New: Artnap New Tab for Chrome. A museum painting in every new tab. Add to Chrome

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

5,470 works

Featured

Filters

Color

Shape

Century

Watercolor interior of a 19th-century drawing room with green sofa, patterned wallpaper, fireplace and framed pictures.

An Interior

Mary Ellen Best, 1830

Watercolor interior of a room with a tiled stove, writing desk, round table, sofa and a hanging military uniform.

A Prussian Officer's Quarters

German School, 1830

Watercolor of a furnished study with a large desk, crowded framed pictures, oval portraits, and arched doorways.

A Study Interior at St. Polten

Matthäus Kern, 1830

Watercolor of a green drawing room with gilded mirror, chandelier, and a woman playing piano by the windows.

The Green Drawing Room of the Earl of Essex at Cassiobury

William Henry Hunt, 1820

Watercolor interior of a 19th-century sitting room with a red-draped table, fireplace, writing desk and framed prints.

A Sitting Room with a Writing Table

Wilhelm Amandus Beer, 1860

Watercolor of a neoclassical bathroom interior with swan fountains, draped curtains, and women attending a seated figure.

Bathroom and Boudoir Interior

Jean-Claude Rumeau, 1800

Watercolor interior of a neoclassical room with coffered ceiling, gilt chandelier, framed paintings, and a seated woman at a

The Study of Czarina Alexandra Feodorovna

Josef Sotira, 1830

Watercolor of a 19th-century salon with a chandelier, marble fireplace, and a man reading on a sofa by the window.

A Salon, probably in Stuttgart

Caspar Obach, 1850

Watercolor of a salon with a man playing violin and a seated woman playing guitar beside open French doors.

Salon Interior with Gabriel d'Arjuzon Playing the Violin and Pascalie Hosten, Comtess d'Arjuzon, Playing Guitar

Achille Louis Martinet, 1810

Watercolor of a paneled hall with carved fireplace, coffered ceiling, suits of armor, and armchairs on a tiled floor.

The Entrance Hall, East Sutton Place, Kent

Charles James Richardson, 1840

Watercolor interior of a 19th-century salon with a seated woman, green upholstered furniture, a round window and potted plant

Interior of a Salon

Lithuanian Vladislav Dmochowski, 1840

Watercolor interior of a 1820 French drawing room where women and children take an art lesson beneath a crystal chandelier.

An Art Lesson

French School, 1820

Watercolor of a rococo concert room with gilded ceiling, mirrors, blue chairs, and a checkered floor.

Concert Room of Sanssouci Palace, Potsdam, Germany

Eduard Gaertner, 1850

Brown ink drawing of men on horseback hunting bulls with eagles in a hilly landscape with trees and flowers.

Men Hunting Bulls with Eagles

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Watercolor of a Gothic Revival sitting room with stained glass screens, a chandelier, gilt-framed paintings, and a window wit

Empress Alexandra Feodorovna's Sitting Room, Cottage Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia

Estonian Eduard Petrovich Hau, 1830

Red chalk drawing of a standing draped figure with turned head and flowing robes, study for an Annunciation angel.

Drapery Study for the Angel of the Annunciation

Battista Franco Veneziano, 1550

Watercolor of a formal salon with a crystal chandelier, red velvet curtains, a chaise longue and gilded candelabra.

A Small Salon in the Montpensier Wing, Palais Royal

Jules Frédéric Bouchet, 1830

Watercolor interior with two seated figures at a table by a window, a white dog on a parquet floor, and an open doorway behin

A Room in the Reuss Palace, Dresden

Polish C. M. Fredro, 1830

Watercolor of an ornate chinoiserie salon with a dome ceiling, lanterns, and figures near garden doors.

The Japanese Salon, Villa Hügel, Hietzing, Vienna

Rudolf von Alt, 1850

Watercolor of an 1840 drawing room with two seated women, framed portraits, a tiled stove and a chandelier.

Interior in the House of Lord Chamberlain O'Neill, Strandraede, Copenhagen

Danish Christian Olavius Zeuthen, 1840

Watercolor of an ornate Chinese-style room with a blue starred ceiling, crystal chandelier, and porcelain vases.

The Chinese Room in the Royal Palace, Berlin

Eduard Gaertner, 1850

Watercolor of a richly furnished library with bookshelves, brass chandelier, green armchairs and busts, by Rudolf von Alt.

The Library in the Apartment of Count Lanckoronski in Vienna, Riemergasse 8

Rudolf von Alt, 1880

Watercolor of an 1850 artist's studio with an easel, stove, seated woman on a green sofa, and framed paintings.

An Artist's Studio

Julie Bayer, 1850

Watercolor elevations of two ornamented orchestra pavilions with conical roofs and decorated bases, drawn by Félix Duban.

"Orchstres places aux Champs elysees, dans le gran carres"

Félix Duban, 1830

Italian girl

Elihu Vedder, 1890

Pencil and chalk drawing of a carved stone capital beside a column with radiating rib vaulting, on tan paper.

Two studies of Architectural Details

Arnold William Brunner, 1880

Ink and pencil floor plan of a proposed Episcopal church showing nave seating, chancel, altar, pulpit, and choir areas.

Floor plan, Episcopal church at Friendship, N.Y.

John C. Wolf, 1900

Drawing of two helmeted soldiers in cloaks, one holding a shield, with a kneeling woman and a small head study.

Two Soldiers and a Kneeling Woman

Eustache Le Sueur

Watercolor of brown and red-sailed boats in a harbor beside a stone arched bridge under a cloudy sky.

Boats in Trouville

Arnold William Brunner, 1880

Pencil sketch of tall climbing ivy foliage on tan paper, with handwritten height note in the lower right.

Study of foliage

William Trost Richards, 1860