2015

Green and purple porcelain ship on bronze base
From Sèvres to Fifth Avenue: French Porcelain at The Frick Collection
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Between 1916 and 1918, Henry Clay Frick purchased several important pieces of porcelain to decorate his New York mansion.

Red chalk profile portrait study of Julius Caesar
Andrea del Sarto: The Renaissance Workshop in Action
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From about 1515 until his death, Andrea del Sarto (1486–1530) ran the most successful and productive workshop in Florence, not only leaving his native city richly decorated with his art but also greatly influencing the art produced in the remainder of the century.

watercolor landscape of shoreline with sailboats and buildings in the background
Landscape Drawings in The Frick Collection
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Depicting quotidian life in the country, urban scenes, and imagined views of timeless Arcadian realms, this selection of rarely exhibited landscape drawings from the Frick’s small but superb collection of works on paper reveals thematic continuities across four centuries.

Oil painting of sleeping woman in orange dress curled up on bench
Leighton’s Flaming June
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At the end of his career, the British artist Frederic Leighton painted the now-iconic image of a sleeping woman in a vivid orange gown.

Oil painting of Jesus Christ banishing people from a temple.
El Greco at The Frick Collection
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Henry Clay Frick had a deep appreciation for Spanish painting, particularly the work of El Greco, the extraordinary Greek artist who, after a brief period in Italy, spent most of his life in Toledo, Spain.

Close-up of tapestry with three shepherdesses dancing
Coypel’s Don Quixote Tapestries: Illustrating a Spanish Novel in Eighteenth-Century France
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A masterpiece of comic fiction, Cervantes’s Don Quixote (fully titled The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) enjoyed great popularity from the moment it was published, in two volumes, in 1605 and 1615.

Oil painting of virgin and child in garden
Masterpieces from the Scottish National Gallery
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From November 5, 2014, through February 1, 2015, the Frick presented ten masterpieces of painting from the Scottish National Gallery. The museum, one of the finest in the world, is distinguished for its holdings of works by the greatest masters of Western art and for its comprehensive collection of Scottish art.