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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s Department of Drawings, Prints & Graphic Design is home to over 1,500 Netherlandish works on paper from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries. Works range broadly from designs for objects and interiors, to prints, and fine art drawings. The collections can be requested and viewed at the department’s Drue Heinz Study Center.
Of special interest are the department’s collection of Rembrandt prints, drawings by the goldsmith Jan Lutma and his circle, and one of the largest holdings of preparatory drawings by Johannes Stradanus. Other notable artists represented in print include Lucas van Leyden, Martin van Heemskerk, Adriaen Collaert, Jan van Doetecum the Elder, the Sadeler family, Marten de Vos, Cornelis Cort, Hendrick Goltzius, Romeyn de Hooghe, Gérard de Lairesse, Theodor de Bry, Pieter van den Heyden, Nicholas Berchem, and Anthony van Dyck. The collection also features drawings by Abraham Bloemart, Isaac de Moucheron, Jacob de Wit.
Jamie Kwan, Assistant Curator, Drawings, Prints & Graphic Design (August 2026)