The Eveillard Gift

This beautiful publication presents for the first time the Eveillard Gift of drawings to
The 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 and
commentaries by noted scholars.
Twenty-six works of art promised to The Frick Collection by Elizabeth and Jean-Marie
Eveillard dramatically advance the museum’s commitment to the research and display of
European drawings. Included in this transformative gift from two longtime supporters
of the Frick are exquisite drawings, pastels, prints, and one oil sketch by François
Boucher, Gustave Caillebotte, Edgar Degas, Eugène Delacroix, Jean-Honoré Fragonard,
Thomas Lawrence, Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, John Singer Sargent, Elisabeth
Vigée Le Brun, and Jean-Antoine Watteau, among others. The works include fi gurative
sketches, independent studies, portraits, and landscape scenes, each either deepening the
museum’s celebrated holdings or bringing the work of an artist who is not—but should
be—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 of
promised gifts written by noted scholars in their fi eld.