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Engraved rococo design of a trumeau mirror above a commode in paneled wall, with ornate scrolled frames and a scale bar.

Trumeau de Glace

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, 1740

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