers, among them Virgil Solis, Aegidius Sadelera, Wolfgang and Lucas Kilian and Romeyn de Hooghe. The prints on Polish topics are definitely the best collection of polonica in Europe.
Collections of individual printmakers’ output deserve special attention as they often represent the bulk of the artists’ graphic oeuvre. The most valuable are prints by Jacques Callot, Stefano Della Bell, Jean Baptiste Le Prince, Jeremiasz Falck, Daniel Chodowiecki, Antoni Oleszczyński and Aleksander Orłowski.
The works that demonstrate exceptionally high quality include a collection of early Italian prints from the 15th and 16th centuries (e.g. copperplates by Mantegna, Marcantonio Raimondi and the Master with the Dice) and a group of prints by Antwerp Mannerists. Among the finest are Albrecht Dürer’s prints, the suit ‘Twelve Grand Landscapes’ after Pieter Brueghel the Elder, published by Hieronim Cock, and Rembrandt’s Landscape With Three Trees. The last three items listed were a part of Josef Carl Klinkosch’s famous Viennese collection, which was bought at auction in 1889 by the Polish art collector Bolesław Wołodkowicz, and presented in 1897 to the Princes Czartoryski Museum. The same bequest comprised the collection’s key drawing masterpieces: Gerard David’s Three Female Heads, Pieter Brueghel the Elder’s Landscape With A Rocky Island, Hans Bol’s Spring In The Castle Garden, Jan van Goyen’s Winter Landscape With A Frozen Canal, and 21 drawings from Giandomenico Tiepolo’s ‘Cupids And Putti’. The collection of foreign drawings at Puławy was enlarged during the emigration period in Paris and additionally through a generous gift of works by Sinibald Scorza, Baltassare Peruzzi, Hubert Robert, Jakob Philipp Hackert and others, as well as an assemblage of oriental miniatures - not very numerous but unique for Poland
The Graphic Art Room has in its possession works by Teofil Kwiatkowski, Jacek Malczewski and Tadeusz Kosciusko, as well as some 600 drawings and sketches by Jean Pierre Norblin, a French artist who was brought to Poland to the court of Izabela and Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski to take the position of their kids’ drawing teacher. The collection has a wealth of sketches made by members of the Czartoryski family and their kindred.
Moreover, the Room stores architectural plans of some 700 buildings, notably the complete set of designs for the conversion of the houses at the corner of św. Jana and Pijarska St., the former Piarist Monastery and the Arsenal, to the Museum and Library of Princes Czartoryski.
Also at this Department, there is a small group of 33 printing plates dating from the 17th-19th centuries, which represent all the major old printing techniques, from copper engraving and etching to aquatint and lithography.