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Yale University Art Gallery

1,301 works

Horizontal panel of a hunt, a colonnaded court with gilded figures, and city builders with a crane and ships, framed in gold.

Aeneas at Carthage

Apollonio di Giovanni, 1450

Painting of a haloed nun kneeling before a pope and cardinals, with blessed bread on a table in a blue-walled room.

Saint Clare of Assisi Blessing the Bread before Pope Innocent IV

Giovanni di Paolo, 1455

Painting of children playing in shallow surf with a crowd and parasols on the beach behind them.

Beach Scene (or Sunday on the Beach)

Edward Henry Potthast, 1915

Painted panel of a gilded royal procession under arched loggias, with horsemen and a city in the background.

Meeting of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba

Apollonio di Giovanni, 1440

Classical female figure with laurel wreath holding a scroll, framed by scrolling ribbons on a gold semicircular ground.

Poetry

Elihu Vedder, 1893

Still life with turnips, bread, a stoneware jug, wine glass, and a newspaper on a wooden table.

Munchener Bote

William Harnett, 1881

Painting of a devastated Dutch city with church towers, smoking ruins, scattered debris and figures in the foreground.

The Explosion of the Powder Magazine in Delft, 1654

Egbert van der Poel, 1654

Bounty

Elihu Vedder, 1893

Still life painting of a wicker basket of peaches with leaves, grapes, grape leaves and a silver knife on a table.

Nature morte au panier de pêches Still Life with a Basket of Peaches

Raphaelle Peale, 1816

Painting of visitors at a sculpture exhibition, with a bronze bust, classical statues, palms, and a woman reading in the fore

At the Sculpture Exhibition

Charles Courtney Curran, 1895

Lunette painting of a draped woman holding a gold casket and chain inside a laurel wreath, with ribbon scrollwork on gold.

Wealth

Elihu Vedder, 1893

Dark forest painting with trees framing a glowing golden light breaking through the canopy into a clearing.

Late Afternoon

Ralph Albert Blakelock

Landscape painting of a plank footbridge, tall trees, grazing cows and distant hills under a cloudy sky.

Landscape

William Trost Richards, 1860

Semicircular panel showing a dancing woman in classical dress holding comic and tragic masks inside a laurel wreath, on gold

Drama

Elihu Vedder, 1893

Dark painted landscape of seated figures in a forest clearing under trees, with a glowing horizon at dusk.

Moonlit Landscape with Indian

Ralph Albert Blakelock, 1880

Fan painting of a dark bird on a bean plant branch beneath a pale moon, with calligraphy and a red seal.

Harvest Moon and Raven Bean with Haiku

Semicircular painting of a classical female figure holding a trumpet and laurel wreath, framed by a laurel ring and gold scro

Fame

Elihu Vedder, 1893

Oil painting of an older man showing a microscope to two children at a candlelit table, with a woman standing nearby.

The Microscope

Robert Walter Weir, 1849

Fan-shaped painting of a spider spinning a web beside red blossoms, green leaves, and a bare branch, with calligraphy at left

Spider Spinning Its Web

Lunette painting of a dancing woman holding pan pipes and a tambourine within a laurel wreath on a gold ground.

Music

Elihu Vedder, 1893

Twilight seascape with a tall sailing ship at anchor, a rowboat, and a white lighthouse on a rocky point under a dusky sky.

Lighthouse at Camden, Maine

Fitz Henry Lane, 1851

Painting of Venus with a cupid and muscular smiths at a forge, with putti handling armor under a stormy sky.

Venus at the Forge of Vulcan, also known as “Thetis receives the Arms of Achilles”

Theodoor van Thulden

Gilded lunette showing a dancing woman with grapes and a cup inside a laurel wreath, framed by pink and grey ribbons.

Frivolity

Elihu Vedder, 1893

Painting of a calm inlet at sunset with grazing cows, a sailboat, a tree, and a seated figure sketching in the foreground.

New England Inlet with Self-Portrait

Fitz Henry Lane, 1848

Fan-shaped ink and color landscape with craggy mountains, pine trees, and distant hills, with calligraphy and red seals.

Landscape in the Style of Huang Gongwang

Wang Yuanqi, 1712

Oil painting of a snowy river with a stone bridge, historic buildings, a tower and a horse-drawn carriage under a grey sky.

Paris in Winter

Pierre Dumont, 1912

Lunette painting of two draped women in pink with wheat and flower garland before blossoming branches.

Ceres and Proserpine Reunited

H. Siddons Mowbray, 1893

Snowy riverbank with bare trees, moored boats along a dock, and a wooden house, painted in pale winter tones.

Harlem River Winter Scene

Ernest Lawson, 1910

Abstract painting of interlocking angular shapes in red, black, white, blue and green, by Patrick Henry Bruce, 1916.

Composition II

Patrick Henry Bruce, 1916

Reclining female muse with laurel wreath holding a brush beside an easel, palette and brush vase, in a pink robe.

Muse of Painting

H. Siddons Mowbray, 1893