Single Picture Loan Exhibition

Past Exhibition: Raeburn's The Rev. Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch

painting of minister ice skating wearing black stockings, coat, and hat.
Raeburn's The Rev. Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch, from the National Gallery of Scotland
December 5, 2000 to February 4, 2001

In another of its ongoing series of single-picture exhibitions, The Frick Collection presented Raeburn's celebrated skating minister on loan from the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh. Completed by Sir Henry Raeburn (1756-1823) around 1784, this image of the Rev. Robert Walker — minister of the Canongate Kirk and an avid member of the Skating Society — is one of the Gallery's most beloved works.

Past Exhibition: Constable's Salisbury Cathedral

painting of Salisbury Cathedral with trees, cows, and figures in the foreground
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. Instead, Constable set out afresh, producing a canvas for the bishop that he exhibited to critical acclaim at the Royal Academy in 1823.

Past Exhibition: Drouais' Portrait of Madame de Pompadour

portrait of Madame de Pompadour embroidering wearing a floral gown, a little black dog perched on a chair is resting is front paws on her embroidery frame.
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.

Special Loan: Parmigianino's Antea

painting of standing woman dressed in a gold satin dress draped with marten fur

Special Loan: Parmigianino's Antea: A Beautiful Artifice

January 29, 2008 to May 1, 2008

In this exhibition, Parmigianino’s Antea, a special loan from the Museo di Capodimonte in Naples, was exhibited in the United States for the first time in more than twenty years. Although it is widely recognized as a masterpiece of Italian Renaissance female portraiture, little is known about the painting: its date is not firmly established, it is unclear why or for whom the portrait was painted, and the sitter’s identity is a mystery.

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