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Yale University Art Gallery

681 works

Pastel portrait of a young woman with pale hair and cream dress against a dark background.

Anne Broughton (Mrs. John Gibbes)

Henrietta Johnston, 1720

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

Pencil and wash study of a man aiming a rifle from a punt while a poler stands at the stern in misty reeds.

Study for Rail Shooting from a Punt

Thomas Eakins, 1874

Pen and ink drawing of mounted men with rifles and pack horses crossing a hillside toward distant mountains.

Lewis and Clark

Charles Marion Russell, 1918

Pen sketch of two robed figures in conversation before a faint architectural backdrop, with two small head studies at right.

Sketch for "The Reconciliation of the Merhcant Taylors' with the Skinners' Company, in the time of Richard the Third"…

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1896

Pencil sketch of a classical scene with draped women, helmeted soldiers with spears, a seated figure, and columns.

Scene from the Last Act of Corneille's Rodogune(Derniere scene de Rodogune de Corneille)

Anne-Louis Girodet, 1800

Charcoal and white chalk study of a nude male figure with a lyre and staff, haloed, on grey paper.

Study for Apollo

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

Watercolor of a snowy winter field with bare trees and evergreens under a gray-purple sky, with distant buildings at left.

Untitled [Winter landscape - New Jersey]

Charles Warren Eaton, 1896

Sheet of pencil and ink studies with a shaded female figure, seated figures at a table, a cat, and small colored sketches.

Sheet of Studies for "Le Jardin Public"

Edouard Vuillard, 1893

Charcoal and chalk study of a seated jester in a diamond-patterned costume and hood, leaning on a long staff, on grey paper.

Study of Jester (unused), for the Quest of the Holy Grail (a series of fifteen paintings for the Boston Public Librar…

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1892

Pencil and white chalk sketch of several hands in poses, including one writing with a quill and one pressing a seal.

Study of hands, sketch for Signing of the Compact in the Cabin of the Mayflower

Watercolor of a young boot cleaner in a greatcoat standing before a rack of shoes on a street pavement.

The Boot Cleaner

Nicolino Calyo, 1840

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

Landscape with trees

Edwin Austin Abbey

Watercolor of a three-masted American warship with full sails leading two other ships across blue sea.

U.S.S. Brig. "Somers" with convoy, moderate breeze, (port view)

Worden Wood, 1929

Pencil drawing of two large spreading trees over a fenced lawn, with a sapling, a white building and small figures behind.

The Trees & Lawn at College and Elm Streets, New Haven

R. Bakewell, 1856

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

Pen and brown ink drawing of a striding man with a tall staff in a sketched landscape with trees.

Saint Christopher (or Saint Roch?) in a Landscape

Ludovico Carracci, 1600

Pen and watercolor drawing of a woman in a brown coat and dark hat walking on a curving path beside a tree.

Woman Walking

Jean-Louis Forain

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

Brown ink drawing of a rolling landscape framed by trees, with distant buildings and a tree line on the horizon.

View of Fort Leavenworth

Truman Seymour, 1849

Watercolor of a ragged street vendor holding a knife and a bucket of soap fat beside a brick wall and iron railing.

The Soap Fat Man

Nicolino Calyo, 1840

Watercolor sketch of two men on a boat deck at sea, one in a straw hat, with a distant sailboat on the horizon.

Unfinished drawing of two men sailing - (unidentified illustration)

Edwin Austin Abbey

Pencil sketch of a woman in a long skirt, buttoned jacket and top hat, holding a riding crop, with handwritten notes below.

Lady with a Riding Crop

John Haberle, 1884

Design drawing of a cylindrical desk lamp in pencil and red ink on brown paper, with a circular base plan below.

Lampe de Bureau

Paul Brandt, 1920

Charcoal study of an outstretched arm and hand on blue-grey paper, a figure study by Edwin Austin Abbey.

Figure study for "The Hours," mural at the state capitol building in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 1902-1911 (completed b…

Edwin Austin Abbey

Brown wash drawing of a rocky gorge with rushing white water, fallen logs, and two small figures descending the river.

Descending the Blackwater

Alfred Wordsworth Thompson

Pencil sketch of a grassy coastline with a leaning tree, figures on a rise, and sailboats on the sea beyond.

View on Coast

Pen sketch of a man in overcoat and top hat beside loose handwritten lettering reading A Happy New Year.

Sketch for a greeting card: A Happy New Year; study of a man reading a sign

Edwin Austin Abbey

Brown ink and wash drawing of a classical procession with a reclining figure carried past columns and arches.

The Marriage Procession of Psyche, study for a fresco in the Castel Sant'Angelo (r); heavily draped figures (v)

called Perino del Vaga Pietro Buonaccorsi, 1545