Cabinet des estampes et des dessins
The Cabinet des estampes et des dessins (Print room) is a museum in Strasbourg in the Bas-Rhin department of France. It is dedicated to the municipal collection of prints (estampes) and drawings (dessins), but also woodcuts and lithographs, covering a period of five centuries from the 14th to the 19th. The municipal collections of graphic art since 1870 are displayed in the Musée d'art moderne et contemporain and in the Tomi Ungerer Museum.
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Cabinet des estampes et des dessins
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- Cabinet des estampes et des dessins
- Founded
- 1890.
- Headquarters
- France.
- Part of
- musées de la ville de Strasbourg.
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The Cabinet des estampes et des dessins (Print room) is a museum in Strasbourg in the Bas-Rhin department of France. It is dedicated to the municipal collection of prints (estampes) and drawings (dessins), but also woodcuts and lithographs, covering a period of five centuries from the 14th to the 19th. The municipal collections of graphic art since 1870 are displayed in the Musée d'art moderne et contemporain and in the Tomi Ungerer Museum.
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The collection was founded in 1890 by Wilhelm von Bode during his rebuilding and reorganisation of the city's art collections. It includes works by Albrecht Dürer, Albrecht Altdorfer, Hans Baldung, Hendrik Goltzius, Antonio del Pollaiuolo, Honoré Daumier, Philip James de Loutherbourg and the Master of the Drapery Studies. The Cabinet des estampes et des dessins was estimated to house 200,291 pieces as of 31 December 2015, and was notably enriched in 2019 by a major donation of 33 drawings and 5 engravings by artists such as Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Jacques Callot, and Rembrandt.
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• Name — Cabinet des estampes et des dessins • Website — https: en.musees.strasbourg.eu/print-room
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1890
Cabinet des estampes et des dessins established.
1890
Cabinet des estampes et des dessins was established or created on 1 January 1890.
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The circumstances in which Cabinet des estampes et des dessins stands. Established or created on 1 January 1890. Recorded at coordinates 48.5811, 7.7508. Recorded as art museum. dessins lies within Strasbourg. Situated in France.
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 10064070-9, Cabinet des Estampes et des Dessins (Straßburg).
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q655668: Cabinet des estampes et des dessins
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Gemeinsame Normdatei 10064070-9, Cabinet des Estampes et des Dessins (Straßburg).Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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