The Frick Collection presents a Murillo, among other works of European artists

Tuesday, March 9, 03:00 PM New York, March 9 (EFE) .- Nine European painters of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, including the painting "The flower girl" in Spanish Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, sets out today Frick Collection in New York. The exhibition has been produced in collaboration with the Dulwich Gallery in London, that the occasion of its bicentennial in 2011 has given his most representative works to the New York institution. Under the title "Masterpieces of Painting Europe's Dulwich Picture Gallery, the exhibition aims to educate the American public paintings that have not been seen in the country in recent years, according to the Frick Collection in a statement. "This extraordinary group of paintings is the latest in a series of exhibitions devoted to great art collections that are perhaps unknown to most New Yorkers, "said co-organizer of the show, Colin Bailey, in a statement. In the case of Murillo (1617-1682), the work exposed part of a series of allegories of the seasons that made the Seville painter for one of its major employers, the canon of the cathedral of Seville, Justino de Neve (1625-1685). This painting, representing spring, was for time in the collection of canon alongside another that is currently in the National Gallery of Scotland, which you can see a young man holding a basket of fruit and vegetables as a representation of the summer. The painter from Seville, considered one of Spanish Baroque artists most important, is also known, among other works, for his many depictions of the Virgin Mary. In addition to Murillo's work, the exhibition contains works by other prominent European artists such as French Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665 ), Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641) and Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1609), who presents the play "Young Girl at the window." Also part of this exhibition, which will be seen until May 30 , artists Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721), Gerrit Dou (1613-1675), Canalleto (1697-1768), Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) and Peter Lely (1628-1680). The Dulwich Gallery in London was founded in 1811 to house the 370 paintings bequeathed to Dulwich school for the landscape painter Francis Bourgeois and is the oldest public art gallery in England. Average (Not Rated)