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Design for the Wall Decoration for Marie-Antoinette's Apartment at Fontainebleau Palace
Jean-Siméon Rousseau
Pen and black ink, brush and watercolor, white gouache on off-white paper · 1780
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Sepulcher with Death Seated and Crowned
Louis-Jean Desprez, French, active Sweden
architecture, drawing — pen and black ink, brush and brown, gray, blue-gray wash, graphite on off-white paper · 1779
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Sepulcher in Egyptian Style with Caryatids and a Lion
Louis-Jean Desprez, French, active Sweden
Pen and black ink; brush and brown, gray, blue-gray wash; traces of graphite Support: off-white paper Support: Off-white paper · 1779
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Sepulcher in Egyptian Style with Sphinxes and an Owl
Louis-Jean Desprez, French, active Sweden
Pen and black ink, gray and blue-gray wash, traces of graphite on off-white paper · 1779
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Sepulcher in Egyptian Style with Death Carrying a Lamp
Louis-Jean Desprez, French, active Sweden
Pen and black ink, brush and gray, blue-gray wash, graphite on off-white paper · 1779
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Les Précautions (The Precautions), from Le Monument du Costume
Laurent-François Prault, French
figures, print — etching on white paper · 1777
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

A Portrait Medallion of King Louis XV Surrounded by Putti Carrying the Attributes of Fame and History
Gabriel Jacques de Saint-Aubin
Graphite, with traces of pen and black ink, on parchment, tipped onto white paper, tipped on blue card · 1774
Art Institute of Chicago

Study of a Goat
Jean-Baptiste Huet, French
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and gray wash, red-brown watercolor on white paper, ruled border in pen and brown ink, lined · 1772
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Fishermen in Landscape
Carlo Marchionni, Italian
landscapes, drawing — pen and brown ink with brown wash on off-white paper, lined · 1770
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Design for a Sculptured Bracket with Putto accompanied by the Attributes of War, for the Grand Trianon, Versailles
François de Cuvilliés the younger, German
architecture, drawing — pen and brown ink, brush and grey wash on white paper · 1766
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Engraving: Monograms of two letters
Nicolas Langlois, French
ephemera, print — black ink on white paper · 1765
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Engraving: Monograms of Two Letters
Nicolas Langlois, French
ephemera, print — black ink on white paper · 1765
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Brodeur, from Diderot's Encyclopaedia
Louis-Jacques Goussier, French
textile designs, print — engraving on white paper · 1763
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Tailleur d'Habits, outils, from Diderot's Encyclopaedia
J.R. Lucotte, French
textile designs, print — engraving on white paper · 1763
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Tailleur d'Habits, Details, from Diderot's Encyclopaedia
J.R. Lucotte, French
textile designs, print — engraving on white paper · 1763
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Plate IV of "Travail et emploi du Coton" from Diderot's Encyclopia, Vol. I
Louis-Jacques Goussier, French
graphic design, print — engraving on white paper · 1762
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

"Culture et Arsonnage du Coton" from Diderot's Encyclopedia, Vol. I
Louis-Jacques Goussier, French
graphic design, print — engraving on white paper · 1762
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Plate I of "Travail et emploi du coton" from Diderot's Encyclopedia, Vol. I
Louis-Jacques Goussier, French
graphic design, print — engraving on white paper · 1762
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Project for the entrance wall of a salon with alternative suggestions
Jean-Charles Delafosse, French
architecture, interiors, drawing — pen and ink, brush and rose and brown washes, graphite on white paper · 1760
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Healing of the Paralytic
Johann Gottlieb Prestel
Graphite and brush and brown wash, with pen and gold ink, on laid paper, laid down on off-white paper · 1759
Art Institute of Chicago

Healing of the Paralytic
Johann Gottlieb Prestel
Graphite and brush and brown wash, with pen and gold ink, on laid paper, laid down on off-white paper · 1759
Art Institute of Chicago

Study of a Nude Man
Corrado Giaquinto
Red chalk on off-white paper · 1753
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Spandrel Decoration: Fame and Truth Applauding Louis XV
François Boucher, French
Black chalk, pen and brown ink, brush and pale pink wash on white paper, lined · 1753
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Plan of an imaginary ancient seat of learning
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian
Etching on white paper · 1750
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum