Nouvelles de l'estampe is a scholarly journal on prints (etching, engraving, lithography, etc.) from the origin to nowadays. It is published by the Comité national de la gravure française and its office is at the prints department of the Bibliothèque nationale de France

Bibliothèque nationale de France

The is the National Library of France, located in Paris. It is intended to be the repository of all that is published in France. The current president of the library is Bruno Racine.-History:...

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History

The journal is founded in 1963 by Jean Adhémar

Jean Adhémar

Jean Adhémar was a French librarian, academic and art historian.-Sources:*http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/bec_0373-6237_1988_num_146_2_450511...

, then curator of the prints department of the National Library. At that time, it is not a journal by just a few sheets on prints news.

Michel Melot, also a curator of the prints department, becomes editor in 1971 and make the journal completely change. It is now a scholarly journal, publishing studies on either old prints or contemporary creations. But part of the journal is still about news (exhibitions, new publications,...)

It is taken into consideration by the Bibliography of the history of art (Getty Research Institute) and the Bibliographie de l'histoire de France (CNRS).

Editors in chief

• 1963-1971 : Jean Adhémar
  Jean Adhémar
  Jean Adhémar was a French librarian, academic and art historian.-Sources:*http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/bec_0373-6237_1988_num_146_2_450511...
  
  
• 1971-1982 : Michel Melot
• 1982-1988 : Marcelle Elgrishi-Gautrot
• 1988-1991 : Marianne Grivel
• 1991-2010 : Gérard Sourd
• 2010- : Rémi Mathis