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  • The Poetry of Parmigianino’s “Schiava Turca”

    May 13, 2014 to July 20, 2014

  • Enlightenment and Beauty: Sculptures by Houdon and Clodion

    April 1, 2014 to April 5, 2015

    Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741–1828) and Claude Michel, called Clodion (1738–1814), were two of the foremost sculptors in France during the late eighteenth century, and the Frick housed an important group of their works. In 1915 founder Henry Clay Frick acquired Clodion’s terracotta Zephyrus and Flora and, the following year, Houdon’s marble bust of the Comtesse du Cayla. Other works that were subsequently added to the collection were shown together for the first... read more »

  • Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Hill Collection

    January 28, 2014 to June 15, 2014

    The Frick Collection was the only venue for the first public exhibition of this private collection devoted to the bronze figurative statuette. The nearly forty sculptures included in the show were of exceptional quality and span the fifteenth through the eighteenth century, exemplifying the genre from its beginnings in Renaissance Italy to its dissemination across the artistic centers of Europe. The Hill Collection is distinguished by rare, autograph masterpieces by Italian sculptors such... read more »

  • Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Hals: Masterpieces of Dutch Painting from the Mauritshuis

    October 22, 2013 to January 19, 2014

    The Frick Collection was the final American venue of a global tour of paintings from the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis in The Hague, the Netherlands.

  • David d'Angers: Making the Modern Monument

    September 17, 2013 to December 8, 2013

    Lauded by Victor Hugo as the Michelangelo of Paris, French sculptor Pierre-Jean David d’Angers (1788–1856) produced many of the most iconic portraits and ambitious public monuments of the Romantic era. An experimental writer, outspoken Republican, and teacher to some of the greatest sculptors of the nineteenth century, David d’Angers cultivated friendships with an array of contemporary artists, writers, scientists, and politicians — from Honoré de Balzac and Niccolò Paganini to Johann... read more »

  • The Impressionist Line from Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec: Drawings and Prints from the Clark

    March 12, 2013 to June 16, 2013

    This exhibition presented a selection of nineteenth-century French drawings and prints from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Sheets by Millet, Courbet, Degas, Manet, Pissarro, Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec, and other masters are on view. Ranging widely in subject matter and technique and spanning the entire second half of the nineteenth century, these works represent the diverse interests of Realist, Impressionist, and Post-Impressionist artists in... read more »

  • Piero della Francesca in America

    February 12, 2013 to May 19, 2013

    Revered in his own time as a "monarch" of painting, Piero della Francesca (1411/13–1492) is acknowledged today as a founding figure of the Italian Renaissance. In early 2013, The Frick Collection presented the first monographic exhibition in the United States dedicated to the artist. It brought together seven works by Piero della Francesca, including six panels from the Saint’ Agostino altarpiece — the largest number from this masterwork ever reassembled. They were joined by the Virgin... read more »

  • Precision and Splendor: Clocks and Watches at The Frick Collection

    January 23, 2013 to March 9, 2014

    The Frick Collection has one of the most important public collections of European timepieces in the United States, much of it acquired through the 1999 bequest of the New York collector Winthrop Kellogg Edey. This extraordinary gift of thirty-eight watches and clocks dating from the Renaissance to the early nineteenth century covers the art of horology in France, Germany, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. For reasons of space, only part of the collection can be on permanent view in the... read more »

  • Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of a Peasant (Patience Escalier)

    October 30, 2012 to January 20, 2013

    Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) painted his Portrait of a Peasant (Patience Escalier) in August 1888 during a highly productive fifteen-month stay in Arles in southern France. The opportunity to display this work in New York was the result of a special exchange program between the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, and The Frick Collection and marked the first time in forty years that the painting had left its home institution.

  • Mantegna to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Courtauld Gallery

    October 2, 2012 to January 27, 2013