Other heritage treasures

The Condé Museum Library

• Drawings and engravings

The Cabinet des Dessins in Chantilly houses one of the richest collections of drawings and engravings in France. It was constituted by the Duc d'Aumale (1822 - 1897).
Masterpieces by Raphael, Michael Angelo, Parmesan, Primatice, Durer, Rubens, Van Dyck, Nicolas Poussin, Claude Lorrain, Watteau, etc. In total, there are more than one hundred Poussin drawings (of which thirty three are recognised as being of the artist).




Albrecht Dürer,
L'Annonciation (The Herald)

Raphaël, Homme
portant un fardeau (Man carrying a burden)

For further information, please contact:
Nicole Garnier, Head Curator of the Condé Museum.
Tel: +33 3 44 62 64 69.
Fax: +33 3 44 62 62 61.
Email: ngarnier@chateaudechantilly.com

• Photographs

Chantilly houses an important collection of photographs, comprising around 1 400 printarts dating from the second half of the 19th century. The collection of the Duc d'Aumale reflects the different steps in the history of photography, from the generation of pioneers of photography, with Baldus, Le Gray or Fenton, up to the turn of the century with the first amateur photos by his nephew Robert d'Orléans, Duc de Chartres, from which industrial photography derived.

Gustave Le Gray, Brick au clair de lune