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The Frick Collection has continued to expand its holdings in the decades following Henry Clay Frick's death in 1919. Since then, nearly half of the Collection's paintings and several important sculptures and decorative art objects have been acquired.

2006 Acquisitions

  • Spherical glass and gilt-brass clock supported by a terracotta sculpture of a pillar surrounded by three nude female figures

    Sculptor: Claude Michel Clodion  (1738–1814)
    The Dance of Time: Three Nymphs Supporting a Clock, 1788
    Terracotta, brass, gilt brass, silvered brass, steel and glass
    40 3/4 in. (103.5 cm)
    Sculpture: 21 3/8 × 12 3/4 × 8 1/4 in. (54.3 × 32.4 × 21 cm)
    Globe: diam. 10 13/16 in. (27.5 cm)
    Purchased through the Winthrop Kellogg Edey bequest, 2006 (2006.2.02)

    In the spring of 2006, the institution purchased an undisputed masterpiece of both sculpture and clockmaking, The Dance of Time: Three Nymphs Supporting a Clock. It features a timepiece by Lepaute, the firm of clockmakers working for Kings Louis XV and XVI, as well as a remarkable sculpture by Claude Michel, called Clodion.MORE »

  • Life-size terracotta sculpture of the nude goddess Diana holding a bow and balancing on one foot

    Jean-Antoine Houdon  (active 1741–1828)
    Diana, before 1793
    Tinted plaster
    24 in. (61 cm)
    Gift of Mr. Frederick R. Koch, 2006 (2006.2.01)

    In 2006, The Frick Collection accepted the Frederick R. Koch’s generous gift of a Diana the Huntress statuette by Houdon. A reduced version of the Frick’s prized lifesize terracotta cast of Houdon’s Diana, it allows the museum to present to visitors both versions of one of the most famous sculptures of the eighteenth century. MORE »

  • terracotta Pieta sculpture depicting Jesus being mourned by two angels on an ebony platform

    Massimiliano Soldani-Benzi  (1656–1740)
    Pieta with Two Mourning Putti, probably 1715
    Terracotta on ebony base
    11 5/8 x 21 5/8 in. (29.5 x 54.9 cm)
    Gift of The Quentin Foundation, 2006  (2006.2.03)

    A beautiful terracotta Pietà (ca. 1715) by Massimiliano Soldani-Benzi (1656–1740) was accepted as a gift from The Quentin Foundation in 2006.MORE »