The Frick Collection recently announced the largest and most significant gift of drawings and pastels in its history, thanks to the generosity of Elizabeth Betty and Jean-Marie Eveillard. Over the past 45 years, the Eveillards have assembled an outstanding collection of European works on paper, ranging in date from the end of the 15th century to the 20th century and representing artists working in France, Britain, Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands. The Eveillards have made a promised gift to the Frick of 26 of these works, 18 drawings, five pastels, two prints, and one oil sketch, among them some of their finest acquisitions. Along with preparatory figurative sketches and independent studies and portraits are two vivid landscape scenes. Fittingly for the Frick, artists represented include Franois Boucher, Edgar Degas, Jean-Honor Fragonard, Francisco Jos de Goya y Lucientes, Thomas Lawrence, and Jean-Franois Millet. The group also introduces to the Fricks holdings works by artists not yet represented in its primary collecting areas, including Gustave Caillebotte, Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Jan Lievens, John Singer Sargent, and Elisabeth Vige Le Brun. In the fall of 2022, at its temporary Frick Madison location, the museum will present an exhibition of these extraordinary works, to be accompanied by a catalogue and public programs. It has been a pleasure studying and selecting from this remarkable collection of two longtime supporters of the Frick, assembled just as our own holdings have been, according to criteria of beauty, quality, and condition. Each of the 26 works either appreciably deepens our holdings of a familiar artist or brings to us the work of one who is not, but should be, represented within our core areas of European Old Master art. In adding five pastels and an oil sketch, the gift also strengthens our examples of these media. We very much look forward to sharing these works with the public next year, commented Xavier F. Salomon, the Fricks deputy director and Peter Jay Sharp chief curator. Betty and Jean-Marie Eveillard have been deeply involved with the Frick for many years, both having served as trustees. Betty is currently the boards chair. For more information, visit www.frick.org.