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Colored design drawing of a ceiling corner with hexagonal lattice, scrolling foliage borders and blue and yellow ornament.

Design for the painted decoration of a ceiling

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

Watercolor design for a coffered ceiling with yellow, blue and purple panels, ornamental scrollwork and a heraldic shield.

Design for the painted decoration of a coffered ceiling

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

Collage of pencil and ink studies of ornamental wall and ceiling designs, with scrollwork, lattice and floral garland pattern

Sixteen designs of the decoration of walls and ceilings

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

Pen and pencil collage of twelve ornamental designs: heraldic shields, capitals, initials, arabesques, and a Madonna and Chil

Twelve ornamental designs for the decoration of interiors

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

Etching of two women on a garden terrace, one with a parasol and one sketching at an easel, with foliage and a house behind.

La Terrasse de la Villa Brancas

Félix Bracquemond, 1876

Hand-colored 18th-century map of New Netherlands with allegorical figures, a compass rose, and a view of New Amsterdam.

Recens Edita Totius Novi Belgii, in America Septentrionali [An Updated View of New Netherlands in North America]

Matthäus Seutter, ca. 1730

Etching of a winter forest at dusk with bare trees and a wolf walking across the snow on the right.

Hiver (Le Loup dans la neige)

Félix Bracquemond, 1864

Antique engraved map of New Netherlands, New England and part of Virginia with animals, ships, a compass rose and a city view

Novi Belgii, Novaeque Angliae nec non partis Virginiae tabula [Map of New Netherlands, New England, and part of Virgi…

Nicolas Visscher I, ca. 1656

Etching of a steam locomotive trailing smoke along a riverside embankment under a swirling, stormy sky.

La Locomotive

Félix Bracquemond, 1873

Watercolor design of a decorative painted ceiling with roundels, floral garland, blue cartouches, and small bird vignettes.

Design for the painted decoration of a baker's shop

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

Sheet of nine pencil and ink studies of painted interior ornament, including coffered ceilings, borders, a medallion, and emb

Nine designs for the painted decoration of an interior, possibly for the Hôtel Rothschild, Vienna

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

Sheet of pencil and watercolor ornamental designs for interior decoration, with coffered panels, scrollwork friezes and a gro

Ten designs for the painted decoration of an interior; one possibly for "Harwith"

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

Pen and gray wash design for an ornate ceiling with a central oval, scrolled panels, medallions and garlands.

Design for the painted decoration of a ceiling with the monogram: M

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Design drawing of a painted coffered ceiling with geometric strapwork, turquoise and pink panels, and a gilded monogram H.

Design for the painted decoration of a coffered ceiling with the monogram: H

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Painted design for a coffered ceiling with pink, peach and green panels, gold scrollwork and central rosettes.

Design for the painted decoration of a coffered ceiling incorporating the initial: H

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Design drawing of a coffered ceiling with blue scrolled panels, red medallions bearing G and H initials, and gilded rosettes.

Design for the painted decoration of a coffered ceiling incorporating initials (G and H) for a house on the rue de Cl…

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Engraved view of New York harbor with anchored ships, a town skyline with church spires, and a foreground of hills and trees.

A South West View of the City of New York, in North America

Pierre Charles Canot, ca. 1768

Etching of a reclining youth with curly hair beside a tree in a wooded landscape, with a dog at his feet.

Narcissus

Laurent de La Hyre, 17th century

Etching of a river flowing through a wooded landscape with leaning trees, reeds, and a distant hilly horizon under a cloudy s

River in the Woods

Laurent de La Hyre

Decorative wall design in mauve and blue with rose bouquets, scrolls, and geometric borders.

Wallpaper design featuring bouquets of roses, strapwork, and rinceaux

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Gouache wallpaper design with Greek key border, gold scrollwork, blue medallions, garlands, urns and a small classical nude f

Design for wallpaper with Roman key border, rinceaux, and medallions

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Framed design drawing of a painted ceiling with a central roundel, interlaced gold initials, and blue scrollwork on a pale gr

Design for painted decoration of a ceiling incorporating interwined initials: DD

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

Painted lunette design of riders on horseback in a wooded landscape with a rocky outcrop and distant buildings.

Mural design picturing riders in a landscape for a lunette in the library of the Chateau de Lude (Sarthe)

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

Lunette-shaped painting of a hunting scene with hounds chasing game and horsemen in green coats riding through a landscape.

Hunting Scene; Mural design for a lunette in the library of the Chateau de Lude (Sarthe)

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

Pen and grey wash design of five vertical framed panels with ornamental scrollwork, figures and interlace patterns.

Designs for the painted decoration of framed panels, possibly for the Château de Mouchy (Oise)

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

Eight pencil and wash designs of ornate ceiling and wall decoration, with scrolls, foliage and rococo panels, pasted onto one

Eight designs of the ornamentation of ceilings and walls, probably for the Duc de Mouchy

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

Architectural drawing of ornate ceiling border with scrollwork, foliage and garlands, in grey wash and pen on paper.

Design for ceiling decoration in the residence of the Duc de Massa on the rue la Boétie, Paris

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1889

Etched circular landscape with trees, a winding stream, deer, and flowering plants, with a scroll and two birds at left.

Decoration for a Plate: A Stream

Félix Bracquemond, 1870

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

Etching of women in long dresses and hats talking on a rural path with grazing cows and a dog under a cloudy sky.

Les Demoiselles du village

Félix Bracquemond, 1869