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In the summer of 2021, The Frick Collection announced the largest and most significant acquisition of drawings and pastels in its history, the generous promised gift of Elizabeth 鈥淏etty鈥� and Jean-Marie Eveillard. This promised gift of twenty-six works (eighteen drawings, five pastels, two prints, and one oil sketch) has inspired the museum鈥檚 major fall 2022 exhibition, which will be accompanied by a lavishly illustrated catalogue and complementary public programs.

Over the past forty-five years, the Eveillards have assembled an outstanding collection of works on paper, ranging in date from the end of the fifteenth century to the twentieth century and representing artists working in France, Britain, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, and the United States. The Eveillards鈥� landmark promised gift draws upon some of their finest European acquisitions. Along with preparatory figurative sketches, independent studies, and portraits are two vivid landscape scenes. Fittingly for the Frick, artists represented in the gift include Fran莽ois Boucher, Edgar Degas, Jean-Honor茅 Fragonard, Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, Thomas Lawrence, and Jean-Fran莽ois Millet. The group also introduces to the Frick鈥檚 holdings works by artists not previously represented in the museum鈥檚 permanent collection, including Gustave Caillebotte, Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Jan Lievens, John Singer Sargent, and Elisabeth Vig茅e Le Brun.

Each of the twenty-six works鈥攕elected for their beauty, quality, and condition鈥攅ither appreciably deepens the Frick鈥檚 current holdings of familiar artists or brings to the institution a work by an artist who is not鈥攂ut should be鈥攔epresented within the museum鈥檚 core areas of European Old Master art. In adding five pastels and an oil sketch, the gift also strengthens the Frick鈥檚 holdings in these media. Betty and Jean-Marie Eveillard have been deeply involved with the Frick for many years, both having served as Trustees. Betty is currently the Board鈥檚 Chair.