With Support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Frick Updates its Historic Enamels Room Cases and Conserves a Remarkable Collection

New York’s Frick Collection is home to one of the most important groups of Renaissance enamelsin the world, ranking alongside those of the Musée du Louvre in Paris, The Wallace Collection and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. The forty-two enamels in The Frick Collection were produced in the city of Limoges, in central France, fromthe late fifteenth to the early seventeenth century.