Past Exhibitions: 2002
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Two Tapestries Reinstalled
November 26, 2002 to January 26, 2003
During the winter of 2002 to 2003, visitors enjoyed two eighteenth-century tapestries woven by the Brussels workshop of Peter van den Hecke (c. 1752). On display in the Music Room on a half-year rotational basis, these rare hangings are important for their state of preservation, the significance of their design, their royal provenance, and the evidence regarding the identity of their maker and manufacture.
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Masterpieces of European Painting from the Toledo Museum of Art
October 29, 2002 to January 5, 2003
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Poussin, Claude, and Their World: Seventeenth-Century French Drawings from the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris
September 18, 2002 to December 1, 2002
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Greuze: The Draftsman
May 14, 2002 to August 4, 2002
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Martin Carlin's Mechanical Table
April 30, 2002 to August 18, 2002
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Masterpieces by Gilbert Stuart and Anthony Van Dyck Return to the Galleries
March 21, 2002 to April 25, 2002
Gilbert Stuart was the foremost portrait painter of the newly formed United States. He painted many of the most prominent figures of his day, including the first five American presidents, but none of the thousand portraits he made attained such renown as the three he painted from life of George Washington and those he replicated to order throughout his later career.
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Two Rediscovered Tapestries
March 19, 2002
After an initial preview last summer, visitors were again able to enjoy two eighteenth-century tapestries woven by the Brussels workshop of Peter van den Hecke (c. 1752). Displayed in the Music Room, these rare hangings are important for their state of preservation, the significance of their design, their royal provenance, and the evidence regarding the identity of their maker and manufacture.
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The Art of the Timekeeper: Masterpieces from the Winthrop Edey Bequest
November 14, 2001 to February 24, 2002
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Mantegna's Descent into Limbo, from the Barbara Piasecka Johnson Collection
September 8, 2000 to July 8, 2002
Andrea Mantegna (1431–1506) painted this small panel during the height of the Italian Renaissance, using detailed, emotion-filled images to depict the moment when Christ appears to the souls in Limbo. The original work was created for Marchese Lodovico Gonzaga in June of 1468. Because it was so highly regarded, several other versions were made, including this smaller one, which was probably done for Ferdinando Carlo, the last Duke of Mantua, around 1470–75.
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Six Paintings from the Former Collection of Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney on Loan from the Greentree Foundation
July 25, 2000 to April 21, 2002
The Greentree Foundation generously lent to The Frick Collection for a period of one year six master paintings from the former collection of Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney. The group included Corot's Cottage and Mill by a Torrent (Morvan or Auvergne), 1831; Manet's Racecourse at the Bois de Boulogne, 1872; Degas' Before the Race, 1882-88, and Landscape with Mounted Horsemen, c.
