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painting of pastoral scene with idealized shepherds from classical antiquity clustering around an austere tomb
From the Louvre to The Frick Collection: Poussin's The Arcadian Shepherds
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With extraordinary generosity, the Musée du Louvre loaned one of the most celebrated icons of French art: Nicolas Poussin's The Arcadian Shepherds. This image of four shepherds solemnly meditating over the inscription they have discovered on a tomb — Et in Arcadia Ego (“Even in Arc

Painting of woman with parasol walking in courtyard
The Spirit of the Place: Selections from the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection
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An exhibition of fourteen paintings and four sculptures from the collection of Baroness Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza.

Exhibition catalogue cover with blue background and grey text.
Franklin and Condorcet: Two Portraits from the American Philosophical Society
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An exhibition of two remarkable portraits of famous men lent by the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia: an oil on canvas representing Benjamin Franklin painted by Jean-Baptiste Greuze in 1777, and a marble bust of Nicolas de Condorcet executed by Jean-Antoine Houdon in 1785.

Image of silver medal depicting William III, Prince of Orange
The Proud Republic: Dutch Medals of the Golden Age
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An exhibition of forty-one medals, a print by Rembrandt, and a spectacular silver-gilt standing cup with cover, dated 1639, by Jan Lutma the Elder, all chosen and catalogued by guest curator Stephen K. Scher.

Catalogue cover with italian old master drawing as the background.
Italian Old Master Drawings from the Ratjen Foundation
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An exhibition of more than fifty Italian Old Master drawings selected from the Ratjen Foundation in Vaduz, Liechtenstein. Unfamiliar to American audiences, these drawings were assembled over three decades by Dr. Wolfgang Ratjen, who established the foundation to provide a permanent home for his collection.

Painting of pastoral estate by a river lined with trees.
Mortlake Terrace: Turner’s Companion Pieces Reunited
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On loan from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., Joseph Mallord William Turner's Mortlake Terrace, Summer’s Evening of 1827 hung for six months beside its companion piece, The Frick Collection's Mortlake Terrace: Ea

Painting of design and construction of church
Soane: Connoisseur & Collector, A Selection of Drawings from Sir John Soane’s Collection
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An exhibition of some fifty architectural drawings, highlights of the renowned collection of 30,000 works housed in Sir John Soane's Museum in London.

Pastel bust portrait of Nicolas-Pierre-Baptiste Anselme with white scarf, blue coat, and powdered hair.
Greuze, A Portraitist for the ‘90s
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A small exhibition focused on a pair of pastel portraits by Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725–1805) that had recently been acquired by the museum: Baptiste Aîné and 

Painting of full length portrait of man in formal dress with a cape draped across his arm and holding a walking stick
The Butterfly and The Bat: Whistler and Montesquiou
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Another in-depth exhibition devoted to a single painting in The Frick Collection, this one focused on Whistler's celebrated portrait Arrangement in Black and Gold: Comte Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac, first exhibited in 1894.

Drawing of shipyard with large anchors laying on their sides in the foreground.
The Golden Age of Danish Art: Drawings from the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Copenhagen
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American audiences were offered their first comprehensive introduction to drawings and watercolors from the "Golden Age" of Danish art (1815–48) at The Frick Collection.