Cocktails with a Curator: Barbet's "Angel"

[@barbaraschoetzau8740]

wish this would continue after lockdown ends

[@lucanardecchia2859]

Another wonderful lesson. Thank you Xavier, you have been the " guardian angel" of our Friday evenings during the lockdown. Saluti da Roma, Italy.

[@marthahorton8952]

Cocktails with the Curator is a class act, like the Frick itself. Can't wait to visit when it is again possible. Meantime, I enjoy spending these Friday evening moments with you.

[@jimfleckenstein4763]

Big-time kudos to the Frick Collection and, especially, Xavier, for these highly enlightening and entertaining explorations. I've fortunately been to the Frick many times in the past but now I realize my appreciation & excitement will be that much greater when I can next visit there again. Grazie! Molte Grazie!

[@meggallucci5300]

Thank you once again. I look forward to this event every Friday.

[@rustyeire]

What a terrific service provided by the Frick and its marvelous staff! While it only intensifies our desire to return to the Frick and its treasures, it also provides such an intimate and enlightening view of those treasures‑‑‑a more in-depth view that in virus-free times we would be unlikely to get. I so enjoyed the brief excursion through Bellini's "St. Francis in the Desert" a few weeks ago; it truly enhanced the pleasure of the painting itself. Highly recommended . . . along with all the other "Cocktail with a Curator" sessions. Kudos, Frick Collection! Keep them coming!

[@50Street21]

I am thoroughly enjoying these "Cocktails with a Curator" series. Thank you, Xavier. To look at a piece of artwork and appreciate it for its beauty and quality is one thing. . . but to have the opportunity to learn about the many other layers attached to its creation and history makes you appreciate the piece even more. Cheers! (That's to you as I raise my glass of wine!) Darryl

[@annfabian5989]

Thank you. You let me stop at paintings and objects I have ignored. So grateful for these Friday evenings.

[@chrisf5841]

Such a great program! We look forward to it every week. Thank you!

[@jppagetoo]

I look at the design and it has a lot of features that I would associate with something on top of a building. The body is thin to reduce wind drag and to make it light. The wings would pick up wind and act as a weathervane making the right hand point in the wind direction. Being bronze it would be quite durable. But, it is not weathered so it wasn't up there long, maybe is was still too heavy for that building. It was a failed design. But the art was so amazing that is was saved when it came down. It made a better sculpture on land than one in the sky. Also, the body of the angel is quite cannon shaped, it doesn't surprise me that it was cast (and maybe even designed) by a cannon maker.

[@dorothykrakauer5596]

A wonderful Friday evening experience right here in New York City!

[@paulinepinto2002]

WONDERFUL! So grateful for this program!

[@denizk2463]

Thank you Xavier for these mental mini-trips out of our homes :)

[@JKKJ821]

Ces vidéos sont absolument merveilleuses...merci mille fois

[@terricheney6074]

Being able to view this from L.A. during the pandemic is such a treat. I miss the Frick and the angel, which is my last and favorite stop when I visit my favorite museum ever.

[@judithdimitriu8696]

Wonderful....Please keep it after if possible. I am in Toronto, no travel to New york or Italy soon...was supposed to be in Italy in May.. You are also doing a civic duty uplifting us...like a mortal Angel... Thanks Judy

[@bjjaah]

Judith: Losing Italy in May - breaks my heart.

[@evelynlee9308]

what a great series! I learned to appreciate paintings that i formerly ignored@the Frick. Can't wait to go back and look at them again with fresh eyes!

[@gustavderkits8433]

Thank you for another great experience. I can’t wait to see the angel again at the Frick.

[@MrNikonova]

I loved the tribute to our heroic flesh and blood guardian angels symbolized by the story of a heroic survival of a delicate bronze angel. Thank you,

[@jpmtl33]

Love this series. Thanks so much Xavier for allowing us to travel and learn while we have to stay home. Just a comment on your reference to the date of the sculpture in this episode being 1475 and the unusual way of writing it as 1460+15. In French the number 75 is "soixante-quinze" or literally translated as "60 - 15". Could the date be written in the same way as the number was spoken? Just a thought. JG

[@stevenvilardi8626]

Another wonderful exposer of a piece of Art that has intrigued me since I did a sketch of it and the surrounding room on a first Friday where a nice stock of paper and several color pencils were provided by the Frick Museum staff. Thank you Xavier for explaining its history. It would be a nice idea to put one of these in place of every statue that has been ripped or torn down recently. So much time and effort goes into making any sculpture. It only takes seconds of thoughtlessness to destroy and hours months or years to make it. Unfortunately Hate is in every community. Once I was substitute teaching in an upscale Long Island community. I thought I was lucky to get an art class. They had a big pile of clay so after attendance I made small lifelike figures with the clay. They were nice. I was inspired by the high school students there. I guess the advanced placement class was in the morning. When I returned from lunch all the pieces were crushed by either students or teachers. I was devistated. These were only quick sketches. Imagine how the creators of Christopher Columbus' statues would feel if they knew what happened. Next maybe all of Gilbert Stuart's portraits of George Washington will be destroyed because he has slaves on his estate.

[@belkysherrera9047]

Another exquisite 20 minutes with insightful details and context. Thank you Xavier and The Frick Collection!

[@ritabiro5105]

Dear Mr. SAlamon it was again a fascinating guideline aroung Chanchapel and the Angel with the croix .I saw of course in Paris once it took upon mee a great impression soul and the spirit and transcendent.Loud must bee a chatoux misterious and can bee difficult to finde out the true past.Barbies Angel can illuminate?!

[@beverlyfletcher4458]

What an amazing treasure. Wonder what Jean Barbet made of it; he would have been so proud as we are so privileged to see and enjoy it. Wish I could get to New York!

[@dawnjackson1802]

I’m amazed. Off to do some amateur research.....

[@dweeb99]

Fascinating! I have walked past this angel a thousand times and thought it was merely a "garden ornament!" Is the recent research available online? You know, this series could continue for, well, for decades. The Frick's depth continues to astonishes me. Bravo!

[@Whoiskevinjones]

Sounds like you have every intention to install this angelo inside the Collection where it can be appreciated in the manner it rightly deserves.

[@aracelimarthabarriosbustab8744]

A very delicate and unique piece certainly

[@ritabiro5105]

Bee angels with all of us.thanks

[@deanedge5988]

There is a delicious irony at the end; in that many works made by modern artists are made by anonymous brilliantly skilled "technicians" and signed only by the artists who designed and conceptualised them.

I live in Canada and am waiting for the chance to travel again. The Frick is my #1 stop in NYC. After the Frick, everything else is just tourism.

[@jppagetoo]

The Frick is a wonderful place and holds my favorite painting, Vermeer's "Officer and Laughing Girl". But NYC's other museums are much more than just tourist spots, but I get your hyperbole, The Frick deserves a lot more recognition than it gets.

[@cattracks9100]

Thank you.

[@tomson70]

🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@janzielinski4857]

Very interesting story. Speaking about an angel and the canons, there is another great work of art, from 1460 + c. 38: pl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plik:D%C3%BCrer_-_Johannes_verschlingt_das_Buch.jpg

[@wendyjackson3861]

wonderful friday with you and the Angel

[@mikestar33]

I ask God for forgiveness if ever I hurt somebody, did something wrong, didn't stand up for you, ignored your pain, I am so sorry for all of the lives lost.

[@celiasantosmedeiros1283]

Estou amando suas aulas sobre a arte da Frick Collection! Quando for possível irei visitar essa fabulosa coleção.Muito obrigada

[@pchabanowich]

You, your work, and your loving presentations with the ever so fabulous drinkies, are treasures to me, as are your travels. I love your heart.

[@walterparsons6999]

I am enjoying, very much, cocktails and travels with the curator Thank you for this delightful feature of my membership during the virus.

[@gilbrown7813]

Thank you for these sessions - from Australia. Have followed them all with great interest - have only visited the Frick once but all this bringing back great memories from about two years ago when in New York in happier times!!

[@Leebearify]

I cannot say Thank You enough for our Friday evening gatherings. Every single video that you have made has helped me to feel better. You are a joy to my life. Thank you Frick, Thank you, Xavier.

[@judytelles3518]

Thank you very much.I want to know why you have the portrate of Miss Louisa Murray,a child by Laurence,in your collection as I am sure I saw it at Kenwood house in London for years.

[@goodboybuddy1]

I’ve spent some wonderful time contemplating this beautiful work. Thanks for your fascinating history.

[@janepanahy9370]

Intriguing juxtaposition of the angel among the cannons.

[@annaburak8628]

Love these lectures and love the sound of your voice, just wonderful!

[@yoshietakahashi3710]

hello from Long Island, NY

[@docmccoy95]

Hello

[@pollychick2983]

Most informative, thank you!

[@chriswoods2647]

Do you post the cocktail ahead of time?

[@MrJkopec22]

Another miraculous footnote in Frick/Morgan art collection. Thank God someone saved these pieces. Amazing story of the angel. Who knows whether true or not. I'm headed to St. Chapelle. I intend to bring a cannonier with me even if he isn't the cannonier du Roi.

[@cecilefox9136]

What a fascinating story!

[@kayleenlewis4229]

these are so wonderful!!!

[@ow2750]

love ur lectures

[@bobbieschmidt7958]

Hi from Haddonfield, NJ

[@huahindan]

Thank you from Thailand

[@joannecassidy6367]

Tx again! :)

[@wmd9750]

Thank you!