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Engraved grotesque panel with winged putti, grape vines, a central urn, female term figures and acanthus scrolls.

Grotesque with Putti and Grape Vines

Master of the Die, 1530

Etching of two chinoiserie figures on a seesaw above a rock, with foliage, tassels and a hanging canopy.

Plate 3, "Cahier de Blançoires Chinoises"

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, 1770

Engraved title page with an ornamental fountain, mascaron and sea creatures in a circular frame above a lettered cartouche.

Title Page

Edmé Bouchardon, 1730

Engraved plate of fourteen numbered tin objects, including ornate crosses, lidded vessels, lamps and a scrolled crozier.

Potier d’Étain Bimblotier

J.R. Lucotte, 1760

Engraved rococo frame design with empty oval center, floral garlands, scrolls and fruit with garden tools below.

Frame or Cartouche Design

Pierre Ranson, 1770

Engraved plate showing two ornate rococo altar candlesticks with scrolled feet, numbered 25.

Chandeliers d'autel

Pierre Germain, 1740

Etched title page with a juggler, seated figures, a canopy and foliage framing a cartouche with the title text.

Title Page, "Suite de Jeu Chinois"

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, 1770

Engraved plate showing a park plan with winding paths and two small garden buildings, a gate and an orangery facade.

Partie du Parc de Mr. Davelouis à Soisy sous Etiole ou se trouvent les Fabrique ci-devant detaillée et construite par…

Jean-Charles Krafft, 1810

Engraving of Saint John seated on an eagle among clouds, writing in a book within a radiating halo of light.

Saint John, writing, seated on an Eagle

Giulio Romano, 1510

Engraved plate of architectural molding profiles and door and frame sections with French labels and a two-foot scale bar.

Developpement et Profils de diverses sortes d'assemblages à l'usage des Appartements

Flemish Jean-François de Neufforge, 1760

Woodblock print of a coastal scene with Mount Fuji, sailboats on calm sea, pine trees, and a small pagoda on the shore.

Arai From the series the 53 Stations of Tokaido

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1790

Engraved plate of labeled crowns in rows above a grid of heraldic shields showing tinctures and ordinaries.

Designs for Crowns and Coat of Arms

Nicolas Guérard, 1710

Engraved decorative panel with floral garlands, bouquets, ribbon bows and scrolling ornament in a symmetrical layout.

Decorative Panel Design

Pierre Ranson, 1770

Engraved allegorical plate titled La Terre with a crowned female figure, two rearing animals, cherubs and a central medallion

La Terre

Jean Démosthène Dugourc, 1780

Engraving of a hanging hunting trophy: a fox on a hoop with a horn, rifle, powder flask and game bag beneath a ribbon.

Hunting Trophy

Christophe Huet, 1740

Sepia print of a decorative corner moulding with acanthus leaves and a laurel sprig along a molded border.

Corner Moulding Design

A. Panier, 1790

Engraved plate of a keyhole surrounded by scrolling foliage, with a bird and a winged figure among the ornament.

Plate 7, from Diverses pièces de serruriers (Various Designs for Locksmiths)

Hugues Brisville, 1660

Black engraved ornament design with a central cup-like motif, flanking tapered panels, and scrollwork, mounted on a book page

Ornament Designs

Pierre Gandin, 1600

Engraved plate showing a hanging lamp with ram's heads, a mustard pot, and a double salt cellar with an urn and garlands.

Mustard Pot, Lantern, Salt Cellar

Richard de Lalonde, 1780

Engraved title page with a Tuscan-order classical doorway and a plaque reading Plusieurs Portails et Portes by Taraval.

Title Page

Louis Gustave Taraval, 1770

Red chalk study sheet showing an infant's head, outstretched arm and hand, leg, and two feet rendered in hatched shading.

Studies of a Child’s Head, Feet, and Arm

Pierre Thomas Le Clerc, 1770

Black and white etching of a flower spray with two moths, buds, seed pods and leaves on a pale page.

Spray of Flowers

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, 1760

Engraved trophy of wheat, flowers, fruit, grapes, tools and a hanging wooden bucket on crossed poles.

Trophy Design

Pierre Ranson, 1770

Red-brown print of a ruined arched aqueduct with goats, herders and a dog resting in the foreground.

Goatherds in Landscape with Ruins

Jean Baptiste Huet, 1770

Ornamental Vase Design

Jacques-Philippe de Beauvais, 1760

Etching of two goats perched among curling vines, leaves and berries, forming a vertical grotesque ornament border.

Plate, from the series Ornamenti o grottesche (Ornaments or Grotesques)

Stefano Della Bella, 1610

Etched ornamental arabesque design with a flower basket, two birds, two female figures flanking an urn, and a seated figure i

Arabesque Design

Juste Nathan François Boucher, 1770

Engraving of an imperial column bed with draped canopy, tassels, and floral finials on a printed page.

Lit a l’Impériale a Colonne

Pierre Ranson, 1770

Engraved cartouche with chinoiserie figures, flowers, an urn, and a child on a pillar in a garden setting.

Cartouche with Chinoiserie Motifs

William Elliott, 1740

Circular engraving of Pomona holding a fruit basket while a putto picks cherries from a tree above her.

Pomona

Francesco Bartolozzi, 1780

Engraved print of an empty oval cartouche with rococo scrollwork and flower sprays, signed Borch Inv. and Marcel Sculp.

Cartouche Design

Borch, 1720

Engraved plate showing a bell and two ornate rococo silver trays with scrolling leaf decoration and cruet bottles.

Cuvettes et Sonnettes pour les Burettes

Pierre Germain, 1740

Engraved plate of two neoclassical pedestal designs with flaming burners, garlands, rosettes and fluted legs.

Burner Designs for Pedestals

Richard de Lalonde, 1770

Engraved rococo ornament plate with a winged dragon-like creature, scrolling acanthus leaves, and a branch of foliage.

Plate 6, from "Divers Ornemens"

Gabriel Huquier, 1730

Hatched drawing of a curly-haired young man resting his head on his hand, eyes downcast, leaning on draped cloth.

A Young Man in Meditation

Giovanni Vitalba, 1780

Engraved rococo design of a rising fleuron with curling acanthus leaves and bell-shaped petals on a scrolled base.

Fleuron rampant

Jacques Valentin Fontaine, 1740

Engraved plate of a Polish-style canopy bed with a domed iron canopy, turned legs and dimension lines in pieds.

Lit à la Polonoise préparé de Menuiserie

Richard de Lalonde, 1770

Engraved plate of six trophy designs combining torches, a lyre, swords, wheat, and flower garlands.

Trophy Designs

Pierre Ranson, 1770

Engraved title page with an ornate oval cartouche, coat of arms, lions, satyr figures and a lion mask above lettered text.

Title page

Hugues Brisville, 1660

Engraved oval portrait of a young man with curly hair, a white collar and cross pendant, with a coat of arms below.

Portrait of Cardinal Emmanuel-Théodore de la Tour-d'Auvergne, duc d'Abret (1644-1715)

Antoine Masson, 1660

Engraved plate showing four ornamental rosette designs with stylized leaves and central florets, numbered page 87.

Rosette Designs

Richard de Lalonde, 1780

Engraved plate showing four stacked balustrade designs with scrolls, rosettes, interlocking links and geometric lattice patte

Four Balustrade Designs

Jean-Baptiste Fay, 1780

Engraved architectural plate showing front and section views of a window sill with corbels and an air vent, with a scale bar.

Tablette d appui de Croisée avec soupirail

Juste Nathan François Boucher, 1770

Engraved floor plan of the Hostel de la Basignere showing courtyard, rooms, and staircases with a toise scale bar.

Plan de l’Hostel de la Basignere

Jean Marot, 1630

Engraved design sheet with an ornamental cross flanked by crescent and pedestal motifs, decorated with fine scrollwork.

Designs for a Cross and Ornament

Pierre Gandin, 1600

Engraved architectural elevation of a Doric carriage gate with pediment, sphinxes, medallion and double doors.

Developpement d'une Porte Cochere de l'ordonnance Dorique

Flemish Jean-François de Neufforge, 1760

Engraved plate of a canopied bed with tasselled drapery, floral garlands and feather plumes, titled Lit à la Duchesse.

Lit à la Duchesse

Pierre Ranson, 1790

Hand-colored print of a couple seated under a tree, framed by an ornate rococo border of red and blue flowers.

Couple Beneath Tree

Martin Engelbrecht, 1680

Engraving of a sea-themed cartouche with a trident, shell, crab, seaweed and waves, numbered 12 in the top corner.

Escutcheon, from "Recueil Nouveau de Differens Cartouche"

Jacques de Lajoüe, 1720

Engraved design of a three-armed candelabra with oak-leaf branches, flanked by two putti on a decorated pedestal.

Girandole (Candelabra) Design

Jean François Forty, 1770

Engraved rococo design for a clock case with a blank circular medallion, cherubs, scrollwork and a grotesque mask below.

Design for a Cartel Clock Case

Thomas Lainé, 1800

Engraved plate numbered 16 showing a rococo ewer with a scrolling handle, shell-shaped spout and footed base.

Buirre pour les Évèque

Pierre Germain, 1740

Etching of a bearded man with long hair, white collar and dark clothing against a hatched dark background.

Portrait of a Man, from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum, New York"

Jules Ferdinand Jacquemart, 1870

Engraving of an andiron design with a figure holding a globe, flanked by sphinxes and small ornamental urns.

Design for an Andiron

Jean Cotelle, 1620

Etched page with two rococo cartouches surrounded by putti, foliage, drapery and emblems, numbered 13 in the lower right.

SECOND LIVRE de Fragmens, a l’usage de differens Artistes, DEDIÉ A.M. le Marquis de Voyer d’Argenson

Charles Dominique Joseph Eisen

Engraved ornament plate with a black oval cartouche of scrollwork and flowers inside a decorative foliate border, on a page.

Ornament Design

Pierre Gandin, 1600

Engraved title page with three putti among metalworking tools, candlesticks, and vases beside a chimney and foliage.

Title Page

Clément Pierre Marillier, 1760

Woodblock print of boats crowded on a river with streamer-hung poles in the foreground and a distant mountain under blue sky.

Miyato River by Great Bank of Asakusa River, No 68 from One Hundred Views of Edo (Asakusa-gawa Okawa-bata, Miyato-gawa)

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1790

Etching of peasants drinking and smoking under a vine trellis, a woman pouring a drink beside a child at a doorway.

The Big Boom (Peasants Under a Vine-Trellis)

Jonas Suyderhoef, 1650

Woodcut of crucified Christ surrounded by saints, angels, and rose garlands, with figures rising from flames below.

The Great Rosary

Erhard Schön, 1510

Engraved page with two ornamental panels of flower garlands, scrolls, and ribbon bows, one with a flower urn and one with a m

Decorative Panel Designs

Pierre Ranson, 1770

Engraved rococo design for a mantel clock case with putti, a shell canopy, lion figures and an empty central cartouche.

Mantel Clock Case Design

Gilles-Marie Oppenord, 1730

Hand-coloured print of a blue fluted stove column with pink relief bands, an urn on top, and a marble pedestal in an arched n

POELE formant colonne tronquée, cannelée, à bandeaux, orné de bas-reliefs et surmonté d’un vase antique

Louis Gustave Taraval, 1780

Engraved print of an ornate urn with scrolled handles, holding flowers and garlands on a pedestal table.

Vase with Flowers

Pierre Ranson, 1770

Engraved plate of muscular nude men and draped figures with a pointing angel in clouds above, after Michelangelo's Last Judgm

Plate, from Le Jugement Universel

Tommaso Piroli, 1800

Engraved dedication page with a shield bearing a fleur-de-lis, flanked by birds and a putto, above French dedicatory text.

Dedication / Title Page

Jean-Bernard Turreau, 1700

Engraved design of a wall clock in a laurel wreath with a flaming torch, serpents, scrolls and tools below.

Wall Clock (Cartel) Design

Jean François Forty, 1770

Hand-colored floral design with pink, blue and white blossoms on lattice stems and feathery green, yellow and teal fern frond

Fantastic Flower Motif from Nouvelle Suitte de Cahiers de Fleurs Idéales

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, 1800

Engraved title page with ornate scrolled cartouche, grotesque mask, and central lettering for ornament designs.

Title Page

Johann Leonhard Eisler, 1720

Engraved plate of three rococo staircase balustrade designs with scrolling panels, consoles, and a putto with urn finial.

Nouveaux desseins de Rampes d’Escalier avec Panneaux et Consolles

Pierre-Edmé Babel, 1910

Etched print of six ornamental trophy designs with torches, arrows, wreaths, armor, serpents and wheat sheaves.

Trophy Designs

D. Antoine Pierretz, 1640

Porte d'Appartement avec son Profil

Richard de Lalonde, 1780

Woodblock print of a crowded sailing ferryboat on water, with a rowboat, shoreline castle, and distant mountains under a pale

Kuwana: Ferryboats at Chichiri (Kuwana, Shichiri no watashibune) from the Series 53 Stations of Tokaido

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1790

Engraving of a seated man in a feathered turban and a seated woman in a gown beside a rococo chair and curtain.

La Sultane Favorite

François-Thomas Mondon, 1730

Engraved print of a stag head with hunting tools, a wicker basket, net, horn and flowers arranged as a trophy.

Trophy with Implements of the Hunt, Plate 2 from "Suite de Trophées de chasse," Suite VI

Etienne Claude Voysard, 1770

Etched ornament plate with a ram-headed capital above a frieze of a crowned mermaid flanked by cherubs and scrolls.

Frieze and Ornament Designs

D. Antoine Pierretz, 1640

Etched portrait of a young man in a velvet cap and fur-trimmed coat, looking sideways, holding a sheet of paper.

Young Man in a Velvet Cap (Ferdinand Bol?)

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1630

Engraved chinoiserie ornament plate with a seated figure in a pointed hat, palms, a pagoda and rococo scrollwork.

Plate 3, from "A New Book of Chinese Ornaments"

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, 1740

Engraved plate of an antique-style draped bed with canopy, side elevation, floor plan, and scale bar.

Designs for Beds in the Style of Antiquity

Richard de Lalonde, 1780

A Young Man's Head

Francesco Bartolozzi, 1800

Engraved plate of a large ornamental hair comb, a bow brooch, a chain pendant, and two decorative hair ornaments.

Hair Ornament and Jewelry Designs

Pierre Moreau, 1770

Engraved hunting trophy with a hanging hare, rifle, horn, and flasks surrounded by flowering branches and a wicker basket.

Trophy with Implements of the Hunt, Plate 4 from "Suite de Trophées de chasse," Suite VI

Etienne Claude Voysard, 1770

Printed instructional plate with red-toned studies of eyes in various angles, with French text and proportion guidelines.

Title Page

Pierre Thomas Le Clerc, 1770

Engraved title page with an arch of garlands, a flower basket, and a central French dedication to Morlot, 1780.

Title Page

Clément Pierre Marillier, 1780

Autre Developpement et Profil d'Entablement Composite avec Corniche à l'usage des Portes et Fenêtres

Flemish Jean-François de Neufforge, 1760

Sepia print of two symmetrical ornamental designs with urns, garlands, birds, and a standing female figure.

Arabesque Ornament Designs

Etienne de Lavallée, 1780

Engraved plate of Corinthian column details: cornice, capital, base, pedestal, a circular plan and a scale bar.

Corniche du Piedestal de l'Ordre Corinthien du Chapiteau Base et Piedestal

Richard de Lalonde, 1780

Engraved keyhole escutcheon design flanked by two winged figures with fish tails, topped by a fleur-de-lis and fruit basket.

Design for a Keyhole Escutcheon

Antoine Jacquard, 1610

Engraved design of a classical triumphal arch with columns, winged figures, garland frieze, and two statues on top.

Doorway or Triumphal Arch Design

D. Antoine Pierretz, 1640

Engraved plate of a canopied duchess bed with draped curtains, tassels and carved ornament, with a scale bar below.

Lit à la Duchesse, orné de Sculptures et totalement fini

Richard de Lalonde, 1770

Engraved elevation of a tall lighthouse-like tower with a lantern, flanked by two flaming obelisks, above a rusticated base.

Design for a Lighthouse

A. Le Canu, 1770

Engraved arabesque design with an eagle below a radiant face, a serpent urn, hanging scales, and a central medallion.

Arabesque Design

Aubert Henri Joseph A. Parent, 1780

Engraving of three horizontal floral garlands with roses, buds and leafy vines stacked on a pale page.

Three Floral Tailpieces or Fleurons

Jean-Jacques Bachelier, 1760

Engraved design of an ornamental urn with two putti and a hanging drape, set in a thin rectangular border on a book page.

Ornamental Vase Design

Juste Nathan François Boucher, 1750

Engraving of a rococo fountain with a seated couple embracing on scrolling rocaille ornament, water pouring from a spout belo

L’Amant Aimé

François-Thomas Mondon, 1730

Engraved plate of embroidery designs with a rococo caparison, coat of arms, floral garlands, leaf motif and pliers.

Art du Brodeur

Charles Germain de Saint-Aubin, 1770