1996

Exhibitions presented at The Frick Collection during 1996.

Past Exhibition: Soane: Connoisseur & Collector

Painting of design and construction of church
Soane: Connoisseur & Collector, A Selection of Drawings from Sir John Soane’s Collection
April 30, 1996 to July 7, 1996

An exhibition of some fifty architectural drawings, highlights of the renowned collection of 30,000 works housed in Sir John Soane's Museum in London. The exhibition included works by Italian Renaissance masters; leading British architects of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (among them Sir Christopher Wren and Nicholas Hawksmoor); near contemporaries of Soane such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam, and George Dance the Younger; and the master himself. The drawings were virtually unknown to the public, and they had never before been exhibited outside England.

Past Exhibition: Greuze, A Portraitist for the ‘90s

Pastel bust portrait of Nicolas-Pierre-Baptiste Anselme with white scarf, blue coat, and powdered hair.
Greuze, A Portraitist for the ‘90s
February 20, 1996 to April 28, 1996

A small exhibition focused on a pair of pastel portraits by Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725–1805) that had recently been acquired by the museum: Baptiste Aîné and Madame Baptiste Aîné. Executed in Paris in the early 1790s, these dramatic images of a famous actor and his wife belong to an impressive series of portraits that Greuze painted and drew during the turbulent years of the French Revolution.