1750–1830
Neoclassical
Restraint, borrowed from antiquity
After a century of ornament, the line goes straight. Neoclassical design looks back at Greece and Rome and takes the calm parts: columns, urns, symmetry that rests rather than performs.
It is also the parent of most of the names in this museum. Empire, Regency, Biedermeier, Louis XVI and American Empire are all Neoclassical — different countries answering the same idea.
What to look for
Straight legs, unadorned planes, and ornament confined to a single band or a classical motif.
Within this
Each has its own page, with its own searches.
Search the collection
The searches this style is worth looking at. Each opens the collection for it.
- Neoclassical commode
- Neoclassical console table
- Swedish Gustavian furniture
- Adam style sideboard
- Louis XVI furniture
- French Directoire chair
- Neoclassical plaster relief
- Federal furniture
- Neoclassical bronze bust
- Gustavian console table
- Neoclassical mahogany desk
- Russian Neoclassical furniture
- Georgian Chippendale chair
- Georgian Hepplewhite sideboard
- Georgian mahogany desk
- Georgian four-poster bed
- Sheraton style furniture
- Georgian silver teapot
- Georgian corner cabinet
- Mahogany dining chair
- Georgian bureau
- Georgian mirror
- Georgian console table
- Hepplewhite style furniture
- Louis XVI console table
- Louis XVI writing desk
- Louis XVI armchair
- Louis XVI commode
- Neoclassical style furniture
- Sèvres porcelain
- Louis XVI fauteuil
- Demilune console table
- French Neoclassical commode
- Louis XVI style Duchesse Brisée
- Cylinder desk
- Giltwood Neoclassical mirror
- French Empire desk
- Empire chest of drawers
- Empire sofa
- Swedish Karl Johan furniture
- Mahogany Empire commode
- Egyptian revival furniture
- Empire bronze clock
- Klismos chair
- Empire ormolu mounted furniture
- Russian Empire furniture
- Empire console table
- Giltwood Empire mirror
- Regency mahogany dining table
- Regency commode
- Regency console table
- Regency writing desk
- Regency brass inlay furniture
- Regency sofa
- Regency side chair
- Regency bergère chair
- Giltwood Regency mirror
- Regency library table
- Rosewood Regency cabinet
- Regency bronze candelabra
- Biedermeier chest of drawers
- Biedermeier dining table
- Biedermeier secretary desk
- Biedermeier sofa
- Biedermeier armchair
- Birch Biedermeier furniture
- Biedermeier parlor set
- Biedermeier fruitwood cabinet
- Biedermeier console table
- Austrian Biedermeier chair
- Biedermeier mirror
- Biedermeier portrait
- Federal style sideboard
- Federal shield back chair
- Federal style mahogany desk
- Federal style clock
- Federal mirror with gilt eagle
- Satinwood inlaid furniture
- Federal chest of drawers
- Duncan Phyfe table
- Federal sofa
- Inlaid mahogany desk
- Federal dining chairs
- Federal tall case clock
- American Empire chest of drawers
- American Empire sofa
- American Empire secretary desk
- American Empire mahogany table
- American Empire mahogany console table
- American Empire side chair
- American Empire bed
- American Empire giltwood mirror
- American Empire mahogany sideboard
- American Empire console table
- American Empire upholstered chair