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Watercolors

11,533 works

Sheet of many ornamental design fragments including cherubs, scrollwork, a heraldic crest, floral medallions and an architect

Seventeen Ornamental Designs for the Pless House or Chateau

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Pale watercolor sketch of a white horse galloping with a rider, a gallows on the right and a crescent moon at left.

Death on a White Horse

Possibly Henry Fuseli, n.d.

Watercolor design of a geometric ceiling with red and gold ornamental panels framed in grey, labeled Hotel de Pless Berlin.

Design for Ceiling Decoration Hôtel de Pless, Berlin

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Design drawing of a painted coffered ceiling with red, mauve and grey panels, black strapwork and gold foliate scrolls.

Design for the Decoration of the Ceiling in the Vestibule (Ier étage), Hôtel de S. A. le Prince de P... [Pless?}, Berlin

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Painted design for a coffered ceiling with interlaced strapwork and rosettes in green, yellow, and white on terracotta.

Design for Ceiling Decoration in the Dining Room, Hôtel de Pless, Berlin

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Colored design drawing of a coffered ceiling with interlaced gold, red and blue ornament and a decorative border.

Design for Ceiling Decoration in the Hôtel de Pless, Berlin

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Watercolor design for a ceiling cove with scrolled frieze, lattice band, molding, and trailing pink roses.

Design for the Decoration of a Ceiling Cove in the Hôtel de Pless, Berlin

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Gold and red decorative ceiling design with coffered geometric panels filled with scrollwork ornament.

Design for the Decoration of the Ceiling in the Hôtel de Pless, Berlin, or the Chateau de Cangé in the Loire

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Pencil drawing of a stone bridge and ruined tower with figures and shrubs in a hilly landscape.

Bridge and Ruined Tower

Johann Christoph Erhard, n.d.

Ink and wash design for an ornate Opéra Comique ceiling with arches, medallions and allegorical figures, ca. 1845.

Design for the decoration of the ceiling in the Opéra Comique, Paris

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, ca. 1845

Sheet of decorative design studies with stained glass panels, ornamental friezes, ceiling patterns and a classical figure gro

Ten designs for the decoration of the Opéra Comique, Paris

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Watercolor design for an arched ceiling with ochre moldings, pink and green patterned field, and ornate scrolled medallions.

Design for ceiling decoration in a house on the Boulevard Haussmann

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Watercolor design of a Gothic-arched interior wall with fleur-de-lis pattern, star ceiling panel and patterned dado.

Design for wall decoration in the house of Baron Malet in Jouy-en-Josas (Seine et Gise)

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1871

Watercolor design of cream strapwork framing pink and ochre scrolling foliage, a decorative panel for a stairway.

Design for the decoration of the stairway in the Chateau d'Ognon of M. de Machy (Oise, France)

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Watercolor design drawing of a staircase fragment with scrolling foliage and a gilded urn in a laurel wreath medallion.

Design for the decoration of the stairway in the Château d'Ognon of M. deMachy (Oise, France)

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Collage of ornamental design studies with scrollwork, putti, a crowned female bust, and a lion paw sketch.

Ten designs for the decoration of houses, including at least one for the stairway of the Chateau d'Ognon of M. deMach…

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Framed Persian manuscript page with a painted polo game of mounted horsemen on blue ground beside calligraphic text.

A Polo Game: Page from a Kulliyyat (Collected Works) of Sa'di

Unknown artist, Safavid dynasty (1501-1722), 16th century, c. 1585

Watercolor design elevation of a church altar table with gilded crucifix, pink columns, heraldic shields and floral panels.

Design for an altar table surmounted by a crucifixion

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Watercolor design of a ceiling border with scrolling motifs, dark floral rosettes and layered bands in pink, brown and blue.

Design for the decoration of a ceiling

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Colored design drawing of a ceiling corner with hexagonal lattice, scrolling foliage borders and blue and yellow ornament.

Design for the painted decoration of a ceiling

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Watercolor design of a wall with fleur-de-lis pattern, pointed arched window with leaded glass, and wood wainscoting below.

Design for the painted decoration of a wall pierced by an arched window

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Pastel and drawing of three women with fans in a theatre interior, one in a pink dress and one in orange, by Degas.

Singers on the Stage

Edgar Degas, 1877/79

Watercolor design of a gothic niche with red drapery, gray foliate ornament, blue rosette, and gilded column.

Design for the decoration of a gothic niche

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Pastel drawing of a village corner with pale houses, a pond with ducks, figures by a doorway, and autumn trees under blue sky

A Corner of Moret-sur-Loing

Alfred Sisley, 1895

Watercolor design for a coffered ceiling with yellow, blue and purple panels, ornamental scrollwork and a heraldic shield.

Design for the painted decoration of a coffered ceiling

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Pen and wash drawing of mourners gesturing in the foreground and Christ carrying the cross up a hill in the distance.

The Virgin, the Holy Women, and Saints John, James and Joseph of Arimathea, with Christ on the Way to Calvary

Antonio Carracci, n.d.

Watercolor of two people in a small sailboat on a misty river beside autumn trees and a grassy bank.

Beverly N.J.

Thomas Moran, 1880/89

Watercolor elevation of a Gothic-arched altar with painted walls, star-patterned blue panels and a Sancta Caecilia inscriptio

Elevation of a design for an altar and painted wall decoration

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Watercolor design of a Gothic chapel wall with a wooden door, patterned panels, and a painted arched scene of the Virgin Mary

Elevation of a Church or Chapel with designs for ornament and a painted triptych of the Virgin Mary

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Watercolor design of a decorated interior wall with wood panels, arched bays, painted pilasters and gilded stars.

Design for the decoration of wall with wood panels and arched bays

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century