Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art

The Institute develops scientific activity and contributes to international cooperation in most fields of art history and heritage by exercising research, training and knowledge-diffusion.

[3][4] INHA's Department of Education and Research (Département des Études et de la Recherche, DER) is also located at this site.

[12] Further acquisitions have expanded the collections of INHA's library to include approximately 1,800 manuscripts, 20,000 rare books, 30,000 prints and drawings (including ones by Manet, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh, and Matisse; exceptional Japanese prints by Utamaro; and a rich collection of posters), more than 45,00 autograph letters by artists and art critics, 96,000 cartons of exposition invitations (an inexhaustible source of information concerning the circulation of works of art), and 750,000 photographs.

It organises study days, symposiums, conferences and meeting-debates and develops different resources, documentary bases and research programs in art history.

[2] The INHA provides access to external and internal online databases like AGORHA (Accès global et organisé aux ressources en histoire de l’art) which allows several search modes in 54 research fields of the INHA, like the RETIF (Répertoire des tableaux italiens dans les collections publiques françaises (XIIIe-XIXe siècles)) which gives (clic on Consulter les données, then on Oeuvres) the 14,056 Italian paintings held in French public collections, the RETIB Recensement des tableaux ibériques dans les collections publiques françaises (1300-1870) or the Recensement de la peinture produite en France au XVIe siècle.