Acquisitions

By the end of 2022, Rijksmuseum’s Decorative Art Fund, established by private benefactors with aim forming a collection drawings for decorative arts, will celebrate its tenth anniversary. This be marked an exhibition, Process: Design Drawings from Rijksmuseum 1500-1900, to held at Museum in Den Bosch and afterwards Fondation Custodia Paris. The show is accompanied catalogue presenting about 250 drawings: indeed coming age! And it continues grow, as evidenced selection brought together here, almost entirely acquired after choice exhibition had been finalized. Research on these ongoing, only some preliminary findings are presented this point.
 expansion possible because unflinching support Fund’s founders many other benefactors. Some their names appear notes individual acquisitions, but there more, we deeply grateful them all.