The Frick Collection

The Frick Collection is a museum of art located between the fifth avenue and the seventieth street, vis-a-vis Central Park, with Manhattan in New York. The museum occupies the old residence of an industrialist of steel, Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919). The building was drawn by Thomas Hastings and was built in the years 1913-1914.

The Frick Collection is one of most important the small museums of art of the the United States. It very shelters a collection of paintings of high-quality organized in 16 galleries. The collection comprises some most known tables of the best European artists, as well as sculptures, pieces of furniture, parts of porcelain, enamels and carpets.

Practical information

the museum is open Tuesday to Saturday of 10:00 to 18:00 and Sunday of 11:00 to 17:00.
the entry is paying. The museum comprises an access for the handicapped people. The entry of the minors is subjected to conditions (prohibited before 10 years, accompanied by an adult for less than 16 years).

Architectural presentation

It is about a private mansion of neo-classic style which was used as residence in Henry Clay Frick only during the five last years of its life. The installation of this luxurious particular residence in museum contributes to give an atmosphere particular to the presentation of the collections.

The residence comprises a court of garden drawn on the model of a surmounted Roman atrium of a canopy. Palm trees are planted there.

This court leads to a room of round music which is currently useful for concerts or conferences. Isaac Stern, Alfred Brendel and Wanda Landowska gave concerts to it. T.S. Eliot also read poems there.

Among the 16 large parts or galleries which compose the museum, let us note the living room conceived by Sir Charles Allom, decorator who worked especially for the British royal family, and which gives an idea of the installation of the residences of luxury of the 19th century.

Principal works

We present here only principal works of this collection which is opened to the public since the December 16th 1936.

Paintings

the officer and the young girl who smiles , the lesson of stopped music , the mistress and the maidservant of Johannes Vermeer
Portrait of Don Pedro, duke of Osuna of Goya (years 1790). The duke was one of the guards of Goya.
a mother and her children of Pierre-Auguste Renoir which is impressionist tables most famous.
the Annunciation of FRA Filippo Lippi (about 1440), two panels painted has moderated
Vierge with the child with saints and givers (painted about 1441) of Jan Van Eyck
the purification of the temple (painted about 1600) and Saint Jerome (painted about 1590) by Greco
Hans Holbein the Young person is represented two large tables: Sir Thomas More (dated 1527) and Holbein (painted about 1532)
Several tables of Thomas Gainsborough of which Lady Innate (painted about 1757)
the cathedral of Salisbury seen of the garden of the bishop of John Constable
Several tables of Joseph Mallord William Turner of which Mortlake Terrace by early a morning of summer (painted in 1826) and the port of Dieppe (dated 1826)
the countess of Haussonville (gone back to 1845) of Ingres
the repetition of Degas (painted in 1878).
Several tables of Frans Halls
Several tables of Rembrandt of which a self-portrait (dated 1658)
Several Anthony Van Dyck including two tables representing the Snyders husbands (painted about 1620)
Several tables of James Abbott McNeill Whistler of which that which represents Robert de Montesquiou entitled Arrangement in black and gold: the count Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac (1891-2)
Several tables of Jean Siméon Chardin of which the Still life in the plums (1730)
One of the panels of the polyptyque of saint Augustin of Piero della Francesca

Sculptures

a marble of Jean-Antoine Houdon, the marquis de Miromesnil and a terra cotta representative Diana the Huntress (between 1776 and 1795)
Head of angel out of terra cotta of Gian Lorenzo Bernini realized in 1655
a small bronze according to Samson and two Philistines of Michel-Angel

Furniture

an office of minister carried out by Andre-Charles Boulle in oak, fir tree and walnut tree with marquetries of scale (realized about 1700).
a standing clock to regulator of Balthazar Lieutaud, Ferdinand Berthoud and Philippe Caffieri in oak, plated of wood various and decorated of gilded bronze (gone back to 1767). This clock would have been ordered for the court of the king Louis XV.
a secretary decorated with marquetry with mosaics in oak, marquetry of wood various and decorated of gilded bronze of Jean-Henri Riesener, the most famous cabinetmaker of Louis XVI.
a room Boucher comprises eight tables of this painter and a remarkable whole of furniture of the 18th century, an Indian carpet of the 16th century, porcelains of time coming from the manufacture of Sevres. In this unit one notices a flat office in mahogany tree of Riesener.
convenient decorated marquetry with reasons in oak and mahogany tree with top out of marble sarancolin of Gilles Joubert and Roger Vandercruse says Roger Lacroix, carried out in 1769 for Miss Victoire, fourth girl of Louis XV.
a blue marble console realized in 1781 by François-Joseph Bélanger.

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