Masterpieces of European Painting from Dulwich Picture Gallery
March 9, 2010, through May 30, 2010
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Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn (1606–1669), Girl at a Window, 1645,
oil on Canvas, 81.6 x 66 cm, © The Trustees of Dulwich Picture
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The Frick Collection is pleased to announce the loan of nine Old Master paintings from the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London, one of the major collections of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century pictures in the world. The exhibition, which heralds the Gallery’s bicentenary in 2011, will introduce American audiences to this institution’s collection through an exceptional group of works, to be shown exclusively at the Frick from March 9 through May 30, 2010.
The signature masterpieces, many of which have not been on view in the United States in recent years, and, in some cases, never in New York City, are: Rembrandt van Rijn’s (1606–1669) Girl at a Window, 1645; Sir Anthony Van Dyck’s (1599–1641) Samson and Delilah, c. 1619–20; Thomas Gainsborough’s (1727–1788) The Linley Sisters, probably 1772; Sir Peter Lely’s (1618–1680) Nymphs by a Fountain, before 1640; Canaletto’s (1697–1768) Old Walton Bridge over the Thames, 1754; Gerrit Dou’s (1613–1675) A Woman Playing a Clavichord, c. 1665; Antoine Watteau’s (1684–1721) Les Plaisirs du Bal, most likely 1715–17; Bartolomé Esteban Murillo’s (1618–1682) The Flower Girl, 1665–70; and Nicolas Poussin’s (1594–1665) The Nurture of Jupiter, mid-1630s.
The exhibition, to be installed in the Frick’s Oval Room and Garden Court, is co-organized by Colin B. Bailey, Associate Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator at the Frick, and Xavier F. Salomon, Curator at Dulwich. A fully illustrated catalogue, written by Dr. Salomon, will feature an essay on the origins of the collection at Dulwich as well as comprehensive entries on the nine works.
Principal funding for the exhibition is provided by Christie's and Melvin R. Seiden.
Additional support is generously provided by John and Constance Birkelund, Mr. and Mrs. Walter A. Eberstadt, Fiduciary Trust Company International, Barbara G. Fleischman, Francis Finlay, and Hester Diamond.
The accompanying catalogue is made possible by Jon and Barbara Landau.
This exhibition is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.
The Spanish Manner: Drawings from Ribera to Goya
October 5, 2010, through January 9, 2011
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Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746–1828), The Anglers, 1799, brush and brown wash on
paper, The Frick Collection |
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The greatest Spanish draftsmen of the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries —
Ribera, Murillo, and Goya, among them — created works of dazzling idiosyncrasy. These
diverse drawings, which may be broadly characterized as possessing a specifically
“Spanish manner,” will be the subject of an exclusive exhibition at The Frick Collection
scheduled for the fall of 2010. The presentation will feature more than fifty of the
finest Spanish drawings from public and private collections in the Northeastern United
States. Opening the show are rare sheets by the early seventeenth-century masters
Francisco Pacheco and Vicente Carducho, followed by a number of spectacular red chalk
drawings by the celebrated draftsman Jusepe de Ribera. The exhibition continues with
rapid sketches and painting-like wash drawings from the rich oeuvre of the Andalusian
master Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, along with lively drawings by Francisco de Herrera
the Elder and his son, the Madrid court artists Sebastian de Herrera Barnuevo and Juan
Carreño de Miranda, among others.
The second half of the exhibition will present some
twenty-five sheets by the great draftsman Francisco de Goya, whose drawings are rarely
studied in the illuminating context of the Spanish draftsmen who came before him. These
works, mostly drawings from his private albums, attest to the continuity between his
thematic interests and those of his Spanish forebears, as well as to Goya’s own enormously fertile imagination. The
exhibition is organized by Jonathan Brown, Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor of Fine Arts, New York University;
Lisa A. Banner, independent scholar; and Susan Grace Galassi, Senior Curator at The Frick Collection. It will be
accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue, with entries by the show’s organizers and by Reva Wolf, Associate
Professor of Art History and Chair, Department of Art History, State University of New York at New Paltz and author
of Goya and the Satirical Print in England and on the Continent, 1730–1850, and Andrew Schulz, Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Oregon and author of Goya’s Caprichos: Aesthetics, Perception, and the Body.
The exhibition is made possible, in part, by the David L. Klein Jr. Foundation.
The accompanying catalogue has been generously underwritten by The Center for Spain in America. |
