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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.

2013 Acquisitions

  • Porcelain sculpture of a long-necked bird with its head ben over its wing

    Johann Gottlieb Kirchner (1706–after 1737)
    Great Bustard, 1732
    Hard-paste porcelain 33 × 17 × 11 1/4 in. (83.8 × 43.2 × 28.6 cm)
    Gift of Henry H. Arnhold, 2013 (2013.9.01)

  • sculpted brown wax bust of man in profile, against slate background

    Pierre-Jean David d'Angers (1788–1856)
    L'Abbé de Lamennais, 1831
    Wax on slate, 6 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. (16.5 x 14 cm)
    Gift of Jonathan Kagan and Ute Wartenberg Kagan, in honor of Walter A. Eberstadt, 2013 (2013.2.01)