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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1,455 works

Brown wash drawing of a nude youth carried skyward by an eagle through clouds, with drapery streaming behind him.

Jupiter and Ganymede

Joseph Heintz the Younger, 1626

Pen and ink drawing of a heraldic shield with fleur-de-lis and roses, an owl, books, leaves, a vase and a snake.

Drawing of a Decorated Coat of Arms surrounded by Books, Owl, Leaves, Vase and a Snake

Carlo Bianconi, 1752-1802

Pen and grey wash drawing of two chained male atlantes supporting a cornice above an eagle, with draped fabric.

Design for a Decorated Console with Two Slaves on Top of an Eagle

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison, 1782-1844

Black and white woodcut by Paul Gauguin titled Le Sourire, showing a seated woman, a bird, and stylized faces with carved let

Le Sourire

Paul Gauguin, 1899

Ink and wash drawing of an ornate rococo frame enclosing a scene of a seated woman, a standing man, and a cherub above.

Design for a Sculptured Frame with Garlands and Statues and a Painting of Two Human Figures with Puttis inside the Frame

Carlo Borrelli, 1776

Watercolor drawing of a brambling perched on a twig above grass, with orange breast and black and white wing markings.

Bramling (Fringilla Montifringilla)

Gerardus van Veen, 1679

Watercolor design for a painted wall with a seated female figure, wheat sheaves, pheasants in a landscape, and floral borders

Design for Painted Wall Decoration for a Bakery

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

Pen and ink drawing of a table end pier with scrolls, a central eagle emblem, and seated sphinx figures at the base.

Design for the End Pier of a Table

Giovanni Battista Naldini, 1537-91

Pen and brown ink drawing of ornamental military trophies with helmets, armor, griffins, scrolls and a shield.

Designs for Ornamental Military Trophies (recto and verso)

Enea Vico, ca. 1540-70

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

Pen and ink design sketch of a decorated wall with garlands, urns, a bird, medallions, and grotesque panels.

Design for Grotesque Wall Decoration

Perino del Vaga, early 16th century

Engraving of a woman in a flowing robe beside a birdcage and a parrot on a branch, with a bowl and umbrella in the garden.

The Four Elements

Pierre Alexandre Aveline, 1738-49

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

Pen and gray wash drawing of a seated woman, putti, a crown and lambs above an ornate cartouche, with a dove above.

Cartouche with a Crown, the Virgin (?) and the Holy Ghost, and Four Putti

Johann Matthias Kager, early 17th 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

Watercolor design of a trompe l'oeil ceiling with blue sky, circling birds, peacocks, cherubs and fruit garlands in an ornate

Design for Trompe l'Oeil Stairway Ceiling, Hôtel Hope

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1867

Grey wash drawing of a feathered warrior with a parrot, crocodile and sugarcane, above a panel with a smoking cherub.

Allegory of America, from the Four Continents

Godfried Maes, 17th century

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

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

Hand-colored page showing a shepherd with a staff beside a tree, sheep grazing below, and the poem The Shepherd above.

Songs of Innocence: The Shepherd

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Engraved Flemish village street with houses, figures at windows, a barrel roller, a bread carrier and a fishing boat on a riv

A Flemish Village with Ten Proverbs on Laziness

Frans Huys, n.d.

Engraving of three boys raiding a sand-swallow colony on a sandy bank while birds fly overhead, by Winslow Homer, 1874.

Raid on a Sand-swallow Colony - "How Many Eggs?" (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XVIII)

Winslow Homer, June 13, 1874

Hand-colored page with watercolor cattle and sheep above a poem, The Clod & the Pebble, and small ducks and frogs below.

Songs of Experience: The Clod & the Pebble

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

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

Engraved landscape with a hilltop castle, windmill, village, river boats, and falconers on horseback in the foreground.

Mountain Landscape with Falconers

Lucas Gassel, ca. 1560-70

Illuminated page with the poem The Little Girl Lost, two embracing figures, a lion, and a vine border in watercolor.

Songs of Experience: The Little Girl Lost

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Colored architectural design of a Gothic altar chapel with pointed windows, scrollwork, a heraldic crest, and paneled walls.

Design for an Altar Chapel, Farnborough, England

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1880-86

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.

Drawing of an ornate vase design with two eagle heads as handles, scrolling ornament and a fluted neck.

Design for Vase with Eagles

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Pencil and wash design for a grand stairway with classical columns, painted panels, a seated woman and a peacock.

Ceiling and Cove Designs for Stairway, Hôtel Rothschild, Vienna

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1850-1910