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The Princes Czartoryski Museum is a branch of the National Museum in Cracow. This historical aristocratic collection includes works by artists such as Albert Bouts, Joos van Cleve, Caspar Netscher, Daniel de Blieck, and Hendrick van Steenwijck, but the pride of the collection is the painting Landscape with the Good Samaritan (1638) by Rembrandt.
The Print Room of the Czartoryski Museum has engravings and drawings by Flemish and Dutch artists from the fifteenth to nineteenth century, including Rembrandt’s engravings Polander Standing with Arms Folded, Beggar Woman, Cottages on the Canal, and Three Trees. It also contains a rich collection of engravings by Willem Hondius with illustrations of Polish figures of rank as well as engravings by Pieter Schenck, Romeyn de Hooghe, and Lambert Cornelis. The drawing collection includes works by Jacob de Wit, Johan Wierix, Maerten de Vos, Pieter Stevens II, Erasmus II Quellinus, Jan Pynas, Gerard David, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Hans Bol, Jan de Bisschop, and Jan van Goyen.
The Princes Czartoryski Library has a significant collection of fifteenth-century Dutch art, consisting of fifteen illuminated manuscripts acquired in the early nineteenth century. They include works by the Golden Scrolls Group, a codex from the circle of Willem Vrelant, miniatures by Master Margiet Uutenham, the Master of the Dresden Prayerbook, and the Berlin Master of Mary of Burgundy.
Dr. Katarzyna Płonka-Bałus, Curator of Illuminated Manuscripts at the Czartoryski Museum in Cracow (July 2024)