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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,907 works

Two pencil and watercolor sketches of five-light and four-light candelabras with blue and red accents and handwritten notes.

One of Twenty-Three Sheets of Drawings of Glassware (Mirrors, Chandeliers, Goblets, etc.)

Compagnia di Venezia e Murano, 1850-80

Catalogue sheet with watercolor drawings of white and colored Venetian glassware, numbered and priced in lira.

Specimens of White and Colored Glassware

Compagnia di Venezia e Murano, 1866-1880

Watercolor sheet of numbered Venetian glass goblets, decanters and vases with gold and blue decoration and handwritten prices

Specimens of Tinted Glassware with Decorations in Gold and Blue

Compagnia di Venezia e Murano, 1866-1880

Brown ink drawing of St. Michael flying over chained demons beneath God the Father and Christ among clouds and cherubs.

St. Michael Expurging Heresy

Pietro da Cortona, 1596-1669

Pen and wash drawing of an ornate half frame with cherubs, scrolls, fruit garlands and acanthus leaves.

Design for a Half Frame Decorated with Angels, Volutes and Garlands

Ciro Ferri, 1634-89

Pencil drawing of grotesque masks, a bird-headed scroll and acanthus ornaments on a pale sheet.

Drawing of a Grotesque after a 16th-century Decorative Relief

Filippo Cretoni, n.d.

Pen and wash drawing of trompe l'oeil architecture with columns, cornices, a parrot, a garland, and sky.

Design for a Trompe L'Oeil Ceiling with a Loggia

Faustino Trebbi, n.d.

Brown ink drawing of shepherds with sheep, goats and a donkey on a road by a fountain under a large tree.

Landscape with Shepherds and their Flock

Adriaen van der Cabel, n.d.

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

Pen and brown ink drawing of a dune landscape with a large tree, shrubs, a ruined tower and birds in the sky.

Dune Landscape with Trees

Adriaen Hendriksz. Verboom, 17th century

Drawing of a wooded river landscape with two cattle in shallow water beside rocks, under a dramatic cloudy sky.

A wooded river landscape with cattle

the younger Benjamin Barker, 1826

Pen and brown ink drawing of grotesque ornament with putti, satyrs, vases and architectural niches in tiered rows.

Sketches of Grotesques

Giovanni Antonio Dosio, 1533-1609

Pen and watercolor design of an arched niche with a classical urn, laurel garland, and two putti beside a blank tablet.

Design for a Monument

Pietro Fancelli, 1764-1850

Pen and wash drawing of a two-basin fountain topped by a nude Venus figure flanked by putti.

Design for a Fountain with Two Basins One on Top of the Other and Statues of Venus and Putti on the Top

Francesco Fanelli, 1608-65

Pen and ink drawing with wash of an ornate wall design with a door, flower urn, blue ribbons, scrollwork and a figure.

Left Half of a Wall Decoration for a Chapel

Francesco Ferrari, ca. 1690

Grey-toned ornamental design drawing with white highlights showing a wall monument, balustrade, angels holding garlands and s

Ornamental Design for a Wall Monument Surmounted by a Balustrade with Human Figures, Angels Holding Garlands and Drap…

Gregorio de' Ferrari, 1647-1726

Pen and brown ink drawing of a garden fountain with nude statues, a colonnade and seated figures in the foreground.

Susanna and the Elders

Gregorio de' Ferrari, 1647-1726

Grey wash drawing of a vaulted stone crypt with arches, columns, a staircase, and a hanging lantern.

Design for a Stage Set of a Crypt (for the Opera 'La Morosina' ?)

Carlo Ferrario, 1833-1907

Pen and brown ink drawing of three arched ceiling panels with robed figures, clouds and landscape scenes.

Drawing for Ceiling Decoration Consisting of Three Panels Each Showing a Different Scene with Figures

Ciro Ferri, 1634-89

Brown ink and wash drawing of robed mourners around a figure on a tomb in a vaulted church interior.

Raymond Diocrès Speaking During His Funeral (from the Life of Saint Bruno of Cologne)

Daniele Crespi, 1628-29

Pen and wash drawing of seated allegorical female figures on an ornate sculptural architectural design with columns and arche

Studies for a Sculpture with Figures of Prudence, Industry and Economy Supported by Slaves and an Oval Plaque with Ca…

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Pen and wash drawing of two stacked designs for a bed alcove with swagged drapery and ornate scrolled pediments.

Designs for Bed Alcoves (recto); Studies for a figure of St. John the Baptist and a Bed Alcove (verso)

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1652-1725

Pen and wash drawing with two kneeling draped figures above and two ornamental altar front designs below.

Studies for a Kneeling Figure of Christ and Altar Fronts

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1652-1725

Pen and wash drawing of a sarcophagus design supported by two putti on plinths, with scrolled ornament and garlands.

Design for a Sarcophagus Supported by Putti for the Church of S. Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi, Florence

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1652-1725

Pen and ink drawing of a female face framed by ornate scrolls, acanthus leaves and curling tendrils in a decorative cartouche

Female Mask Surrounded by Tendrils

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Pen and wash drawing of a female face in a scrolled helmet topped by a winged dragon, on aged paper.

Design for a Helmet with a Dragon Presented in Frontal View

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Watercolor stage design for the ballet Don Parasol showing an ornate proscenium, draped curtains, gilded dome and garden back

Stage Set Design for a Ballet: Don Parasol

Carlo Ferrario, 1869

Ink and wash drawing of a stage set with high vaulted arches, stone columns, and a staircase rising at right.

Design for a Stage Set: A Dungeon with High Vaults and a Staircase at Right

Domenico Fossati, 1743-84

Pen drawing of an arched lunette design with putti, grotesque masks and scrolls framing a blank central cartouche.

Design for the Decoration of a Lunette with a Large Central Cartouche

Battista Franco Veneziano

Pen drawing of a fountain with an oval basin, tritons, dolphins, grotesque heads and a figure of Neptune above.

Design for a Fountain with Sea Horses and Triton Base, Basin, Dolphins and Tritons, Three Grotesque heads and Neptune

Battista Franco Veneziano, ca. 1550

Pen and ink drawing of an ornate cartouche flanked by a bearded man, a laurel-crowned youth in armor, and four putti.

Drawing of Cartouche with Bearded Man Left, Young man crowned with Laurels Right, and Four Putti

Battista Franco Veneziano

Brown ink and wash drawing of The Last Supper with a haloed Christ at a long table surrounded by gesturing apostles.

The Last Supper

Philips Koninck, late 1650s

A Greyhound in Profile Facing Left

Virgilius Solis, 1549

Pen and ink drawing of a helmeted soldier with a round shield and sword striding across a grassy landscape.

A Soldier Brandishing a Shield in a Landscape

Monogrammist GK, 1586

Gray wash drawing of a seated ruler on a throne with courtiers, a fire at right, in an ornate Rococo frame.

A Scene of Judgment

Johann Melchior Füssli, ca. 1730

Red chalk drawing of Roman rooftops, a domed church and a tall column above a stone bridge and grassy slope.

View of Rome

François Lemoyne, 1724

Head of a Bearded, Young Man in Profile Facing Right

Bronzino, 1545-55

The Archangel Gabriel Kneeling to the Right; Small Study of Head at Lower Left

Jacopo da Empoli, late 16th century

Grey wash drawing of crumbling Roman arches, columns and a pedimented doorway overgrown with shrubs.

View of Ancient Roman Ruins, an Arch and a Triangular-Pedimented Doorway

Filippo Mochi, 18th century

Pen and red chalk sketch of a man leaning on a staff beside a dog, with trees and landscape in the background.

Framed Sketch for a Man, a Dog and a Tree

Pier Francesco Mola, 1612-66

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

Watercolor design for a decorative ceiling with an octagonal central panel, scrolled borders and foliate ornament in pink, gr

Ceiling design, Castle Blayney

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

Black and white trade card with ornate scroll border reading LACHAISE, Peintre, Faubourg St. Denis 170.

Trade Card

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, January 1835

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

Watercolor design for a ceiling showing a painted sky, flowered balustrade, and ornate yellow scrollwork border.

Design for Ceiling

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

Engraving of Apollo seated on Parnassus with muses and laurel-crowned poets, with cherubs holding wreaths above.

Apollo sitting on Parnassus surrounded by the muses and famous poets

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1517-20

Engraved frieze of a bacchanal with Silenus supported by revelers, satyrs, a reclining woman and a Priapus statue.

A Bacchanal, Silenus supported by two bacchants in the centre, at right a female satyr reclining on a bed and another…

Marcantonio Raimondi, ca. 1510-13

Engraving of the Last Supper with Christ and twelve apostles at a long table, a dog and basket in the foreground, arched wind

The Last Supper

Hendrick Goltzius, 1585

Engraving of a seated bare-chested man holding a laurel branch, with two draped women, a tree, and a classical building behin

The Man with a Laurel Branch

Agostino Veneziano, ca. 1514-36

Watercolor design of a red gallery wall with framed paintings, a console table in an arched niche, and an ornate patterned ce

Design for Gallery Elevation and Ceiling, Hôtel Cottier

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, ca. 1867

Pope Paul III in a Skullcap

Agostino Veneziano, ca. 1514-36

Painted design for a gallery ceiling with pink and tan scrollwork, a central ornamental panel, and floral garlands on green.

Design for Gallery Ceiling, Hôtel Cottier

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, ca. 1879

Watercolor design for an arched ceiling with lavender field, orange and green scrollwork, and garland-decorated border.

Design for Ceiling, Hôtel Cottier

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, ca. 1879

Pencil drawing of ornamental ceiling designs with scrollwork, foliate motifs and circular medallions for Hôtel Cottier.

Three Designs for Ceilings, Hôtel Cottier

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, ca. 1879

Watercolor design for a decorative ceiling with a central rosette, scrolled foliage, and gilded geometric borders.

Design for a Study Ceiling

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

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

Watercolor design of a tiered interior wall bay with columns, a heraldic doorway, an angel, and a robed figure.

Design for a Bay of a Side Wall, Château de Béhourt

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

Watercolor design for a church altar with pink marble columns, a painted Virgin surrounded by cherubs, and a gilded tabernacl

Design for Altar

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

Watercolor elevation of an altar design with pink marble columns, a central door, and a painted angel above the entablature.

Side View of Design for Altar

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

Watercolor design for a ceiling with a central ivy garland medallion, blue field, and corner flower bouquets in a brown frame

Design for Bathroom Ceiling, Hôtel Cahen d'Anvers

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

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 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

Watercolor design elevation of a decorated interior wall with double doors, a blue floral niche, and a painted frieze.

Design for Wall Elevation, Hôtel Candamo

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1873