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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

820 works

Gouache design for a pastel ceiling with oval central medallion, floral bouquets, classical figures and gilded moldings.

Ceiling Design

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

Grey wash drawing of a flower arrangement in an urn inside an arched niche, with grapes and fruit on a stone pedestal.

Vase of Flowers

Willem van Leen, 1790s

Etching of the Annunciation: a kneeling winged angel offers a lily to a haloed Virgin seated beside a fruit basket and table.

The Annunciation

Jacques Bellange

Engraving of a flower bouquet in an ornate vase with a parrot and a falcon on branches at the sides.

Vase of Flowers with Two Birds

Nicolaes de Bruyn, 1590-1656

Engraved sheet with vertical floral borders and four circular ornamental medallions in framed panels.

Sheet of border segments: vertical floral ornament, horizontal frieze, four corners

Francesco Rosselli, 1490-1500

Color print of a young woman in a flowered straw hat holding fruit, with a figure seen from behind adjusting her hat.

The Hat Pinned with Flowers (Le Chapeau Épinglé)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1898

Engraving of a griffin with eagle head and wings and lion body, surrounded by plants, a pine apple, insects and butterflies.

A Griffin

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1662-63

Watercolor vanitas with a skull crowned by colorful flowers, a butterfly, a candle and a bone on a stone ledge.

Vanitas Still Life

Herman Henstenburgh, n.d.

Watercolor drawing of a woman arranging flowers before a bust, with a glasshouse and swans behind, framed by bird and fountai

An Allegory of Empress Josephine as Patroness of the Gardens at Malmaison

François Gérard, ca. 1805-6

Botanical watercolor of a spiny globe thistle with two blue-white flower heads and prickly green leaves on cream paper.

Study of a thistle

James Sowerby, before 1822

Engraved print of a dense bouquet of irises, tulips and blossoms in an urn with a serpent handle, standing on a ledge.

Flowers in a Vase

Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer, ca.1670-80

Engraving of a woman in an elaborate gown holding a carnation, with flower vases on pedestals and a garden behind her.

Smell

Abraham Bosse, 1635-38

Drawing of a formal flower garden with a lobed pond and a long aviary with a central cupola, framed by trees.

View of the Flower Garden and Aviary at Kew

Thomas Sandby, 1763

Etching of ruined Roman brick arches and vaulted halls of the Baths of Diocletian, overgrown with plants.

Thermaru diocletiani Ruinae (Baths of Diocletian), from "Roman Ruins"

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1651

Engraving of a woman reclining in a canopied bed as a servant brings her a cup, with two small dogs on the floor.

Le Bain (the Bath)

Sigmond Freudeberg, 1774

Engraving of a nude figure of Prometheus with an eagle inside a V-shaped cornice decorated with scrolls and foliage.

Torture of Prometheus set within a cornice

Cherubino Alberti, 1580

Engraving of a curly-haired young woman with tulips beside a flower vase, with rooftops visible through a window behind her.

Ver - Spring

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1641

Grey wash drawing of an ornate rococo ceiling design with a central medallion, oval side panels, shells and scrollwork.

Design for a Staircase Ceiling

Isaac Ware, ca. 1756

Pen drawing of an oval mirror design with laurel wreath border, acanthus crest, and ornate rectangular base on paper.

Design for a Girandole Mirror, an Oval Resting on an Oblong Base, Terminated by Two Superimposed Circular Frond-motif…

Sir William Chambers, ca. 1775

Watercolor design of a covered dish with a fish net pattern, koi fish, and water lilies, with a top view of the lid.

Design for a Covered Dish in the "Service au Filet" (Fish Net Ware), Maison J. Vieillard et Cie, Bordeaux

Amédée de Caranza, 1875-85

Watercolor plan of a formal flower garden with scrolled parterres, rectangular beds and a central circular basin.

Plan of the Flower Garden on the Northern Front, Ingestre Hall, Staffordshire

Charles Chetwynd, 2nd Earl Talbot, 1836

Pen and ink elevation drawing of a chimneypiece with scroll border, acanthus capitals and curved pediment, with a scale bar b

Design for a Chimneypiece with a Frieze with Floral Decoration and Capitals Decorated with Animals

Sir William Chambers, 1743-96

Watercolor ceiling design with an oval sky panel edged in flowers and lavender ornamental scrollwork panels.

Ceiling Design for the "Petit Salon" of the Duchess of Newcastle, Hôtel Hope

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, ca. 1867

Watercolor lunette of a kneeling woman in pink, three crowned youths around her, and putti in floral garland borders.

Three Boys Save the Despairing Pamina from Suicide

Moritz von Schwind, 1864

Watercolor design for a coffered ceiling with a central quatrefoil medallion, diagonal lettered ribbons and green and rust fo

Design for a Coffered and Painted Ceiling in Rust and Olive Green, with a Quatrefoil Motif

John Gregory Crace, 19th century

Floral border design with white jasmine blossoms, green leaves, a ladybug and a blue butterfly around a blank center.

Floral Border Design

Freeman Gage Delamotte, 1830-62

Painted floral design with blue flowers, maroon accents and green scrolling leaves in one corner of a cream sheet.

Design for a Floral Pattern

Christopher Dresser, ca. 1883, based on earlier design

Watercolor and ink design drawing of a lidded urn on a tripod stand with female busts, garlands and paw feet.

Design for a torchere or perfume burner

Henry Holland, 1765-1806

Hand-coloured L-shaped decorated border with scrolling foliage, blue and red flowers, and gold dots in medieval illumination

Decorated Border

Freeman Gage Delamotte, 1830-62

Two stylized ornamental design drawings: a maroon panel with green leaves and peach petals, and a plant with red-tipped tendr

Two design drawings

Christopher Dresser, ca. 1883, based on earlier design