Collection

Our collection currently contains more than 100,000 works of art and design dating from ancient times to today. 2,133 of these objects are on view in the museum now. 85,769 of them are available online. There are 2,338 recent acquisitions. All of our collection records are living documents. These records are frequently revised and enhanced.

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A reed pen and black ink drawing of the interior of a tavern in Pompeii. A figure peers in the doorway at the ruins of the stone vats and bar.

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Interior of a Tavern in Pompeii

A pen and ink drawing of Hercules and other figures in a physical. Floating in the sky above and behind him are three female allegories: Victory, Honor, and Fame.

Carlo Maratti

Double-Sided Sheet with Studies of Hercules in the Garden of the Hesperides

A red and white chalk drawing of the Holy Family. Mary holds baby Jesus in her lap and points to Joseph working in his carpentry shop. Two putti fly above.

Antonio Gionima

Madonna and Child with Saint Joseph in the Carpenter Shop

A sketchy brown pen and ink study of an older, dapper gentlemen surrounded by a mass of ill-defined bowing supplicants. The image is overlaid with a grid, presumably for transfer.

James Gillray

Study for An Old English Gentleman Pester’d by Servants Wanting Places

Preparatory sketch done in black chalk with many ill-defined figures circumscribed by minimal marks. At center is a seated figure being presented a bolt of cloth by two faceless others.

François Boucher

Hecuba Presents a Garment as a Gift to Athena

Jan van Goyen

A Village Street with Peasants

Colorful portrait of a medium-dark-skinned Sikh man wearing a yellow and orange pagri, or turban. Standing at the counter of his deli, with food and convenience items behind him.

Jagdeep Raina

Satnam Singh at the Punjabi Deli

Chitra Ganesh

Sultana’s Dream

Woodblock print of a seated woman, facing leftwards, wearing an orange-lined teal garment that fades to brown with floral embellishments against a backdrop of blossoming branches and pastel orange clouds.

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞 (Toyokuni III)

Hand games and flowering sleeves (拳角力花の振袖 Kenzumo hana no furisode), Edo Period

Segment of vintage repeating wallpaper featuring baskets filled with lush vibrant flowers and linking decorative garlands, on a faded and distressed blue canvas.

Pierre Cietti

Arabesque Wallpaper

Two pink flowers with green stalks and yellow dots reflected vertically, with smaller purple blossoms below. Split by two thin yellow stripes and bordered by yellow bands with scroll ornamentation.

Unknown Maker, French

Pair of Wallpaper Borders

Lively print of unleashed dogs and six well dressed figures, five on horseback and one with multiple leashed dogs, speedily coming towards a deer running shoreside. A large castle with a bridge and gazebo are in the distance.

Unknown Maker, French

Hunting Scene Wallpaper

Panel of vintage fabric wallpaper featuring vertically aligned, faded pink and blue garlands alongside patterned columns of small floral motifs. The design is set on a mottled beige background.

Unknown Maker, French

Wallpaper Imitating Fabric

Aged light blue wallpaper speckled with gray tiny leaves and repeating motifs of aged archways, columns, and a woman in elaborate dress sitting in the grass holding a baby.

Jean-Baptiste Fay

Maternal Love Wallpaper

Tan, aged wallpaper of two repeating oval portraits, one of a man and the other a woman, both in elbarote dress encircled by delicate floral wreaths and leafy scrolls.

Unknown Maker, French

Wallpaper

Weathered, dusty-pink wallpaper containing remnants of tall, broken buildings and pillars surrounded by curving trees and working figures directing farm animals.

Jean-Baptiste Réveillon

Wallpaper

Flat frieze featuring ornate acanthus scrolls, swans, snakes, and floral motifs in a continuous pattern that appears three-dimensional on a neutral background.

Manufacture Jouanny, Paris, France

Wallpaper Border

Wallpaper featuring an architectural frieze with ornate and extravagant Corinthian columns and foliage patterns with gold leaf detailing against a gray background.

Joseph Dufour

Wallpaper Dado

Aged, sunset painting of a vast city with bridges, tall circular buildings and grand houses close to the shore. People horseback riding and in boats are in the water.

Jacques Callot

Tour of Nesle and the City (La Tour de Nesle et La Cité) Wallpaper

Cream, vertical wallcovering with a stone statue holding a garland, standing atop an orange pedestal, in an archway,with a teal circular medallion of a cherub riding a lion below.

Etienne de Lavallée

Flowers and Figures Wallpaper