1997

Exhibitions presented at The Frick Collection during 1997.
Painting of woman with parasol walking in courtyard
The Spirit of the Place: Selections from the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection
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An exhibition of fourteen paintings and four sculptures from the collection of Baroness Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza.

Exhibition catalogue cover with blue background and grey text.
Franklin and Condorcet: Two Portraits from the American Philosophical Society
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An exhibition of two remarkable portraits of famous men lent by the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia: an oil on canvas representing Benjamin Franklin painted by Jean-Baptiste Greuze in 1777, and a marble bust of Nicolas de Condorcet executed by Jean-Antoine Houdon in 1785.

Image of silver medal depicting William III, Prince of Orange
The Proud Republic: Dutch Medals of the Golden Age
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An exhibition of forty-one medals, a print by Rembrandt, and a spectacular silver-gilt standing cup with cover, dated 1639, by Jan Lutma the Elder, all chosen and catalogued by guest curator Stephen K. Scher.

Catalogue cover with italian old master drawing as the background.
Italian Old Master Drawings from the Ratjen Foundation
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An exhibition of more than fifty Italian Old Master drawings selected from the Ratjen Foundation in Vaduz, Liechtenstein. Unfamiliar to American audiences, these drawings were assembled over three decades by Dr. Wolfgang Ratjen, who established the foundation to provide a permanent home for his collection.

Painting of pastoral estate by a river lined with trees.
Mortlake Terrace: Turner’s Companion Pieces Reunited
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On loan from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., Joseph Mallord William Turner's Mortlake Terrace, Summer’s Evening of 1827 hung for six months beside its companion piece, The Frick Collection's Mortlake Terrace: Ea

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.

painting of pastoral scene with idealized shepherds from classical antiquity clustering around an austere tomb
From the Louvre to The Frick Collection: Poussin's The Arcadian Shepherds
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With extraordinary generosity, the Musée du Louvre loaned one of the most celebrated icons of French art: Nicolas Poussin's The Arcadian Shepherds. This image of four shepherds solemnly meditating over the inscription they have discovered on a tomb — Et in Arcadia Ego (“Even in Arc