The Eveillard Gift

This beautiful publication presents for the first time the Eveillard Gift of drawings toThe Frick Collection, the most important gift of drawings and pastels in its history.It accompanies an exhibition at the Frick and includes a catalogue of the works andcommentaries by noted scholars.Twenty-six works of art promised to The Frick Collection by Elizabeth and Jean-MarieEveillard dramatically advance the museum’s commitment to the research and display ofEuropean drawings. Included in this transformative gift from two longtime supportersof the Frick are exquisite drawings, pastels, prints, and one oil sketch by FrançoisBoucher, Gustave Caillebotte, Edgar Degas, Eugène Delacroix, Jean-Honoré Fragonard,Thomas Lawrence, Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, John Singer Sargent, ElisabethVigée Le Brun, and Jean-Antoine Watteau, among others. The works include fi gurativesketches, independent studies, portraits, and landscape scenes, each either deepening themuseum’s celebrated holdings or bringing the work of an artist who is not—but shouldbe—represented in the collection.This lavishly illustrated publication, which accompanies an exhibition at the Frick,includes a catalogue of the works, as well as comprehensive commentaries on each ofpromised gifts written by noted scholars in their fi eld.