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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,938 works

Pencil and wash design elevation of a chimney-piece with arched mirror, paneled door, and oval portrait medallion.

Design for treatment of a chimney-piece and adjacent door

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Pencil design for hunting lodge panels showing a dog's head, scrollwork, and a boar with a spear and horn.

Two designs for panels to decorate a hunting lodge

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Watercolor design of a gilded ceiling frame with an arched opening showing a blue sky with clouds.

Partial design for a decorated ceiling painted with clouds

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Watercolor design of a painted cloud ceiling with ornate moldings, a dark scrolled border, and a red wall panel.

Design for a ceiling painted with clouds

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Brown ink and wash drawing of Hermes and Venus seated under a tree with a Cupid in the foreground.

Hermes, Venus, and Cupid in a Landscape

Peter Bruck, early 17th century

Decorative ceiling design with gilded scrolls, fruit swags, and pastel foliate motifs in a stepped frame.

Partial design for the decoration of a ceiling with scrolls and swags of fruit

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Watercolor design for a ceiling border with green and pink scrollwork and a band of flowers and foliage.

Partial design for the decoration of a ceiling with scrollwork and a border of ribbons and berries

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Colored design drawing of a coffered ceiling with red panels, white scrolling rinceaux, and a central pale green panel.

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

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

Ornamental ceiling design with interlaced purple strapwork, gold outlines, and green scrolling foliage on blue-grey ground.

Design for the decoration of a ceiling with strapwork

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Watercolor design for a ceiling with foliate borders and an ornate oval central medallion in orange, blue and cream.

Design for the decoration of a ceiling with filagree borders and a central medallion

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Watercolor design for an arched painted ceiling with blue center, green and orange corners, and white filigree scrollwork.

Designs for a painted ceiling with filagree borders

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Design drawing of a vestibule ceiling with painted panels, Greek key borders, rosettes and classical figure medallions in was

Design for the decoration of the ceiling of a vestibule in painted panels with roman key borders

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Watercolor elevation of a paneled interior with double doors, a relief medallion, and a gilded three-globe wall sconce.

Elevation of a paneled interior with double doors and gaslight sconces

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Pencil and wash design for a bath house plaque with the word BAINS, floral urn, swags and a side elevation study.

Design for an ornamental plaque for a bath house

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Watercolor design for a painted ceiling with blue rosettes, gold scrollwork, and pink and grey moulded borders.

Partial design for a painted ceiling

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Design drawing of a framed decorative panel with a central rosette medallion, scrollwork and pastel ornamental borders.

Design for a framed panel with painted decoration

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Watercolor design of a ceiling cove with blue scrollwork, pink rose garlands, a flower frieze, and a blue lower wall panel.

Design for the decoration of a ceiling cove and moulding

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Watercolor design of two ornamental panels with gold, red and blue scrollwork borders separated by a brown band.

Designs for painted panels

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Watercolor design for a painted ceiling with lavender field, quatrefoil motifs, and scrolling foliate borders in peach and ye

Partial design for the painted decoration of a ceiling

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Engraving of the Holy Family resting in a wooded landscape, with angels above, a sheep, and a rabbit in the foreground.

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt, Joseph at right, the Virgin holds the Christ Child in the centre, other figures to…

Giulio Bonasone, 1531-76

Engraving of the Nativity with shepherds crowding around the Christ Child in a stable, angels overhead, and a bare tree at ri

The adoration of the shepherds, various figures surrounding the Christ Child in the centre

Giulio Bonasone, 1531-76

Pen drawing of the Annunciation: a winged angel descends in clouds toward a kneeling Virgin in a columned room with a dove ab

The Annunciation

Dirck Pietersz. Crabeth, 16th century

Grey wash panoramic drawing of a walled city with a central gate tower, church spires, and trees below an empty sky.

A View of Brussels from the South, with the Halle Gate at Center; verso: Landscape Sketch

Daniël Schellinks, mid-17th century

Ink drawing of a kneeling, grieving figure leaning over a gravestone under a stone arch, with a stormy landscape behind.

A figure weeping over a grave

George Richmond, 1827 or 1829

Watercolor of a mountain above a valley with a lake, wooded slopes, and two seated figures in the foreground.

Snowdon from Llyn Nantlle, North Wales

George Fennel Robson, 1832

Etching of a seated young woman in a garden beside a basket of flowers, with a wooden fence and shrubbery.

Girl in a Landscape with a Basket of Flowers

François Boucher, 18th century

Etching of armored cavalry charging over rocky ground, with a fallen horse in the foreground and smoke in the sky.

Cavalry Charge

Francesco Giuseppe Casanova, mid to late 18th century

Watercolor design of a gilded ceiling with a blue cloudy sky, birds in flight, and ornamental panels.

Design for a ceiling decorated with clouds and birds

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Sheet of nineteen ornamental design studies for interior decoration, with a watercolor wall elevation of a painted room at to

Nineteen designs for the painted decoration of interiors

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Sheet of pencil and ink ornamental designs for painted interiors, with putti, friezes, heraldic shields and an octagonal ceil

Sixteen designs for the painted decoration of interiors

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97