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

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

3,482 works

Featured

Filters

Color

Shape

Century

Clear all

Engraved plate of ornamental scrollwork with a female figure, acanthus leaves, and rosettes, numbered 12, on a cream page.

Plate 12, from Diverses pièces de serruriers (Various Designs for Locksmiths)

Hugues Brisville, 1660

Etching of figures on ladders lowering Christ's body from a cross beneath shafts of light, with mourners gathered below.

The Descent from the Cross

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1630

Engraved rococo fountain design with a trident-holding figure, cascading water, and a classical palace with colonnade in the

Design for Fountain with an Anchor

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, 1740

Rococo title page with ornate scrollwork, putti and garlands framing text naming François de Cuvilliés père et fils.

Title Page

François de Cuvilliés the younger, 1740

Engraved plate of rococo snuff box and cane handle designs with pastoral scenes, plus round watch case designs below.

Differents desseins de Tabatières, et pomme de canne, cinquième planche [Different Designs for Snuff Boxes and a Cane…

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1740

Engraving of two draped figures in a garden beside a stone niche with an urn and cherub, framed by trees.

Design with Two Figures in a Garden

François de Cuvilliés the younger, 1700

Engraved plate 15 showing wrought iron railing designs and acanthus scroll ornaments, printed page on cream paper.

Plate 15, from Diverses pièces de serruriers (Various Designs for Locksmiths)

Hugues Brisville, 1660

Engraving of seated Japanese deity Amida above rococo scrollwork, with a robed man reaching toward waves and clouds.

Amida Divinité Japonaise qui préside à la Navigation, Et maniere dont on se noye à son honneur

François-Thomas Mondon, 1730

Woodcut of Christ crowned with thorns, surrounded by mocking soldiers and onlookers in front of an arched doorway.

Crowning of Thorns, illustration from "The Passion"

Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1500

Engraved plate of Christ on the cross within an ornate rococo frame, with putti and clouds around the figure.

Christ on the Cross, plate 118, in Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier (Works by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier)

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1740

Engraved vertical ornament panel with a central armored Mars figure, grotesque masks, putti, horsemen, and dense scrollwork.

Ornament Panel with Mars

Nicoletto da Modena, 1500

Engraved design plate of ornate scissors and a cane handle above a rococo garden sleigh, from Meissonnier's Oeuvre.

Ciseaux et Pomme de canne [Design for Scissors and Cane Handle, 3rd Plate], pl. 44 in Oeuvre de Juste-Aurele Meissonnier

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1740

Engraved strapwork ornament with a central mythological roundel, swans, a satyr, serpents, and grotesque figures.

Strapwork Grotesque with Mythological Scene

Flemish Pieter van der Heyden, 1560

Engraved ornamental panel with a female head, scrolling foliage, putti, and an oval landscape with classical ruins.

Ornamental Panel Surmounted with a Head Flanked by Foliage, plate 11 from the Ornamental Panel Surmounted with a Head…

Michel Dorigny, 1640

Engraving of a bound, crowned figure presented before soldiers and a crowd beside a classical colonnade and balcony.

Ecce Homo

Cornelis Cort, 1570

Engraved plate of rococo wrought-iron balcony and grille designs with scrollwork, flanked by decorative urns on pedestals.

Diverses Pieces d'Ouvrages de Serrurerie

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, 1740

Etched page with two rococo cartouches framing a village with a thatched barn, and a stone arched bridge over a river.

Design for Two Cartouches

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, 1740

Etching of Christ crucified between two thieves, with a crowd of mourners and onlookers below in an oval frame.

Christ Crucified Between the Two Thieves: An Oval Plate

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1640

Etching of an elderly bearded man in a cap, looking down at his hands holding a rolled white cloth.

Raccolta di teste

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1770

Engraved rococo design plate with cartouches, wall brackets, candle arms and small putti scenes, titled Desseins de Cartouche

Desseins de Cartouches et D'Agraffes

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, 1740

Engraved plate of four rococo ornamental clasp designs with scrolled and shell-like forms on a bound book page.

Desseins D'Agraffes

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, 1740

Engraved plate of Rococo ironwork designs, including stair railings, scroll grilles, and four balusters.

Designs for Decorative Ironwork, Plate 95 from Divers dessins de balcons a plusieurs usages (Variety of Balcony Designs)

Claude René Gabriel Poulleau, 1770

Engraved rococo candelabrum design with foliage and five candles, above a smaller panel showing a fountain in scrollwork.

Onzieme livre des oeuvre de Mr. Meissonnier/Projet de Chandelier à branche pour le Roy

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1740

Engraved plate of rococo snuff box designs above two ornate sword hilts, with scrollwork and floral decoration.

Differents Desseins de Tabatieres, premiere planche [Different Designs for Snuff Boxes], p. 49 in Oeuvre de Juste-Aur…

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1740

Engraved rococo design with two ornamental panels, scrolls and foliage, one showing putti before ruins under a sunburst.

Design for Two Panels of Ornament

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, 1740

Engraved rococo design of a salon corner with women holding flowers, cherubs, scrolled cartouches and an arched interior view

Projet de l'angle d'un Sallon portatif pour le Roy (Design for a Corner of a Salon), plate 98, in Oeuvres de Juste-Au…

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1740

Hand-colored print of a large tree on a rock with two figures in 18th-century dress and flowering shrubs.

Print - Alexis Peyrotte, 1740

Alexis Peyrotte, 1740

Engraving of children and a seated man beside a cabinet, with a parrot, palm trees and flowering branches, titled La Veue.

La Veue (Sight) from the series Les Cinq Senses (The Five Senses)

François Boucher, 1720

Engraved Renaissance grotesque plate with a central niche of two figures shaking hands, sphinxes, birds, and scrolling foliag

Plate 18, from Grotteßco in diverßche manieren (Various Grotesques)

Hans Vredeman de Vries, 1560

Engraving of the Madonna and Child on clouds above winged angels, one holding scales, with a serpent in the foreground.

The Archangels Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael Adoring the Madonna and Child

Diana Mantuana, 1580

Engraved ornamental plate numbered 11 with scrolling foliage, a central mask medallion, and a door knob design.

Plate 11, from Diverses pièces de serruriers (Various Designs for Locksmiths)

Hugues Brisville, 1660

Engraved plate of a rococo hanging censer on chains, with a second censer above and an incense boat on a ledge.

Encensoir; Encensoir, 5th Plate

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1740

Engraved design of Zephyr and Flora with a putto in a garden with classical busts, on a book page.

Design with Zephyr and Flora in a Garden

François de Cuvilliés the younger, 1700

Etched rococo cartouche with a painter at an easel beside a child at a fire, framed by scrollwork and scaffolding.

Design for a Cartouche Representing an Allegory of the Painter

Jacques de Lajoüe, 1740

Hand-colored print of a seated shepherdess with sheep beside a tall flowering tree and a distant castle.

A Little Shepherdess

Alexis Peyrotte, 1740

Etching of a helmeted warrior beside a draped woman at a tree, with a winged child seated at their feet.

Mars, Venus, et l'Amour

Simone Cantarini, 1640

Pen drawing with green wash of a bound man beside a tree, surrounded by studies of feet and a scallop shell.

Proofs of four plates of "Alfabeto in Sogno" [Dream Alphabet]: Letter K

Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, 1680

Red-toned ornamental arabesque panel with a bearded grotesque mask, fruit garlands, a fruit basket and acanthus scrolls.

Arabesque Panel, from "Recueil d'Ornemens à l'usage des jeunes artistes"

Gilles Paul Cauvet, 1770

Portrait of a Man with a Fur Cap

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, 1650

Hand-colored ornamental design of small blue flowers, pink buds and feathery foliage within a thin ruled border on cream pape

Ornamental Design with Small Blue Flowers, from Nouvelle suite de cahiers de flerurs naturelle a l'usage des dessinat…

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, 1800

Colored chinoiserie design of figures with parasols on wooden bridges, framed by garlands, flowers, vases and birds.

Nouvelle suite de cahiers chinois a l'usage des Dessinateurs et des peintres", no. 2

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, 1790

Engraved plate of a rococo dressing mirror frame with scrollwork and putti, with a carved ornament design below.

Miroir de Toillette., Mirior de toilette, 5th Plate

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1740

Etching of an elderly woman in a headscarf and plaid shawl leaning on a stone windowsill beside a wooden door.

La Mere Gireaud

Australian Mortimer L. Menpes, 1880

Book Ornament of a Classical Ruin with the Medallion Portrait of Francesco Algarotti (1712-1764)

Mauro Antonio Tesi, 1760

Etching of a reclining painter with palette beside an easel and portrait in a cluttered studio, with an assistant at a table.

Painter at Easel

Michael Hartwagner, 1700

Engraving of a nude woman riding a rearing unicorn through a landscape under swirling clouds, with a distant castle.

Abduction of Proserpine on a Unicorn

Albrecht Dürer, 1510

Engraved rococo fountain design with a reclining Venus, cascading water, a cherub, and a classical colonnade behind.

Design for Fountain with Venus

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, 1740

Engraving of St John the Baptist seated on rocks in a wilderness with a lamb, staff, waterfall and rays of light above.

St John the Baptist in the Wilderness

Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1590

Engraved plate of a rococo ceiling with a central allegorical scene of figures, clouds, and cherubs in ornate scrollwork fram

PLAFOND DE PEINTURE; Plafond du même cabinet, 4th Plate

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1740

Engraved plate of rococo salt dishes, snuff boxes, and ewer designs with scrolling foliage and grape clusters.

Sallieres et Tabatières [Salt Dishes and Snuff Boxes], plate 69 in Oeuvres de Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1740

Engraved rococo title page with dedication text, coat of arms, two allegorical figures, and a building under construction.

Troisieme Livre de Cartouches

Jacques de Lajoüe, 1740

Engraved design of an ornate hand mirror with a medallion showing a chariot in the sky above a cauldron and fire.

Hand Mirror with Scenes from the Story of Medea

Etienne Delaune, 1560

Engraved title page with rococo cartouche, crowned coat of arms, flags, and an archer, bearing the text Cinquième Livre.

Title Page

François-Thomas Mondon, 1730

Engraved plate of rococo wrought iron designs: two sign brackets, a round grille, a curved door grille and a frieze.

Deux Potences de fer, pour pendre des Enseignes, ou lanternes

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, 1740

Engraved vignette of a floral wreath with a mask, sheet music, trumpet and lute, with printed caption below.

Vignette No. 1, from "IIme Suite de Ciels de Lampes et Fleurons"

Pierre Gabriel Berthault, 1770

Engraving of the Virgin seated on clouds holding the infant Christ, with cherubs below and a hazy sky behind.

Virgin Seated On the Clouds

Marcantonio Raimondi, 1500

Pastel floral motif with teal fern fronds, rose and grey bell flowers, and orange anemones on pale paper.

Fantastic flower motif from "Nouvelle Suitte de Cahiers de fleurs idéales"

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, 1750

Etched portrait of an elderly bearded preacher in a fur collar and ruff, with books and a draped curtain behind him.

Jan Uytenbogaert, Preacher

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1630

Engraved elevation of a garden gate with iron grille, stone pilaster, rococo scrollwork and a putto holding a flower urn.

Porte de Cour ou de Jardin

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, 1740

Engraved architectural elevation of a rococo salon wall with windows, ornate scrollwork and molding profiles.

Projet du Sallon de la Princesse Sartorinski en Pologne (Project for the Salon of the Princess Czartoryski in Poland)…

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, 1690

Engraved rococo design plate showing two snuffboxes, three watchcase lids, and three wall brackets with scrolled ornament.

Design for Two Snuffboxes, Three Watchcase Lids, and Three Wall Brackets

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, 1740

Engraved rococo ornamental panel with scrolls, a crowned figure, a seated figure holding grain, and fruit at the base.

Puzza tenant son fils Horus Divinitéz qui préside aux grains et fruits Chez les Chinois

François-Thomas Mondon, 1730

Engraved plate of rococo ironwork designs showing two balcony railings, a grille cornice, corner ornament, and four decorativ

Designs for Decorative Ironwork, Plate 96 from Divers dessins de balcons a plusieurs usages (Variety of Balcony Designs)

Claude René Gabriel Poulleau, 1770

Etching of a smiling young woman with curly dark hair, seated and draped in a shawl, with loose hatched lines.

Study of a Young Woman

Australian Mortimer L. Menpes, 1880