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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1,465 works

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

L'Assiette Républicaine

Félix Bracquemond, 1868

Watercolor design of wood paneling with a carved pediment, heraldic shield, and painted frieze of putti among trees.

Design for the decoration of a room with a large wood-paneled cupboard surmounted by the monogram: H

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Gouache wallpaper design of red latticework with quatrefoil panels of green foliage, thistles, yellow flowers and pink roses

Design for wallpaper featuring flowers and latticework

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Watercolor design for wallpaper with brown rococo scrollwork, shells, a white waterlily, cattails and green ivy.

Design for wallpaper featuring shells, waterlilies, and cattails

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Watercolor wallpaper design of intertwined brown branches with oak leaves, acorns, and small purple and pink flowers.

Design for wallpaper featuring oak leaves, acorns, and intertwined twigs

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Painted design drawing of a vestibule with coffered vaulted ceiling, decorative wall panels and a glazed double door.

Design for the Vestibule of the Chateau de Lude (Sarthe)

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

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

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 design for ceiling decoration with circular rosettes, a diamond lattice, and ornate scrolled borders in gold, pink

A design for the painted decoration of a ceiling or walls

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Drawing of a painted ceiling design with red and green panels, interlaced strapwork, scrolling rinceaux and grey moldings.

Design for the decoration of a ceiling in strapwork and rinceaux

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Watercolor design for a painted ceiling with scrollwork cartouche, Greek key borders and floral roundels in pink, blue and go

Design for the painted decoration of a ceiling in with strapwork and rinceaux

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Design drawing of an ornamental ceiling with a central blue and gold medallion, geometric bands and decorative border.

Design for the decoration of a pentagonal ceiling

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Design drawing of a ceiling with an oval trompe l'oeil coffered dome, floral garlands, and ornate gilded scrollwork border.

Design for the decoration of a ceiling with a trompe l'oeil painting of a coffered dome

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Watercolor design for a ceiling decoration with an oval arabesque panel and scrolled cartouche above, in pastel tones.

Partial design for the decoration of a ceiling with an oval panel at center

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Drawing of a decorative ceiling design with blue patterned panels and a border of small painted red flower motifs.

Partial design for ceiling with a border of flowers

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Watercolor design of a decorated ceiling with ornamental panels and a central panel of painted clouds in a gold frame.

Design for the decoration of a ceiling with a central panel of painted clouds

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Watercolor design of a square blue filigree ceiling panel with a central rosette and stepped gray border.

Design for a ceiling paianted in filagree patterns

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Etching of seven women behind a low stone wall, one standing in the foreground resting her arms on a pillar.

Seven Women Seated Behind a Low Wall

comte de Caylus Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, 18th century

Pen and wash drawing of a crowned emperor at a banquet between columns, with courtiers, a page, and a dog in the foreground.

Episode from the "Gesta Romanorum": The Emperor and the Page

Jörg Breu the Elder, 1500-1537

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 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

Engraving of a hooded beggar standing at a closed door, with a second figure at a distant doorway, inscribed with Flemish pro

One Begs in Vain at the Door of the Deaf, from Twelve Flemish Proverbs

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, ca. 1568

Engraving of a scolding woman standing before a seated woman, with a rooster and hen and a broom in a round domestic interior

The Scolding Woman and the Cackling Hen

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, ca. 1568

Circular engraving of a hooded figure being robbed by a man in a round sphere, with a windmill and carriage behind.

The Misanthrope Robbed by the World, from Twelve Flemish Proverbs

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, ca. 1568

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

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

Watercolor design of a paneled ceiling with a blue center, pink corner panels and gold moldings.

Design for a paneled ceiling

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 19th century

Watercolor design of a coffered ceiling with gilded strapwork, pine cone motifs, and a central rosette medallion.

Partial design for a ceiling painted in strapwork and pine cone motifs

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 19th century

Pen and watercolor design for a paneled ceiling split into two decorative schemes with gold scrollwork and a central medallio

Design for a paneled ceiling with alternative decorations

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 19th century

Watercolor design for a painted ceiling with a central rosette, green coffered grid, and scrolling ornamental friezes.

Alternative designs for the painted decoration of a ceiling

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 19th century