Past
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Constable's Salisbury Cathedral: Two Versions Reunited
September 21, 1999 to December 31, 1999
Between 1820 and 1826, John Constable (1776–1837) executed three oil sketches and three finished paintings depicting Salisbury Cathedral from the south side, rising over the green expanse of the bishop's grounds. All are linked to a commission of 1822 from Constable's friend and patron Bishop John Fisher, who asked him to develop one of the sketches into a finished work.
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Manet's The Dead Toreador and The Bullfight: Fragments of a Lost Salon Painting Reunited
May 25, 1999 to August 29, 1999
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The Medieval Housebook: A View of Fifteenth-Century Life
May 18, 1999 to July 25, 1999
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French and English Drawings of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries from the National Gallery of Canada
February 9, 1999 to April 25, 1999
This exhibition of sixty-seven drawings from the collection of the National Gallery of Canada was organized by that museum in collaboration with The Frick Collection. It offered a rich sampling of the treasures assembled by the Department of Prints and Drawings since its founding in 1921, including works by Boucher and Degas acquired only last year.
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Drouais' Portrait of Madame de Pompadour from The National Gallery, London
January 26, 1999 to May 13, 1999
On view for the first time in the United States, the celebrated full-length portrait of Madame de Pompadour by the French artist François-Hubert Drouais (1727–75) was presented at New York's Frick Collection. Regarded as one of the greatest and most popular treasures at the National Gallery in London, the portrait was the last one painted of the Marquise de Pompadour, the influential mistress of French King Louis XV.
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Figurative Invention: Drawings from the Permanent Collection
December 22, 1998 to January 3, 1999
This exhibition presented drawings from the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries that displayed several modes of depicting figures. Some were drawings of figures or costumes copied from life and intended as preparatory studies for painted compositions. Others were individual or grouped figures that spring from the artist's imagination or are based on his observation of the world around him.
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Victorian Fairy Painting
October 14, 1998 to January 17, 1999
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Claude Monet's Vétheuil in Summer from the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
August 4, 1998 to October 4, 1998
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Fuseli to Menzel: Drawings and Watercolors in the Age of Goethe
June 23, 1998 to September 6, 1998
The age of Goethe, Beethoven, and Kant was also a brilliant period for the visual arts in Germany. This exhibition — culled from the holdings of the Winterstein family of Munich, the world's most comprehensive and important private collection of German drawings and watercolors of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries — afforded viewers an opportunity to study fine works by forty-nine artists from the greatest period of German drawing.
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Robert Adam — The Creative Mind: From the Sketch to the Finished Drawing
December 16, 1997 to April 5, 1998
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