The collection, now around 15,000 prints, is still growing thanks to acquisitions that supplement existing groups or can be linked to other parts of the collection – drawings, paintings, letters, ... A number of Mannerist prints, which were not well represented, have recently been added to the collection, as has a small group of nineteenth-century Danish prints. The Fondation Custodia is also interested in contemporary etchers who are inspired by seventeenth-century Netherlandish etching. Almost the entire oeuvre of one of these artists, Frans Pannekoek (b. 1937), is present in the collection.
The collection, now around 15,000 prints, is still growing thanks to acquisitions that supplement existing groups or can be linked to other parts of the collection – drawings, paintings, letters, ... A number of Mannerist prints, which were not well represented, have recently been added to the collection, as has a small group of nineteenth-century Danish prints. The Fondation Custodia is also interested in contemporary etchers who are inspired by seventeenth-century Netherlandish etching. Almost the entire oeuvre of one of these artists, Frans Pannekoek (b. 1937), is present in the collection.