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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

33,907 works

Brown wash drawing of an ivy-framed landscape with figures, a thatched hut, and a distant bay under a hazy sky.

Grape Harvest at the Gulf of Naples

Christoph Heinrich Kniep, 1770-1825

Grey wash drawing of centaurs by a pond beneath tall, twisting trees with hills in the distance.

Centaurs at a Pond

Friedrich Preller the Elder, 1824-78

Watercolor of a forest stream with a small waterfall, a leaning mossy tree, and several figures resting on the banks.

Landscape with Waterfall

Friedrich Christian Klass, late 18th-early 19th century

Brown wash drawing of a large tree with two seated travelers, a walking figure on a path, and a distant town.

Landscape with Wayfarers

Ferdinand Kobell, 1740-99

Grey wash drawing of rocky landscape with ruins, a windswept pine, a thatched cottage and pale cliffs under cloudy sky.

Landscape with a ruin near Mödling

Jakob Matthias Schmutzer, 1796

Grey wash drawing of an idealized landscape with cliffs, a waterfall, grazing cows, a lake, and a distant temple.

Ideal Landscape with a Shepherd and Cows

Johann Christian Klengel, 1770-1824

Pen drawing of a colonnaded hall with a fountain, two standing men in robes and armor, and ornate decorative borders.

Three Scenes from the Life of the Prophet Daniel

Jost Amman, 1564

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 elevation of a decorated interior wall with a mirror above a fireplace, flanked by two painted panels with figures

Elevation of an interior wall decorated with a chimney piece surmouted by a mirror and flanked with painted panels

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Watercolor study of a flowing-robed female figure with pink drape in a circle, beside a panel of cherubs among clouds.

Two designs for the decoration of ceilings with figures in clouds

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

Pencil design for a decorative panel with a pastoral scene, rococo scrolls, garlands, and a trellis arch over seated figures

Design for a panel painted with a pastoral scene and rococco motifs

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

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

Watercolor design for a gilded ceiling with rococo scrollwork, a central rosette, and a small painted panel of two seated fig

Design for a ceiling with painted decoration

Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise, 1830-97

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

Etching of ancient Roman ruins at Cumae, with tall stone arches, overgrown trees, and small figures among the broken masonry.

Ruines de Cumes

Pierre Quentin Chedel, 18th century

Etching of elegant figures in a garden with a boat, nude statue on a pedestal, and cherubs in clouds above.

The Isle of Cythera

Jérôme-François Chantereau, ca. 1750

Oval etching of a seated nude woman by a stream beneath trees, with draped cloth and hatched landscape background.

Nymph at a Bath

Charles Michel Ange Challe, 1744

Etching of a seated female nude in an oval frame, with drapery, trees, and a bow and quiver at the left.

Diana at the Bath

Charles Michel Ange Challe, 1744

Etching of a ruined stone tower and wall beside a tall poplar and leafy trees on a rocky bank.

Rustic Landscape

duc de Chartres Louis Philippe Joseph, 18th century