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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: H-235Last update of repository: 18 March 2020Gosudarstvennyi Ermitazh (GE)Otdel zapadnoevropeiskogo izobrazitel'nogo iskusstva [Division of Western European Fine Arts] Telephone: +7 812 710-98-03 Fax: +7 812 571-35-91 E-mail: [email protected]Website: http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/wps/po... Opening hours: WTh 11:00–17:00Head: Sergei Olegovich Androsov (tel. +7 812 710-98-03) Holdings Total: ca. 550,000 units; 12th–20th cc. MS books and manuscripts—ca. 32 units; drawings—ca. 40,000 units; miniatures—over 2,100 units; engravings and lithographs—ca. 486,000 units Archival and manuscript materials are found in several different sectors within the Division of Western European Art. The Sector for Drawings holds materials from a number of private collections, including those of Count Ludwig von Cobenzl (K. Kobentsl') (acquired in 1768), Count Heinrich Brühl (G. Briul') (1769), P.P. Divov (1833), Luigi Grassi (1862), Prince A.B. Lobanov-Rostovskii (1897), Grand Duke Sergei Aleksandrovich (1911), E.A. Evreinova (1913), and S.P. Iaremich (1919); and those acquired after the Revolution (1925–1929) through the State Museum Fond from the nationalized collections of the Shuvalov, Iusupov, Stroganov, and Saxe-Altenburg families, among others. Important institutional collections include those from the Library of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (the collection of Peter I), the Baron Stieglitz (Shtiglits) Library and Museum (1923–1927), the library and museums of the Academy of Arts (1924), the Winter Palace and its library, the State Russian Museum (1929–1930), and the abolished State Museum of Modern Western Art in Moscow (1934–1949). The drawings themselves are only mentioned in passing here, as most of them should be considered “art” rather than “archival” materials. The Sector for Drawings has a number of manuscripts of Western European provenance (early 12th–19th cc.) in French, Italian, Dutch, German, Spanish, and Greek, including 22 illuminated with miniatures, and 2 with drawings. Most of these were transferred from the Hermitage Library and had been acquired from previously private collections, including the Library of the Baron Stieglitz Central School of Industrial Art. These include, for example, an early twelfth-century Psalter, a “Hunting Book” of Gaston Phoebus, Count de Foix (late 14th c.), the “Principles of Government” of Diomedes Caraffa (1477), the “Roman de la Rose” (early 16th c.), and a manuscript copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Treatise on Painting” (mid-1630s). There are graphic works representative of all the Western European schools from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries in various media, including drawings of architectural monuments and decoration, ornamental and applied art, landscapes and portraits. There are also collections of pastels and miniatures, technical architectural drafts amd drawings by European and Russian architects, and drawings done by theatrical decorators and designers. There are drawings by such architects as Auguste de Montferrand, A.N. Voronikhin, Jean-François Thomas de Thomon, and Giacomo Quarenghi. There are the watercolors of K.A. Ukhtomskii, E.P. Gau, and Luigi Premazzi, depicting the interiors of the imperial palace, among other subjects. The Sector of Engravings includes Western European engravings, lithographs, and other types of prints acquired from many important Western European collections (15th–20th cc). They have not been retained as part of their originating collections, but are rather catalogued as individual folios, albums, and displays, featuring various genres and techniques. These range from a collection of English caricatures (late 18th–early 19th cc.) to albums of original engravings and prints, and reproductions from originals by many prominent European masters. |
