The Frick Collection is an art museum on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It was established in 1935 to preserve the collection of the industrialist Henry Clay Frick. The collection
The museum's courtyard
When Frick died in 1919, he bequeathed the Henry Clay Frick House on Fifth Avenue as a public museum for his art collection.
The Frick Art Research Library reopened in 1935.
Entrance to the Frick Collection
The dozens of self-portraits by Rembrandt were an important part of his oeuvre. Rembrandt created approaching one hundred self-portraits including over forty paintings, thirty-one etchings and about s
Role-playing in Self-portrait as an Oriental Potentate with a Kris, etching, 1634. B18
A more cheerful pose painted on copper. Rembrandt Laughing, c. 1628, re-discovered in 2008, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
A young Rembrandt (c. 1628) when he was 22. Partly an exercise in chiaroscuro. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.