Frick Flourishes With a Large Gift of Small Works
Reflecting the tastes of the donors, Elizabeth ‘Betty’ and Jean-Marie Eveillard, almost all the works are figure drawings and portraits.

The drawings and pastels in “The Eveillard Gift” fill a single, intimate gallery at the Frick Madison, the museum’s temporary home while its Fifth Avenue edifice undergoes renovation. For the Frick, the small exhibition tokens a big development: the largest promised gift of drawings to its collection since it opened to the public in 1935.
Spanning four centuries, the 26 works include drawings by such masters as Guido Reni, Watteau, Boucher, Fragonard, Degas and Sargent — a selection neatly complementing the Frick’s strong holdings in northern European and Italian painting. Reflecting the tastes of the donors, Elizabeth “Betty” and Jean-Marie Eveillard, almost all the works are figure drawings and portraits. (Both donors served on the Frick’s board of trustees; Betty is currently its chairwoman.) Two small landscapes, by Constable and Millet, round out the impressive selection.
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