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Engraving of Venus or Galatea raising a billowing cloth, carried by dolphins with cupids around her.

Venus (or Galatea) and Cupids Supported by Dolphins

Agostino Carracci, 1590

Engraved plate of a rococo salon wall elevation with ornate scrollwork paneling, cartouches, and arched doorways.

Vüe de Même (Czartoryski) Sallon du Costé des Glacés (Design for the Salon Czartoryski), plate 85, in Oeuvres de Just…

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1740

Engraved plate showing a covered tureen with figural lid and handles, with an enlarged handle detail above, from Percier's 18

Pot-à-Oille (Design for a Tureen with Handle for the Empress Josephine), plate 46, in Recueil de decorations intérieu…

Charles Percier, 1810

Engraved ornamental panel with a crowned woman's head, two peacocks, putti, and an octagonal landscape vignette in the center

Ornamental Panel Surmounted by the Crowned Head of a Woman and Two Peacocks, plate 6 from the Livre de Diverses Grote…

Michel Dorigny, 1640

Engraved plate of interlacing acanthus scrollwork with a central putto figure, numbered 14, in a bound book.

Plate 14, from Diverses pièces de serruriers (Various Designs for Locksmiths)

Hugues Brisville, 1660

Engraved rococo design for a pier glass with ornate scrolled frame, console table, candle sconces and flanking decorative pan

Plate 3, Developement d'un Trumeau de glace fait pour le Portugal (Design for a Pier Glass with Varation for Portugal…

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1740

Engraved plate of rococo interior wall panels with a mirror, shell console, glazed door showing a garden, and putti.

Vue des trumeaux du même Cabinet; Vue des trumeaux du même Cabinet, 3rd Plate

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1740

Engraved rococo fountain design with a seated river god, cherubs, cascading water, classical arch and obelisk among trees.

Design for Fountain with a River God

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, 1740

The Hermit

Jan Lievens, 1640

Engraved ornamental plate with a central figure riding a camel, framed by grotesque scrolls, birds, urns and winged figures.

Plate 27, from Grotteßco: in diverßche manieren

Hans Vredeman de Vries, 1560

Engraved portrait of a seated man with long hair and lace collar, framed by ornate scrollwork, cherubs and classical figures.

Portrait of Hugues Brisville, from Diverses pièces de serruriers (Various Designs for Locksmiths)

Hugues Brisville, 1660

Engraved plate of ornate wrought-iron grilles, column capitals, and friezes with scrollwork and urn finials.

Designs for Decorative Ironwork, Plate 88 from Divers dessins de balcons a plusieurs usages (Variety of Balcony Designs)

Claude René Gabriel Poulleau, 1770

Engraving of the nude god Mercury with winged helmet and caduceus in a medallion surrounded by ornamental scrollwork and cher

Mercury, plate from a suite of 6 ornamental designs with the Judgement of Paris

Flemish Adriaen Collaert, 1690

Engraved grotesque ornament plate with a winged female figure at center, scrollwork, birds, and animals framing it.

Plate 19, from Grotteßco in diverßche manieren (Various Grotesques)

Hans Vredeman de Vries, 1560

Engraving of the Madonna and Child with infant John the Baptist beneath a palm tree, with a landscape behind.

Madonna of the Palm Tree

Marcantonio Raimondi, 1520

Engraved grotesque ornament with putti, winged manticores, an urn, goats and a bearded mask among acanthus scrolls.

Grotesque with Putti and Manticore

Master of the Die, 1530

Engraved octagonal ornament plate with symmetrical scrolling foliage, grotesque masks, and birds, numbered 2 at upper left.

Plate 2, from Die Folge der phantastischen Schmucksträße (Suite of Fantastic Ornamental Bouquets)

Wendel Dietterlin the Younger, 1610

Hand-colored engraving of an asymmetrical rococo cartouche framed by rock, roots, leaves and small red flowers.

Design for Asymmetrical Cartouche

Jacques de Lajoüe, 1740

Engraved rococo design of a waterfall, classical columns, an urn and rocaille scrollwork framing a landscape with animals.

Rocaille (rococo design), in Nouveaux morceaux pour des paravents (New concepts for screens)

François Boucher, 1730

Engraved rococo wainscoting design with a double door, landscape panels with figures, and a cherub scene above.

Design for Wainscoting with a Double Door

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, 1740

Engraved rococo cartouche design with scrollwork, grapevines, a lion mask, bottles, fruit and a hanging hare.

Design for a Cartouche

Jacques de Lajoüe, 1740

Engraved plate of an ornate rococo candlestick with scrolled shaft and floral base, plus a small garden scene below.

Design for a Candlestick, plate 75, from Cinquième Livre d'Ornemens, from Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works…

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1740

Engraved plate of two rococo pier glass frames with scrolling ornament, birds and a small figure, by Thomas Chippendale.

Pier Glass Frame

Thomas Chippendale, 1750

Engraved rococo cartouche design with scrolled borders set against a rocky grotto and waterfalls, on a book page.

Design for a Cartouche Evoking the Continent of Asia

Jacques de Lajoüe, 1740

Engraved rococo design of a five-branch candelabra with candles, a cherub and scrolling foliage, above a decorative title car

Projet de grand Chandelier à branche pour le Roy., Chandelier à cinq branches avec un dragon, 2nd Plate

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1740

Engraved plate of rococo shell-shaped salt dish designs above an ornate nef with sea creature figures.

Differents Desseins de Sallieres [Various Designs for Salt Dishes], pl. 63 in Oeuvre de Juste-Aurele Meissonnier

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1740

Engraving of a standing woman in flowing drapery with a river, bridge, and hilltop castles in the landscape behind her.

Debora

Netherlandish Jacob Matham, 1580

Engraved design of an ornate footed ewer with a looping handle, satyr figures, a child and a lion mask on its body.

Ewer with Handle

Flemish Cornelis Floris II, 1540

Hand-colored ornamental botanical design of purple and red fern fronds, green sprigs and berry clusters on a pale ground.

Ornamental Design with Triangular Purple and Red leaves, from Nouvelle suite de cahiers de flerurs naturelle a l'usag…

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, 1800

Engraved ornamental plate with winged griffins, an urn, nude figures, scrollwork and a small cityscape medallion at top.

Plate from Opus de ludicro picturae genere (A Work About the Playful Style of Painting)

Luca Bertelli, 1560

Engraved rococo design for a pendulum clock on a panel, with a winged female figure, cherub and scrolling ornament.

Projet d'une grande Pendule placée sur un paneau (Design for a Pendulum Clock Placed on a Panel), plate 97, in Oeuvre…

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1740

Engraved rinceaux ornament with a putto among acanthus scrolls, rosettes, a ribbon bow, and musical instruments below.

Rinceaux Design with Putto, plate 3, from A New Book of Ornaments Useful to all Artists

Simon Gribelin, 1700

Engraved decorative strip showing an armored warrior with a sword above foliate scrolls and a winged figure below.

Dagger Sheath

Master of the Horse Skulls, 1500

Title page with a heart-shaped garland of colored flowers and ferns framing handwritten French text, by Jean-Baptiste Pilleme

Title page for "Nouvelle Suitte de Cahiers de fleurs iéales"

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, 1750

Engraved rococo design of an ornate silver candelabrum with scrolling foliage, with a smaller landscape cartouche panel below

Dousieme livre des oeuvres de J.A. Meissonnier/Livre de Chandeliers de Sculpture en Argent

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1740

Engraved plate of a nude male figure with a spear beside a tree in an oval, surrounded by ornate scrollwork and putti.

Paris, plate from a suite of 6 ornamental designs with the Judgement of Paris

Flemish Adriaen Collaert, 1690

Engraved plate showing two rococo candelabra with tulip-shaped candle cups on branch-like stems wrapped in flowers.

Girandolle à branche de porcelaine garnie d'or (Girandolle with Porcelain Branches Covered in Gold), plate 69, from O…

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1740

Engraving of Saint Anne holding the Christ Child with the Virgin Mary in an interior with a balustrade, tree, and birds.

St. Anne, the Virgin and the Christ Child

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1600

Engraved rococo design of a covered tureen with shell body, acanthus scrolls, and foliage finial, numbered 78.

Pot à Oille

Jacques III Roëttiers, 1740

Etched bust portrait of a man with curled hair, mustache, lace collar and draped cloak, with a caption below.

Portrait of Justus Sustermans, from the Icones Principum Virorum

Netherlandish Anthony van Dyck, 1640

Etched ornamental plate with two ram heads, acanthus scrolls, ribbons and hanging fruit garlands, symmetrical grotesque desig

Plate, from Ornamenti o Grottesche (Ornaments or Grotesques)

Stefano Della Bella, 1610

Engraved oval panel with a crowned nude figure on an eagle, surrounded by grotesque ornaments, scrollwork and squirrels on bl

Jupiter, from Grotesques à fond noir, Divinités et Allégories (Grotesques on Black Ground, Divinities and Allegories)

Etienne Delaune, 1580

Engraved rococo ornament with two seated figures in chinoiserie dress, one holding a parasol, beneath scrollwork and a foliag

Conversation Chinoise

François-Thomas Mondon, 1730

Etched rococo cartouche design with a tiger on top, a cherub, grapevines, and a waterfall pouring into a basin.

Design for a Cartouche Surmounted by a Tiger

Jacques de Lajoüe, 1740

Engraved rococo fountain design with scrolling trelliswork arches, figures, a lion, and a helmet among trees and rays of ligh

Design for Fountain with Trelliswork Arches

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, 1740

Engraved plate of an ornate rococo altar cross with radiating rays, cherubs and a seated figure on a scrolled pedestal.

Croix d'Autel (Cross of the Altar), plate 79, from Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works by Juste-Aurèle Meisson…

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1690

Pope Pius VI (1775-1799)

Francesco Piranesi, 1780

Engraving of three nude women embracing in a landscape, one seen from behind, under a cloudy sky.

The Three Graces

Agostino Carracci, 1600

Proofs for Four Plates of "Alfabeto in Sogno" [Dream Alphabet]: Letter E

Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, 1680

Etching of Perseus flying above a sea monster while figures on a shore raise their arms beside a rocky cliff.

Perseus and Andromeda

Michael Hartwagner, 1740

Engraved design plate of a rococo water ewer with a scrolling handle, floral garland, and pedestal base.

Pot à l'eau

Pierre Germain, 1740

Hand-colored engraving of armored warriors in red cloaks beneath a flowering tree, with spears, a striped standard and a hors

The Vow of Jephthah

the Younger Gerard Jean Baptiste Scotin, 1720

Etching of a Pan statue on a pedestal in woods, with figures making offerings and playing pipes beside an urn.

The Festival of Pan

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, 1640

Hand-coloured ornamental bouquet of pink flowers, green leaves, orange and blue feathers and blue berries on a pale ground.

Ornamental Design with Small Red Flowers and Berries, from Nouvelle suite de cahiers de flerurs naturelle a l'usage d…

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, 1800

Engraved ceiling design with a radiant central figure, clouds, and putti within ornamental architectural framing.

Projet d'un Plafond de Peinture pour la Chapelle de la Vierge de St. Sulpice de Paris (Design for Painted Ceiling for…

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1740

Engraving of a seated painter sketching a nude woman at an easel while a helmeted figure looks on, with Latin verse below.

Alexander the Great Offering Campaspe to Apelles

Johann Martin Weis

Engraved rococo ornament design with scrolling cartouche, seated robed figure, kneeling attendant, urn, and grotesque masks.

Ornament Design with Figures

François-Thomas Mondon, 1730

Etching of two seated children beneath a gnarled tree with a large hanging fruit and leafy branches.

Le Gout (Taste) from the series Les Cinq Senses (The Five Senses)

François Boucher, 1720

Hand-colored engraved plate of ferns, flowers and a banner with French title text, numbered 3 at bottom.

Nouvelle suite de cahiers chinois a l'usage des dessinateurs et des peintres, no. 3

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, 1790

Engraved Crucifixion scene with Mary, John, and a kneeling woman at the cross, framed by Passion instruments and angels.

The Crucifixion

Flemish Anthonie Wierix, 1590

Engraved rococo panelling design for a cabinet with a central mirror over a settee, flanked by wall consoles, a candelabra an

Decoration de Lambris pour un Cabinet (Decoration for Panelling for an Office)

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, 1690

Etched rococo cartouche design with a reclining cherub, lyre, scrolls, and architectural ruins at its base.

Design for a Cartouche Representing Architecture

Jacques de Lajoüe, 1740

Engraved rococo cartouche design with crown, putti, lions and winged griffins, by Charles-Nicolas Cochin the younger.

Design for Cartouche with Crown, Two Putti Serving Bacchus, and Two Lions from "Cartouches Nouvellement Inventez"

Charles-Nicolas Cochin the younger, 1790

Engraved rococo candelabra design with cherub and scrolling foliage above a decorative title cartouche with dolphins.

CINQUIEME LIVRE D'ORNAMENS Inventés Par J.A. Meissonnier et Gravé par Huquier

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1740

Engraved rococo designs by Meissonnier: a table centerpiece above a royal wash basin with putti and scrollwork feet.

Cuvette pour le Roy [Design for the King's Wash Basin], pl. 56 in Oeuvre de Juste-Aurele Meissonnier

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1740

Pen and ink drawing of a man in a pinstriped suit and long coat holding a tennis racket, signed below the figure.

Play

Charles Dana Gibson, 1890

Engraved interior design of a fireplace wall with porcelain vases, a lacquered panel of figures in landscape, and an upholste

Design for a Chimney Wall with Lacquered Panels and Porcelain from "Nouvelles Chiminees Faittes en Plusieur en Droits…

Etched print of a bearded pasha in a feathered turban and fur-trimmed robe standing by a step, with a distant landscape.

Bacha de Caramanie (A Pasha from Karamin), plate 7 from Caravanne du Sultan à la Mecque (The Sultan's Caravan to Mecca)

Joseph-Marie Vien, 1740

Engraved bust portrait of a man with curly hair and fur collar, with Latin inscription below, dated 1520.

Portrait of Wilibald Pirkheimer

Albrecht Dürer, 1520

Etching of an angel appearing in light above shepherds with sheep and cattle in a dark wooded landscape.

Angel Appearing to the Shepherds

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1630

Lithograph of a large steel works interior with an overhead crane, stacked pig iron, and workers among railway wagons.

The Great Tower. Pig-Iron

Joseph Pennell, 1910

Print of a Scottish man in a kilt walking a cobbled street past women at a well and men near a hanging sign and archway.

Flemish Street Scene with a Scottish Man

Will Hicock Low, 1910

Engraving of a dinner party in a parlor, figures raising wine glasses in a toast beside a bottle, fruit plate, and wall portr

Our Next President

Winslow Homer, 1860

Print of a woman with closed eyes pouring steaming coffee into a cup and saucer, inside an ornate oval gold frame.

The Woman Taking Coffee

Louis-Marin Bonnet, 1770

Book page with six engraved rococo vegetable ornament designs around a central title cartouche for Meissonnier's Livre de Leg

Title page for Livre de Legumes [Series of Vegetable Ornament], pl. 13 in Ouvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1740

Hand-colored tinsel picture of a uniformed man reading on a green sofa with a sleeping child in a book-lined study.

"Tinsel Picture": Napoleon in His Study

Napoleon Bonaparte, 1850

Engraved plate of an ornate ewer with an animal handle, lion masks, and garlands, labeled Romae ab antiquo repertum.

Vase (Plate 6 of a Series)

Engraved pendant design with a central niche showing a female figure and two children labeled Charitas, surrounded by scrollw

Plate 4, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues

Johann Theodor de Bry, 1610

Ink and wash title page with ornamental frame, flower garland, owl coat of arms, and lettering for Delafosse's 5th collection

Title Page

Jean Charles Delafosse, 1770

Engraving of a chained bearded man lying in a dark cell beside several motionless children on a stone floor.

Ugolino and His Sons

Pietro Bettelini, 1810

Engraving of a shepherd boy resting beside his crook, with sheep, a leaning tree and distant buildings in a green landscape.

A Shepherd Boy

Alexis Peyrotte, 1740

Hand-colored print of stylized fantastic flowers in grey, pink, blue and orange on a branching stem with feathery foliage.

Fantastic flower motif from "Nouvelle Suitte de fleurs iéales"

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, 1750

Engraved plate of a reclining river god with reeds and landscape in an oval, framed by an ornate scrolled border.

River God, plate from a suite of 6 ornamental designs with the Judgement of Paris

Flemish Adriaen Collaert, 1690

Engraved ornamental plate with a central oval of a winged nude figure, surrounded by grotesque scrolls, masks, lions and sphi

Plate 28, from Grotteßco: in diverßche manieren

Hans Vredeman de Vries, 1560

Hand-colored engraving of two bearded men talking beneath a flowering tree, with armed attendants and a horseman nearby.

Laban reproves Jacob for leaving secretely

the Younger Gerard Jean Baptiste Scotin, 1720

Engraved design drawing of an ornate standing cup with a tall domed cover, decorated with masks, cherubs and scrollwork.

Standing Cup with Cover, from "Novum opus cratero graphicum..."

Matthias Zündt, 1550

Engraved vertical ornament with a flaming candelabrum, winged birds, medallions, mermaids and scrollwork on a pale sheet.

Ornamental Candelabrum

Daniel Hopfer, 1520

Etching of Apollo radiating light above a rocky slope with a winged horse, muses with a lyre, and scattered armor and books.

Scene with Apollo

Christian Winck, 1800

Engraving of Diana and nymphs bathing in a grotto pool, with a hunter with antlers at left, captioned in Latin.

Diana and Actaeon

Michael Hartwagner, 1700

Engraving of the Virgin Mary holding the dead Christ across her lap, with radiant light, a crown of thorns and a distant cros

Pieta

Netherlandish Hendrik Goltzius, 1590

Etching of a beggar family receiving coins from a man at a house doorway, with a woman carrying a basket and child.

Beggars receiving alms at the door of a house

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1640

Engraved heraldic design with a central coat of arms, two armored warriors, a St. George medallion and a Latin inscription.

Arms of the Pfinzing von

Matthias Zündt, 1560

Woodcut title page showing crowned Christ seated on a bench beside a kneeling man, with Latin text above and verse below.

Title Page, The Great Passion

Albrecht Dürer, 1510

Engraving of Venus and Cupid seated in a forge with blacksmiths working at an anvil and weapons scattered nearby.

Venus and Cupid at the Forge of Vulcan

Gérard de Lairesse, 1700

Engraving of the Virgin Mary with the Christ child and a parrot, with a tree and castle in the background.

Virgin and Child with Parrot

Sebald Beham, 1540

Engraving of three winged angels standing as a bearded man kneels before them beside a ruined building and tree branches.

Abraham and the Three Angels

Netherlandish Lucas van Leyden, 1510