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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1,431 works

Watercolor album page with furniture designs: a canopy bed, a table with winged sphinx supports, a floor plan, and a scroll-a

Designs for Furniture

Pierre Antoine Bellangé, ca. 1800-40

Watercolor design of a coffered ceiling corner with scrollwork, strapwork panels, and red, green and purple decoration.

Design for Dining Room Ceiling, Château de Cangé

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

Brown ink drawing in a circle of a dragon head, a long-beaked bird, and a grimacing human mask.

Two Beasts and a Human Mask within a Circle

Gaetano Piccini, 1727

Red chalk drawing of an elderly man gesturing to a kneeling woman beside a standing figure, with dark wash accents.

Abraham Dismissing Hagar

Andrea Sacchi, 1599-1661

Watercolor design of an arched doorway with vines and trellis opening to sky, flanked by red and gold ornamental panels.

Design for Coffered Ceiling

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

Human Mask Looking to the Left within a Circle

Gaetano Piccini, 1727

Grey wash drawing of an ornate painted ceiling design with curved bands, scrollwork, and putti holding garlands.

One Quarter Design for a Painted Ceiling

Mauro Antonio Tesi, 1730-66

Watercolor design for a wall with a double door under an arched pediment, painted panels and a decorative frieze.

Design for Wall Paneling, Deepdene, Dorking, Surrey

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1875-79

Grotesque Winged and Bearded Head Looking to the Left within a Circle

Gaetano Piccini, 1727

Pen and ink design sheet with grotesque figures, urns, scrolling foliage, birds and drapery for a wall decoration.

Design for a Grotesque Wall Decoration

Perino del Vaga, 1501-47

Watercolor design of a chimney piece with a heraldic coat of arms above a grey mantel against a red wall.

Design for Chimney Piece, Château du Duc de Meternick, Johannisburg

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

Putto's Head Looking to the Right with a Shell Beneath the Chin within a Circle

Gaetano Piccini, 1727

Two Studies for Helmet Designs Presented En Profil

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Watercolor design of a painted doorway with pediment, oval relief of cherubs, red and gold panels, and decorative friezes.

Pompeiian Design for Wall and Doorway

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

Two Grotesque Heads Facing One Another within a Circle

Gaetano Piccini, 1727

Pen and ink design of a rococo cartouche with an Annunciation scene above and a robed figure with a staff below.

Design for a Cartouche with an Annunication above and a Kneeling Figure with Staff Below

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Red chalk drawing of a kneeling robed figure with heavy draped cloth folds on grey paper.

Kneeling Prelate

Alexandre Laemlein, 1830-71

Two Grotesque Heads Facing One Another and Touching Tongues Within a Circle

Gaetano Piccini, 1727

Pen and brown ink drawing of a dolphin-entwined vessel base with scrolling waves and sea forms on pale paper.

Design for the Base of a Vessel with Three Dolphins

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Red chalk drawing of two kneeling figures in draped garments, one with clasped hands, on grey paper.

Two Kneeling Figures

Alexandre Laemlein, 1830-71

Grotesque Head With a Large Ear and an Open Mouth Looking to the Right Within a Circle

Gaetano Piccini, 1727

Pen and brown wash drawing of a vessel base supported by two crouching satyr figures with raised arms.

Design for the Base of a Vessel with Two Satyrs

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Red chalk drawing of a kneeling draped figure seen from behind, head raised, cloak falling in hatched folds.

Kneeling Draped Figure

Alexandre Laemlein, 1830-71

Small Grotesque Head Looking to the Left Within a Circle

Gaetano Piccini, 1727

Pen and wash drawing of a suspended censer with fluted bowl, winged cherub heads, and scroll chains.

Design for Suspended Censer

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Circular brown wash drawing with white highlights showing robed men in an arched interior with a tower beyond.

The Greatness of Mordecai

Pseudo-Aert Ortkens, 16th-mid 16th century ?

Ink drawing of a grotesque head with an open toothed mouth turned left, inside a thin circular frame.

Large Grotesque Head With an Open Mouth Looking to the Left Within a Frame

Gaetano Piccini, 1727

Pen and ink design of an ornate fountain with two lions spouting water beside a central garlanded urn and tiered basin.

Design for a Fountain with Two Water-Spouting Lions (recto); Sketch for Triumph of Galatea [?] (verso)

Giovanni Battista Foggini, 1672-1725

Grey wash drawing of a bearded king reaching toward a kneeling veiled woman in an arcaded palace, with attendants and a balco

Queen Esther hears of the Decree against the Jews

Pseudo-Aert Ortkens, 16th-mid 16th century ?

Grotesque Head With a Bulging Forehead Looking to the Right Within a Circle

Gaetano Piccini, 1727