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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Watercolor ornament design with two horizontal friezes of scrolls and acanthus leaves and a vertical stacked floral border.

Ornament Design

Michel Angelo Pergolesi

Pen and brown ink design drawing of a classical interior with a frieze, three arched niches with figures, altar and incense.

Decorative Design

Sepia drawing of several ornamental trophy designs with floral garlands, fruit swags, birds, bows, arrows and musical instrum

Designs for Trophies

Red chalk sketch of a martyrdom scene with soldiers, a central figure, flying angels, and a distant city.

Martyrdom of a Saint

Pen and ink drawing of Apollo with a lyre and a winged Cupid in a classical riverside landscape with ancient buildings.

Apollo with lyre and Love

Red chalk study on blue paper showing kneeling draped figures, hands, and legs in multiple poses.

Kneeling Figures

Giuseppe Passeri

Pencil sketch of a river valley with wooded hills and ruined castle towers on a rocky height at right.

A Valley in Mountainous Country

Eugène Edouard Soulès

Pen and brown wash drawing of a seated woman in drapery with a fruit basket, beside a sketched ornamental panel.

"The Foliage of Berenice:" from Callimachus

Reclining woman in blue gown with lace cap and green parasol, draped over pink and green decorative scrolls on peach paper.

Female Monkey with umbrella

Christophe Huet

Pen and ink design for a frieze with a blank oval cartouche, seated woman, putto, garlands and scrollwork.

Design for Frieze Decoration, with Alternative Suggestions

Mauro Antonio Tesi

Etched fan leaf design with cherubs holding garlands, swans, a classical hunting scene, and a central medallion face.

Fan leaves, first half of the set "Desseins d'Eventails et Ecrans"

Nicolas Pierre Loir

Engraving of elegant courtly figures dancing around a pedestal with musicians, with a banquet and a severed head in the backg

Dance of the Daughters of Herodias

Israhel van Meckenem

Ink and wash drawing of a stone hall with pointed Gothic arches, vaulted ceilings, and a gallery balustrade.

Stage Design, Interior of Large Hall

Mauro Antonio Tesi

Pen and brown wash drawing of four horizontal friezes showing crowded classical figures in Bacchic processions and sacrifices

Birth of Bacchus; triumph of Bacchus and Arianna; Triumph of Silos

Brown ink drawing of an angel kneeling before an elderly man beside a well, with standing robed figures in an arched architec

Copy after Annunciation of the Angel to Zechariah

Andrea del Sarto

Pen and wash drawing of a farmyard with a cottage, large tree, cow, sheep, chickens and figures tending animals.

Seated Shepherd

François Boucher

Brown ink drawing of two octagonal panels: a winged figure handing a lyre to a seated youth, and women kneeling before a stat

Winged Victory Gives Apollo Lyre; Statue of Minerva

Brown wash design for spandrel decoration showing a bearded man with a raised sword and a child within arched frames.

Design for Spandral Decoration

Tomb Portrait of Queen Isabella I of Castile

Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta

Pen and brown ink drawing of a frieze with four caryatid figures supporting an entablature above framed panels.

Frieze with Four Caryatids

Grey wash drawing of an armored allegorical figure with shield, putti and acanthus scrolls, design for a carriage rear.

Design for the Rear of a Carriage with Valor Victorious over Vice and Arrogance

Pencil study of a nude man bent forward, gripping a long bow, with draped cloth behind him on tan paper.

Study of a Bowing Man Holding a Bow

Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta

Pen and watercolor design for a decorated coach body with gilded scrollwork and circular medallions containing winged figures

Decorated Coach Body

Brown ink drawing of a crowd of robed men gathered before classical columns and architecture.

Group of Men in a Boat

Francesco Primaticcio

Pencil sketch of three men, one kneeling at left and two bowing forward, drawn in loose gestural lines on tan paper.

Three Men, One Kneeling and Two Bowing

Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta

Pencil sketch of an ornate palace wall with niches, classical statues, arched windows and decorative friezes with putti.

Sculpture Gallery: Project for the Decoration of a Hall in a Palace during the Reign of the Emperor Napoleon as King…

Drawing of a lunette design with two putti, a central heraldic shield, flower garlands, and two reclining female figures.

Project for the top of a painted frame of an altar

Engraving of a Bacchanal with nude revelers, satyrs, and putti around a wine barrel beneath a grapevine.

Bacchanal

Andrea Mantegna

Pen and ink drawing of several standing male nude figures with grid lines and numbered proportion marks on paper.

Studies of Male Nudes

Engraving of curling foliage with a courting couple seated at top center, putti and birds among the scrolls.

Garden of Love

Israhel van Meckenem