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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

10,707 works

Ink and wash drawing of a curved ornamental border with scrolls, foliage and a central mask, beside a pencil study.

Design for decorative border

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Horizontal ceiling border design with rococo cartouches, putti on the left and reclining figures in a landscape on the right.

Design for the decorative border around a ceiling

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Ochre-ground design drawing of a ceiling border with scrolling foliage and a putto carrying a basket of flowers at center.

Design for decorative border to a ceiling with a putto carrying a basket of flowers

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Half-circle ceiling design with gold rococo scrollwork, acanthus leaves, floral garlands and small painted cherubs.

Partial design for a circular ceiling decoration

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Pencil elevation drawing of a decorated interior wall with double doors, ornamental panels, and classical urn and putti friez

Elevation of an interior showing a paneled wall and double doors decorated in rococco sty.e

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Watercolor design for a ceiling with painted clouds framed by a gilded rococo scroll border with floral accents.

Design for the decoration of aceiling with painted clouds and a pierced border

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Design drawing of a diamond-patterned coffered ceiling with red and blue panels, scrollwork, rosettes and painted initials.

Design for a coffered ceiling with painted initials: SRI (?)

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1840-97

Colored design of a coffered ceiling with blue, red and pink panels decorated with arabesques and masks.

Alternate designs for the decoration of a coffered ceiling

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1840-97

Watercolor design of a beamed ceiling with alternating blue floral-patterned panels, brown wood-grain beams and cream ornamen

Design for the decoration of a beamed ceiling

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1840-97

Watercolor design for a painted ceiling border with Greek key bands, scrolling foliage, purple flowers, and an empty central

Partial design for the painted decoration of a ceiling

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1840-97

Watercolor design for a decorated ceiling with fretwork borders, bead moldings and scrolled corner ornaments in brown, pink a

Partial Design for the decoration of a ceiling

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1840-97

Drawing of a coffered ceiling design with ornamental panels, rosettes and scrollwork in brown ink on ochre wash.

Design for a decorated ceiling

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1840-97

Chalk drawing of a bearded man's head turned upward to the right, with white highlights on grey paper.

Head of a Bearded Man, Looking up to the Right

Bartolomeo Schedoni, ca. 1595-1615

Watercolor study of a large blue dung beetle with a green shell beside a small brown weevil and a striped longhorn beetle.

Studies of a Blue Beetle and Insects

Pieter Holsteyn II, ca. 1650-60

Drawing of a dark stag beetle viewed from above, with antlered jaws and spread legs, inside a thin brown border.

A Stag Beetle

Pierre-Joseph Redouté

Penitent Saint Jerome

Lucas Franchoys the Younger, 17th century

Brown wash drawing of two women and children in a domestic interior, one woman bending over a child lying on the floor.

Two women and three children in an interior

Otto van Veen, 1556-1629

Brown wash drawing with white highlights of a crowned rider on horseback leading a crowd of figures past an arched gateway.

The Women of Weinsberg

Otto van Veen, late 16th-early 17th century

Brown wash drawing of a helmeted rider on a horse gesturing to soldiers, with a standard bearer and dog in the foreground.

Scene from the Life of Saint Bartholomew (fragment)

Erasmus Quellinus, 1620-78

Red chalk drawing of a bacchanalian revel with reclining revelers, a piping satyr, putti, a dog, and trees.

Bacchanalian Scene

Hendrick Berckman, 1651

Pen and ink landscape drawing with tall trees, a winding road, a river, a distant building and hills.

Classical Landscape with a Building and a River

Abraham Genoels, 17th-early 18th century

Ink and white heightening study of a broken, splintered tree trunk with twisted branches on a blue-grey ground.

Study of a Blasted Tree Trunk and Branches

Simon de Vlieger, 1600-1653

Pen and ink landscape drawing with a pedimented temple, two small figures, trees, a rocky outcrop and distant mountains.

Landscape with a Pedimented Temple and Two Figures

Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi ?, 17th century

Pen and wash drawing of a winter landscape with two peasants walking on a road past gabled houses and bare trees.

Winter Landscape with Two Peasants Walking

August Dahlsteen, 1710-69

Brown wash drawing of hunters resting by a campfire in a night forest, with pack horses and a moonlit sky.

Hunters resting in a forest at night

Kilian Christoffer Zoll, 1830-60

Watercolor drawing of a twin-towered cathedral beside a river, with a stone bridge, carriages, boats and people in the foregr

View of Uppsala cathedral from the North

Elias Martin, 18th-early 19th century

Watercolor design of a coffered ceiling with gold and pink scrollwork rinceaux on blue panels and rosette centers.

Design for a coffered ceiling decorated with rinceaux

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1840-97

Watercolor design of a coffered ceiling with a central rosette and four corner panels of scrolling and geometric ornament.

Design for a coffered ceiling with alternative decorative patterns

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1840-97

Design drawing of brown wood paneling with blue panels filled with pale scrolling foliate ornament, dated 1871.

Partial design for wood panneling inlaid with painted panels

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1871

Watercolor design for a coffered ceiling with blue scrolled panels and a red central panel with gold floral ornament.

Design for a coffered ceiling with painted panels

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1840-97