Jean-Henri Riesener

Oil painting of a woman crowning a man with a flower crown in a lush green landscape
Picturing Paradise: T. S. Eliot, John Milton, and Jean-Honoré Fragonard
On May 3, 1947, the poet T. S. Eliot delivered a lecture at the Frick on John Milton’s Paradise Lost. In honor of the centenary of the publication of Eliot’s highly influential poem The Waste Land, explore the surprising connections between this famous work, Milton’s Edenic verse, and the lush forests of Fragonard’s Progress of Love.
video still of Xavier Salomon and furniture piece
Cocktails with a Curator: Riesener, 'Commode' and 'Secrétaire'
In this week’s episode of “Cocktails with a Curator,” join Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator Xavier F. Salomon as he explores the royal provenance of two pieces of furniture at the Frick made by Jean-Henri Riesener.