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Acquisitions

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.

2008 Acquisitions

  • painting of man sketching a female nude model in repose, circa 1755

    Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (1724–1780)
    The Private Academy, ca. 1755
    Oil on panel
    13 1/2 x 15 in. (34.3 x 38.1 cm)
    Gift of Irene Roosevelt Aitken (2008.1.01)

    In the fall of 2008, the Frick announced the acquisition of the museum’s first painting by Gabriel de Saint-Aubin. MORE »

  • colorful and intricately painted dish of the mythological scene, The Judgment of Paris, depciting three nude women at the center, one being offered an apple

    Workshop of Orazio Fontana, (1540–1571)
    Dish, ca. 1565–75
    Tin-glazed earthenware
    H. 2 1/8 in. (5.4 cm), diam. 16 3/4 in. (42.5 cm)
    Gift of Dianne Dwyer Modestini in memory of Mario Modestini, 2008 (2008.17.01)

    In 2008, the Frick received a remarkable mid-sixteenth-century maiolica charger from the Fontana workshop. The dish, which was once part of the important collection formed by Adolphe de Rothschild, fills a significant gap in the Frick’s holdings. MORE »