Foreword

THIS little handbook, containing brief descriptive notes of the more important pictures in Mr. Frick's New York residence, is intended merely as an introduction to the Collection, and is in no sense a catalogue. The material for a catalogue has been collected, but it is so comprehensive and voluminous that it cannot be put into a book of any convenient size. The Frick Collection, as at present constituted, contains over one hundred and eighty paintings. About eight are in several rooms f the ground-floor of Mr. Frick's New York residence; and these form the subject of this handbook. Their positions are approximately indicated by letters at the right-hand lower corner of the pages of text. Thus GS means Gallery, South; LN, north wall of the Library; DW, west end of the Dinning-room; and CE refers to the east side if the Main Corridor. As far as is permitted by occasional removals to make way for accessions, these illustrated notes follow the order of the paintings on the walls of the different rooms, beginning with the first picture of the left of the door as one enters, thence around the room in the direction followed by the hands of the clocks. The Supplemental List of Paintings, placed next to the illustrated notes, gives the names of the painters and titles of those canvases in other parts of the house which, owing to their location, are not usually shown to visitors.

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