Past

gold four-legged table with ornate decoration
Gold, Jasper, and Carnelian: Johann Christian Neuber at the Saxon Court
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Since antiquity, gemstones (also known as hard or semiprecious stones) have been cut and polished for use in jewelry, in the creation of vases and cups, and in the decoration of palaces.

bronze sculpture of standing male mythical figure with arm raised and golden cape
Antico: The Golden Age of Renaissance Bronzes
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Antico: The Golden Age of Renaissance Bronzes was the first monographic exhibition in the United States dedicated to Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi, known as Antico (c. 1455–1528).

painting of green and purple fruits on branch with leaves

A Passion for Drawings: Charles Ryskamp's Bequest to The Frick Collection
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The Frick Collection celebrated the generosity and discerning taste of former Director Charles A. Ryskamp (1928–2010) with an exhibition of works on paper from his bequest. Dr.

oil painting of mother with two girls, one with doll
Renoir, Impressionism, and Full-Length Painting
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In early 2012, The Frick Collection presented an exhibition of nine iconic Impressionist paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, offering the first comprehensive study of the artist's engagement with the full-length format, which was associated with the official Paris Salon in the decade that saw the emergence of a fully f

Green porcelain teapot with orange fish decorations.
White Gold: Highlights from the Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain
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New Portico Gallery Opened with Presentation of Sculpture and Selections from an Important Promised Gift of Meissen Porcelain from Henry H. Arnhold

Close up of a drawing of a woman's face.
Picasso's Drawings, 1890–1921: Reinventing Tradition
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Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) is generally acknowledged to be the greatest draftsman of the twentieth century.

Marble table with male figure supports on a gold base.
Turkish Taste at the Court of Marie-Antoinette
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France has long been fascinated by the Ottoman Empire, and for hundreds of years the taste for turquerie was evident in French fashion, literature, theater and opera, painting, architecture, and interior decoration.

Oil painting of St. Francis in a landscape.
In a New Light: Bellini's St. Francis in the Desert
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One of the most familiar and beloved paintings at The Frick Collection, Giovanni Bellini’s St. Francis in the Desert (c. 1480), is also deeply enigmatic.

Print of a man's head.
Rembrandt and His School: Masterworks from the Frick and Lugt Collections
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When Henry Clay Frick (1849–1919) was asked whose talents he would most like to possess, he declared: "Rembrandt's." And as the largest individual railway stockholder in the world, Frick is reported to have said that "railways are the Rembrandts of investment." Like Frick, the Dutch art historian Frederik Johannes Lugt

Oil painting of a man in red coat, holding a white stick and black hat.
The King at War: Velázquez's Portrait of Philip IV
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Painted at the height of Velázquez's career, the Frick's King Philip IV of Spain (1644) is one of the artist's consummate achievements.