Past

painting of Salisbury Cathedral with trees, cows, and figures in the foreground
Constable's Salisbury Cathedral: Two Versions Reunited
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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.

detail of painting depicting two toreadors in the arena with a bull.
Manet's The Dead Toreador and The Bullfight: Fragments of a Lost Salon Painting Reunited
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In another in a series of single-picture loan exhibitions, The Frick Collection displayed for three months one of the most famous paintings by Édouard Manet (1832-83), The Dead Toreador, on loan from the National Gallery of Art, Washington.

The Medieval Housebook: A View of Fifteenth-Century Life
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The Medieval Housebook, a compendium of secular texts accompanied by full-page pen-and-ink illustrations, many of them enhanced with color, presented a remarkable view of life in a princely court at the end of the late Middle Ages.

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

portrait of Madame de Pompadour embroidering wearing a floral gown, a little black dog perched on a chair is resting is front paws on her embroidery frame.
Drouais' Portrait of Madame de Pompadour from The National Gallery, London
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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.

brown ink drawing of seated satyr with urn encountering a goat
Figurative Invention: Drawings from the Permanent Collection
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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.

Victorian Fairy Painting
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Critically and commercially popular during the nineteenth century,  the intriguing and distinctly British genre of Victorian fairy painting was the subject of an exhibition at The Frick Collection.

impressionist painting of Vétheuil in Summer
Claude Monet's Vétheuil in Summer from the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
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Continuing its series of single-picture loan exhibitions, The Frick Collection had on display for two months Claude Monet's Vétheuil in Summer from the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, hanging near the Collection's own Monet oil Vétheuil in Winter.

Fuseli to Menzel: Drawings and Watercolors in the Age of Goethe
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The age of Goethe, Beethoven, and Kant was also a brilliant period for the visual arts in Germany.

Robert Adam — The Creative Mind: From the Sketch to the Finished Drawing
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Sixty-six drawings and watercolors by the renowned eighteenth-century architect Robert Adam, his brother and partner James, and artists employed in their office were on view at The Frick Collection from December 16, 1997, through April 5, 1998.