Loans
Lobkowicz Collections o.p.s. continually strives to expand lending to exhibitions as a key way of making The Lobkowicz Collections more widely available to the public. Since 1993, over 170 works of art have been lent to museums in the Czech Republic and abroad. Loans have been made to international institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, the Royal Academy of Art in London and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
Current Loans
Loan of the Antonio Canaletto painting London: The Thames on Lord Mayor's Day, looking towards the City and St. Paul's Cathedral (c. 1750) to the exhibition Royal River: Power, Pageantry and the Thames at the National Maritime Museum (Greenwich, United Kingdom) from 27 April 2012 through 9 September 2012.
Loan of the Cornelis de Baellieur painting A Cabinet of Curiosities to the exhibition Rembrandt & Co.: Stories Told by Prosperous Age at the Stenberg Palace (Prague) from 10 February 2012 through 27 May 2012.
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Recent Loans
Loan of eleven pieces of Delft dinnerware from the ambassadorial service ordered by Count Wenzel Ferdinand Lobkowicz of Bilina, c. 1685 to the exhibition Porcelain at Prague Castle at the Royal Summer Palace (Prague) from 31 May 2011 through 11 September 2011.
Loan of six portraits depicting Rožmberk Family Members and an illustrated inventory of 17th-century tableware to the exhibition The Rozmberk Family: An Aristocratic Family and Its Journey Through History at the Wallenstein Riding School (Prague) from 19 May 2011 through 20 August 2011.
Loan of the painting Portrait of Prince František Vilém Ignác Lobkowicz (1659-1698), Bohemian School, (late 17th century), to the exhibition Undeniably Me at the Rudolfinum Gallery (Prague) from 26 May 2011 through 14 August 2011.
Loan of a pair of paintings by Johan Heinrich Schönfeld: The Martyrdoms of Saints Stephen and Lawrence to the exhibition Karel Škréta (1610-1674): His Work and His Era at the Prague Castle Riding School (Prague) from 24 November 2010 through 10 April 2011.
Loan of the Jezeri Bust (St. Ursula) (c. 1340) to the exhibition A Royal Marriage: Elisabeth Premyslid & John of Luxembourg 1310 at The Stone Bell House (Prague) from 4 November 2010 through 6 February 2011.
Loan of the painting St. Adalbert with Jan Hus from the Vlineves Altar, late Bohemian school (c. 15th century) to the exhibition The Art of Bohemian Reformation (1380-1620) at the Prague Castle Riding School (Prague) from 16 December 2009 through 4 April 2010.
Loan of an early Hungarian Codex to the exhibition The Literary Relics of the Hungarian Language at the National Library (Budapest) from 29 October 2009 through 28 February 2010.
Loan of a dish from the Dietrichstein service (late 16th century) to the exhibition Provinces of Lower Austria, Telc Castle (Telc), from 17 April 2009 through 1 November 2009.
Loan of the painting Portrait of Juan de Borja y Castro (2nd half of 16th century) and a print of a portrait of Archduke Charles as pretender to the Spanish throne after 1701 to the exhibition Spanish Prague at the Imperial Stables of Prague Castle (Prague) from 18 March 2009 to 28 June 2009.
Loan of the Biblia Bohemica, Saint Wenceslas Bible (translated into Czech between 1677 and 1715) to the exhibition The Czech Bible Over the Centuries at the Slovak Museum (Uherské Hradiště), the Berlaymont Palace (Brussels) and the Galerie Karolinum (Prague) from October 2008 through March 2009.
Loan of two newly restored paintings painted by Carl Robert Croll A View on the River Vltava at Kamýk (1842) and A View of the Castle of Bílina (1843) to the exhibition Biedermeier: Art and Culture in the Bohemian Lands 1814-1848 at the Prague Castle Riding School (Prague) from 28 May 2008 through 28 September 2008.
Loan of manuscripts, incunabula and other items from the Bohuslav Lobkowicz Library to the exhibition Dialogue with Death. Bohuslav Hassenstein of Lobkowicz – A Poet of the Jagiellonian Age at the Imperial Stables of Prague Castle (Prague) from 27 February 2007 through 1 July 2007. This was the most extensive loan from The Lobkowicz Collections. The list included an oil portrait of the poet and an archive document along with two manuscripts and fifteen early printed books from Bohuslav’s famous private library.
Loan of a Bohemian parcel-gilt gem-set Reliquiary Cross by Paul Nietsch, Breslau (before 1609) to the exhibition Silesia: A Pearl in the Bohemian Crown at the Riding School of the Prague Castle (Prague) from 17 April 2006 through 8 April 2007.
Loan of the Jezeri Bust (St. Ursula) (c. 1340) to exhibition Charles IV —Emperor by the Grace of God at the Prague Castle Picture Gallery (Prague) from 16 February 2006 through 21 May 2006.
Loan of the Jezeri Bust, (St. Ursula) (c. 1340) to the exhibition Prague, The Crown of Bohemia at the The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) from 20th September 2005 through 31 January 2006.
Loan of a painting by Lucas Cranach the Younger (1515 –1586): Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery to the exhibition Lucas Cranach and the Czech Lands at the Prague Castle Picture Gallery (Prague) from 22 October 2005 through 8th January 2006.
