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Internet resources listed below link to Web sites that are not affiliated with The Frick Collection and the Frick Art Reference Library. For additional Internet resources, search FRESCO.
Library Catalogs — Union Catalogs
Library Catalogs — New York City
Library Catalogs — United States
Library Catalogs — International
Library Directories
Archives
Includes papers of artists, art dealers, art historians, collectors, and others; records of art galleries, museums and art organizations; videos; and interviews from the oral history project.
Includes records for archival collections related to artists held in repositories in Scotland, Wales, and England.
Inventories and other documents from city, state, and national archives. Works of art from private collections in France, Italy, the Netherlands, and Spain. Covers the years 1550 to 1840.
Evaluation version of the the Document Sources database contains information on approximately 200 titles, 10,000 letter, and 11,000 biographies related to the Medici Granducal Archive (Archivio Mediceo del Principato) in Florence, Italy. The ultimate goal of the project is to offer a detailed finding aid for all items in the Archive for 1537 to 1743. The Archive spans from Cosimo I establishing the Medici state to the death of Anna Maria Luisa the last of the Medici.
Lists materials at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., the regional archives, and the presidential libraries. Includes digital copies of some text and visual material.
Collection-level records of archival materials held at repositories in the United States and its territories.
Index of archival resources on the Internet.
Indexes
Sponsored by the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI). Contains abstracts of literature related to the preservation and conservation of material cultural heritage. Updated quarterly. (Requires user registration)
Indexes published and in-process catalogue raisonnés.
Indexes fine art works exhibited in the United States and Canada up through 1876. Includes information from exhibition catalogs, broadsides, newspaper articles, and gallery notices for artists of all nationalities who were exhibiting in the United States prior to 1877. Covers fine arts media: drawings, graphic arts, paintings, photographs, sculpture, and silhouettes. Decorative arts are excluded.
Indexes watermarks and paper used for prints and drawings all over the world for the years 1450 to 1800. Please see a Reading Room staff member for access.
Reference
Index of art historians mentioned in major art historiographies. Sponsored by Duke University.
General source for information on mythology, folklore, and legends from around the world.
General source for information about conducting provenance research.
Knowledge base of articles related to the fine and decorative arts, with the exception of contemporary art.
Vocabulary
Comprehensive hierarchical vocabulary of art historical and cultural heritage terminology. Includes nearly 120,000 terms for describing objects, materials, styles, processes, etc. From the Getty Vocabulary Program.
Vocabulary list of terms related to the decorative arts. Provided by Christie's auction house.
Contains more than one million place names, with hierarchically arranged geographic data. Provides vernacular, English and historical names, as well as additional identifying information. From the Getty Vocabulary Program.
Contains more than 200,000 names, with basic identifying information, representing more than 100,000 artists and architects, from ancient to contemporary. Includes pseudonyms, nicknames, and orthographic and linguistic variants. From the Getty Vocabulary Program.
Images
Index of images from museum websites, image archives, and other online resources. As of March 2000, includes over 24,000 links to an estimated 80,000 works by 7,000 different artists.
Records describing medieval and early Renaissance manuscript holdings at the Bancroft Library (University of California at Berkeley) and Columbia University. Includes sample images from each of the nearly 700 codices and 2000 documents (eighth to the sixteenth century) in these collections.
Photoarchives
Includes more than 266,000 item-level and object-level records, which lead to more than 700,000 photographs. Covers Western fine and decorative arts from antiquity to the modern period.
- RKD (Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie) [Netherlands Institute for Art History], the Hague
Contains records for more than 127,000 photographic negatives, including the works of more than 11,000 American artists. Negatives are from the Peter A. Juley & Son fine art photography studio, which was active in New York City from 1896 to 1975. Most of the entries are index listings with some entries containing digital images. More than 2,000 digital images of artist portraits are available. (http://sirismm.si.edu/siris/julquickstart.htm)
- Witt Library
Contains reproductions of Western Art from 1200 to the present; focusing on paintings, drawings, and prints.
Inventories
Contains texts and images that document the links between the art and architecture of classical antiquity and the Renaissance. Illustrates the study of classical antiquity by Renaissance artists. Antique monuments known in the Renaissance together with their related Renaissance documents are included; as well as related information about locations, persons, periods, and bibliographic data.
Description and provenance of paintings by artists born before 1900 at American and British public institutions. Covers the years 1500 to 1990.
Goupil & Cie was a central force on the French art market of the nineteenth century. Founded in 1827, the Parisian gallery soon established branches in London, Berlin, Brussels, New York, and The Hague. Intended to provide a broad network for the distribution of reproductive prints, Goupil & Cie carried the work of academic artists, major painters of the Romantic generation, and all the principal figures of the Barbizon School. Besides some Impressionist paintings, the gallery also pursued minor trade in Old Masters.
The 7 1/2 stock books from the main office and showroom of Goupil & Cie in Paris give the date of acquisition, name of seller (and sometimes their address), dimensions of work, name of purchaser, date of sale, and selling price for 10,164 works of art bought and sold by the gallery from 1846 to 1875. With a stronger emphasis on Impressionist works, the 7 1/2 ledgers of its successor—Boussod, Valadon & Co.—continue the records through 1919 (approximately 20,000 entries).
Contains more than 335,000 records describing American paintings and sculptures. Includes the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914, which is a national census of paintings created by American artists working prior to 1914, and the Inventory of American Sculpture, which covers works created by artists born or active in the United States through the twentieth century.
Collection records of the National Portrait Gallery and the research records of the Catalog of American Portraits.
Auctions
Online version of the Guide Mayer auction results reference book. More than one million records for auctions held at more than 900 auction houses. Covers fine arts and decorative arts. Lists results back to 1987. Please see a Reading Room staff member for access or register individually.
More than two million records for individual lots sold at auctions worldwide from the 1920s to the present. Covers fine arts (including paintings, watercolors, prints, drawings, and photography). Please see a Reading Room staff member for access or register individually.
Lists catalogs from nineteenth-century Belgian (1801-40), British (1801-35), Dutch (1801-20), French (1801-20), German (1670-1800) and Scandinavian (1670-1800) sales. Lists paintings sold at primarily nineteenth-century sales in Belgium (1801-40), Great Britain (1801-35), the Netherlands (1801-20), France (1801-20), Germany (1670-1800), and Scandinavia (1670-1800).
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