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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

506 works

Watercolor of ruined Roman arches framing a landscape, with women washing and figures with staffs in the foreground.

Interior of the Baths at Caracalla

Giovanni Volpato, ca. 1780

Collage of eleven pen and pencil designs for interior decoration, including ornaments, a capital, ceiling studies and floral

Eleven designs for the painted decoration of interiors

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Engraving of a man raising his arm over a kneeling woman in a room, with two children and a dog nearby.

The Wife-Beater

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1633

Hand-coloured print of a crowded Covent Garden Theatre interior with tiered galleries, boxes, audience and two performers on

Covent Garden Theatre

Thomas Rowlandson, July 20, 1786

Pencil and ink designs for interior decoration with ceiling patterns, scrolling ornament, wall paneling and a small lyre-play

Ten designs for the decoration of interiors

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Engraving of a woman beating a kneeling blindfolded man in a domestic room with a fireplace, rooster, and window.

Husband-Beater

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1633

Engraving of a woman with a fan and a man reading by lamplight in an ornate interior.

The Wife

Asher Brown Durand, 1829-1830

Sheet of twenty-two ornamental design studies for painted interior decoration, with scrollwork, foliage, and panel patterns.

Twenty-two designs for the painted decoration of interiors

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Engraving of a confectioner's shop with bakers, a brick oven, pastries on a counter, and women with a child at right.

The Confectioner

Abraham Bosse, 1632-35

Sepia print of an old scholar reading by lamplight in a cluttered study, with a cat among scattered books.

Helluones librorum (Bookworms)

Joshua Kirby Baldrey, November 10, 1786

Collage of thirteen ornamental design studies for interior decoration, with scrolls, foliage, animals and painted bands.

Thirteen designs for the painted decoration of interiors

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Etching of a 17th-century interior with a clerk at a desk, visitors in period dress, and a servant with a basket of apples.

Employment Bureau

Abraham Bosse, 1633

Engraved interior of a grand classical hall with columns, a checkered floor, painted ceiling, and figures near a distant dome

Interior of the Palazzo Spinola, Genoa

Louis Jean Desprez, 1777

Pen and wash sheet of eight decorative studies for painted interiors, including ceiling layouts, friezes, a heraldic cartouch

Eight designs for the painted decoration of interiors

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Engraving of women dining at a long table in a furnished room with a fireplace, a servant, children and dogs.

Wives at Table During the Absence of their Husbands

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1636

Engraved neoclassical wall elevation with paired doors, a cherub medallion, a console table with urns, and ornamental friezes

Interior Ornamented Wall with Doors, nos. 228-239, plate 42 from "Designs for Various Ornaments"

Michelangelo Pergolesi, July 17, 1791

Sheet of five ornamental design studies: an oval coffered ceiling, two scrolling friezes, and two decorative panels in pen an

Five designs for the decoration of interiors

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Engraving of a schoolmaster with a switch seated beside boys at work and children playing in a timber-ceilinged classroom.

The School Master

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1638

Engraved neoclassical wall design with paneled doors, a central cherub medallion, a console table with urns, and numbered orn

Interior Ornamented Wall with Doors, nos. 228-239, plate 42 from "Designs for Various Ornaments"

Michelangelo Pergolesi, July 17, 1782

Pencil drawing of eleven interior decoration designs, including a coffered ceiling corner with scrolls and a central medallio

Eleven designs for the decoration of interiors

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Etching of a vaulted prison interior with arches, columns, wooden gates, and a seated figure near the center.

Interior of a prison in which sits a woman (possibly a theatre set)

Carlo Antonio Buffagnotti, ca 1680-1710

Hand-coloured engraving of a neoclassical interior wall with pier-glasses, windows, pink drapery and gilded console tables.

Interior Ornamented Wall with Windows and Pier-Glasses, nos. 267-273, plate 47 from "Designs for Various Ornaments"

Michelangelo Pergolesi, February 27, 1784

Watercolor design of a paneled wall with three painted landscapes of trees, gilded moldings and a floral cartouche above.

Elevation of a paneled interior decorated with painted landscapes and coves with cartouches and flowers

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Engraving of a crowded 1785 salon gallery with paintings covering the walls and visitors in period dress on the floor.

View of the Salon of 1785

Pietro Antonio Martini, 1785

Hand-coloured print of a neoclassical interior wall with a central fireplace, green doors, gilded panels and urns.

Interior Ornamented Wall with Doors and Fireplace, nos. 344-350, plate 52 from "Designs for Various Ornaments"

Michelangelo Pergolesi, March 20, 1785

Watercolor elevation of an Italianate interior with composite columns, upper loggia, ornate pediment and marbled wall panels.

Elevation of an Italianate interior, including steps and an upper loggia decorated in composite columns

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Engraving of a cobbler's shop with hanging shoes, a woman and man at a counter, and two seated men conversing.

The Cobbler (Le Savetier), from "Trades" (Les Métiers)

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1632-33

Hand-colored engraved interior design plate showing a window with red drapes, classical panels, and three pink upholstered se

Interior Ornamented Wall with Window and Furniture, nos. 411-424, plate 64 from "Designs for Various Ornaments"

Michelangelo Pergolesi, February 15, 1792

Composite sheet of pencil drawings of an interior, a potted plant, figure studies, an ornamental cartouche and a painted frie

Seven drawings,including four decorative motifs and two scenes of interiors

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Engraving of a kneeling shoemaker fitting a shoe on a seated woman in a room with a window, framed portraits, and French vers

Shoemaker (Le Cordonnier), from "Trades" (Les Métiers)

Abraham Bosse, ca. 1632-33