Finding Aid for the Art Collecting Files of Henry Clay Frick, 1881-1925, undated ACF

A register of Henry Clay Frick's art purchases, listing artists, biographical information, titles of works, date of purchase, dealer, price, provenance information, and the disposition of the paintings. Includes index.

Invoices, correspondence, provenance information, telegrams and newspaper clippings glued into the volume. Contains an index. Works of art are cross-referenced to the page numbers of their entries in the Red Book (described above). Generally chronological, but with some documents out of date order. Bulk concerns purchases made from 1895-1898. Also documents purchases of 1881, 1887, and 1888, and includes one letter from 1900. Correspondents include Jules Breton, Charles Carstairs and Roland Knoedler of M. Knoedler & Co., Jean Charles Cazin, Francis Davis Millet, and Arthur Tooth of Arthur Tooth & Sons.

Purchased 24 March 1881 from William Schaus, New York, N.Y.

Folder contains red envelope (No. 1), along with items from Bill Book No. 1, the Black Book, and the Red Book.

Purchased 26 March 1881 from William Schaus, New York, N.Y.

Includes item from Bill Book No. 1.

Purchased 4 November 1887 from John Wanamaker, Philadelphia, Pa.

Folder contains red envelope (No. 3), along with items from Bill Book No. 1, the Black Book, and the Red Book.

Purchased 28 May 1894 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains accounts payable voucher (No. 572), along with items from Bill Book No. 1, Bill Book No. 2, the Black Book, and the Red Book.

Purchased 1895 or earlier from unidentified dealer.

Folder contains red envelope (No. 13), along with items from the Black Book and the Red Book.

Purchased 1895 or earlier [from the artist?].

Folder contains red envelope (No. 15), along with items from Bill Book No. 1, the Black Book, and the Red Book.

Purchased 20 April 1895 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains red envelope (No. 4) and accounts payable voucher (No. 813), along with items from Bill Book No. 1, the Black Book, and the Red Book.

Purchased 4 June 1895 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains red envelope (No. 6), accounts payable voucher (No. 866), letter from Charles Knoedler, and canceled check, along with items from Bill Book No. 1, the Black Book, and the Red Book.

Purchased 30 August 1895 from J.W. Beck, London, England, through Obach & Co.

Includes items from Bill Book No. 1.

Purchased 1 November 1895 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains red envelope (No. 9), along with items from Bill Book No. 1, the Black Book, and the Red Book.

Purchased August 1895 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y. Returned for credit toward the purchase of Daubigny's The Ferry Boat, 1 November 1899.

Includes items from Bill Book No. 1, Bill Book No. 2, the Black Book, and the Red Book.

Purchased August 1895 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y. Returned for credit toward the purchase of Lhermitte's La Fenaison, 1 September 1897.

Includes items from Bill Book No. 1, the Black Book, and the Red Book.

Purchased August 1895 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y. Returned for credit toward the purchase of Daubigny's Ducks, 8 November 1899.

Includes items from Bill Book No. 1, Bill Book No. 2, the Black Book, and the Red Book.

Purchased August 1895 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y. Returned for credit toward the purchase of Dupré's Road of Crotoy, 4 March 1896.

Includes items from Bill Book No. 1, the Black Book, and the Red Book.

Purchased August 1895 or later from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains red envelope (No. 11) and 1914 letter re moving the painting, along with items from Bill Book No. 1, the Black Book, and the Red Book.

Purchased 18 September 1895 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y. Returned for credit toward the purchase of Lhermitte's Fenaison, 1 September 1897.

Includes items from Bill Book No. 1, the Black Book, and the Red Book.

Purchased 23 September 1895 from S. Collins, New York, N.Y. Exchanged for credit toward the purchase of Mauve's Horse and Cart, 23 December 1901, M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Includes items from Bill Book No. 1, Bill Book No. 2, the Black Book, and the Red Book.

Purchased 2 October 1895 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains red envelope (No. 17), along with items from Bill Book No. 1, the Black Book, and the Red Book.

Purchased 23 October 1895 from Thomas B. Clarke, New York, N.Y. Exchanged for credit toward the purchase of Troyon's Pasturage en Normandie, 8 November 1899, M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Includes items from Bill Book No. 1, Bill Book No. 2, the Black Book, and the Red Book.

Purchased 24 October 1895 from Durand-Ruel & Sons, New York, N.Y.

Folder contains accounts payable voucher (No. 960), with attached invoice and canceled check.

Purchased 7 November 1895 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains accounts payable voucher (No. 976), receipt, canceled check, and letter from the Carnegie Library thanking Frick for the portrait. Also includes correspondence re reproduction of the portrait in the Illustrated American, along with items from Bill Book No. 1.

Purchased 12 November 1895 from L. Crist Delmonico, New York, N.Y.

Folder contains red envelope (No. 20), along with items from Bill Book No. 1, the Black Book, and the Red Book.

Purchased 1 December 1895 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Includes an item from Bill Book No. 1.

Purchased 1895 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y. Returned for credit toward the purchase of Daubigny's The Ferry Boat, 1 November 1899.

Includes items from Bill Book No. 1, Bill Book No. 2, the Black Book, and the Red Book.

Purchased 5 February 1896 from Gross & van Gigch, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Folder contains red envelope (No. 22), along with items from Bill Book No. 1, the Black Book, and the Red Book. Red Book notes that two paintings (Fruit by Hetzel and Fruit by Wall) were returned for credit toward this picture.

Purchased 4 March 1896 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y. Acquired through return of Picking Poppies by Knight and The Hazebroock Canal by Cazin.

Folder contains accounts payable voucher (No. 1075) and canceled check, along with items from Bill Book No. 1, the Black Book, and the Red Book. See also: Henry Clay Frick Papers, Series VIII: Letterpress Copybooks (Volume 11, page 338).

Purchased 22 April 1896 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains red envelopes (Nos. 24 and 25), along with items from Bill Book No. 1, the Black Book, and the Red Book.

Purchased 27 April 1896 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains red envelope (No. 27), along with items from Bill Book No. 1, the Black Book, and the Red Book.

Purchased 27 April 1896 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains red envelope (No. 29), along with items from Bill Book No. 1, the Black Book, and the Red Book.

Purchased 25 July 1896 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.; credited by M. Knoedler & Co. toward purchase of Ostade's Halt at the Inn, 1 June 1907.

Folder contains red envelope (No. 31), along with items from Bill Book No. 1, Bill Book No. 2, the Black Book, and the Red Book.

Purchased 28 July 1896 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains accounts payable voucher (No. 1486), canceled check, and red envelope (No. 33), along with items from Bill Book No. 1, Bill Book No. 2, the Black Book, and the Red Book.

Purchased 28 July 1896 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains accounts payable voucher (No. 1487), canceled check, and red envelope (No. 35), along with items from Bill Book No. 1, Bill Book No. 2, the Black Book, and the Red Book.

Purchased 20 August 1896 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains red envelope (No. 36), along with items from Bill Book No. 1, the Black Book, and the Red Book.

Purchased 29 September 1896 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains correspondence with M. Knoedler & Co. and red envelope (No. 38), along with items from Bill Book No. 1, the Black Book, and the Red Book.

Purchased 29 September 1896 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y. Returned for credit toward the purchase of Troyon's Pasturage en Normandie, 8 November 1899.

Includes items from Bill Book No. 1, Bill Book No. 2, the Black Book, and the Red Book.

Received at no cost 18 November 1896 from Julius Oehme, New York, N.Y., with the purchase of Rousseau's Dessous de Bois [also referred to as Edge of Woods, Landscape, and Paysage]. Exchanged for credit 20 November 1897, M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Includes items from Bill Book No. 1 and the Red Book.

Purchased 27 April 1897 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y. Returned to M. Knoedler and Co. for credit toward Daubigny's The Ferry Boat, October 1899.

Folder contains accounts payable voucher (No. 1613) and canceled check, along with items from Bill Book No. 1, Bill, Book No. 2, and the Red Book. Voucher also lists charges for a copper plate portrait and commission paid on Diaz's Figure Piece.

Purchased 24 July 1897 from Obach & Co., London, [England], via M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains red envelope (No. 42), along with items from Bill Book No. 1, the Black Book, and the Red Book.

Purchased 19 September 1897 from Arthur Tooth & Sons, New York, N.Y.; returned for credit per M. Knoedler & Co.'s statement of 9 January 1906.

Folder contains correspondence from the dealer, accounts payable voucher (No. 1776), canceled check, and red envelope (No. 43), along with items from Bill Book No. 1, Bill Book No. 2, the Black Book, and the Red Book.

Purchased 18 November 1897 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains accounts payable voucher (No. 1883), canceled check, and red envelope (No. 45), along with items from Bill Book No. 1, Bill Book No. 2, the Black Book, and the Red Book.

Purchased 21 January 1898 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y. Painting given to Mr. W.H. Joyce.

Includes an item from Bill Book No. 1.

Purchased 9 February 1898 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains correspondence from Roland Knoedler and M. Knoedler & Co., and red envelope (No. 47), along with items from Bill Book No. 1, Bill Book No. 2, and the Red Book.

Purchased 31 May 1898 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y. Painting given to H.W. Oliver.

Includes items from Bill Book No. 1.

Purchased 29 July 1898 from Arthur Tooth & Sons, New York, N.Y., and Paris, France.

Folder contains correspondence from the dealer, accounts payable voucher (No. 2341), invoice, canceled check, and red envelope (No. 49). Also contains accounts payable voucher (No. 2767), invoice, and canceled check for duties paid on this painting, five colored engravings by the same artist, and a frame for the pastel Head of Christ by Dagnan-Bouveret, along with items from the Black Book and the Red Book.

Purchased 12 August 1898 from Arthur Tooth & Sons, New York, N.Y., for presentation to the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Folder contains translation of a letter from the artist, accounts payable vouchers (Nos. 2296 and 2308), invoice for freight and customs charges, canceled checks, correspondence with Arthur Tooth & Sons, and newspaper clippings, along with items from Bill Book No. 1, Bill Book No. 2, and the Black Book.

Purchased 14 September 1898 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains accounts payable voucher (No. 2725), two invoices, canceled check, and red envelope (No. 51), along with items from Bill Book No. 2, the Black Book, and the Red Book. Invoices include charges for Swan's Tigers Drinking, Lotus Pool; Millet's The Knitting Lesson and Shepherd Minding His Sheep; Thaulow's Nuit a Falaise, Borders of the Argues Sunset, and Spring Afternoon; Chelminski's The Moonlight Drive; Cuvillon's Le Lever; a frame for a painting by Coffin; and two engravings entitled Ironworkers.

Purchased 2 October 1898 from Arthur Tooth & Sons, New York, N.Y.

Folder contains accounts payable voucher (No. 2394), invoice, canceled check, and red envelope (No. 56), along with items from the Black Book and the Red Book.

Purchased 14 October 1898 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains red envelope (No. 53), along with items from the Black Book and the Red Book. See also: file for purchase of Troyon's Landscape for invoice.

Purchased 29 October 1898 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains red envelope (No. 55), along with items from Bill Book No. 2, the Black Book, and the Red Book.

Purchased 9 December 1898 from Arthur Tooth & Sons, New York, N.Y.

Folder contains correspondence from the dealer, accounts payable voucher (No. 2570), invoice, canceled check, and red envelope (No. 58), along with items from Bill Book No. 2, the Black Book, and the Red Book.

Purchased 30 December 1898 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y. Returned for credit 28 February 1903.

Includes items from Bill Book No. 2, the Black Book, and the Red Book.

Purchased 28 January 1899 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains red envelope (No. 60), along with items from the Black Book and the Red Book. See also: file for purchase of Troyon's Landscape for invoice.

Purchased 8 March 1899 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains red envelope (No. 62), along with items from Bill Book No. 2, the Black Book, and the Red Book.

Purchased 27 April 1899 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains red envelope (No. 64), along with items from Bill Book No. 2, the Black Book, and the Red Book.

Purchased 9 May 1899 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains correspondence with Charles and Roland Knoedler of M. Knoedler & Co. and red envelope (no. 66), along with items from Bill Book No. 2, the Black Book, and the Red Book.

Purchased 26 June 1899 from Arthur Tooth & Sons, New York, N.Y.

Folder contains accounts payable voucher (No. 3638), invoice, canceled check, and red envelope (No. 68), along with items from Bill Book No. 2, the Black Book, and the Red Book. Painting given to Chas. S. Phillips per autograph note by Frick on the invoice.

Purchased 21 August 1899 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains red envelope (No. 70), along with items from Bill Book No. 2, the Black Book, and the Red Book.

Purchased 21 August 1899 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains red envelope (No. 72), along with items from Bill Book No. 2, the Black Book, and the Red Book.

Purchased 29 August 1899 from Arthur Tooth & Sons, New York, N.Y.

Folder contains correspondence from Arthur Tooth & Sons and P. & D. Colnaghi Co., accounts payable voucher (No. 3046), invoice, canceled check, and red envelope (No. 74), along with items from Bill Book No. 2, the Black Book, and the Red Book.

Purchased 31 August 1899 from Arthur Tooth & Sons, New York, N.Y.

Folder contains accounts payable voucher (No. 2937) for customs duties, with invoice and canceled check, and red envelope (No. 76), along with items from the Black Book and the Red Book.

Purchased 1 November 1899 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Returned for credit 28 February 1903. The following paintings were credited toward the purchase of The Ferry Boat: Knight's Coming From the Garden, Chevilliard's House of God or Maison du bon Dieu, Millet's How the Gossip Grew, Chialiva's Waiting, Cazin's The First Star, End of Day or First Star, and Henner's Penserosa. Includes items from Bill Book No. 2 and the Red Book.

Purchased 8 November 1899 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains red envelope (No. 78), along with items from Bill Book No. 2, the Black Book, and the Red Book.

Purchased 8 November 1899 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains correspondence with Charles S. Carstairs and M. Knoedler & Co., canceled check, and red envelope (No. 80), along with items from Bill Book No. 2, the Black Book, and the Red Book.

Purchased 8 November 1899 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Returned for credit 28 February 1903. Domingo's Chanson d'Amour or The Charm of Music was credited on invoice toward the purchase of the painting. Includes items from Bill Book No. 2 and the Red Book.

Purchased 23 December 1899 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains accounts payable voucher (No. 3223), invoice, and canceled check.

Purchased 1899 or earlier from the artist [?].

Returned for credit 28 February 1903. Includes items from Bill Book No. 2 and the Red Book.

Purchased 12 April 1900 from Arthur Tooth & Sons, New York, N.Y., with provision that Greuze and Nattier paintings could be returned for purchase price within two years of 12 September 1899.

Folder contains correspondence from the dealer, accounts payable voucher (No. 3338), and canceled check, along with items from Bill Book No. 2 and the Red Book. Voucher reflects the return of Falls of Clyde by J.M.W. Turner. See also: file re Dagnan-Bouveret's Consolatrix Afflictorum in this series for voucher reflecting return of the Greuze and Nattier paintings. The title of the Nattier is sometimes recorded as Head among these documents.

Purchased 26 December 1900 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Painting donated to Mrs. A.R. Whitney, Morristown, N.J. Folder contains accounts payable voucher (No. 3767), canceled check, and letter from the dealer, along with item from Bill Book No. 2.

Purchased 2 March 1901 from Durand-Ruel & Sons, New York, N.Y.

Folder contains accounts payable voucher (No. 3936), invoice, canceled check, and red envelope (No. 82), along with items from Bill Book No. 2, the Black Book, and the Red Book.

Purchased 30 March 1901 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains accounts payable voucher (No. 3949), correspondence with Roland Knoedler, a handwritten account of the painting's connection to the Graham and Bicknell Collections, and red envelope (No. 84), along with items from Bill Book No. 2, the Black Book, and the Red Book.

Purchased 8 April 1901 from Arthur Tooth & Sons, New York, N.Y.

Folder contains accounts payable voucher (No. 3933); canceled check; one photograph; letters and invoices pertaining to shipping, duties, and frames; correspondence with the dealer; letters from Charles Carstairs and the artist concerning the interpretation of the work and recommendations on hanging the painting; and red envelope (No. 85); along with items from Bill Book No. 1, the Black Book, and the Red Book. See also: Henry Clay Frick Papers, Series III: Voucher Files (No. 3782) for charges in connection with making a new frame top.

Purchased 25 July 1901 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains red envelope (No. 87), along with items from Bill Book No. 2, the Black Book, and the Red Book.

Purchased 25 July 1901 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains letter from M. Knoedler & Co. and red envelope (No. 89), along with items from Bill Book No. 2, the Black Book, and the Red Book.

Purchased 3 September 1901 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Painting given to Mr. D.T. Watson, Pittsburgh, Pa. Includes items from Bill Book No. 2.

Purchased 18 September 1901 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains red envelope (No. 92), along with items from Bill Book No. 2, the Black Book, and the Red Book.

Purchased 18 September 1901 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.; returned to Knoedler for credit toward the purchase of Maris's The Bridge on 12 October 1906.

Folder contains red envelope (No. 94), along with items from Bill Book No. 2, the Black Book, and the Red Book.

Purchased 18 September 1901 (?) from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Returned for credit 26 November 1901. Includes items from Bill Book No. 2.

Purchased 13 December 1901 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains letter of thanks from H.C. McEldowney, to whom Frick presented the painting circa 20 March 1914, and red envelope (No. 95), along with items from Bill Book No. 2, the Black Book, and the Red Book.

Purchased 2 January 1902 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Includes items from Bill Book No. 2.

Purchased 3 February 1902 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains letter from M. Knoedler & Co. and red envelope (No. 96), along with items from Bill Book No. 2, the Black Book, and the Red Book.

Purchased 9 December 1902 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains letter from M. Knoedler & Co. with accompanying descriptions and red envelope (No. 98), along with items from Bill Book No. 2, the Black Book, and the Red Book.

Purchased 9 December 1902 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains red envelope (No. 100), along with items from Bill Book No. 2, the Black Book, and the Red Book.

Purchased 9 December 1902 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains red envelope (No. 102), along with items from Bill Book No. 2, the Black Book, and the Red Book.

Purchased 28 February 1903 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains red envelope (No. 103), along with items from Bill Book No. 2, the Black Book, and the Red Book.

Purchased 28 February 1903 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains red envelope (No. 105), along with items from Bill Book No. 2, the Black Book, and the Red Book.

Purchased 22 December 1903 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains accounts payable voucher (No. 6051) reflecting payment for this work, Constable's Agitated Sea, and Ruysdael's Landscape with River and Town in Background [River Scene: Men Dragging a Net], letter from the dealer acknowledging payment, and red envelope (No. 106), along with items from Bill Book No. 2, the Black Book, and the Red Book.

Purchased 12 March 1904 from Joseph Jefferson, with commission paid to Cottier & Co.

Folder contains receipt from Joseph Jefferson and red envelope (No. 108), along with items from Bill Book No. 2, the Black Book, and the Red Book.

Purchased 12 September 1904 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains red envelope (No. 116), along with items from Bill Book No. 2 and the Red Book.

Purchased 12 September 1904 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains red envelope (No. 118), along with items from Bill Book No. 2 and the Red Book.

Purchased 12 September 1904 from the artist through M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Includes items from Bill Book No. 2.

Purchased 4 October 1904 from Lawrie & Co., London, England.

Folder contains accounts payable voucher (No. 6517), two letters acknowledging payment, and red envelopes (Nos. 109 and 110), along with items from Bill Book No. 2, the Black Book, and the Red Book.

Purchased 28 November 1904 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains red envelope (No. 112), along with items from Bill Book No. 2, the Black Book, and the Red Book. See also: correspondence with M. Knoedler & Co. and Charles Carstairs in file regarding Lawrence's Julia, Lady Peel.

Purchased 15 December 1904 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains red envelope (No. 119), along with items from Bill Book No. 2 and the Red Book.

Purchased 15 December 1904 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains red envelope (No. 121), along with items from Bill Book No. 2 and the Red Book.

Purchased 15 December 1904 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains red envelope (No. 123), along with items from Bill Book No. 2 and the Red Book.

Purchased 15 December 1904 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains red envelope (No. 125), along with items from Bill Book No. 2 and the Red Book.

Purchased 13 January 1905 from the artist.

Folder contains memorandum voucher (No. 6545) and red envelope (No. 127), along with items from Bill Book No. 2 and the Red Book.

Purchased 23 March 1905 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains red envelope (No. 129), along with items from Bill Book No. 2 and the Red Book.

Purchased 15 April 1905 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains red envelope (No. 131), along with items from Bill Book No. 2 and the Red Book.

Purchased 20 December 1905 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains accounts payable voucher (No. 7130), New York Herald newspaper clipping, correspondence from Roland Knoedler and M. Knoedler & Co. re relining of Raeburn painting and Jean-François Millet's Woman Sewing, and a Lamp, and red envelopes (Nos. 132 and 133), along with items from Bill Book No. 2 and the Red Book.

Purchased 30 December 1905 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.; returned to Knoedler for credit toward Hals's Portrait of a Woman on 11 April 1910.

Folder contains red envelope (No. 140), along with items from Bill Book No. 2 and the Red Book.

Purchased 9 January 1906 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Includes items from Bill Book No. 2 and the Red Book.

Purchased 9 January 1906 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Includes items from Bill Book No. 2 and the Red Book.

Purchased 10 February 1906 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains accounts payable voucher (No. 7355) and red envelope (No. 142), along with items from Bill Book No. 2 and the Red Book.

Purchased 2 July 1906 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains accounts payable voucher (No. 7535) and correspondence with Charles Carstairs and Roland Knoedler, along with items from Bill Book No. 2 and the Red Book.

Purchased 11 October 1906 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains letters from Charles Carstairs of M. Knoedler & Co., accounts payable voucher (No. 7725), and red envelope (No. 147), along with items from Bill Book No. 2 and the Red Book. Other works/collections mentioned in the correspondence include The Bridge by Maris, Portrait of Mrs. Harcourt by Reynolds, Selina, Lady Skipwith by Reynolds, Portrait of Mrs. Cruikshank by Raeburn, The Mill by Rembrandt, and the Alex Young Collection.

Purchased 19 December 1906 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y. Portrait of Mrs. Harcourt was sold to J. Pierpont Morgan, 21 September 1909.

Folder contains correspondence with Charles Carstairs and M. Knoedler & Co., accounts payable voucher (No. 7879), notes, and red envelopes (Nos. 149 and 150), along with items from Bill Book No. 2 and the Red Book. Contents include note in Frick's hand re deposit of check received from Morgan ("...balance 5000$ will be used by him to make me a life member Met Museum of Art, N.Y."), and letter from M. Knoedler & Co. confirming delivery of the painting to Morgan's Library. Other paintings/artists mentioned include Le Lac by Corot, The Bridge by Maris, and Gainsborough.

Purchased 17 April 1907 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains accounts payable voucher (No. 8152), receipt, and note in Frick's hand to pay the account in full, along with items from Bill Book No. 2 and the Red Book. Voucher also reflects the purchase of unnamed prints.

Purchased 31 July 1907 from Shirleys, Ltd., Paris, France.

Folder contains letters from Roger Fry and Shirleys Ltd. re purchase, accounts payable voucher (No. 8341), receipt and letters related to loan to Metropolitan Museum of Art, newspaper clippings and pages from the "Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art," and red envelope (No. 154), along with items from Bill Book No. 2 and the Red Book.

Purchased 28 May 1908 from the artist.

Folder contains accounts payable voucher (No. 8815) and red envelope (No. 155), along with items from the Red Book. Red envelope contains note in Helen Clay Frick's hand: "Gave away. Do not know who owns it now."

Purchased 20 June 1908 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains red envelope (No. 157), along with items from the Red Book. See also: file for Bartolozzi, Miss Elizabeth Farren, Countess of Derby [print after Thomas Lawrence] for invoice.

Purchased 27 July 1908 from Bradley W. Palmer, Boston, Mass. Engravings include:

Watson, Caroline, 1760 or 1761-1814, Lady Hamilton (head)

Wilson, Sidney Ernest, 1869-, Lady Hamilton as Nature [colored print]

Holl, Francis, 1815-1884, Lady Hamilton Reading Gazette

Keating, George, 1762-1842, Lady Hamilton as St. Cecilia

Knight, Charles, 1743-1827?, Lady Hamilton as Bacchante.

Includes items from Bill Book No. 2.

Purchased 12 August 1908 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains correspondence with M. Knoedler & Co., Charles Carstairs, E.L. Knoedler, and Joseph Duveen, accounts payable voucher (No. 8980), clipping announcing Frick's acquisition, and red envelope (No. 159), along with items from Bill Book No. 2 and the Red Book. Voucher reflects credit for Maris's The Bridge. Other paintings mentioned include Hon. Mrs. Watson by Gainsborough, Portrait of Mr. Snyders and Portrait of Mrs. Snyders by Van Dyck, Mortlake Terrace by Turner, Christ Driving out the Merchants from the Temple by El Greco, and Salisbury Cathedral by Constable.

Purchased 21 September 1908 from the artist.

Folder contains memorandum voucher (No. 9039) and red envelope (No. 162), along with items from the Red Book.

Purchased 24 December 1908 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Returned to Knoedler for credit toward the purchase of Van Dyck's James, Seventh Earl of Derby, His Lady and Child on 17 February 1913. Folder contains correspondence with Charles Carstairs, accounts payable voucher (No. 9215), and red envelope (No. 163), along with items from Bill Book No. 2 and the Red Book. Correspondence mentions The Cottage Girl [by Gainsborough], unnamed works by ter Borch, Hobbema, and Cuyp, praise for Velázquez's Queen Marianna of Austria, and commitment to Frick's collection ("...your collection must by the greatest achievement of my poor life.") Voucher reflects credit for return of Israels' Near the Cradle.

Purchased 12 March 1909 from A. de Beruete, Madrid, Spain, via M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains letters from A. de Beruete and M. Knoedler & Co. re purchase, memorandum voucher (No. 9387), and red envelope (No. 167), along with items from Bill Book No. 2 and the Red Book.

Purchased 29 May 1909 from Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Folder contains correspondence with M. Knoedler & Co. and Charles Carstairs, accounts payable voucher (No. 9488) with attached invoice, and red envelope (No. 166), along with items from Bill Book No. 2 and the Red Book.

Purchased 10 June 1909 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains accounts payable voucher (No. 9511), correspondence with M. Knoedler & Co., a history of the portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Snyders, and red envelope (No. 169), along with items from Bill Book No. 2 and the Red Book.

Purchased 30 September 1909 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains correspondence with M. Knoedler & Co. and Charles Carstairs, accounts payable voucher (No. 9785), a history of the portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Snyders, and red envelope (No. 170), along with items from Bill Book No. 2 and the Red Book. Other paintings mentioned in the correspondence include Hon. Mrs. Watson by Gainsborough and Portrait of Mrs. Snyders by Van Dyck. Voucher reflects credit for return of Gainsborough's Hon. Mrs. Watson.

Purchased 31 December 1909 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains correspondence with M. Knoedler & Co. and Charles Carstairs, accounts payable voucher (No. 41), and red envelope (No. 172), along with items from Bill Book No. 2 and the Red Book. Voucher reflects credit for return of Teniers the Younger's Family Party, Linnell's Hampstead Heath, Evening, Jacque's Minding the Flock, and Monet's Argenteuil. Other paintings mentioned include Portrait of Frans Snyders by Van Dyck.

Purchased 28 February 1910 from Roger E. Fry, Guildford, England.

Folder contains correspondence with Roger Fry, memoranda, and red envelope (No. 173), along with items from Bill Book No. 2 and the Red Book. Letter from Fry encourages Frick to purchase Landscape and describes Fry's relationships with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Morgan, and art dealers, and his opinions on Frick's collecting. Other artists mentioned include Van Dyck and Vermeer. See also: Henry Clay Frick Papers, Series III: Voucher Files (No. 161) for accounts payable voucher.

Purchased 11 April 1910 from Duveen Brothers, New York, N.Y.

Folder contains accounts payable voucher (No. 621) and red envelopes (Nos. 180 and 181), along with items from Bill Book No. 2 and the Red Book. Voucher reflects purchase and return of Aelbert Cuyp's Horsemen in a Hilly Landscape.

Purchased 31 May 1910 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains memorandum voucher (No. 381) with attached note by Henry Clay Frick, receipt, letter from Roland Knoedler, and red envelope (No. 177-178), along with items from Bill Book No. 2 and the Red Book.

Purchased 29 December 1910 from Roger E. Fry, Guildford, England.

Folder contains correspondence between Frick and Fry re works by Rubens, Rembrandt, Holbein, Veronese, and Velázquez, memorandum voucher (No. 849), duplicate bank draft, shipping receipt, and red envelope (No. 182), along with items from Bill Book No. 2 and the Red Book.

Purchased 11 March 1911 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains correspondence with A. de Beruete, Charles Carstairs, Charles Romer Williams of Scott & Fowles Co., M. Knoedler & Co., and Cyrus E. Woods; accounts payable vouchers (Nos. 1076 and 1150); newspaper clipping; and red envelope (No. 186), along with items from Bill Book No. 2 and the Red Book. Red envelope mentions Roger Fry cable that is not in file. Correspondence also mentions Goya.

Purchased 24 April 1911 from De W.C. Ward.

Folder contains accounts payable voucher (No. 1173) with attached invoice.

Purchased 11 May 1911 from the artist.

Folder contains accounts payable voucher (No. 1216) with attached letter from Harvey re Goya painting at the Ehrich Galleries.

Purchased 22 November 1911 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains letter from M. Knoedler & Co., handwritten note by Frick, and red envelope (No. 188), along with items from Bill Book No. 2 and the Red Book.

Purchased 9 January 1912 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains correspondence with Roger Fry, Charles Carstairs, Henry B. Culver, and M. Knoedler & Co.; memorandum voucher (No. 1813); descriptions of the painting; agreement re payment of commission to Culver; and red envelope (No. 190), along with items from Bill Book No. 2 and the Red Book. The Polish Rider by Rembrandt is also mentioned in the correspondence. See also: Henry Clay Frick Papers, Series III: Voucher Files (Nos. 2160, 2279, and 2386) for expenses in connection with the claim of Henry B. Culver, and charges for commission and insurance.

Purchased 28 December 1912 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains correspondence with Roger Fry and M. Knoedler & Co., description of the painting, newspaper clipping, and red envelope (No. 199), along with items from Bill Book No. 2 and the Red Book. Contains documentation for purchase of both Between Virtue and Vice and Allegory of Wisdom and Strength. Holbein is also mentioned in correspondence.

Purchased 17 February 1913 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains correspondence with Roger Fry, Charles Carstairs, and M. Knoedler & Co., information on the child in portrait, accounts payable voucher (No. 2968), miscellaneous notes and envelopes, and two red envelopes (No. 200 and unnumbered), along with items from Bill Book No. 2 and the Red Book. Voucher reflects the return of Velázquez's Queen Mariana of Austria. One envelope mentions additional correspondence between Fry and Frick that is not in the file re this painting and a work by Brouwer.

Purchased 11 October 1913 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y. Folder contains typescript of M. Knoedler & Co. invoice for the following works:

Gainsborough's Study of a Lady Seated (crayon and pencil)

Gainsborough's Study of a Lady Seated (crayon and pencil lithographed by R. Lane)

Gainsborough's Landscape (varnished oil sketch)

Rembrandt's Landscape with Cottage (pen and wash drawing)

Rembrandt's Houses around Courtyard with a Tree in the Foreground (pen and wash drawing)

Rembrandt's Isaac blessing Jacob (wash drawing)

Folder also contains accounts payable voucher (No. 3703) and red envelopes (Nos. 204-208), along with items from Bill Book No. 2 and the Red Book.

Purchased 29 October 1913 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains accounts payable voucher (No. 3472) and red envelope (No. 201), along with items from Bill Book No. 2 and the Red Book.

Purchased 28 February 1914 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains memorandum voucher (No. 3738), along with items from Bill Book No. 2 and the Red Book.

Purchased 31 March 1914 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains letter from Thomas Gerrity of M. Knoedler & Co. to F.W. McElroy confirming the date of purchase and provenance, and follow-up letter to Frick asking why the Renoir is not on the books; Frick's handwritten note states, "I expect to return it." Folder also contains items from Bill Book No. 2 and the Red Book.

Purchased 31 July 1914 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.; given to Miss Hilda Rice, Ipswich, Mass.

Folder contains accounts payable voucher (No. 4044), with attached invoice.

Purchased 14 December 1914 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Includes items from Bill Book No. 2 and the Red Book.

Purchased 31 December 1914 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Given to Bryce J. Allan, Beverly, Mass. Includes items from Bill Book No. 2.

Purchased 5 February 1915 through R.H. Lorenz of the American Art Association, New York, N.Y.

Folder contains correspondence with Lorenz, newspaper clipping, and red envelope (no number), along with items from Bill Book No. 2 and the Red Book.

Purchased 12 March 1915 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y. Etchings include Little Venice, Nocturne, The Little Mast, The Little Lagoon, The Palaces, The Doorway, The Piazzetta, The Fraghetto No. 2, The Riva No. 1, Two Doorways, The Beggars, and The Mast.

Folder contains typescript of M. Knoedler & Co. invoice, along with items from Bill Book No. 2 and the Red Book.

Purchased 13 April 1915 from the collection of Sir Hugh Lane through Alice B. Creelman.

Folder contains correspondence with Charles Carstairs, Alice B. Creelman, Arthur M. Grenfell, and a 1918 letter from Joseph Duveen with accompanying extract of a letter from Bernard Berenson. Creelman's letters include references to works by Gainsborough, Goya, and Uccelli, as well as Titian and Holbein. The painting referred to by Duveen and Berenson is Portrait of a Man, variously attributed to either Titian or Giorgione, and is not the Portrait of a Man in a Red Cap acquired by Frick. In addition to correspondence, folder also contains memorandum vouchers (Nos. 4593 and 4595), newspaper clippings, and red envelopes, along with items from the Red Book. Red envelope lists painter as Giorgione; the name Titian is written first, but crossed out.

See also: Letter from Charles Allom to Frick (22 April 1914) in the One East 70th Street Papers, and letters from Frick to C.F.L. de Wild regarding attribution of the painting to Giorgione in the Henry Clay Frick Papers, Series VIII: Letterpress Copybooks (volume 40, pages 332 and 344).

Purchased 10 May 1915 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains invoice with provenance information from M. Knoedler & Co., letter from Duveen Brothers with enclosed clipping, cablegram from Bernard Berenson to Duveen Brothers congratulating Frick on purchase, and red envelope (unnumbered), along with items from the Red Book.

Purchased 14 June 1915 from the artist.

Folder contains accounts payable voucher (No. 4646) with attached invoice. Given to Helen Clay Frick.

Statement of account as of 6 July 1915. Folder contains lists of items purchased from the Morgan Furniture Collection and Morgan Porcelain Collection, as well as furniture and porcelains from other unidentified collections. Also includes a list of credits for objets d'art purchased from Frick by Duveen.

Purchases from the Morgan Furniture Collection:

M20 Commode with two drawers below

M11 Louis XV commode in marqueterie

M40 Small pedestal table of two tiers on three legs

M69 Louis XV desk

M62 Louis XVI two-tier console table

M71 Louis XVI writing bureau

M73 Pair of powder blue vases

M57 Small rectangular parqueterie Louis XVI table

M68 Small round ormolu mounted table with three legs

M52 Pair of Louis XVI upright cabinets

M77 Pair of ormolu ewers

M22 Gilt bronze clock

M59 Louis XVI rosewood table

Purchases from the Morgan Porcelain Collection:

A3, 19 Two powder blue flask-shaped vases, K'ang Hsi

53, 54 Two powder blue bottles, K'ang Hsi

546, 547 Two cylindrical vases, K'ang Hsi

70, 71 Two powder blue jars and covers, K'ang Hsi

H18, 19 Two plumed pheasants, Ch'ien Lung

1187 Tall cornet-shaped vase, Ming

912 Ovoid jar with lion cover, Ch'ien, Lung

F8, 9 Two globular bottles, K'ang Hsi

2, 4 Two powder blue club-shaped vases

44, 45 Two powder blue club-shaped vases, K'ang Hsi

G17 Black hawthorn vase with cap, K'ang Hsi

I17 Green hawthorn beaker, K'ang Hsi

791, 792 Two black hawthorn baluster vases, K'ang Hsi

Purchases from other collections:

25882 Large black hawthorn beaker-shaped vase, K'ang Hsi

25983 Large black hawthorn beaker-shaped vase, K'ang Hsi

26057 Chinese porcelain black vase, K'ang Hsi

23717 Two arm chairs

26040 One tapestry banquette

25871 Upright ormolu mounted Louis XVI secretaire

25869 Louis XV commode, signed Rene Victor La Croix

25809 Louis XVI ormolu mounted marqueterie commode

25509 Aubusson tapestry suite of one sofa and six fauteuils

25430 Pair of tall porcelain jars and covers, Ch'ien Lung

24845 Louis XVI ormolu clock

Purchased 27 November 1915 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Includes items from Bill Book No. 2 and the Red Book.

Purchased 31 December 1915 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Includes items from Bill Book No. 2 and the Red Book.

Purchased 25 February 1916 from Duveen Brothers, New York, N.Y.

Folder contains accounts payable voucher (No. 5462), correspondence with Joseph Duveen, Charles Carstairs, and Lockett Agnew, newspaper clippings, 1919 letter from W. Roberts re provenance, and red envelope (no number), along with items from Bill Book No. 2 and the Red Book.

Purchased 29 February 1916 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y.

Folder contains accounts payable voucher (No. 5363), along with items from Bill Book No. 2 and the Red Book.

Purchased 16 May 1916 from Jules Porgès, Paris, [France], via Edward Brandus.

Folder contains correspondence with Edward Brandus and Jules Porgès regarding the purchase, memorandum voucher (No. 5422), descriptions of the painting, and red envelope, along with an item from the Red Book. File also contains correspondence of Abraham Bredius, Henry Clay Frick, Carel F. L. de Wild, and John E. Stillwell concerning disagreement over the attribution of the painting.

Typescripts of invoices and other documents, including bills in connection with the Fragonard Room, a list of bronzes on approval in Mr. Frick's office at One East 70th Street (M.B. 23, M.B. 24, M.B. 84, M.B. 69, and M.B. 114), and information about Anglo-French bonds.

Folder contains Duveen Brothers invoice dated 21 June 1916 for 40 Limoges enamels, all but two of which were from the Morgan Collection. Items are listed by location in Mr. Frick's Small Gallery (the Enamels Room), and include the following objects:

M.M.144 Oblong plaque: Seven Dolours of the Virgin

M.M.145 Limosin, Léonard, approximately 1505-approximately 1575, Plaque: male portrait bust

M.M.150 Limosin, Léonard, approximately 1505-approximately 1575, Plaque: male portrait bust

M.M.174 Courteys, Pierre, active 1545-1568, Casket: Story of Joseph

M.M.175 Pénicaud, Jean, active 1584-1613 (Jean III Pénicaud), Ewer: History of Troy

M.M.180 Nouailher, Colin, -1574 (also known as Couly Noylier), Casket painted with love scenes

M.M.198 Reymond, Martial, -1599, Oval Dish: Apollo and the Muses

M.M.206 Pénicaud, Nardon, approximately 1470-1542 or 1543, Oblong Plaque: Adoration of the Magi

M.M.212 Court, Jean de, active approximately 1555-approximately 1585, Triptych of Enamel: Lineage of St. Anna

M.M.214 Limosin, Jean, active 1615-1630, Ewer: Destruction of the Egyptians in the Red Sea

M.M.215 Casket, Old Testament Subjects

M.M.221 Court, Jean de, active approximately 1555-approximately 1585, Tall Saltcellar in form of a goblet

M.M.224 Court, Jean de, active approximately 1555-approximately 1585, Saltcellar in the form of a goblet

M.M.256 Court, Jean de, active approximately 1555-approximately 1585, Tazza: Moses Striking the Rock

25861 Courtois, Jean [Court, Jean de, active approximately 1555-approximately 1585?], Limoges Polychrome Coupe: Lot Fleeing from Sodom (not from the Morgan Collection)

C.A.10 Pénicaud, Jean, approximately 1480-, Limoges Enamel Triptych: Christ Crowned with Thorns, Kiss of Judas, and Flagellation of Christ (not from the Morgan Collection)

M.M.163 Circular Dish: Story of Moses and the Children of Israel

M.M.164 Court, Suzanne de, active 1575-1625, Saltcellar: Head of Venus and the Story of Orpheus

M.M.165 Court, Suzanne de, active 1575-1625, Saltcellar: Head of Mars and the Story of Orpheus

M.M.173 Courtois, P. [Courteys, Pierre, active 1545-1568?], Casket: Story of the Jews

M.M.181 Pénicaud, Nardon, approximately 1470-1542 or 1543, Plaque enameled in frame representing a martyrdom or execution

M.M.182 Casket: Cherubs holding wreaths around heads of Roman Emperors

M.M.201 Pénicaud, Nardon, approximately 1470-1542 or 1543, Large Enamel Triptych: The Crucifixion, The Road to Calvary, The Deposition

M.M.203 Reymond, Martial, -1599, Large Oval Dish: Ceres and Minerva

M.M.217 Court, Jean de, active approximately 1555-approximately 1585, Ewer of Enamel: Bacchus and Diana

M.M.226 Limosin, Jean, active 1615-1630, Saltcellar: Classical Deities

M.M.227 Court, Jean de, active approximately 1555-approximately 1585, Two Large Saltcellars: Sciences and Virtues

M.M.233 Pénicaud, Nardon, approximately 1470-1542 or 1543, Enamelled Triptych: Death, Assumption, and Coronation of the Virgin

M.M.237 Pénicaud, Nardon, approximately 1470-1542 or 1543, Large Triptych: Savior Carrying the Cross, Calvary, The Deposition

M.M.245 Limosin, Léonard, approximately 1505-approximately 1575, Large Oval Dish: The Last Supper

M.M.247 Limosin, Léonard, approximately 1505-approximately 1575, Oval Plaque: Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus on Horseback

M.M.263 Limosin, Léonard, approximately 1505-approximately 1575, Oblong Plaque: Chariot of Religion Crushing Heretics

M.M.196 Court, Jean de, active approximately 1555-approximately 1585, Plaque: The Adoration of the Shepherds

M.M.197 Limosin, Léonard, approximately 1505-approximately 1575, Oblong Plaque: Francois ler

M.M.199 Limosin, Léonard, approximately 1505-approximately 1575, Oblong Plaque: Queen Lemunsie

M.M.260 Limosin, Léonard, approximately 1505-approximately 1575, Enamel Portrait: Cardinal Odet de Coligny

M.M.261 Signed L.L. 1546 [Limosin, Léonard, approximately 1505-approximately 1575?], Oblong Plaque: Portrait of a Man

M.M.213 Pénicaud, Jean, approximately 1480-, Large Oblong Plaque: Agony in the Garden

M.M.239 Pénicaud, Nardon, approximately 1470-1542 or 1543, Triptych: Road to Calvary, Crucifixion, Descent into Hell, Descent from the Cross, Entombment, and Resurrection

Folder also contains additional copies of the list with various annotations.

Folder contains Duveen Brothers invoice dated 21 June 1916, with prices and descriptions. Also contains two typescripts of invoice, and another copy handwritten by Helen Clay Frick. Items on invoice include:

18 Carved Renaissance chair with high back, walnut, French, 16th century

19a Small armchair or coquetoire, walnut, French, 16th century

19c Small armchair or coquetoire, walnut, French, 16th century

34b Pair of armchairs, walnut covered in velvet, French, 18th century

34a Dresser or credence, walnut, French, 16th century

32b Small armchair or coquetoire, walnut, French, 17th century

32c Small armchair or coquetoire, walnut, French, 16th century

26 Large dresser or credence, French, 16th century

27 Dress or credence, walnut, French, 16th century

28a Large wardrobe or armoire, walnut, French, 16th century

29a Small wardrobe or armoire, walnut, French, 16th century

33a Dresser or credence, walnut, French, 17th century

21 Carved Renaissance table, walnut, French, 16th century

22b Carved Renaissance table, walnut, French, 16th century

22a Carved Renaissance table, walnut, French, 16th century

Folder contains copies of Duveen Brothers invoice dated 21 June 1916, with prices, descriptions, and notes. Items listed on invoice include:

M.31 Circular table (in the style of Berain)

M.77 Pair of gilt bronze ewers

25890 Set of three celadon fleuri vases

25870 Regence commode

25392 Louis XVI mahogany console table (stamped Saunier)

25880 Houdon, Jean Antoine, 1741-1828, Marble bust of Marie Antoinette

26115 Suite of one sofa and four armchairs

M. 68 Small round table with three feet (with Sevres porcelain plaques)

D7 Large beaker (from the Morgan Collection)

Additional goods sent to Frick at Prides Crossing include the following:

24851 One Louis XV parqueterie commode [not purchased?]

25870 One Regence commode

25546 One small Louis XV writing table

25392 One mahogany Louis XVI console table

C 140 One Louis XVI inlaid table [not purchased?]

25529 One Louis XVI bonheur du jour [not purchased?]

25265 Vittoria, Alessandro, 1525-1608, Pair of bronze figures, War and Peace

25691 Pair of 17th century Italian bronze figures of cupids [not purchased?]

Morgan Porcelains:

M.P. 28 and M.P. 29 Two powder blue ovoid vases with mandarin caps

Morgan Furniture:

M. 64 Lyre shaped table of amboyna wood [not purchased?]

M. 74 Pair of small bronze candlesticks [not purchased?]

Folder contains correspondence, notes, and related documents regarding payments to Duveen Brothers

Folder contains correspondence with Duveen Brothers and invoices for objects at Prides Crossing, including bronzes and enamels from the Morgan Collection.

Bronzes from the J.P. Morgan Collection:

M.B.160 Italian, late 16th century, Juno

M.B.234 Italian, 15th century, Figure of Silenus Carrying the Young Bacchus

M.B.56 Riccio, 1470-1532 (style of), Lamp Formed as a Chimera

M.B. 154 Giambologna, 1529-1608 (after), Mercury

M.B.8 North Italian, circa 1450, Equestrian Figure of Alberico Suardi

M.B.64 Paduan School, late 15th century, Inkstand with Classic Subject

M.B.122 Cellini, Benvenuto, 1500-1571, Figure of a Griffin

M.B.58 Riccio, 1470-1532 (workshop of), Lamp Formed as a Satyr's Head

M.B.66 Riccio, 1470-1532 (workshop of), Fantastic Composition

M.B.45 Riccio, 1470-1532 (workshop of), Boy Supporting a Lamp

M.B.184 Italian, beginning of 16th century, Cupid Seated

M.B.42 Paduan, end of 15th century, Inkstand

M.B.205 Vischer, Peter, 1487-1528 (Peter Vischer the Younger), Figure of a Man as Candelabrum Bearer

M.B.93 North Italian, 16th century, Boy Carrying Cupid

M.B.20 Bellano, Bartolomeo, 1434-1497 (copy after), Neptune and Sea-Monster

M.B.199 Venetian, first half of 16th century, Pair of Candlesticks

M.B.71 Riccio, 1470-1532 (workshop of), A Goat

M.B.233 Italian, end of 15th century, Small Statuette of St. Michael

M.B.74 Italian, 16th century, A Bull

M.B.196 Vittoria, Alessandro, 1525-1608 (school of), Inkstand

M.B.21 Bellano, Bartolomeo, 1434-1497 (copy after), Neptune and Sea-Monster

M.B.139 Italian, 16th century, Satyr Standing by a Tree

Majolica from the J.P. Morgan Collection:

M.M.234 Plaque in Gilt Frame: Scenes in the Life of Our Lord: Garden of Gethesmane

M.M.236 Gilt Frame Containing Enamelled Plaques: Scenes in the Life of Our Lord: Mocking of Our Lord

M.M.225 Limosin, Léonard, approximately 1505-approximately 1575, Square Plaque: Sybila Aspocia

M.M.208 Small Enameled Saucer

M.M.124 Nouailher, Colin, -1574 (also known as Couly I. Noylier), Hexagonal Saltcellar: Busts and Figures of Children

M.M.143 Hexagonal Saltcellar of Enamel: Male and Female Bust, and Figures of Children

Listed on invoice of 6 September 1916:

M.B.157 Tacca, Pietro, 1577-1640, Old Man Riding a Goat (from Morgan Collection)

Purchased 28 October 1916 from Virginia P. Bacon, New York, N.Y.

Folder contains correspondence with Virginia P. Bacon, memorandum voucher (No. 5748), letter from E. Gimpel & Wildenstein, and red envelope, along with an item from the Red Book.

Purchased 13 November 1916 from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, N.Y. Mezzotint engravings listed on invoice are:

Turner, Charles, 1774-1857, Lord Newton [after Raeburn]

Smith, John Raphael, 1752-1812, Master Crewe as Henry VIII [after Reynolds]

Dickinson, William, 1746 or 1747-1823, Jane, Duchess of Gordon [after Reynolds]

Green, Valentine, 1739-1813, Lady Caroline Isabella Howard [after Reynolds]

Smith, John Raphael, 1752-1812, Lady Henrietta, Countess of Warwick [after Romney]

Spilsbury, Jonathan, 1737? - 1812, Miss Jacob [after Romney]

Green, Valentine, 1739-1813, Lady Charlotte Talbot [after Reynolds]

Green, Valentine, 1739-1813, Lady Henriette Herbert [after Reynolds]

Young, John, 1755-1825, Mrs. Orby Hunter [after Hoppner]

Green, Valentine, 1739-1813, Countess of Harrington [after Reynolds]

Barney, William Whiston, Duchess of Devonshire [after Gainsborough]

Jones, J. (John), approximately 1745-1797, Duchess of Marlborough [after Romney]

Smith, John Raphael, 1752-1812, Lady Catherine Pelham Clinton [after Reynolds]

Watson, James, approximately 1740-1790, Miss Greenway [or Miss Greenaway] [after Reynolds]

Jones, J. (John), approximately 1745-1797, Mrs. Davenport [after Romney]

Smith, John Raphael, 1752-1812, Mrs. Stables and Her Daughters [after Romney]

Dean, John, approximately 1750-1798, Lady Elizabeth Herbert and Son [after Reynolds]

Smith, John Raphael, 1752-1812, Promenade at Carlisle House [original]

Pichler, Johann Peter, 1765-1807, Sons of Rubens [after Van Dyck]

Includes items from Bill Book No. 2 and the Red Book.

Purchased 31 December 1916 from Duveen Brothers, New York, N.Y.

Folder contains correspondence with Duveen Brothers, Carrère & Hastings, and Cauldwell-Wingate Co. re purchase of eight Boucher panels, alterations made to Mrs. Frick's Boudoir at One East 70th Street, and calculations of total costs, along with item from the Red Book. Duveen invoice includes details of all items installed in the decoration of the room, including a marble bust of a young girl by Marest and Sèvres vases and a tray.

Purchased 8 March 1917 from M. Knoedler & Co.

Folder contains list of etchings, with prices. Also includes a page of handwritten financial calculations. Etchings include the following: Le Stryge, Le Petit Pont, La Galerie Notre-Dame, La Rue des Mauvais Garcons, La Tour de L'Horloge, Tourelle de la Rue de la Tixéranderie, Saint-Etienne-du-Mont, La Pompe Notre-Dame, Le Pont-Neuf, La Morgue, L'Abside de Notre-Dame de Paris, and Rue des Toiles a Bourges.

Purchased 18 June 1917 from Pach Brothers Photographers, New York, N.Y.

Folder contains accounts payable voucher (No. 6487) with attached invoice and receipt. Invoice indicates a photograph of Geo. F. Baker was made and sent to the sculptor J. Massey Rhind.

Purchased 26 November 1917 from Virginia P. Bacon, New York, N.Y.

Folder contains memorandum voucher (No. 6659), correspondence with the dealer, and summary of charges relating to the painting.

Purchased 18 April 1918 from the estate of Colonel E. D. Lee through Alice B. Creelman.

Folder contains correspondence with Cravath & Henderson re payment and Davies, Turner & Company re shipping, along with memorandum voucher (No. 6968) to Davies, Turner & Co. for shipping the painting. Also contains a purchase agreement signed by Henry Clay Frick, Alice B. Creelman and Henriette Hind; a list of the total costs associated with the purchase; and descriptive information on the painting and its subject.

Purchased 30 January 1919 from Pach Brothers Photographers, New York, N.Y.

Folder contains accounts payable voucher (No. 7640) with attached receipt.

Folder contains list of items on approbation at One East 70th Street from Duveen Brothers, listed by room location, correspondence from Mr. Frick regarding the items selected for purchase, and payment schedules. Also contains correspondence with James Marwick re an offer from Earl Spencer to sell Hals' Portrait of Admiral de Ruyter and Licinio's Portrait of Cornaro the Younger, and correspondence with Duveen about whether items added to the Mrs. Frick's Boudoir (Boucher Room) were included in the original cost. Also includes letters from Allan Marquand and W. Bode re the provenance of Laurana's Bust of a Neapolitan Princess and a four-page description of the 16th century Persian Rug from the Ardebil mosque. Letter agreeing to the purchases is dated May 21, 1918, the first payment on the items was on May 1, 1919, and the last payment was made on April 1, 1921.

Works purchased are:

27059 Mahogany commode, French, 18th century

27041 Pater, Jean-Baptiste Joseph, 1695-1736, The Village Orchestra and A Comic Procession [Procession of Italian Comedians]

25785 Pair of Cylindrical Shaped Vases and Covers, Louis XVI period

26809 Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727-1788, Mrs. Baker [Mrs. Peter William Baker]

27001 Beauvais Tapestry Suite, French, 18th century, Louis XV Period (after cartoons by Boucher)

26758 Gueridon Table, French, 18th century, Louis XVI Period

K1 and K2 Two Chinese Porcelain Female Figures, K'ang Hsi, from the Morgan Collection

C-236 Boulle table

27061 Pair of Lacquer Entredeux, French, 18th century, Louis XVI Period

26951 Persian Rug, 16th century

26566 Coysevox, Antoine, 1640-1720, Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne [Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Maréchal Turenne], bronze bust

Eight Walnut Savonarola Chairs, Italian, 16th century

26806 Pair of Carved Walnut Cassoni, Italian, 15th century

26619 Two Walnut Cassoni, Italian

26997 Hals, Frans, 1584-1666, Oil painting of a man said to be Admiral de Ruyter [Portrait of a Man]

C-516 and C725 Two Renaissance-style Banquettes

25860 Courtois, Jean [Court, Jean de, active approximately 1555-approximately 1585?], Tall Limoges Enamel Candlestick: Labors of Hercules

M.M.183 Limoges Enamel Plaque: Adoration of the Magi from the Morgan Collection

25855 Pénicaud, Nardon, approximately 1470-1542 or 1543, Limoges Enamel Triptych: Crucifixion and Saints

26901 Pénicaud, Nardon, approximately 1470-1542 or 1543, Triptych: St. Barbara, Crucifixion, and St. Catherine

C530 Renaissance Armchair

25853 Laurana, Francesco, ca. 1420-1502, Neapolitan Princess, marble bust

25770 Silk Carpet from the Ardebil Mosque

27063 Henri II or Saint Porchaire Faience Ewer

25831 El Candido, Mercury with the Head of Argus, bronze

M.B.4 A Rearing Horse, bronze gilt, from the Morgan Collection

M.B.36 A Goat, bronze, from the Morgan Collection

26932 Ormolu Writing Table, French, 18th century, Louis XVI Period

26664 Ormolu Mounted Small Occasional Table, French, 18th century, Louis XVI period

M.74 Gouthière, Pierre, 1732?-1813 or 14, Pair of Ormolu Candlesticks, French, 18th century, Louis XVI period, from the Morgan Collection

26931 Ormolu Mounted Commode, French, 18th century, Louis XVI period

M.64 Small Ormolu Mounted Lyre-shaped Table, from the Morgan Collection

16892 Set of three Sevres Porcelain Vases, French, 18th century

26173 Sevres Porcelain Diamond-shaped Tray, French, 18th century

26172 Sevres Porcelain Service, French, 18th century

25888 Pair of Sevres Porcelain Vases, French, 18th century

26185 and K-111 Eight Sevres Porcelain Dishes, French, 18th century

27040 Sevres Porcelain Inkstand, French, 18th century, Louis XVI Period

25806 Tapestry-covered Banquette

25594 Writing Table, Louis XVI Period

C.A.111 Two Medals from the Chabrières Arles Collection given to Mr. Govett

26922 Four Engravings by Daulle after Boucher, French, 18th century: Amusements d'hiver, Charmes de printemps, Delices de l'Automne, and Plaisirs de l'ete

Included on the "On Approbation" list, but not purchased:

26515 Van Dyck, Anthony, 1599-1641, Portrait of Lords John and Bernard Stuart

25845 Courtois, Jean [Court, Jean de, active approximately 1555-approximately 1585?], Large Decorative Shield in Limoges Enamel: Allegorical Representation of Gramatique

26396 Houdon, Jean Antoine, 1741-1828, Bust of a Woman

Purchased 20 May 1919 from E. Gimpel & Wildenstein, New York, N.Y.

Folder contains accounts payable voucher (No. 7844) with invoice, and correspondence between the dealer and Henry Clay Frick. Note in Frick's hand indicates this painting was purchased for Eagle Rock by Helen Clay Frick.

Purchased 2 June 1919 from the artist.

Folder contains accounts payable voucher (No. 7885) with attached invoice. Copies sent to Mr[s?] Childs Frick, H.C. McEldowney, and Eagle Rock (Frick's country house in Prides Crossing, Mass.)

Purchased 23 August 1919 from A. Preyer, The Hague, Holland.

Folder contains correspondence with Duveen Brothers and Guaranty Trust Co., memorandum voucher (No. 8038), notes, two copies of the War Trade Board's application to trade with the enemy, and accounts payable voucher (No. 8206), with attached check request and receipt, to Carel F. de Wild for his work in connection with this acquisition. Also contains letter from Albert Eugene Gallatin re monograph on Vermeer, and correspondence concerning Preyer's claim of 17,875 Gulden against the Frick Estate.

Folder contains accounts payable voucher (No. 984), with invoice, correspondence, and memoranda re settlement.

Also includes invoice for Whistler's Lady Meux, and three-page bill showing expenditures for lamps, shades, bronze tablets, frames, lighting, upholstery and slipcovers, and various repairs, as well as charges in connection with the purchase of Vermeer's Mistress and Maid.

Exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, N.Y. Folder contains accounts payable voucher (No. 7354) for insurance premium, and letter from M. Knoedler & Co.

Unillustrated catalog containing descriptions of 49 works. Published by The Gilliss Press. See: Henry Clay Frick Papers, Series III: Voucher Files (No. 8786) for documentation re the production of the catalog.

Second of two handwritten catalogs prepared by Helen Clay Frick of her father's collection. Includes a photograph of each painting, along with biographical information about the artist, a description of the work, and provenance and exhibition information.

Exhibited at The Art Society, Pittsburgh, Pa. Folder contains letter from Beatty to Frick, envelope with notes regarding the loan, and newspaper clipping.

Correspondence and list of 13 paintings loaned. In addition to exhibition, letter from Charles Carstairs to F. W. McElroy notes that Mr. Frick "has been thinking for some time of utilizing the Marble-Room back of the Dining-Room, and to the left of the Gallery, to hang his Barbizon pictures, which he thinks will look better apart from his other pictures" and discusses steps to take. Also mentions Copley Society exhibit; an El Greco, "which has been shipped to the Exhibition at Toledo"; a Murillo painting; and the restoration of a Rembrandt painting.

Clipping from the New York Herald, entitled: "Seventeen Pictures Worth $10,000,000 on View in the Galleries of Messrs. Duveen Brothers." Frick lent three paintings to the exhibition: Hon. Anne Duncombe by Thomas Gainsborough, Lady Elizabeth Taylor by Joshua Reynolds, and Lady Milnes by George Romney.

Illustrated handbook containing descriptive entries for 75 paintings on view at Frick's New York residence. In addition to descriptions, entries may include measurements, exhibition and provenance information, and a two-letter code indicating the location of the painting in the house. Also contains a supplemental list of paintings "in other parts of the house, which owing to their location, are not usually shown to visitors." Handbook was expanded and reissued circa 1925. See: Henry Clay Frick Papers, Series: Voucher Files (Nos. 5053, 5204, 5221, and 7835) for printing and binding charges in connection with this book.

Contains 1903 list prepared by M. Knoedler & Co. of paintings returned since January 1901, along with a second undated sheet.

Lists and miscelleaneous notes in connection with an inventory of paintings at Prides Crossing in August 1907.

File contains lists of paintings acquired by Frick between 1895 and 1910. Some lists include the price and source of acquisition for each painting.

Handwritten list dated 17 February 1912, of items taken by M. Knoedler & Co. Rembrandt's Self-Portrait was removed for restoration; a work by El Greco was removed for exhibition first in Toledo [Ohio?] then at the Copley Society in Boston; and a work by Murillo was removed and sent to the Copley Society. Note at bottom in another hand reads: "New Holbein at Knoedlers."

List dated 29 June 1914, includes date purchased, Red Book index number, title, artist and dealer name. Does not include prices.

Items are listed by room, and chiefly include furniture, decorative objects, and household items.

List is summarized in a letter from Thomas Gerrity of M. Knoedler & Co. dated 17 June 1914.

Shows date acquired, voucher number, title, artist, dealer name, and price. Ledger pages also include listings for frames, expert opinions, donations of paintings, cleaning and restoration work, insurance, etc.

Two-page list of paintings in "Gallery" and "Limoges Gallery." Information includes artist, title, date, source of acquisition, previous collection, price, and date acquired.

Inventory dated 19 October 1920, with items listed by location in the house.

Lists include artist, title, and price paid. File also contains sketches showing placement of paintings in the Music Room, Breakfast Room, and Library.

Contains outgoing letters regarding art purchases, works exhibited, paintings not purchased, and other topics. Includes list of paintings loaned for exhibition to the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh, and lists of paintings at Frick's Pittsburgh residence. Indexed alphabetically by correspondent at the front of the volume.

Mentions works by Whistler, Bastien Lepage, Millet, Mauve, Troyon, Van Marcke, Reynolds, Lawrence, Rembrandt, Ostade, Van Dyck, Gainsborough, and Hoppner. Collectors, dealers, and others mentioned include [James Staats?] Forbes, Alfred Rothschild, [Herbert L.] Terrell, Lord Lansdowne, Sir Charles Holroyd, J.P. Heseltine, Lord Carlisle, Roger Fry, and [Andrew W. Mellon].

Mentions works by Ridgway Knight, Chelminski, Holbein, Raphael, El Greco, Gainsborough, Turner, Whistler, Millet, Ziem, Cotes, Veronese, Reynolds, Hoppner, and Gilbert Stuart. Collectors, dealers and others mentioned include [?] Pearson, Bryce Allan, J.H. Dunn, Allom, Childs Frick, Haseltine Carstairs, Roland Knoedler, Radnor Collection, C.T. Taylor, [?] Howard, Duveen, Altman, Aynard Collection, George Davey, [?] Roche, Lily [Carstairs], Lord Kitchener, Colnaghi, Harry Wilson, [Theodore Roosevelt], [John P.] Grier, Charles Macdonald, and Lieut. Commander Towers.

Mentions works by Rossellino, Donatello, Fragonard, Giorgione, Lotto, Foppa, Rubens, Tiepolo, Whistler, Romney, Reynolds, and Vigée-Lebrun. Collectors, dealers and others mentioned include Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Hind, Mrs. Chauncey J. Blair, Friedlander, [Wilhelm] Bode, Arden Gallery, Morgan Collection, Henry Dearth, Sir Hugh [Lane], J.H. Dunn, Sir Martin Conway, Altman, Count and Lady Plunkett, Duke de Lerma[?], Constance Creelman, and Tankerville Chamberlayne.

Mentions works by Raeburn, Gainsborough, Boucher, Van Dyck, Reynolds, and Pieter de Hoogh [Hooch], along with a group of Chinese porcelains. Collectors, dealers, and others mentioned include Christie's, Thomas B. Clarke, John Getz, Sir George and Lady Cooper, and Charles Wertheimer.

Chiefly concerns payments to Duveen. Mentions work by Gainsborough and the Morgan Collection.

Mentions furnishings, porcelains, and works by Houdon, Reisner, Pollajuolo [Pollaiolo], and Fra Filippo Lippi. Collectors, dealers and others mentioned include Dr. Bode, Oscar Hainauer, George B. Warren, Louis Huth, Odiot Collection, Charles Butler Collection, and Kann Collection.

Artists mentioned include Titian, Francesco Marcolino, Tiepolo, Holbein, Rembrandt, Rubens, Cima da Conegliano[?], Vermeer, Paolo Ucello, Tintoretto, Van Dyck, and Velázquez. Collectors, dealers, and others mentioned include Jacaci, Burlington Magazine, G.W. Brothers, Earl of Warwick, Charles Butler, John Emmett, Lucas Moreno, Spinola family, Lord Denbeigh, John G. Johnson, Grafton Gallery, and Knoedler.

Mentions works by Chartran, William Sartain (after Chartran), Cazin, Corot, Rousseau, Daubigny, Diaz, Mauve, Turner, Troyon, Bouguereau, and Reynolds. Collectors, dealers, and others mentioned include Mrs. B.F. Jones, William McKinley, [Henry W.?] Oliver, [Jay C.?] Morse, Mrs. C.H. Buhl, Mrs. [Robert] Pitcairn, James McCrea, Vever collection, Helen Clay Frick, Mr. and Mrs. [Charles?] Lockhart, Pender collection, and Johnson, Widener, and Elkins collections in Philadelphia.

Mentions works by Thaulow, Inness, Albert P. Ryder, Wyant, Winslow Homer, Homer Martin, Troyon, Rousseau, Chartran, [Turner], LeRoy; Corot, Daubigny, Israels, Cazin, Vibert, Chevillard, Gerome, Chialiva, Mesdag, Millet, Domingo, Henner, Jacquet, Knight, Dagnan-Bouveret, Rico, and Ziem. Collectors, dealers, and others mentioned include J.W. Ellsworth, [?] Hooper, H. Sampson, William Randolph Hearst, [Thomas B.] Clarke, [Eugène] Secrétan, Numa-Blanc [photographer], and Helen Clay Frick.

Mentions works by Chartran, Hamman, A. Guillaume, Israels, Troyon, Breton, Detaille, and Titian. Collectors, dealers, and others mentioned include [Theodore] Roosevelt; [Elihu] Root; Marika Ogiz; Jules Huret; Charles Carstairs; Farjeon, Bagot & Co.; Helen Clay Frick; Childs Frick; Adelaide H.C. Frick; James Stillman; and the Balay and Chelminski families.

Mentions works by Hoppner, Cuyp, El Greco, Troyon, Rembrandt, Hals, Turner, Murillo, Velázquez, and Gainsborough. Collectors, dealers, and others mentioned include P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Charles Carstairs, Helen Clay Frick, William A. Coffin, Doria Collection, and Charlie Phillips.

Undated request from J. Coleman Drayton.

Includes requests from the Association of Women Painters and Sculptors of New York, The Rembrandt Club of Brooklyn, the New York Browning Society, the College Art Association, the American Association of Mining Engineers, the Society of Pennsylvania Women in New York, and the United Club (New York Association of Women Workers).

Includes requests from Helen Therese Damrosch, the Hamilton Institute for Girls, Agnes Adams, Emily Vanderbilt Hammond, The Presbytery of New York, George S. Garritt, Jerome Alexander, John C. Tappin, Annie Gifford Downs, William A. Boring, Emily Palmer Cape, Elsa D. Holliday, J. Earl Schrock, John Grier Hibben, M. Alfredo Sides, Janet Orem Van Buskirk, E. Govett, Josephine DuBois, Henry S. Schley, Ruth and Grace Martin, and Joseph Earl.

Includes requests from Allen Curtis, William Welles Bosworth and Dr. Clara Webster, Katharine M. Barker, Rachel Haines Bacon, Slason Thompson, Dr. & Mrs. H.S. Pritchett, Robert W. De Forest on behalf of the American Federation of Arts, Mrs. Samuel J. Rose, Robert Grier Cooke, The Architectural League of New York, Ethel Ewen Smith, Louis A. Lehmaier, Louis Duveen, Mrs. Grenville L. Smith, Stephen S. Wise on behalf of Capt. Leon T. Herrmann, G.M. Whicher for Ernest Gardner. Mary Gibson, Dr. Theodore Diller, Esther Keagy, Edward Clayton, John C. Bowker, Thomas Hastings on behalf of the American Institute of Architects, Ada Thurston, Charles Carstairs on behalf of Clyde M. Carr, John Clark Wilson, Jonce I. McGurk on behalf of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Cross Johnson, J. Massey Rhind on behalf of James I Barr, Charles R. Henschel on behalf of Mrs. Chauncey F. Kerr, Mrs. Oren Taft, and Frank D. MCauley, the Sorosis Art Committee, John Du Fais, William A. Rogers, H.E. Field, Mrs. William E. Gibbs, Mrs. Robert Underwood Johnson, and John S. Phipps for Mrs. Frank Griswold and Jim Barney.

Correspondence of Mr. Frick and John D. Rockefeller, Jr. re Mr. Banks, who is making stands for Frick porcelains at Prides Crossing. Frick thanks Rockefeller for recommending him, notes that "he has put life into the porcelains in New York," and that "we have a hall clock, here [Prides Crossing], purchased about the time we were married, that was made by his father."

Mentions artists Van Marcke, Dagnan-Bouveret, Friant, Bastien Lepage, Mauve, Corot, Rousseau, and Thaulow. Collectors, dealers, and others mentioned include Mr. Watson, Mr. MacCulloch, and [Andrew] Carnegie.

Offered by B. De Joinville, New York, N.Y. Folder contains letter from Joinville in French, with notes in Frick's hand.

Appears on a 25 July 1901 Knoedler list of paintings selected for purchase by Mr. Frick in M. Knoedler & Co.'s Paris office, but there is no record of payment. Includes items from Bill Book No. 2. See also: Series III: Inventories and Lists, Mauve, Millet, and Thaulow purchases.

On approval from Duveen Brothers, New York, 1906; formerly in the collections of Charles Butler, London; and Oscar Hainauer, Berlin (#81 in Bode's catalog of the Hainauer Collection). For more information, see: FARL Photoarchive #707-8e.

Correspondence with Charles Carstairs of M. Knoedler & Co. and copy letter from P. & D. Colnaghi. Other paintings/artists mentioned include Mortlake Terrace by Turner, La Galère by Ziem, Portrait of Mrs. Snyders [Margareta Snyders] and Portrait of Frans Snyders by Van Dyck, and Gainsborough.

File contains correspondence with E. Hodgkins offering painting to Mr. Frick, telegrams from J. G. A. Leishman, and red envelope.

Offered for purchase through M. Meyer de Stadelhofen, Geneva, [Switzerland], via Marika Ogiz, former governess to Helen Clay Frick. Folder contains correspondence with Roger Fry, M. Meyer de Stadelhofen, and Marika Ogiz.

From the Lord Feversham collection. Letters from H. Silva White, Roger Fry, and Charles Carstairs of M. Knoedler & Co., and clippings re supposed purchase by Mr. Frick. H. Silva White letters extend offers of painting and invitations from Lord Feversham; Roger Fry letter offers his opinion on the painting. Other works/artists mentioned include Philip IV by Velázquez, Self-Portrait and The Mill by Rembrandt, Hobbema, Holbein, and an unnamed painting referred to only as the Primitive. Also includes reference to Thomas Hastings's work on Mr. Frick's New York residence.

Offered by J.H. Dunn and H. Silva White, London, England. Folder contains red envelope (no number), correspondence with White and Dunn, and a description of the painting. Other paintings mentioned include Sir Thomas More by Holbein and a portrait of the Town Clerk of Antwerp by Metsys.

Letters from John Eyre and Hugh Blaker, the owner of the paintings. Holbein portrait is of an ancestor of Viscount Sidney. Both paintings were brought to America for Mr. Frick's inspection. Other paintings/collectors mentioned include the Chigi Madonna by Botticelli and Isabella Stewart Gardner.

Letter from Charles Carstairs of M. Knoedler & Co., with description of painting. Other artists/collections mentioned include Millet and the Wallace Collection.

List of articles at One East 70th Street on approval, removed by Duveen Brothers, June 3, 1916. Includes memorandum approving the return of the items to Duveen, signed by Frick and Duveen. Items include:

C94 Pair of richly carved bellows of the Renaissance period

[unnumbered] Louis XIV Pedestal

941, 942 Two Ovoid Jars, Ch'ien Lung [from the Morgan Collection]

26401 Two modern armchairs, grey velvet

C456 Three modern single chairs, grey velvet

24940 Giambologna, 1529-1608, Bronze statuette, Venus After the Bath

25830 Bellano, Bartolomeo, 1434-1497, Bronze statuette, David with the Head of Goliath

25832 Riccio, 1470-1532, Bronze group: Female satyr seated holding cornucopia, with infant satyr

25833 Poggini, Domenico, 1550-1589 (school of), Statuette, Man Carrying a Child

25775 Sansovino, Iacopo, 1486-1570 (school of), Bronze andirons

25961 Sansovino, Iacopo, 1486-1570, Bronze figures of boys as pricket candlesticks

25643 Pair of bronze candlesticks on tripod feet, Venetian, 16th century

25831 Candido, Elia, Bronze statuette, Mercury with the Head of Argus

25689 Sansovino, Iacopo, 1486-1570, Pair of bronze candlesticks

24911 Open cabinet of chestnut wood, French, 16th century (School of Lyons, style of Ducereau)

25780 Renaissance armchair, carved in walnut wood

24465 Italian, 16th century, Bronze statuette, Antinous

24033 Italian, 16th century, Bronze statuette, Christ

23067 Walnut wood table with extending top, French, 16th century

25598 Renaissance Fauteuil covered in purple velvet

25861 Courtois, Jean [Court, Jean de, active approximately 1555-approximately 1585?], Limoges polychrome coupe: Lot Fleeing from Sodom

25855 Pénicaud, Nardon, approximately 1470-1542 or 1543, Limoges polychrome triptych: Crucifixion and Saints

C329 Modern Renaissance cabinet

Offered by Stanley Fitch, Romford, England. Folder contains cable from Fitch and customs documents.

List of articles at One East 70th Street on approval, dated 20 February 1919, returned to Duveen Brothers 29 November 1919. File also contains correspondence concerning bookkeeping procedures for works at the Frick residence on approval. Items include:

27151 Pair of antique silver dishes and ewer, French Regency Period, 1720

27121 Lamerie, Paul de, 1688-1751, Silver bread basket

21722 George III Silver tankard

27136 Dodin, Charles Nicolas, 1734-1803, Oval Sevres jardiniere

27137 Pair of commode-shaped Sevres jardinieres, French, Louis XV period

27155 Boulle, André-Charles, 1642-1732, Pair of marquetry marriage-caskets on stands

X-94 Titian, approximately 1488-1576, Portrait of a Venetian Gentleman

X-95 Sarto, Andrea del, 1486-1530, Portrait of a Lady

27099 Houdon, Jean Antoine, 1741-1828, Marble bust, Comte de Guilbert

27156 Pair of finely chased and gilt andirons, French, Louis XVI period

27124 Carlin, Martin, -1785, Ormulu jardiniere set with oblong plaques of Sevres porcelain, French, Louis XVI periods

27142 Pair of Turquoise Sevres vases and covers, French, Louis XV period

Stool covered in French Beauvais tapestry

Lamerie, Paul de, 1688-1751, Silver rosewater dish

25854 Courtois, Jean [Court, Jean de, active approximately 1555-approximately 1585?], Limoges enamel large decorative shield: Gramatique

26396 Houdon, Jean Antoine, 1741-1828, Marble portrait bust of a woman [La Clairon]

26515 Van Dyck, Anthony, 1599-1641, Portrait of Lords John and Bernard Stuart

Also contains a 1919 letter to Duveen from Naughton asking them to remove the Limoges enamel An Unknown Man by Léonard Limosin as Mr. Frick decided not to purchase it.

Offered by Alice Creelman, [New York, N.Y.] Folder contains accounts payable voucher (No. 8028), with attached description of the Holbein, note from Alice Braddel to W.J. Naughton, and shipping invoice.

Folder contains photographs of the following paintings purchased by Frick and later returned:

Breton, Jules, 1827-1906, Last Gleanings

Cazin, Jean-Charles, 1841-1901, Plain of Barbizon

Chevilliard, Vincent Jean Baptiste, 1841-1904, House of God (or Maison du bon Dieu)

Diaz de la Peña, Narcisse Virgil, 1807-1876, Love's Caresses (or Figure Piece)

Knight, Ridgway, 1839-1924, Coming from the Garden

Mesdag, Hendrik Willem, 1831-1915, Boats Returning (or Bateaux Rentrant)

Millet, Francis Davis, 1846-1912, How the Gossip Grew

Vibert, J.G. (Jehan Georges), 1840-1902, Eureka

Prospectus for the catalog "French Line Engravings of the Late XVIII. Century with an Introduction and Catalogue Raisonné by H.W. Lawrence and Basil Dighton." Published by Lawrence & Jellicoe, Ltd., London, England.

Complete title: "Oriental Porcelains, Bronzes and Other Objects of Art from the Collection of the Late Heber R. Bishop of New York City, Sold by Direction of the Trustee, and Paintings by American and Foreign Artists from the Bishop, Xavier, Warren and Other Collections." Offered for sale by Anderson Art Galleries, New York, N.Y. Date of sale: 12 April 1911.

Illustrated article by W. Roberts published in Connoisseur, November 1912.

Folder contains handwritten list of furniture items dated 23 February 1915, and note primarily regarding credits for paintings returned.

Offered for sale by Basil Dighton, London, England.