Presented by Xavier F. Salomon

Deputy Director, Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator, The Frick Collection

Board Member, Save Venice

One of the most recent acquisitions of The Frick Collection, two magnificent pastel portraits by Rosalba Carriera are part of a group of significant Venetian works in the museum. They tell the story of an extraordinary artist, a woman who was among the most celebrated painters in Europe during her lifetime.

Xavier F. Salomon is a noted scholar of Paolo Veronese and curated the monographic exhibition on the artist at the National Gallery, London (March–June 2014). Previously, he was Curator in the Department of European Paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Arturo and Holly Melosi Chief Curator at Dulwich Picture Gallery. He has curated Cagnacci’s Repentant Magdalene: An Italian Baroque Masterpiece from the Norton Simon Museum (2016–17), Veronese in Murano: Two Venetian Renaissance Masterpieces Restored (2017–18), Murillo: The Self-Portraits (2017–18), and Canova’s George Washington (2018). Xavier serves as a member of the Projects Committee on the Board of Directors of Save Venice.

*This event is a benefit offered exclusively to Fellow-level ($1,000) members and above, restoration sponsors, Board members, Conservation Patron Council members, and Young Friend Steering Committee members.