Collection

Our collection currently contains more than 100,000 works of art and design dating from ancient times to today. Of these objects, 748 of them are on view in the museum now. 84,693 of them are available online. There are 1,596 recent acquisitions. All of our collection records are living documents. They are frequently revised and enhanced.

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Pastoral scene of a winged cherub playing in a patch of lush greenery and blooms, contrasting with the rich blue surrounding background.

Dufour et Leroy

Little Allegories Wallpaper

Three, bronze flower bordered cream panels with bronze reliefs of a woman wrapping a leaf garland around a lamb and two repeating motifs of a cane and leaf basket.

Jacquemart et Bénard

Wallpaper Dado

Aged, cream wallpaper with repeating motifs of two winged babies encircling a sleeping dog in brown and tan watercolor. Pink flower bouquets and leaf garlands surround the babies throughout.

Simon

Flowers and Cupids Wallpaper

Crinkled, yellow wallpaper with repeating figures, sitting and riding a horse, enclosed in rotated diamond frames, against vertical stripes made out of yellow wavy lines and black-dotted white sections.

Ferrouillat et Cie

Diamond-Shape Design Wallpaper

Cream wallpaper with multicolored birds sitting atop thin, winding brown branches which have leaves and various colored flowers on them. Butterflies, with outstretched wings, fly around the branches.

Dufour et Leroy

Wallpaper

Panel of vintage fabric wallpaper depicting an abstract geometric blue and peach pattern on a tan background. The design is vertically aligned and features a centric textured blue stripe.

Unknown Maker, French

Wallpaper Imitating Fabric

I. C. Editions

Money Dances

I. C. Editions

Money Dances

Lalla Essaydi

The Women of Morocco #45 (Les Femmes du Maroc # 45)

Irene Bayer-Hecht

Grit Kallin

Aged, brown print of various aged figures performing household chores on a winding hilltop with trees. The older figures hang laundry and tend the fields and younger figures comb goats.

Unknown Maker, French

Landscape Wallpaper

Weathered, blue wallpaper with repeating motifs of white doves next to white ribboned pink and white flower bouquets and in blotchy textured black trees.

Unknown Maker, French

Birds and Flowers Wallpaper

Scuffed wallpaper with multiple turquoise and brown-toned jagged zigzag lines layered and repeated on top of a brown muted background.

Unknown Maker, French

Wallpaper Imitating Fabric

Aged, gray toned print of fishermen at shore with trees and building ruins on a cliffside behind them. A thick intricate border with leaves and dotted embellishments surrounds the landscape.

Claude-Joseph Vernet

Marine Scene Dado

Weathered, light blue wallpaper with repeating motifs of red and pink flowers next to a black-spotted white dog standing on a tree and looking at a bird in the branches.

Jean-Baptiste Réveillon

Wallpaper

Deep teal wallpaper with eccentric, red flowers and long blue leaves attached to winding dark blue branches throughout.

Jean-Baptiste Réveillon

Garlands and Flowers Wallpaper

Aged, polka-dotted cream wallpaper with repeating light gray winged baby statues standing on a pedestal. Stemmed salmon pink flowers and floral garlands, which vary in size, surround the pedestal.

Unknown Maker, French

Garlands and Cupids Wallpaper

Intricate and elegant patterns of draping florals and tassel motifs done in white appear embossed on a warm dark orange backdrop

Jean-Baptiste Réveillon

Flowers and Garlands Wallpaper

Decorative pattern of various metallic brown vases surrounded by large, vivid blooming flowers set against a warm orange backdrop with subtle teal medallions and gold patterns.

Jacquemart et Bénard

Flowers and Ornaments Wallpaper

Wallpaper with a pink and green floral border and two repeating, winding vines with green bordered pink leaves and green dotted geometric shapes, atop a plaid gray pattern underneath.

Unknown Maker, French

Pair of Flocked Wallpaper Borders