Adam Weisweiler - Secretary, bronze
Severe, rectilinear writing furniture, such as this desk, is typical of the French Empire style. The bronze deco-ration is derived from antiquity. The front legs are shaped like sphinxes: half woman, half eagle... More
Fall-Front Desk, bronze - Public domain dedication, Art Institute of C...
Public domain photograph of cabinet furniture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Design for a Bed Alcove in Empire Style
Anonymous, French, 19th century Public domain scan of decorative drawing, decor elements, art design, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Panel Formerly Part of the Wall Covering in the Deuxième Salon des Gra...
Public domain photograph of textile textile, rug, fabric, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl Description.
Sketches of Empire-Style Lounges and Chairs, Window Seat (from Sketchb...
Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions
Tea tray, cake stands, jam dish, sugar bowls, coffee pot and milk jug
This is not just any service. These objects belong to a huge coffee and tea service that originally comprised more than a thousand pieces. The Russian tsar Nicholas I bought it from the French silversmith Bienn... More
Tea tray, cake stands, jam dish, sugar bowls, coffee pot and milk jug
This is not just any service. These objects belong to a huge coffee and tea service that originally comprised more than a thousand pieces. The Russian tsar Nicholas I bought it from the French silversmith Bienn... More
Tea tray, cake stands, jam dish, sugar bowls, coffee pot and milk jug
This is not just any service. These objects belong to a huge coffee and tea service that originally comprised more than a thousand pieces. The Russian tsar Nicholas I bought it from the French silversmith Bienn... More
Tea tray, cake stands, jam dish, sugar bowls, coffee pot and milk jug
This is not just any service. These objects belong to a huge coffee and tea service that originally comprised more than a thousand pieces. The Russian tsar Nicholas I bought it from the French silversmith Bienn... More
Tea tray, cake stands, jam dish, sugar bowls, coffee pot and milk jug
This is not just any service. These objects belong to a huge coffee and tea service that originally comprised more than a thousand pieces. The Russian tsar Nicholas I bought it from the French silversmith Bienn... More
Tea tray, cake stands, jam dish, sugar bowls, coffee pot and milk jug
This is not just any service. These objects belong to a huge coffee and tea service that originally comprised more than a thousand pieces. The Russian tsar Nicholas I bought it from the French silversmith Bienn... More
Tea tray, cake stands, jam dish, sugar bowls, coffee pot and milk jug
This is not just any service. These objects belong to a huge coffee and tea service that originally comprised more than a thousand pieces. The Russian tsar Nicholas I bought it from the French silversmith Bienn... More
Cloches (dish covers), coolers, soup tureens, sauceboats, salt cellars...
A confidante of the Russian empress commissioned this 140-piece service, several items of which are displayed here. Silversmith Odiot, the painter Prud’hon and the architect Cavelier proudly presented the new m... More
Cloches (dish covers), coolers, soup tureens, sauceboats, salt cellars...
A confidante of the Russian empress commissioned this 140-piece service, several items of which are displayed here. Silversmith Odiot, the painter Prud’hon and the architect Cavelier proudly presented the new m... More
Cloches (dish covers), coolers, soup tureens, sauceboats, salt cellars...
A confidante of the Russian empress commissioned this 140-piece service, several items of which are displayed here. Silversmith Odiot, the painter Prud’hon and the architect Cavelier proudly presented the new m... More
Cloches (dish covers), coolers, soup tureens, sauceboats, salt cellars...
A confidante of the Russian empress commissioned this 140-piece service, several items of which are displayed here. Silversmith Odiot, the painter Prud’hon and the architect Cavelier proudly presented the new m... More
Cloches (dish covers), coolers, soup tureens, sauceboats, salt cellars...
A confidante of the Russian empress commissioned this 140-piece service, several items of which are displayed here. Silversmith Odiot, the painter Prud’hon and the architect Cavelier proudly presented the new m... More
Cloches (dish covers), coolers, soup tureens, sauceboats, salt cellars...
A confidante of the Russian empress commissioned this 140-piece service, several items of which are displayed here. Silversmith Odiot, the painter Prud’hon and the architect Cavelier proudly presented the new m... More
Cloches (dish covers), coolers, soup tureens, sauceboats, salt cellars...
A confidante of the Russian empress commissioned this 140-piece service, several items of which are displayed here. Silversmith Odiot, the painter Prud’hon and the architect Cavelier proudly presented the new m... More
Cloches (dish covers), coolers, soup tureens, sauceboats, salt cellars...
A confidante of the Russian empress commissioned this 140-piece service, several items of which are displayed here. Silversmith Odiot, the painter Prud’hon and the architect Cavelier proudly presented the new m... More
Cloches (dish covers), coolers, soup tureens, sauceboats, salt cellars...
A confidante of the Russian empress commissioned this 140-piece service, several items of which are displayed here. Silversmith Odiot, the painter Prud’hon and the architect Cavelier proudly presented the new m... More
Cloches (dish covers), coolers, soup tureens, sauceboats, salt cellars...
A confidante of the Russian empress commissioned this 140-piece service, several items of which are displayed here. Silversmith Odiot, the painter Prud’hon and the architect Cavelier proudly presented the new m... More
Cloches (dish covers), coolers, soup tureens, sauceboats, salt cellars...
A confidante of the Russian empress commissioned this 140-piece service, several items of which are displayed here. Silversmith Odiot, the painter Prud’hon and the architect Cavelier proudly presented the new m... More
Cloches (dish covers), coolers, soup tureens, sauceboats, salt cellars...
A confidante of the Russian empress commissioned this 140-piece service, several items of which are displayed here. Silversmith Odiot, the painter Prud’hon and the architect Cavelier proudly presented the new m... More
Photo of Toilet mirror - Public domain dedication
This mirror was the showpiece of an extensive toilet service that the Dutch king William I ordered as a wedding gift for his daughter, Princess Marianne, who married Prince Albert of Prussia in 1830. For this m... More
Gold-Covered Sofa, 19th century
Public domain photograph of 3d object, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
484 Main Street, Wilbraham, Wilbraham Massachusetts
A view of the front and side of a large house with a woman in a dress and hat seated on the step and a man in a dark suit and bowler hat seated on a chair in the front yard. The house is a large, two and a half... More
217-219 East Main Street, 217-219 East Main Street, Madison, Jefferson...
Significance: The Masonic building in the Second Empire style dominates this row of excellent surviving examples of mid-to-late nineteenth-century commercial architecture. Unprocessed Field note material exist... More
Annie A. Cole House, 1400-1402 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washing...
Significance: The original house (later known as #1402) is a good example of the Second Empire Style. The house underwent an interesting evolution with the addition of what would become known as #1400 by the n... More
Feature 174: 112 West Lexington Avenue (in 2011)
Classification: Contributing. Historic Name: Jackson County Courthouse. Architectural Style: Colonial Revival. Construction Date: 1836/1848/1872/1907/1933. Period 3 of Harry S Truman's Life: Developing Pol... More
The Second-Empire-style Evans-Webber House in Salem, Virginia
Built in 1882 by John Evans. Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, subject note,... More
The 1882 Second Empire-style Bloom Mansion Museum, part of a block-lon...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More
The 1882 Second Empire-style Bloom Mansion Museum, part of a block-lon...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More
Aerial view focusing on the Wentworth Mansion in Charleston, South Car...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Completed in 1886, the mansion was built as a private residence for Francis Silas Rodgers, a wealthy cotton merchant, in the Second Em... More
The Parker County Courthouse in Weatherford, Texas, west of Fort Worth
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The French Second Empire-style building was constructed in 1884-1886. The architect was W. C. Dodson, who was also the architect for ... More
Statue of Ben Milam at the Milam County, Texas, courthouse in Cameron,...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed by architect A.O. Watson of Austin, the courthouse at one time featured a Second Empire-style roof and a cupola with a four-... More
The Shackelford County Courthouse in Albany, Texas
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The 1883 courthouse was the first to be restored under the Texas Historical Commission's Courthouse Preservation Program. It was rede... More
The Shackelford County Courthouse in Albany, Texas
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The 1883 courthouse was the first to be restored under the Texas Historical Commission's Courthouse Preservation Program. It was rede... More
The Shackelford County Courthouse in Albany, Texas
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The 1883 courthouse was the first to be restored under the Texas Historical Commission's Courthouse Preservation Program. It was rede... More
The Milam County, Texas, courthouse in Cameron, Texas, the fourth stru...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed by architect A.O. Watson of Austin, the courthouse at one time featured a Second Empire-style roof and a cupola with a four-... More
The Presidio County Courthouse in Marfa, Texas
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Built in 1886, it is an example of Second Empire style, with projecting surfaces and Mansard-style roofs that were in fashion in Euro... More
The Milam County, Texas, courthouse in Cameron, Texas, the fourth stru...
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Designed by architect A.O. Watson of Austin, the courthouse at one time featured a Second Empire-style roof and a cupola with a four-... More
The Shackelford County Courthouse in Albany, Texas
Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The 1883 courthouse was the first to be restored under the Texas Historical Commission's Courthouse Preservation Program. It was rede... More
The Coryell County Courthouse in Gatesville, Texas. Architect W.C. Dod...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More
The Coryell County Courthouse in Gatesville, Texas. Architect W.C. Dod...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More
The Coryell County Courthouse in Gatesville, Texas. Architect W.C. Dod...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More
Woodburn Hall, first known as University Hall, is the central and domi...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. It was built between 1874 and 1876, and like its neighbor, the earlier Martin Hall, is in a predominantly red brick Second Empire styl... More
The James H. Ward House in Lafayette, Indiana, built in about 1875, is...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. On the property is a sizable carriage house. Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints a... More
A close up of a drawer with a knob on it. Box handle knauf.
Visual patterns: A style walnut and marble chest / A french empire style mahogany dressing table - public domain stock photo.
A wooden chair with a beige upholstered seat. Armchair furnishing deco...
A very nice set of chairs. A pair of french empire style chairs. Public domain stock photo.
Building historic yellow building. A large yellow building with column...
Architecture stock photograph: The building where the hotel is located / A large yellow building with columns and windows.
Second Empire-style historic house in Seneca Falls, New York
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:052-2) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Ca... More
The Second Empire-style McGraw Hall, designed by Archimedes N. Russell...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:052-2) Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Ca... More
Gambrill Mansion, National Parks gallery
Front elevation of the Gambrill Mansion, one of the few full-scale Empire Style buildings. In 1873, Gambrill built the distinctive brick mansion on a hillside of the property separate from the mill. It is one o... More
Panelled room: French. Style of the régence. Carved oak chair, Le Gard...
Picryl description: Public domain photo of French art painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Finns Point National Cemetery, Lodge, Ft. Mott Road, Salem, Salem Coun...
Significance: The lodge at Finn's Point is the most intact example of the two-story, stripped-down Second Empire style design for the superintendent lodges approved by the Office of the Quartermaster General in... More
Finns Point National Cemetery, Lodge, Ft. Mott Road, Salem, Salem Coun...
Significance: The lodge at Finn's Point is the most intact example of the two-story, stripped-down Second Empire style design for the superintendent lodges approved by the Office of the Quartermaster General in... More
Finns Point National Cemetery, Lodge, Ft. Mott Road, Salem, Salem Coun...
Significance: The lodge at Finn's Point is the most intact example of the two-story, stripped-down Second Empire style design for the superintendent lodges approved by the Office of the Quartermaster General in... More
Finns Point National Cemetery, Lodge, Ft. Mott Road, Salem, Salem Coun...
Significance: The lodge at Finn's Point is the most intact example of the two-story, stripped-down Second Empire style design for the superintendent lodges approved by the Office of the Quartermaster General in... More
Finns Point National Cemetery, Lodge, Ft. Mott Road, Salem, Salem Coun...
Significance: The lodge at Finn's Point is the most intact example of the two-story, stripped-down Second Empire style design for the superintendent lodges approved by the Office of the Quartermaster General in... More
Finns Point National Cemetery, Lodge, Ft. Mott Road, Salem, Salem Coun...
Significance: The lodge at Finn's Point is the most intact example of the two-story, stripped-down Second Empire style design for the superintendent lodges approved by the Office of the Quartermaster General in... More
Public domain photograph of weaving textile, free to use, no copyright...
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of weaving textile, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Obama china service - coffee cup 02 2015 (17135781680)
A coffee cup in the Obama White House china service, which was introduced on April 27, 2015. This photograph was taken by a White House photographer. As the work of an employee of the federal government created... More
Obama china service - charger plate 02 2015 (17322930811)
A "charger" plate in the Obama White House china service, which was introduced on April 27, 2015. This photograph was taken by a White House photographer. As the work of an employee of the federal government cr... More
Obama china service - charger plates in use 2015 (17322930541)
Charger plates in the Obama White House china service, set for the state dinner for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the White House in Washington, D.C., on April 28, 2015. This photograph was taken by a W... More
Obama china service - luncheon plate for Shinzo Abe (17322929431)
A dinner plate from the Obama White House china service, plated for use during the state dinner for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the White House in Washington, D.C., on April 28, 2015. This photograph ... More
Obama china service - luncheon plate in use (17323341675)
A dinner plate from the Obama White House china service, plated for use during the state dinner for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the White House in Washington, D.C., on April 28, 2015. This photograph ... More
James Madison State Dept china 1806 (17137110669)
A dinner plate in the Empire style, purchased by then-Secretary of State James Madison in 1806. This photograph was taken by a Smithsonian Institution photographer. As the work of an employee of the federal gov... More
Obama china service - tureen 2015 (17137107859)
A dinner plate from the Obama White House china service, plated for use during the state dinner for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the White House in Washington, D.C., on April 28, 2015. This photograph ... More
Obama china service 2015 (17322928521)
The new Obama White House china service on display in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., in the United States on April 27, 2015. This photograph was taken by a White House photographe... More
Victoria Row 1890 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Victoria Row, on the south side of King Street, west of Church. It was built in the early 1840s for James McDonell, a government clerk who had inherited property in the city and who wanted to exploit its financ... More
Fersman's Catalog. Diadem with a pink diamond in Empire style.
Diadem with a pink diamond in Empire style. She belonged to the Empress Maria Feodorovna, the wife of Emperor Paul I. It was made around 1810.The only diadem of this catalog, which to this day is in Russia (D... More
Dexter Horton home, 3rd and Seneca, Seattle, circa 1875 (MOHAI 9515)
In 1853 Dexter Horton (1825-1904) came to Seattle with his first wife, Hannah Eliza (Shoudy) Horton (1828-1871), and their daughter, Rebecca. Developing a reputation as an honest businessman, he established the... More
Elizabeth and Martin Stacy home, 3rd and Marion, Seattle, 1885 (MOHAI ...
In 1885 real estate investor Martin Van Buren Stacy (1837-1901) and his wife, Elizabeth A. Briggs Stacy (1824-1904), spent approximately $50,000 to erect their second home in Seattle, located at Third Avenue an... More
Mount (USA), mid–late 19th century (CH 18153079)
One of three matching bracket pilaster mounts. Empire style with pendant tongues decorated with palmetto below a frieze of rosettes
Portrait of a Seated Young Lady by Anna Maria Von Phul
Watercolor sketch of seated young woman with a book; she wears Empire-style white dress and is seated in a French-influenced chair with curved back and leg.Title: Portrait of a Seated Young Lady by Anna Maria Von Phul
Blue Room in Longfellow House, 1917 (fe76770c-9133-403b-ab65-ff5f9d5e3...
Black and white photograph of 19th century guest room featuring empire style furniture. Blue Room in Longfellow House, view of north wall and northwest corner. White lettering printed from negative lower right... More
Blue Room in Longfellow House, 1917 (3778e623-8048-4065-9c4a-4abf4fe2f...
Black and white photograph of 19th century guest room featuring empire style furniture. Blue Room in Longfellow House, view of north wall and northwest corner. White lettering printed from negative lower right... More
Drawing, Interior with a Man Reading at His Desk, 1827 (CH 18708101)
This large charcoal drawing shows a man seated at his desk, reading a document. A tole lamp in the Empire style gives off a bright light. A small child appears to be feeding paper into the fireplace; a tea kett... More
Drawing, Design for Bedroom Furniture, ca. 1810 (CH 18109711)
Design for an Empire style bedroom. At center, a couch with one scrolling arm stands on a platform. At right, a classical stand with an ewer. At left, a column inscribed “la bonne desse” (the good goddess). Ato... More
Dado (France), 1815–25 (CH 18424861)
Empire style dado fragment. On light, bright green ground, horizontal rectangle outlined and shaded in green and white to simulate raised panel, corners filled with symmetrical acanthus, flowers and berries in ... More
Dado (France), 1815–25 (CH 18424861-2)
Empire style dado fragment. On light, bright green ground, horizontal rectangle outlined and shaded in green and white to simulate raised panel, corners filled with symmetrical acanthus, flowers and berries in ... More
Frieze (France), 1810–20 (CH 18424859)
Empire-style frieze. Pale gray ground with affronted grisaille swans amidst foliage, represented as if in relief. At top, border, illusionistically shaded border simulating architectural ornament, in ochers and... More
Frieze (France), 1810–20 (CH 18424859-2)
Empire-style frieze. Pale gray ground with affronted grisaille swans amidst foliage, represented as if in relief. At top, border, illusionistically shaded border simulating architectural ornament, in ochers and... More
Frieze (France), 1810–20 (CH 18424859-3)
Empire-style frieze. Pale gray ground with affronted grisaille swans amidst foliage, represented as if in relief. At top, border, illusionistically shaded border simulating architectural ornament, in ochers and... More
Scenic, Psyche Bringing Venus a Goblet of Water from the Fountain of Y...
One scene from the twelve which illustrate the story of Cupid and Psyche. This scene, containing three panels, shows a kneeling Psyche offering a goblet to a seated Venus. Cupid, leaning on his bow, stands on a... More
Ribbon, early 19th century (CH 18445611)
Empire-style ribbon fragment has light blue borders with a wavy line pattern. Central portion is white with a curling sprig pattern in dark yellow.
Textile, 1800–1825 (CH 18480151)
Continuous stripe pattern in yellow, tan and red on red ground showing symmetrical leaf clusters and rosettes in the Empire style. Compound weave of two structures: 5-harness satin weave foundation with 3/1 twi... More
Textile, 1800–1825 (CH 18480151-2)
Continuous stripe pattern in yellow, tan and red on red ground showing symmetrical leaf clusters and rosettes in the Empire style. Compound weave of two structures: 5-harness satin weave foundation with 3/1 twi... More
Textile, 1818–24 (CH 18425495) - Public domain dedication image
Printed in brown with scenes of country dancing, drinking and courtship. Some men in uniform of Napoleonic era with tricorne. Women in Empire-style light dresses; some in 18th century-style court dress. Scenes ... More
Textile, Charmeur d'Oiseaux, ca. 1825 (CH 18387381)
Heavy natural-colored cotton printed with a straight repeat of a crude block printed design. Picotage ground with a seated man with a bird perched on a finger, child at knee, standing woman with a basket on her... More
Scarf (France), 19th century (CH 18383713)
Three cornered lace scarf. Probably Empire style. Public domain photograph of textile sample, pattern, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Victoria Row 1890 Toronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Victoria Row, on the south side of King Street, west of Church. It was built in the early 1840s for James McDonell, a government clerk who had inherited property in the city and who wanted to exploit its financ... More
Crocker Art Gallery, 216 O Street, Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA
Significance: The two buildings now called the Crocker Art Gallery and Annex are a fascinating palimpsest of the social and architectural history of later 19th century Sacramento, consisting of the original Art... More
Crocker Art Gallery, 216 O Street, Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA
Significance: The two buildings now called the Crocker Art Gallery and Annex are a fascinating palimpsest of the social and architectural history of later 19th century Sacramento, consisting of the original Art... More
Crocker Art Gallery, 216 O Street, Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA
Significance: The two buildings now called the Crocker Art Gallery and Annex are a fascinating palimpsest of the social and architectural history of later 19th century Sacramento, consisting of the original Art... More
Crocker Art Gallery, 216 O Street, Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA
Significance: The two buildings now called the Crocker Art Gallery and Annex are a fascinating palimpsest of the social and architectural history of later 19th century Sacramento, consisting of the original Art... More
Crocker Art Gallery, 216 O Street, Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA
Significance: The two buildings now called the Crocker Art Gallery and Annex are a fascinating palimpsest of the social and architectural history of later 19th century Sacramento, consisting of the original Art... More
Crocker Art Gallery, 216 O Street, Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA
Significance: The two buildings now called the Crocker Art Gallery and Annex are a fascinating palimpsest of the social and architectural history of later 19th century Sacramento, consisting of the original Art... More
Crocker Art Gallery, 216 O Street, Sacramento, Sacramento County, CA
Significance: The two buildings now called the Crocker Art Gallery and Annex are a fascinating palimpsest of the social and architectural history of later 19th century Sacramento, consisting of the original Art... More