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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,994 works

Pencil drawing of four Gothic Revival chair designs with pierced arched backs and handwritten prices below each.

Designs for Four Chairs

Charles Hindley and Sons, 1841-84

Three pencil design drawings of ornate fire screens with scrolled frames and carved feet, with handwritten notes beneath.

Designs for Three Screens

Charles Hindley and Sons, 1841-84

Pencil design drawing of a rococo-style armoire with mirror panels, four central drawers and scrolled moldings.

Design for Armoire with Mirrors

Charles Hindley and Sons, 1841-84

Pen and wash design drawing of a Gothic-style carved wooden bench with scrollwork ends and a central heraldic shield.

Design for Side Table

Charles Hindley and Sons, 1841-84

Pencil drawing of a draped curtain design with swags, fringed valance and ornate rod over a glazed door.

Design for Curtains and Rod

Charles Hindley and Sons, 1841-84

Pencil drawing of a bay window interior with tasseled curtains, and a trapezoidal floor plan of the bay below.

Plan for Window Bay

Charles Hindley and Sons, 1841-84

Pencil design drawing of two swagged window curtains flanking an ornate mirror above a carved console table with urns.

Design for Wall with Two Windows, Side Table, and Mirror

Charles Hindley and Sons, 1841-84

Pencil drawing of an ornate sitting room with a ceiling medallion, fireplace, mirror, chairs, and fluted columns.

Design for a Sitting Room

Charles Hindley and Sons, 1841-84

Engraving of Venus pointing Psyche toward a fountain guarded by serpents and a dragon in a rocky landscape.

Venus ordering Psyche to take water from a fountain guarded by dragons, from "Fable of Cupid and Psyche"

Master of the Die, 1530-60

Watercolor design sheet showing two chairs labeled A and B, one with a pink seat and one with an ochre seat, with carved wood

Designs for Two Chairs

Charles Hindley and Sons, 1884-92

Pencil and ink drawing of five chest of drawers designs, one with an open fall-front writing compartment, by Charles Hindley

Designs for Chests of Drawers

Charles Hindley and Sons, 1841-84

Etching of a nude youth leaning over a forest pond while a draped woman stands among trees at left.

Narcissus and Echo

Frans van der Neve, 17th century

Pencil and watercolor design of draped curtains with fringed valance across a curved bay window.

Design for Curtains for Three Windows

Charles Hindley and Sons, 1841-84

Pencil and watercolor design of draped window curtains, an ornate mirror and a carved console table with an urn.

Design for Wall with Fireplace and Side Tables

Charles Hindley and Sons, 1841-84

Pen and ink design drawing of a round end table and a standing frame with an empty panel, on a tripod base.

Design for a Standing Frame and End Table

Charles Hindley and Sons, 1841-84

Watercolor design drawing of a pedestal desk with leather top, brass drawer pulls and a central knee space.

Design for Desk

Charles Hindley and Sons, 1841-84

Pencil drawing of a writing desk in front and side views, with tambour shutter, drawers and tapered legs on casters.

Front and Side Views of Writing Desk

Charles Hindley and Sons, 1841-84

Pen drawing of two breakfront cabinets with lattice glazed doors and drawers, plus a side elevation, numbered 108.

Front and Side Views of Breakfronts

Charles Hindley and Sons, 1841-84

Pen drawing of upholstered armchairs and high-back chairs with front, side, and cross-section views, labeled Hindley and Sons

Designs for Chair and Window Seats

Charles Hindley and Sons, 1841-84

Engraving of sleeping Silenus at right, a satyr leaning over a table, and a goat climbing onto the table at left among grapev

Silenus sleeping at right, taunted by a Satyr, and a Goat climbing on a table at left

Giorgio Ghisi, ca. 1540

Engraving of a crowd of soldiers and captives in a colonnaded hall, with spectators watching from an upper gallery.

The Mocking of the Prisoners

Giorgio Ghisi, ca. 1540

Engraving of the death of Procris in a forest, with mourning satyrs, nymphs, Cupid, and the dawn goddess in clouds above.

The Death of Procris; Cephalus mournig the death of Procris on the right surrounded by Cupid and mourning satyrs and…

Giorgio Ghisi, ca. 1540

Engraving of two women in a boat on water, one holding an infant, beside a tree and grassy bank.

Danae and the infant Perseus cast out to sea by Acrisius

Giorgio Ghisi, 1543

Engraving of armored warriors on a riverbank, a kneeling figure reaching toward a bearded man, and a horse figure in the back

Sinon Deceiving the Trojans

Giorgio Ghisi, mid-1540's

Engraving of Perseus with a severed head beside a winged figure, and draped nymphs among fruit trees in a garden.

Perseus in the Garden of the Hesperides

Cherubino Alberti, 1628

Engraving of the Judgment of Paris: nude youth among goddesses, winged figures and putti in a landscape, with gods on clouds

The Judgment of Paris

Giulio Bonasone, ca. 1550-60

Engraving of a woman on a rearing white horse leaping into a river while women and children watch from the shore.

Cloelia on horseback crossing the Tiber

Giulio Bonasone, ca. 1540-60

Etching of many grotesque satyr and goat-like heads with horns, overlapping in a horizontal strip.

Heads of Satyrs and other Grotesque Heads

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1774

Engraving of nude figures swirling in a storm vortex, with lovers at the center and a robed figure on a ledge at right.

The Circle of the Lustful: Paolo and Francesca

William Blake, ca. 1825-27

Etching of a stage set with ruined arches and towers, filled with demons and fireworks, from Callot's Les Intermèdes.

2e Intermède (2nd Interlude), from "Les Intermèdes" (The Interludes)

Jacques Callot, early 17th century