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Image of blue and white lidded porcelain piece with gold handles and accents
Mounted Oriental Porcelain
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Forty-five masterpieces of Japanese and Chinese porcelain in elaborate European metal mounts began a three-museum tour at the Frick Collection. A number of drawings related to these unusual works of art were also on view.
Image of title page of exhibition catalogue containing text on a white background.
Fifty Life Drawings by Ingres from the Musée Ingres at Montauban
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This group of works by Ingres, culled from the thousands of drawings the French master bequeathed to his native town of Montauban at his death in 1867, was selected by the French-Israeli artist Avigdor Arikha.
painting of young woman wearing full-skirted blue satin dress leaning on a gold upholstered chair
Two Portraits by Ingres: Princess de Broglie and Comtesse d’Haussonville
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The Trustees of the Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art graciously lent Ingres's portrait of the Princesse de Broglie to The Frick Collection to be exhibited alongside the Frick portrait of the subject's sister-in-law, the Comtesse d’Haussonville, as a complement to the exhibiti

Woman standing in front of mantle and mirror wearing light blue satin dress with red ribbon in her hair.
Ingres and the Comtesse d’Haussonville
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The Frick Collection's first show built around a single work of art was a loan exhibition devoted to Ingres's celebrated portrait of the Comtesse d'Haussonville.

painting in greys, blues, and lavender of ocean with ships in the distance
Whistler in The Frick Collection
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In commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the birth of the American artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834–1903), The Frick Collection exhibited all of its Whistler holdings.

photograph of terracotta sculpture of a naked embracing couple surrounded by cupids
Clodion Terracottas from North American Collections
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This important exhibition of terracotta sculptures by the French master Claude Michel (1738–1814), called Clodion, included eleven works from North American museums and private collections, and two signed and dated works in The Frick Collection: the Satyr with Two Bacchantes (1766) and the Zephyrus an

Photograph of gold mantle clock featuring two putti reclining on either side of clock face
French Clocks in North American Collections
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An unprecedented exhibition of nearly one hundred French clocks on loan from North American collections.

Black and white photograph of the Library at the Frick residence in 1927.
The White, Allom Library Model at the Frick Collection
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A special exhibition devoted to White, Allom & Co., the decorating firm responsible for many of the first-floor interiors of The Frick Collection, centered around what is believed to be the decorator’s model for the Library, on loan from the Museum of the City of New York.
etching of cottages with tree in the foreground.
Rembrandt Etchings
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All of the Rembrandt prints in The Frick Collection were on display for the first time in many years. Freshly cleaned, restored, and mounted in new mats, the prints offer brilliant testimony to Rembrandt’s intensity and range of expression and to his virtuoso mastery of the etching technique.
Watercolor of hunched winged man reading book
William Blake Watercolor Illustrations for The Pilgrim’s Progress
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The Frick Collection once again presented an exhibition of William Blake's illustrations for John Bunyan's Pilgrim’s Progress. The exhibition complemented the collection of Blake's watercolors and illuminated books then on view at the Morgan Library.