Past

painting of a laughing man looking at the viewer
Jean-Étienne Liotard (1702-89): Swiss Master
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The Frick continued to add to its holdings, and the 1997 gift of a painting inspired a major 2006 exhibition on the artist Jean-Étienne Liotard (1702-1789).

Painting of man in white garb stretching between two women in dresses
Veronese’s Allegories: Virtue, Love, and Exploration in Renaissance Venice
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The art of Paolo Veronese (1528–1588) is inextricably linked to the idea of opulence and splendor in Renaissance Venice. His paintings are grandiose visions of the richness and spectacle of sixteenth-century Venetian life.

Painting of woman in black dress with red necklace and white gloves
Goya’s Last Works
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Goya’s understated portrait of the woman known as María Martínez de Puga, acquired by Henry Clay Frick in 1914, was the inspiration for The Frick Collection’s special exhibition Goya’s Last Works.

Painting of head and shoulders of brown haired man in three quarter view, landscape in background
Memling's Portraits
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Memling’s Portraits, The Frick Collection’s special fall exhibition, offered the most comprehensive gathering to date of works in this genre by the celebrated Netherlandish artist Hans Memling (c. 1435-1494). Memling’s oeuvre comprises some one hundred paintings, of which thirty are portraits.

catalogue cover of From Callot to Greuze depicting drawing of nude man in profile holding shell
From Callot to Greuze: French Drawings from Weimar
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During the spring and summer of 2005, The Frick Collection presented a selection of approximately seventy drawings from the Schlossmuseum and the Goethe-Nationalmuseum in Weimar, Germany, offering visitors a unique opportunity to view many works that have never before been exhibited outside the former Eastern bloc coun

cover of catalogue Gardens of Eternal Spring, depicting closeup of 17th century Mughal carpet

Special Installation: Gardens of Eternal Spring — Two Newly Conserved Mughal Carpets
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The two magnificent carpets on display in the Oval Room beginning May 10 were among the fewer than five hundred that survive from the court of the Mughal emperors.

Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
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The Fitzwilliam Museum's collection of Renaissance and Baroque bronzes is one of the finest in Great Britain. Beginning February 15, The Frick Collection presented thirty-six of the Fitzwilliam's bronzes, many of which have never before been seen in America.

bronze sculpture of lion biting a horse
Animals in Combat: Giovanni Francesco Susini's Lion Attacking a Horse
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This installation celebrated Walter A.

painting of a seated partially-nude woman wearing a turban and holding her exposed breasts
Special Loan: Raphael's Fornarina
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From December 2004 through January 2005, in collaboration with the Foundation for Italian Art & Culture, The Frick Collection displayed La Fornarina by Raphael Sanzio (1483-1520) from the National Gallery of Art at the Palazzo Barberini in Rome.

cover of the catalogue for the exhibition European Bronzes from the Quentin Collection with a close-up of a bronze sculpture of a man with curly hair and beard

European Bronzes from the Quentin Collection
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Created to delight and engage their audiences over countless viewings, bronze statuettes enjoyed immense popularity with rulers and the wealthy educated classes who collected them between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries.