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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

820 works

Watercolor design for a square ceiling with symmetrical scrollwork, a blue central oval cartouche, and floral corner rosettes

Design for Ceiling, Château de Cangé

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Etching of a skeleton above a row of thistles, lilies and flowers, with daisies at the base, framed by a thin border.

Frontispiece for "Les Fleurs du Mal"

Félix Bracquemond, 1857

Pen and ink sketch of an ornamental frieze with scrolling acanthus leaves and a fan-shaped palmette on paper.

Design for a Frieze Decorated With a Palmette and Tendrils (recto); Two Designs for a Rosette (verso)

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Pencil and watercolor design of a lunette ceiling with cherubs holding pink and green garlands and drapery.

Design for Ceiling with Cherubs

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Painted design for an ornate frame with a dragon, peacock, bird, frog, sconces and flowers on tan paper.

Design for a Frame

Edouard [?] Bouvenne, 1843

Two ink and wash elevation drawings of rococo pipe organs with floral carving, a putto, and a central carved shell.

Chippendale Drawings, Vol. II

Thomas Chippendale, ca. 1753-70

Watercolor design for a decorative cove with cherubs, flower garlands, a classical bust medallion, and urns, labeled Hôtel de

Design for Cove, Hôtel Cahen d'Anvers

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Watercolor drawing of pink roses and blue morning glories in swags framing an empty oval cartouche with a purple ribbon.

Floral Swags Framing an Empty Oval

Jean-Baptiste Pillement, n.d.

Engraved title plate showing a cartouche with garlands above a formal garden with fountain and strolling figures.

Title Plate, from "Livre Nouveau de Fleurs Tres-Util"

Nicolas Cochin, 1645

Watercolor design of a cloud-filled sky with flying cupids, hummingbirds and floral vines inside a gilded frame.

Design for Salon Ceiling, Hôtel Candamo

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, ca. 1873

Grey wash drawing of a reclining woman with angels below, a cross on a hill, and the title La Maison de Nazaret.

Maison de Nazaret

Daniel Urrabieta Vierge, 1851-1904

Hand-colored page with a swirling tree, winged figures, and two verses about a sparrow and robin, titled The Blossom.

Songs of Innocence: The Blossom

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Design drawing of a ceiling with a sky-filled oval panel, flying birds, floral garland, and pastel coffered borders.

Design for Grand Salon Ceiling, Hôtel Hope

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1867

Woodcut of nude trumpeters leading a horse with a horn and a rider holding a laurel branch, with a dog and a cat in the proce

Trumpeters leading Ceasar on horseback, from "The Triumph of Caesar"

Jacob of Strasbourg, 1504

Hand-colored page with a seated mother and infant under flame-like red forms, poem text and vine borders below.

Songs of Innocence: Infant Joy

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Ornamental ceiling design with blue scrolling vines, red blossoms, and green floral borders in a stepped frame, 1875.

Islamic Ceiling Design for Deepdene, Dorking, Surrey

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1875

Grey paper with ink sketches of book headpieces and vignettes, including a laurel wreath, a winged figure, and a reclining fi

Studies for headpieces and vignettes in the book, Amor und Psyche (Opus V)

Max Klinger, 1878

Hand-colored page of Blake's poems My Pretty Rose Tree, Ah! Sun-Flower and The Lilly, with a watercolor vignette of two figur

Songs of Experience: My Pretty Rose Tree, Ah! Sun-Flower, The Lilly

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Watercolor design for a coffered ceiling with floral garlands, fruit swags and gilded scrollwork in green and pink.

Design for a Painted Ceiling

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Engraving of boys linked in a snap-the-whip game running across a meadow beside a schoolhouse and wooded hills.

Snap-the-Whip (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XVII)

Winslow Homer, September 20, 1873

Graphite study of four architectural rinceaux with scrolling leaves, flowers and berries on cream paper.

Architectural Motifs: Four Rinceaux

Georges Seurat, ca. 1875

Watercolor design of an ornate rococo interior corner with gilded scrollwork, flower garlands, and molding framing an empty f

Design for Hall Ceiling, Hôtel de Trévise

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Watercolor design for a vertical wall panel with a floral urn, songbirds, swags of foliage, and swan supports at the base.

Design for a Wall Panel

Henri Sallembier, n.d.

Pen sketch of a rider on a rearing horse inside a scrolling ornamental cartouche with a pedestal below.

Design for an Equestrian Statue in a Cartouche (recto); Sketches for a Frieze with Sea-Shells and Floral Ornament (ve…

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Pencil drawing of ornamental ceiling friezes with foliate scrolls, floral sprays, and monogram cartouches for Fontainebleau.

Ceiling Design for the "Salle des Cerfs", Fontainebleau

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Pen and ink sketches of embroidery motifs on a page with dated labels, including floral sprigs, scrolls and garland designs.

Scrapbook of Designs for Embroidered Waistcoats

Fabrique de Saint Ruf, 1785

Sketches of Sculptured Decoration. Entablatures and a Frieze with Human, Animal and Floral Ornaments

Agostino Mitelli, mid-17th century

Pencil design sketch of a long decorative frieze with scrollwork, rosettes and cartouches on tan paper.

Design for Ceiling Decorations, Fontainebleau

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, second half 19th century

Watercolor firescreen design of a table with roses in a vase, teapot, books, and a blue floral garland border.

Design for a Firescreen with a Table with a Vase of Flowers, Books, and Teapot

Eugène Charpentier, late 18th century

Pen and wash drawing of Ecce Homo: a crowned figure on a balcony above a crowd, framed by a border of birds, flowers and urns

Ecce Homo

Maerten de Vos, 1584