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Yale University Art Gallery

127 works

Tall gilded panel painting of Saint Peter with papal tiara, holding keys and a staff against a gold background.

Saint Peter

Vittore Crivelli, 1480

Painted procession of gilded chariots, oxen, and armored riders passing a walled city with towers.

Triumphal Entry into Rome of Titus and Vespasian

Paolo Uccello, 1430

Ink scroll painting of robed Guanyin beneath a gnarled pine, with calligraphy above and a red seal stamp.

Guanyin

Ink landscape of bare winter trees before distant grey mountains, with flying birds and calligraphic inscriptions on the uppe

Landscape with wintry trees

Hanging scroll painting of a white cockatoo perched on an ornate golden stand with lotus motifs and red seals.

White Cockatoo

Itō Jakuchū, 1755

Gilded decorative ceiling panel with a central lyre-playing figure, reclining nudes, winged putti and zodiac roundels.

Abundance of The Days of the Week

Elihu Vedder, 1893

Painting of the risen Christ with a banner in a tomb, flanked by two sleeping and watching soldiers in a green landscape.

The Resurrection

Florentine School, 1480

Ink painting of a lotus leaf on a long stem rising beside a dark rock, with a folded bud and grass blades.

Lotu

Itō Jakuchū, 1765

Hanging scroll of a woman in a patterned kimono and pink headscarf holding a staff, beside a flower basket.

Female Immortal

Kitagawa Utamaro, 1790

Painting of a stag-headed figure in a pink cloak running with hounds through a wooded landscape with a distant city.

Actaeon Turned into a Stag

Jacopo da Sellaio, 1485

Worn panel painting of the Virgin in blue mantle holding an open book, within a gilded gothic tracery frame.

Virgin Annunciate

Bartolo di Fredi, 1370

Painting of a veiled woman and a red-cloaked man walking through a crowd of hooded figures holding poles and banners.

Richard, Duke of Gloucester, and the Lady Anne

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1896

Panel painting of a hunting party with dogs, nude women at a pool on the right, and a distant walled city under a pale sky.

Diana and Actaeon

Jacopo da Sellaio, 1485

Dark studio interior with a seated woman by a fireplace, a glowing amber lantern, potted plants, and a steaming kettle.

A Corner of the 72nd Street Studio

Louis Comfort Tiffany, 1896

Reclining nude female figure with outstretched arm and flowing drapery, painted in loose ochre, blue, and yellow tones on a l

Figure study, for The Spirit of Light, Rotunda, Pennsylvania State Capitol, Harrisburg

Edwin Austin Abbey

Full-length painting of a young girl in a striped blue and white dress and dark hat, beside a red cabinet and blue flowers.

Lady Jean

George Bellows, 1924

Gold-ground panel of Saint John the Baptist in red and blue robes holding a cross staff, within a carved Gothic frame.

Saint John the Baptist

Loosely painted study of a woman in white near a cart and seated figures on a green lawn under trees.

Study for “Harvest Home”

Edwin Austin Abbey, 1871

Ink and colour painting of a bearded man in a red robe leading a grey saddled horse, with calligraphy and red seals.

The Three Horse

Hanging scroll of misty mountains, pine trees, and small huts, with calligraphy and red seals at the top.

Reminiscence of Jian River

Dong Qichang, 1621

Painting of a lake at sunset with wooded hills, distant mountains, pine trees, rocks, and grazing sheep in the foreground.

Windermere

John Atkinson Grimshaw, 1863

Hanging scroll of a pale peony on a slender stem with blue-green leaves, a bare branch, and calligraphy at upper right.

Peony

Wen Zhengming, 1532

Ink painting of a wild chrysanthemum on a grassy mound, with cursive Chinese calligraphy and red seals above.

Wild Chrysanthemum

Fan-shaped painting of gnarled plum branches with white blossoms beside narcissus flowers and leaves, with red seals.

Plum Blossoms and Narcissus

Painting of marsh haystacks and grazing oxen under a sky with rain falling on the left and a creek in the foreground.

Sudden Showers, Newbury Marshes

Martin Johnson Heade, 1865

Painting of a calm Hudson River with a rocky cliff, sailboats, and autumn trees along a sandy shore under a hazy sky.

Hook Mountain, Near Nyack, on the Hudson

Sanford Robinson Gifford, 1866

Painting of cranberry pickers working in a wide golden marsh beside barrels of red berries, with a wooded hill behind.

Canberry Picker

Eastman Johnson, 1878

Medieval painting of armored soldiers and horsemen fighting in front of a walled city with towers and tents.

King Brennus of Gaul captures the city of Rome; Marcus Furius Camillus expels King Brennus from Rome

Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi, 1450

Gold-ground panel painting of a standing female saint in red mantle and blue robe holding a blue jar.

Saints Mary Magdalene and John the Baptist

Paolo Veneziano, 1350

Long panel painting of a medieval jousting tournament with knights on horseback, crowded stands, and heraldic banners.

Tournament in the square of Santa Croce, Florence

Apollonio di Giovanni, 1440