1988

Past Exhibition: Fragonard's The Progress of Love

Painting of woman in 17th century dress leaning against a pillar topped by a cupid.
Fragonard's The Progress of Love
February 2, 1988 to May 7, 1988

Throughout the duration of the Fragonard exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Frick Collection exhibited all fourteen of its canvases composing Jean-Honoré Fragonard's The Progress of Love, an ensemble that Pierre Rosenberg, chief curator of paintings at the Louvre, succinctly describes in his catalogue of the exhibition as "the artist’s masterpiece."  

Past Exhibition: Francois-Marius Granet

watercolor painting of boat on the river Seine in Paris.
Francois-Marius Granet: Watercolors from the Musée Granet at Aix-en-Provence
November 21, 1988 to January 15, 1989

An exhibition of sixty watercolors by Granet lent by The Musée Granet in Aix-en-Provence, organized by The Frick Collection. The works were painted after 1830 and show views of Paris, Versailles, and the Ile-de-France. After New York, the show traveled to the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.