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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1,456 works

Etching of a dark rocky gorge opening onto a moonlit valley with a river and a small figure at the cliff base.

Adieu aux Karpatz

Félix Bracquemond, 1857

Collage of thirteen ornamental design studies for interior decoration, with scrolls, foliage, animals and painted bands.

Thirteen designs for the painted decoration of interiors

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

The Arts and Sciences Honoring Their Protector Charles-Theodore, Count Palatine

Joseph Fratrel, 1777

Etching of geese in a meadow under dramatic storm clouds with diagonal rays of light breaking through above trees.

La Nuée d'orage

Félix Bracquemond, 1882-84

Ink and wash design sheet with four corner panels of griffins, birds, dolphins and scrolling foliage around a central motif.

Grotesque designs featuring griffin, birds, and dolphins

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Engraved horizontal frieze with clasped hands over an anchor, a dove, flanking cherubs, and scrollwork ornament.

Frieze of Ornament with Clasped Hands and Anchor

Abraham Bosse, 1625-76

Etching of an eagle perched on rocks, beak open, beneath a radiating sun and drifting clouds.

L'Assiette Républicaine

Félix Bracquemond, 1868

Tall decorative door design with gilded panels, a dancing woman with a tambourine, and a lower roundel of ducks among flowers

Design for a decorated door

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Engraved ornamental plate with scrolling foliage, decorative initials, a central cartouche, and an upper frieze with urns and

Plate 5, from "Orthographia"

Johann Daniel Preissler, late 17th-mid-18th century

Title page with reeds, a resting duck at water's edge, and flying ducks, with printed title Six Eaux-fortes par Bracquemond.

Six Eaux-fortes par Bracquemond

Félix Bracquemond, 1887

Colored design drawing of a paneled ceiling with a central octagon, putti, birds, and floral ornament in pastel tones.

Design for a paneled ceiling painted with putti, birds, and floral motifs

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 19th century

Engraving of an angel in a sun summoning birds over a chaotic battle of armored soldiers and horses below.

The Angel in the Sun calling the Birds of Prey, from the Apocalypse

Jean Duvet, n.d.

Hand-colored print of a duck flying above snow-covered branches inside a circular frame.

Decoration for a Plate: A Duck flying over Snow-covered Branches

Félix Bracquemond, 1850-1914

Design drawing of a coffered ceiling with a painted sky opening filled with flying birds and fruit medallions.

Design for a ceiling with a trompe l'oeil sky filled with birds

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 19th century

Grey wash design drawing of a fireplace with winged griffins on pedestals, acanthus scrolls, and a central baluster.

Design for Cast-iron Grate in Rococo Style with Putti Fire Dogs

Benjamin Dean Wyatt, ca. 1814

Hand-colored print of a white egret flying above green bamboo branches inside a circular frame.

Decoration for a Plate: An Egret Flying Above Bamboo Branches

Félix Bracquemond, 1850-1914

Watercolor elevation of a paneled wall with double doors, a painted panel of ducks, and a landscape mural with gold border.

Elevation of a paneled wall with a mural or tapestry and a double doors surmounted by a painting of ducks

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 19th century

Watercolor design of a fireplace with a cast-iron grate, perforated fire basket, and green ornamental border.

Design for Cast-iron Grate with Eagles Grasping Snakes

Benjamin Dean Wyatt, ca. 1814

Etched print of ducks flying over reeds and a marsh within a circular frame, with clouds in the sky.

Decoration for a Plate: Ducks

Félix Bracquemond, 1870

Painted design for a paneled ceiling with a central cherub group, bird panels, floral garlands, and gilded ornamental borders

Design for a paneled ceiling painted with putti, birds, and floral motifs on tracing paper; mounted on wove paper

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 19th century

Blue watercolor of an anthropomorphic kingfisher in a tailcoat fishing with a rod beside a pond and reeds.

Kingfisher

Linley Sambourne, late 19th century

Etching of cranes wading by a pond among tall grasses, one bird flying overhead, with a ribbon reading UN ETANG at lower left

Decoration for a Plate: A Pond

Félix Bracquemond, 1870

Design drawing for a coffered ceiling with a central putto cartouche, red and black panels, bird scenes and gilded ornament.

Design for a ceiling painted with grotesque motifs

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 19th century

Engraving of a woman in lace-trimmed dress holding out her hand to a bird, with birds flying and hunters in a landscape behin

Air, from "The Four Elements" (Les Quatre Eléments)

Abraham Bosse, 1630

Woodcut of Pentecost: a dove descends in rays of light over robed apostles gathered in a room, one kneeling with a book.

Pentecost, from "The Small Passion"

Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1510

Watercolor design of an oval ceiling with clouds, a flying brown eagle, and a heraldic shield with laurel and flowers below.

Design for a ceiling painted with clouds and a soaring eagle

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

Pen and watercolor landscape with thatched cottages, resting cows, peasants at work, and a distant church spire under a cloud

March

Hendrik Meijer, 1772

Woodcut of seven angels with trumpets above an enthroned God, with a dragon, fire and ships in the scene below.

The Seven Angels with the Trumpets, from "The Apocalypse", Latin Edition

Albrecht Dürer, 1511

Watercolor design of a circular ceiling with a painted sky, gilded struts, floral garlands and birds, within grey coffered pa

Design for a ceiling painted with clouds and trellis work

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

Watercolor of haymakers on a river with a haystack raft, windmill, sailing boats and a distant church tower.

The Twelve Months

Hendrik Meijer, 1772