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Past Exhibitions: 1999

  • Henry Clay Frick as a Collector of Drawings

    December 14, 1999 to January 30, 2000

    Marking the 150th Anniversary of the birthday of founder Henry Clay Frick (1849–1919), this small exhibition drew attention to a lesser-known aspect of the broad collecting interests of the museum's founder. Ten drawings that Mr.

  • Velázquez in New York Museums

    November 16, 1999 to January 30, 2000

    To mark the four-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (1599–1660), The Frick Collection brought together for the first time six of the Spanish master’s portraits belonging to public collections in New York.

  • Watteau and His World: French Drawing from 1700 to 1750

    October 20, 1999 to January 9, 2000

    This comprehensive survey of drawings by Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684–1721) and some of his leading contemporaries included more than sixty-five drawings lent from public and private collections in North America. A core of some thirty-five drawings by Watteau himself demonstated the evolution and range of his graphic art, with examples of all the signficant subjects that he drew and all the genres and graphic media in which he worked.

  • Constable's Salisbury Cathedral: Two Versions Reunited

    September 21, 1999 to December 31, 1999

    Between 1820 and 1826, John Constable (1776–1837) executed three oil sketches and three finished paintings depicting Salisbury Cathedral from the south side, rising over the green expanse of the bishop's grounds. All are linked to a commission of 1822 from Constable's friend and patron Bishop John Fisher, who asked him to develop one of the sketches into a finished work.

  • Manet's The Dead Toreador and The Bullfight: Fragments of a Lost Salon Painting Reunited

    May 25, 1999 to August 29, 1999

  • The Medieval Housebook: A View of Fifteenth-Century Life

    May 18, 1999 to July 25, 1999

  • French and English Drawings of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries from the National Gallery of Canada

    February 9, 1999 to April 25, 1999

    This exhibition of sixty-seven drawings from the collection of the National Gallery of Canada was organized by that museum in collaboration with The Frick Collection. It offered a rich sampling of the treasures assembled by the Department of Prints and Drawings since its founding in 1921, including works by Boucher and Degas acquired only last year.

  • Drouais' Portrait of Madame de Pompadour from The National Gallery, London

    January 26, 1999 to May 13, 1999

    On view for the first time in the United States, the celebrated full-length portrait of Madame de Pompadour by the French artist François-Hubert Drouais (1727–75) was presented at New York's Frick Collection. Regarded as one of the greatest and most popular treasures at the National Gallery in London, the portrait was the last one painted of the Marquise de Pompadour, the influential mistress of French King Louis XV.

  • Figurative Invention: Drawings from the Permanent Collection

    December 22, 1998 to January 3, 1999

    This exhibition presented drawings from the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries that displayed several modes of depicting figures. Some were drawings of figures or costumes copied from life and intended as preparatory studies for painted compositions. Others were individual or grouped figures that spring from the artist's imagination or are based on his observation of the world around him.

  • Victorian Fairy Painting

    October 14, 1998 to January 17, 1999