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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Graphite sketch of a standing male nude with a draped cloth falling from one raised arm and around the legs.

Study for male figure

Kenyon Cox, 1900

Pen and ink sketch of decorative ceiling panels with ornamental borders, rosettes, an arched niche and a small figure.

Sketches for the Painted Decoration of Ceilings

Felice Giani, 1810

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…

Pencil sketch of a man in a wide-brimmed hat riding a horse, seen from behind, on a tan sheet of paper.

Man Riding a Horse

Winslow Homer, 1860

Brown ink and wash design for a wall decoration with arched niches, draped swags held by two female figures and foliate garla

Wall decoration

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Red chalk drawing of three goats, one standing, one lying down, and a head study at left, on tan paper.

Three Goats, after an etching from Berchem's "Animalia" (Animals) [ Animalia ad vivum delineata et aqua forti aeri im…

Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem, 1650

Pencil sketch of a classical tomb with a pediment, oval portrait medallions, an inscription panel and a carved pedestal.

Design for the Artist’ Sepulchral Monument

Felice Giani, 1770

Pen and brown wash design of decorated door and wall panels with classical figures, urns, garlands and an oval medallion.

Design for Door and Adjoining Wall Panel Decorations

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Pen and brown wash design drawing of a wall with a draped alcove and a classical frieze of small figures above.

Design for Wall with Alcove

Giuseppe Barberi, 1800

Painted design of stylized multicolored flowers, leaves and berries with a black ruled border, for embroidery.

Design for Embroidery, Corner of Gentleman's Waistcoat

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, 1780

Brown ink and wash sketch of a chariot race in a classical arena with horses, charioteers, and colonnaded buildings.

Project for Wall Paintings, as Decoration of a Frieze

Felice Giani, 1820

Pencil study of frilly hazelnut husks on a branch with serrated leaves, drawn on tan paper.

Study for Illustration: Hazelnuts

Samuel Colman, 1880

Watercolor sketch of a bowing man in a blue coat facing a woman in a feathered hat and yellow bodice, with handwritten French

The Salutation at the Masquerade

Édouard de Beaumont, 1850

Brown ink and wash drawing of a tall palm tree over resting travelers and animals on rocky ground.

Caravan at Rest Near a Herm

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, 1650

Ink and wash lunette design showing figures in a studio interior with a draped curtain and decorated pedestal.

Design for a Lunette with Allegory of Sculpture

Felice Giani, 1810

Pencil botanical sketch of a tall flowering stem and blossoms on paper, with handwritten notes in the margins.

Botanical Sketches, Bloxburgh, Jamaica

Frederic Edwin Church, 1860

Ink line drawing of a costumed figure in a plumed helmet and winged cape, signed by Enrico Caruso at lower right.

Enrico Caruso as Don José in "Carmen"

Enrico Caruso, 1920

Brown ink and wash design drawing of a circular platter with a scalloped rim and leaf ornament on one edge.

Design for a Circular Platter

Johann Nepomuk Muxel, 1800

Pencil drapery study of a seated woman with billowing cloth and arms raised, drawn over a squared grid.

Study for "The Court," "The Common Law," Appellate Division Court House, New York, NY

Kenyon Cox, 1890

Pencil sketches of a woman carrying a child, a small child, and a man in a wide-brimmed hat on tan paper.

Figure Sketches, Mexico

Frederic Edwin Church, 1890

Grey-wash still life drawing of fish, a lobster, and a parrot beside stone blocks and a hanging fish.

Still-life with Fish and Parrot

Jean-Baptiste Oudry, 1740

Painted landscape of two pine trees on a rocky slope above a reddish path, with rolling hills and a blue sky.

Two Pine Trees, Mt. Desert Island, Maine

Frederic Edwin Church, 1850

Brown ink and wash drawing of classical gods feasting at a long table, with putti attending and clouds of figures above.

The Feast of the Gods

Felice Giani, 1800

Pencil sketch of a dory crowded with men, with loose lines suggesting waves and water below the boat.

Dory Filled with Men

Winslow Homer, 1880

Watercolor of men gathered on a harbor jetty by a lighthouse, with a central figure in yellow breeches reciting from an open

Water color; Rinaldo Rinaldini is reciting upon the jetty

Saverio della Gatta, 1820

Oval pen and brown ink drawing of an imagined architectural space with arcades, balustrades, columns, and clouds.

Capriccio for a Painted Ceiling

Carlo Antonio Buffagnotti, 1690

Pencil sketch of a young woman in a hat holding a leafy apple tree branch in a grassy field.

Girl Holding a Branch of an Apple Tree

Winslow Homer, 1870

Pencil sketch of a central figure seen from behind, surrounded by smaller figures of women and children on tan paper.

Group of figures

Robert Frederick Blum, 1880

Red chalk drawing of two children's heads, one tilted downward and one turned upward, with curly hair.

Studies: Two heads of children

Mauro Gandolfi, 1800

Grey-wash drawing of a ceiling study with clouds, a central chariot figure, putti, and reclining women.

Study for Painted Decoration of a Ceiling, Casino de la Reina (Queen's Casino), Madrid, Spain

Vicente López Portaña, 1810