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Yale University Art Gallery

1,302 works

Charcoal and white chalk study of a hand gripping a pole on gray paper.

Sketch of one hand grasping a pole

Edwin Austin Abbey

Lithograph of San Francisco with a hillside town, hills, and a harbor filled with sailing ships, viewed from a wooded foregro

View of San Francisco, 1850

Peter S. Duval, 1850

Etching of a moored sailing boat with tall mast beside a riverbank, a small house and figures on the shore.

La Barque amarrée (The Moored Boat)

Johan Barthold Jongkind, 1862

Loose watercolor sketch of a figure in a long robe standing beside a large tree with a spreading canopy on gray paper.

Figures standing beneath a tree - (unidentified illustration)

Edwin Austin Abbey

Etching of fishermen mending nets on a quay beside boats, with a lighthouse and masted ships in the harbor behind.

Les Recommondeurs des Fillets

Etching of the Pantheon in Rome showing its columned portico, pediment and dome, with people in the street below.

Veduta del Pantheon d'Agrippa oggi Chiesa di S. Maria ad Martyre (View of the Pantheon of Agrippa, today Santa Maria…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1761

Pencil sketches of primrose-like flowers and leaves in several clusters on a pale sheet of paper.

Studies of flowers

Edwin Austin Abbey

Etching of a flooded hovel by a river with willow trees, a rowing boat with figures, a stone bridge and a distant windmill.

La masure inondée (Vendée) (The Flooded Hovel [Vendee])

Louis Auguste Lepère, 1910

Multicolored print of figures beside a tall tree and shrubs on a riverbank, with hills in the distance.

Figures Beside the Sea (Personnages au bord de la mer), from Landscapes (Paysages)

Ker Xavier Roussel, 1895

Portrait of a man, left profile, writing at desk

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1878

Etching of the Basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano with statues on its roof, carriages in the square, and seated figures in

Veduta della Basilica di S. Giovanni Laterano (View of the Basilica of San Giovanni Laterano), from Vedute di Roma (V…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1749

Woodcut of two cloaked figures joined by a canopy of fabric, surrounded by a crowd of grimacing skeletal faces.

Totentanz II (Dance of Death II)

Ernst Barlach, 1922

Pen and ink sketch of gabled rooftops, chimneys, shuttered windows and a leafy tree on paper.

Sketch of an exterior: buildings and tree

Edwin Austin Abbey

Etching of a still pool at dusk with slender trees on the left, a shadowed bank on the right, and birds over the water.

Pool (?)

Adolphe Appian, 1875

Engraving of Fairman's stone mansion and a large treaty tree with pedestrians on a path and a river with a sailboat.

Fairman's Mansion & Treaty Tree (Kensington on Delaware - Philadelphia)

John Serz, 1850

Pencil sketch of seated figures in an interior, a couple in the foreground with onlookers gathered around them.

Sketch of a couple playing a game, surrounded by onlookers, in an interior (?) - unidentified illustration

Edwin Austin Abbey

Hand-colored print of mounted American officers before a flag, with troops, cannon and smoke during the Battle of New Orleans

Battle of New Orleans

James W. Steel, 1815

Etching of a sailing fishing boat anchored near rocky cliffs and calm water, with a figure on the shore at right.

Barque de pecheurs faisant escale les roches de Collioure (Pyrenees Orientales)

Adolphe Appian, 1878

Watercolor of a plumed sentry with a musket on a wall, a second figure at right, cannon and city skyline behind.

Two sentries atop a fortress wall

Edwin Austin Abbey

Print of a lion attacking a fallen horse beside a rocky cave, drawn with fine hatching lines.

Lion dévorant un cheval (A Lion Devouring a Horse)

Théodore Géricault, 1820

Etching of a bearded dockworker in a cap in the foreground, with a steamship and masts at a harbor behind him.

Dockworker, Caen

Pen and ink sketch of a child holding a banner beside a drummer, with New Year greeting text by Edwin Austin Abbey.

Sketch for a greeting card: All Good WIshes for the New Year from M.G. and E.A. Abbey

Edwin Austin Abbey

Etching of a windmill beside a frozen canal with skaters, and a Dutch village with a church spire in the distance.

Vue de la ville de Maaslins (Hollande) [View of the Village of Maaslins (Holland)]

Johan Barthold Jongkind, 1862

Grey wash drawing of a rustic saloon with a stone fireplace, a seated man by a doorway, and names scrawled on the wall.

Grand Saloon in the Hotel Conway

Alfred Wordsworth Thompson

Pencil sketch of a stooped old man in a long robe holding a bowl while several cats gather around his feet.

Old Man feeding his cats

Edwin Austin Abbey

Etching of a river scene with tall poplars, a leaning tree, and a figure poling a punt boat on the water.

Bords de la Somme Pres d'Amiens

Alphonse Legros

Hand-colored engraving of the Bank of the United States in Philadelphia, with columns, an eagle pediment, and pedestrians on

The Bank of the United States of America (Philadelphia)

James Mérigot, 1807

Charcoal and white chalk study of an extended hand with fingers spread, drawn on tan paper.

Sketch of a hand (recto); Composition studies for a play (?) (verso)

Edwin Austin Abbey

Engraving of women in long dresses watching a shopkeeper weigh goods on a scale in a crowded country store with barrels.

A Country Store -- Getting Weighed, from Every Saturday, March 25, 1871

Winslow Homer, 1871

Etching of a canal beside baroque palace galleries in Dresden, with a wooden bridge, trees, swans and city rooftops.

View of the Zwinger, Dresden

Bernardo Bellotto, 1758

Pencil sketch of a man in a top hat on horseback, with a partial study of a horse's hindquarters to the right.

Man on horseback

Edwin Austin Abbey

Etching of a man leading a donkey carrying a woman and child past a statue on a pedestal in a wooded landscape.

The Holy Family Passing Near a Statue, from the series Idee pittoresche sopra la fuga in Egitto (Flight into Egypt)

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1750

Woodblock print of red-tinted Mount Fuji under blue sky with streaked white clouds and dark green forest below.

South Wind at Clear Dawn, also known as Red Fuji, from the series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji

Katsushika Hokusai, 1831

Watercolor and ink sketch of women in bonnets and a standing man seated in a room with chairs.

Sketch of women in an interior - unidentified illustration

Edwin Austin Abbey

Two lithograph panels: a man recoiling from steaming shaving water, and a top-hatted man stepping onto thin winter ice.

L'Eau Est Trop Chaude

Paul Gavarni, 1839

Etching of a rural cottage with chimneys, tall trees, a dirt road, and a woman in white standing near a fence.

La Nourrice (The Nursemaid)

Johan Barthold Jongkind, 1862

Pencil sketch of a small plain meeting house with two doors among trees, with a seated man in a hat by a wooden fence.

View of the Friends Meeting House

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1866

Pencil sketch of nude male figures, a rearing horse, dog heads and limb studies on pale paper.

Studies of Figures, Horses and Dogs

Eugène Delacroix

Etched landscape of a gnarled tree with exposed roots beside a pond bordered by rocks and trees under a cloudy sky.

Landscape with Pond Bordered by Rocks and Trees

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich

Grey wash drawing of men in a rowboat with a horn player, figures running on a shore with trees, and a distant ship.

Men in rowboat fleeing Indians on shore - unidentified illustration (Columbus discovering New World?) - explorers lan…

Edwin Austin Abbey

Etching of a windswept row of trees on a hill with a small domed building and two figures in the foreground.

Paysage d'Italie (Landscape of Italy)

Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, 1865

Engraved panoramic view of Boston harbor and church spires from a rural hillside with grazing sheep and sailing ships.

A View of Boston taken on the road to Dorchester

James Newton, 1776

Grey wash sketch of a river with a pale water expanse and dark shrubs and trees along the right bank.

Landscape by a river

Edwin Austin Abbey

Etching of two large trees over a stone wall, with a seated fisherman by the water and an open field beyond.

Environs de Rix (Ain)

Adolphe Appian, 1864

Etching of a heraldic shield with crown, a trumpeting angel, a figure on a donkey, and a castle city at right.

The Arms of Carl Phillipp von Greiffenklau, from the series Idee pittoresche sopra la fuga in Egitto (Flight into Egypt)

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1750

Pencil sketch of four men in a tavern-like gathering, three seated and one standing, one raising a mug.

Study for .1212 - illustration for Oliver Goldsmith's The Deserted Village (London and New York: 1902)

Edwin Austin Abbey

Etching of a stream bank with rocks and bare trees, where a seated woman and a small dog rest beside the water.

Bords du ruisseau a Rossilon (Ain)

Adolphe Appian, 1867

Etching of the Holy Family on a donkey on a rocky path, with a palm tree and a shepherd with goats at left.

The Holy Family on a Rocky Path, from the series Idee pittoresche sulla fuga in Egitto (Flight into Egypt)

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1750

Pencil sketch of a country house exterior with shuttered windows, a wooden fence, and an open landscape beyond.

Sketch of an exterior of a country house

Edwin Austin Abbey

Hand-colored lithograph of cows wading in a calm river beside tall trees, with distant hills and a pale sky.

View On the Housatonic

C. H. Moore, 1867

Etching of a thatched cottage and hay barn beside trees and a flat meadow, with a distant town and a small walking figure.

Landscape with a Cottage and Hay Barn: Oblong

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1641

Pencil sketch of a seated figure reaching an arm out, with a reclining figure at upper left, study for a mural.

Figure study for "Spirit of Light" mural at the State Capitol building in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 1902-1911 (comple…

Edwin Austin Abbey

Etching of a dusky Paris street with a horse and cart, pedestrians, a lamppost, a stone wall, and church tower under cloudy s

Sortie de la Maison Cochin (Faubourg Saint-Jacques) [Exit from the Cochin House (Faubourg Saint-Jacques)]

Johan Barthold Jongkind, 1878

Lithograph of two horsemen with spears driving charging bulls across ground, with a dog running beside the herd.

Bouchers de Rome (Roman Butchers)

Pierre-Augustin Massé, 1817

Pencil and grey wash sketch of a horse and standing figure beside a dark tankard shape on pale paper.

Sketch of a tankard

Edwin Austin Abbey

Engraved print of four oval portraits of Washington, Jefferson, Madison and Adams beneath swagged drapery and a star.

(Washington) Thomas Jefferson. - James Madison. - John Adams

Thomas Gimbrede, 1812

Etching of the Pyramid of Gaius Cestius in Rome, with ruins, overgrown trees, a city wall, and small figures at its base.

Piramide di C. Cestio (Pyramid of Gaius Cestius), from Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1756

Watercolor sketch of shrubs and slender trees with green foliage above a reddish-brown ground on grey paper.

Landscape with trees

Edwin Austin Abbey

Etched title page with windmills on a shoreline, a tree and chimney, and handwritten text reading Cahier de Six Eaux-fortes,

Titre du cahier de six eaux-fortes (Title of the notebook of six etchings)

Johan Barthold Jongkind, 1862

Etching of tall overgrown Roman brick ruins with arches, receding walls, trees and small figures under a cloudy sky.

Veduta degli Avanzi della Circonferenza delle antiche Fabbriche di una delle Piazze della Villa Adriana oggidi chiama…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1776

Pencil sketch of a rocky landscape with a large tree trunk on the left, a fence, and loose hatched shading on boulders.

Sketch of a landscape with tree, fence and female figure

Edwin Austin Abbey

Etching of a bare winter landscape with leafless trees, a fallen trunk, two small figures, and birds in the sky.

Paysage. Hiver. [Winter Landscape]

Charles Émile Jacque, 1846

Pencil sketch of a saddled horse walking right, with a faint second horse study at left on pale paper.

Sketch of a Horse

Théodore Géricault, 1817

Pen and ink sketch sheet with a bottle at left and several quick studies of heads in caps and hats.

Studies of bottle and heads

Edwin Austin Abbey