 – Works changing periodically in the galleries of the Frick Art Museum are early Renaissance Italian painting; rare French and Flemish tapestries; Renaissance and Baroque bronze statuettes;…){kind=link}
PITTSBURGH, PA (AAPNW) – Works changing periodically in the galleries of the Frick Art Museum are early Renaissance Italian painting; rare French and Flemish tapestries; Renaissance and Baroque bronze statuettes; eighteenth-century French painting, furniture and decorative arts; spectacular Chinese porcelains; and masterpieces by artists such as, Rubens, Boucher, Gainsborough and Fragonard.
The Italian gallery features Sienese masters, Sassetta and Giovanni de Paolo as well as on view are a selection of bronzes from the estate of financier J. P. Morgan.
The Green gallery, with silk velvet wall coverings and crystal chandeliers, was designed to complement the museum’s collection of French painting, with works by Boucher, Fragonard and Pater installed with examples of French furniture of the period. Other highlights on view is a portrait by Peter Paul Rubens, a Venetian scene by Francesco Guardi, and an oil on copper attributed to Antoine Le Nain.
The Jacobean room, with English oak paneling, is typically hung with English artworks of the 18th century, including a rotating selection of mezzotints, a work of a conversation piece by English artist, Arthur Devis, and portraits by English masters like Hogarth, Gainsborough, and Reynolds.
The tapestry collection, which hangs in the museum’s rotunda, features examples of French Loire valley weaving in the mille-fleurs tradition as well as the complex, painterly weavings that made Brussels a famed center of Renaissance tapestry production. “Rest on the Flight into Egypt” is an example of an intact devotional weaving of exceptional quality.
Note: Objects on view change periodically and not all of the collection is on display at any one time.