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Yale University Art Gallery

127 works

Hanging scroll with ink figures of Kanzan and Jittoku at lower right and vertical calligraphic poem above.

Kanzan and Jittoku with a Poem

Hanging scroll of a pale full moon over misty water with seven glowing fireflies in the dark lower half.

Seven Fireflies in the Moonlight

Shiokawa Bunrin

Ink scroll painting of misty mountains, a river, pine trees, a thatched house and calligraphy in the upper left.

Arashiyama in Spring

Hoashi Kyōu, 1880

Hanging scroll of a cat seated on a rock gazing up at a butterfly, with calligraphy and red seals at upper left.

Cat and Butterfly

Ink painting of birds among lotus flowers, leaves and a rock, with calligraphy and red seals at upper left.

Birds by a Lotus Pond

Chen Jiayan, 1643

Ink landscape scroll with waterfall, mountains, pine trees, pavilions and a seated scholar on a rock.

Landscape in the style of Wen Zhengming

Ju Jie, 1568

Ink painting on a fan-shaped gold paper showing chrysanthemums, a rock, and orchid leaves with calligraphy and a red seal.

Chrysanthemums and Rock

Chen Jiayan, 1663

Pen and ink drawing of an elderly man seated on a park bench near a street lamp while a child runs past.

Man on park bench - unidentified illustration

Edwin Austin Abbey

Woodblock print of a woman in a grey kimono with a black hood, walking in wind beneath falling leaves and a pine branch.

Hooded women walking in a gale, Series: Fuzoku juni tsui (Popular Presentations of a set of twelve)

Torii Kiyonaga, 1783

Etching of a public execution on a wheel scaffold, with soldiers, a crowd, and a walled town behind.

Les grandes miseres de la guerre: No. 14 - La roue

Pen and brown ink sketch of three male figures in different poses, one kneeling, one standing, one reaching upward with poles

Three Figure Studies

Stefano Della Bella

Etching of Dover Castle on a cliff above the sea, with two figures and a wooden pier in the foreground.

Dover Castle, from the series Divers Views after the Life

Wenceslaus Hollar, 1652

Woodblock print of a brown carp swimming upward through curving blue water currents, with signature at upper right.

Carp Swimming Upstream

Five-panel Japanese woodblock print of women in kimono playing music among screens, lanterns and a decorated shrine.

Joruri Story

Chobunsai Eishi, 1793

Woodblock print of a small blue bird perched on a branch beside pale blossoms, with calligraphy at the top.

Red-Flanked Bluetail on a Cherry Branch

Utagawa Hiroshige, 1830

Red chalk drawing of a mythological festival with revelers, satyrs and a herm sculpture among trees, in three panels.

Study for Festival of the God Pan (La Fete du Dieu Pan)

Claude Gillot, 1707

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 study of a standing robed bearded man with clasped hands and upturned gaze on a tan sheet.

Study for a stained glass window picturing St. Peter, Paris

Edwin Austin Abbey

Five-panel Japanese woodblock print of court women, attendants and an ox-drawn carriage in a garden procession.

Mitate Procession of Palace Attendants Arriving at a Mansion

Rekisentei Eiri, 1797

Etched panoramic landscape of flat fields, a tree line, farm buildings and a distant town with a church tower under an open s

Panorama near Bloemendael Showing the Saxenburg Estate ('The Goldweigher's Field')

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1651

Dark lithograph of two intertwined figures against swirling black shadows, by Edvard Munch.

The Flower of Love (Die Blume der Liebe)

Edvard Munch, 1896

Monochrome print of a haloed man praying on rocks as an angel holds a cross in the clouds and soldiers approach with torches.

Passion Series after Holbein the Younger, (In the Garden)

Hans Jakob Oeri, 1829

Etching of a village road with a stone archway, beggars and dying figures on the ground, and a large tree at right.

Les grandes miseres de la guerre: No. 16 - Les mourants sur le bord des routes

Pencil sketch on grey paper of a two-story country house with a long porch, dormers, chimneys, and trees.

Sketch of a country home

Edwin Austin Abbey

Engraved panoramic view of New York City's waterfront with ships and rowboats in the harbor and church steeples along the sho

The South Prospect of the City of New York in North America

William Burgis, 1761

Etching of soldiers with pikes raiding a village, chasing townspeople past a stone house with a porch.

La maraude, plate 4 from the series Les grandes miseres de la guerre

Pencil and watercolor study of a woman with raised arms in a red-patterned gown over a squared grid, with blue and green wash

Study for Louis Comfort Tiffany's center window for "Children's Window", St. Peter's Church, Morristown, NJ

Edwin Austin Abbey

Etching of a snowy Paris street with bare trees, pedestrians, a horse carriage, and a tall church spire on the left.

La Sainte - Chapelle

Eugène Bejot, 1898

Dark brown wash drawing of rocky outcrops rising from a still lake beneath shadowed hills.

A Dark, Rocky Lake

Francis Danby, 1825

Grey watercolor of a calm sea with dark headlands along the horizon, a small sailboat, and a layered cloudy sky.

Water scene with landscape

Edwin Austin Abbey

Panoramic print of Brooklyn harbor with crowded sailing ships, steamboats, a ferry landing, and city buildings along the hori

View of Brooklyn, LI from U.S. Hotel, New York

Francis Michelin, 1846