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Watercolors

11,528 works

Painted design for a paneled ceiling with a central cherub group, bird panels, floral garlands, and gilded ornamental borders

Design for a paneled ceiling painted with putti, birds, and floral motifs on tracing paper; mounted on wove paper

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 19th century

Design drawing for a coffered ceiling with a central putto cartouche, red and black panels, bird scenes and gilded ornament.

Design for a ceiling painted with grotesque motifs

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 19th century

Charcoal drawing of a bearded man in three-quarter view with swept-back hair, set against a sketched interior background.

Portrait of Paul Alexandre

Amedeo Modigliani, c. 1909

Watercolor design for a paneled ceiling with ornate moldings, floral medallions, and green painted accents.

Design for a paneled ceiling with painted decoration

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 19th century

Four painted decorative border designs with putti, floral garlands, scrollwork, urns and swan medallions on a pale ground.

Four designs for painted borders to decorate a room

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 19th century

Watercolor design of two painted panels: a blue rosette on gold and an ornate white monogram on red, in a wooden frame.

Two alternative designs for the painted decoration of a panel (one with the intertwined initials CL)

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 19th century

Two watercolor designs for a paneled ceiling with gold scrollwork, rosettes, and blue and red painted panels.

Two designs for paneled ceiling with painted decoration

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 19th century

Watercolor of a large black bass leaping from dark water beside a riverbank with palm trees and a bird in the sky.

Life-Size Black Bass

Winslow Homer, 1904

Study of Tahitian Heads

Paul Gauguin, c. 1898

Pencil sketch of a seated woman with closed eyes and head tilted, hands resting in her lap, on tan paper.

Seated Tahitian Woman (related to the painting Te faaturuma [Reverie])

Paul Gauguin, 1891/93

Charcoal and white chalk drawing of a straining nude figure carrying a huge dotted die on a rocky shore.

The Die, also called the Weight of Passions

Odilon Redon, 1878/82

Pencil drawing of a veiled woman kneeling by a rocky hill under a leaning bare tree, with a distant town and birds.

Woman Kneeling

Odilon Redon, c. 1868

Architectural elevation drawing of a classical facade with pediment, columns and tall windows, titled Lyceum of Natural Histo

Lyceum of Natural History, New York (front elevation)

Alexander Jackson Davis, 1835

Black chalk sketch of a mother with two small children in a cluttered domestic interior with a dog and hanging pots.

Domestic Scene: Mother with Two Small Children before a Mantelpiece

François Boucher, n.d.

Miniature painting of a woman raising a stick toward a blue child beside spilled pots and butter, with a palace pavilion at l

Yashoda Chastises Her Foster Son, the Youthful Krishna, page from a manuscript of the Bhagavata Purana

Unknown artist, c. 1600

Pencil sketch of a butterfly with shaded wings and curled antennae on cream paper, with a short curved line above.

Butterfly

James McNeill Whistler, c. 1890

Pen and brown ink sketch of a girl's head framed by dark hatched strokes on a pale sheet.

Head of a Girl

James McNeill Whistler, c. 1882

Charcoal and pastel sketch of a ballet dancer in a tutu bending forward, drawn on gray-green paper.

Dancer Bending Forward

Edgar Degas, 1874/79

Pastel landscape of a grassy hill with a row of trees and a large leaning tree under a pale blue sky.

Ploughed Field Bordered by Trees

Edgar Degas, c. 1892

Architectural drawing of a curved balustrade with turned balusters beside a blue ceiling field, with perspective construction

Perspectival study for one quadrant of a ceiling design including a trompe l'oeil balustrade

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

Pencil and watercolor design for a ceiling border with a painted balustrade, scrolls, and clusters of roses.

Partial design for a ceiling to be painted with a trompe l'oeil iron railing and roses

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

Watercolor design of an oval ceiling with clouds, a flying brown eagle, and a heraldic shield with laurel and flowers below.

Design for a ceiling painted with clouds and a soaring eagle

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

Watercolor design for a circular ceiling with blue clouds, pink roses and green foliage around a stone-like border.

A Circular ceiling design with clouds and roses

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

Pencil and watercolor ceiling design with putti, garlands, and pink swags framing an empty central field.

Design for a ceiling painted with putti, garlands, and swags

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

Watercolor design of a circular ceiling with a painted sky, gilded struts, floral garlands and birds, within grey coffered pa

Design for a ceiling painted with clouds and trellis work

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

Watercolor design for an octagonal ceiling with a blue sky, a lattice trellis, pink roses and gilded scrollwork corners.

Design for a ceiling painted with clouds, trellises, and roses

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

Watercolor design of a ceiling with putti among clouds and garlands above a trompe l'oeil awning and balustrade.

Design for a ceiling painted with a trompe l'oeil awning and putti in clouds

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

Pen and watercolor elevation of a domed hall with Ionic columns, floral garlands on the dome, and a patterned blue wall panel

Elevation and transverse section of a domed and colonnaded hall

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

Fan-shaped ceiling design with green trompe l'oeil ironwork, flowering pink vines, birds and a cloudy sky in watercolor.

Design for one section of a ceiling painted in trompe l'oeil iron work with flowering vines and birds

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

Watercolor and pen drawing of a crowded inn with patrons drinking, a wall clock, a lottery notice, and dogs.

Interior of an Inn

Thomas Rowlandson, n.d.