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Yale University Art Gallery

1,301 works

Ink painting of a boy in a conical hat riding a water buffalo beneath gnarled trees, with scattered leaves on the ground.

Herd Boy

Hishida Shunsō

Painting of green and yellow plums heaped in a white bowl on a white cloth, painted in loose, faceted brushstrokes.

Plums

Patrick Henry Bruce, 1912

Lunette painting of a woman holding pan pipes beside a column, with a reclining cherub and green foliage on a gold background

Muse of Music

H. Siddons Mowbray, 1893

Ink painting of bamboo stalks and leaves on a folding screen, with calligraphy and a seal in the upper right corner.

Moonlight Bamboo

Ike no Taiga, 1758

Abstract painting of overlapping angular shapes in red, black, blue, green, yellow and white with textured brushwork.

Composition IV

Patrick Henry Bruce, 1916

Reclining woman in pink robes holds up a glowing light bulb beside leaves, with glass jars and wires on a table.

Muse of Electricity

H. Siddons Mowbray, 1893

Old Scholar and Mind Landscape

Painting of worn old books with brown, orange and green bindings leaning on a shelf against a dark background.

Nine Book

John Frederick Peto, 1890

Seated woman with red hair and laurel wreath playing a golden lyre, in pink and red robes, against olive green in a half-roun

Muse of Lyric Poetry

H. Siddons Mowbray, 1893

Gilded altarpiece panel: left, Crucifixion with kneeling Mary Magdalene; right, Christ crowning the Virgin Mary amid angels a

The Coronation of the Virgin

Jacopo di Cione, 1375

Dark Gothic church interior with a ceremony at a raised altar, columns, stained glass, and small figures in the foreground.

The Circumcision of Christ

François de Nomé, 1623

Seated classical woman in a laurel wreath, red drapery and scroll, against an olive background with laurel branches.

Muse of Tragedy

H. Siddons Mowbray, 1893

Painting of a rural schoolroom with a teacher seated at a table and children reading near a stove and windows.

A Country School

Edward Lamson Henry, 1890

Gilded wooden cassone chest with painted panels of horsemen and a carriage, flanked by columns and a central coat-of-arms.

Cassone: The Story of Palaemon and Arcites from Boccaccio’s Teseida with a coat-of-arms (front); Putti bearing coat-o…

Giovanni dal Ponte, 1420

Reclining woman with a comic mask staff, wearing pink and white draped robes, with laurel branches on an olive background.

Muse of Comedy

H. Siddons Mowbray, 1893

Painting of a stone house with green shutters, a horse carriage, pedestrians, and blooming shrubs on a city street.

The John Hancock House

Edward Lamson Henry, 1865

Gilded panel of figures in a garden around an octagonal fountain, with dark trees and birds against gold.

Garden of Love

Giovanni dal Ponte, 1430

Reclining woman in laurel wreath beside a celestial globe and drafting board, with a classical column behind her.

Muse of Astronomy

H. Siddons Mowbray, 1893

Oil portrait of a seated woman in a red lace-trimmed dress and coral necklace, arm resting on a chair back.

Portrait of Dorothea A. Dreier (1870-1923)

Walter Shirlaw, 1908

Dense crowd of costumed dancers, balloons and lanterns under a dark arched night sky in a painting by Jerome Myers.

Dance Fantasy

Jerome Myers, 1923

Gilded tympanum panel showing the Nativity on the left and the Resurrection with an angel and sleeping soldiers on the right.

The Nativity and Resurrection of Christ

Cenni di Francesco, 1390

Gold-ground altarpiece panel of the Annunciation: angel Gabriel in yellow points to the Virgin in blue beside a lily and a do

The Annunciation

Niccolò di Pietro Gerini, 1380

Painting of fishermen hauling a net through stormy surf beneath a cloudy sky, with a town on a hill at right.

Seascape with Fisherman Pulling out Net

Antonio Francesco Peruzzini, 1718

Sunset painting of a plaza with a fountain, grazing goats, an ox, a covered wagon, and classical columns under orange rays.

Sunset

William Rimmer, 1876

Gold-ground panel showing a haloed saint in red, a kneeling man in blue, a black horse, and a crucifix in an arcaded loggia.

Scene From the Legend of Saint Giovanni Gualberto

Niccolò di Pietro Gerini, 1410

Landscape painting of a river valley with a tree, cliffs, a distant town, and armed men and travelers in the foreground.

The Reconciliation of Jacob and Esau

Marten van Valckenborch, 1595

Painting of a rainy Paris boulevard with pedestrians, carriages, tram tracks and a Gothic spire under a grey sky.

View of Paris

Frank Myers Boggs, 1900

Ink painting of a scholar reading in a small pavilion beside a pine tree, rocks, bamboo and a stream.

Reading at the Secluded Pine Studio (Song yin an)

Ink fan painting of willows and a pavilion beside a misty lake with distant hills, with calligraphy at upper right.

Drifting by Willows on a Lake in Spring

Painting of a cavalry battle with mounted soldiers, raised sabers, an American flag, and red-coated British troops in smoke.

Battle of Cowpen

Frederick Kemmelmeyer, 1809