Frick Collection

The Frick Collection is an art museum located on Fifth Avenue facing Central Park in Manhattan, New York. It is housed in the former residence of Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919), which was designed by Thomas Hastings and constructed in 1913-1914.

The Collection features some of the best-known paintings by European artists, major works of sculpture, as well as furniture, porcelains, enamels, and carpets.

Included in the Collection are Jean-Honoré Fragonard's masterpieces, "The Progress of Love", Vermeer's "Mistress and Maid", Piero della Francesca's "St. John the Evangelist", and works by Bellini, Constable, Corot, Degas, El Greco, Goya, Holbein, Claude Lorrain, Rembrandt, van Ruisdael, Titian, Turner, Van Dyck, Velázquez, and Whistler.

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