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Yale University Art Gallery

3,066 works

Pencil sketch of a plumed rider on horseback with a lance, and rough sketches of sailing ships above on tan paper.

Study for Columbus in the New World(?) (oil painting)

Edwin Austin Abbey

Four etched views of Venetian squares and waterfront buildings with crowds of figures and gondolas.

le Preson. V. (The Prison. V[enice]), la libreria V. (The Library. V[enice]), la Piera del Bando. V. (The Piera del B…

Canaletto, 1741

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

Engraved portrait of a seated man reading a book in an armchair beside maps, bookshelves, and framed prints.

John Quincy Adams

Asher Brown Durand, 1826

Grey wash drawing of two seated women on a grassy slope, with a white fence, a cottage and swallows over a sandy bank.

Study for "Two Wives"

Edwin Austin Abbey

Watercolor and pencil costume sketch of three jester figures in colorful motley with pointed hoods and bells.

Fools, costume sketch for Henry Irving's Planned Production of King Richard II

Edwin Austin Abbey

Grey wash sketch of a cottage with a steep roof, dormer window, wooden bench, and clouds on tan paper.

Sketch of exterior of a cottage

Edwin Austin Abbey

Daumier lithograph of a seated man counting laundry while a woman reads a book beside a fireplace.

Depuis que Virginie a obtenu la septième accessit de poésie à l'Académie française il faut que ce soit moi. . .moi ca…

Honoré Daumier, 1844

Charcoal study of a seated man in draped cloth, head turned toward viewer, on gray paper.

Figure study for "Penn's Treaty," mural for the state capitol building in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 1902-1911 (comple…

Edwin Austin Abbey

Etching of a large gnarled tree with sprawling branches above tall grass and shrubs, with birds flying in a pale sky.

Gnarled Tree

Robert Swain Gifford

Engraving of a seated woman gesturing beside a gnarled tree, with a reclining figure by a pond under a cloudy sky.

Le Cas de Conscience

Lithograph of a standing man in a top hat and long coat beside a seated child leaning against a stone wall.

Souperont-ils?

Engraved landscape with travelers, a horse cart, sheep, haystacks and a distant city under a cloudy sky.

View of Malines, from the Set of the Large Landscapes

Schelte Adamsz. Bolswert, 1638

Pen and ink sketch of a ragged peasant with hood and staff, with faint pencil figure studies to the right.

Peasant, sketch for an unidentified Shakespeare play

Edwin Austin Abbey

Three small woodcut panels on tan paper: a forest with a hooded face, a haloed nude figure, and a stylized female form.

Sheet of woodcuts from L'Epreuve

Maurice Denis, 1891

Hand-colored lithograph of a valley camp with white tents, horses, mules, men at work, and rolling hills behind.

Fourth of July Camp

Charles Gildemeister, 1851

Lithograph with two scenes: a funeral procession at a snowy cemetery gate above, and a couple and crowd on city steps below.

Petites figures VI

Paul Gavarni, 1829

Prison Ship Saratoga (off Dartmouth)

Peter S. Duval, 1840

Hand-colored lithograph of the west side of the Capitol dome behind trees, with horses and a rider on a lawn.

Washington, Capitol (West side), Plate 35 from a set of 54 views

Isidore Laurent Deroy, 1848

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

Watercolor sketch of a woman with long hair combing it, standing in a green wooded landscape beside a dark tree trunk.

Woman in landcape, combing her long, blond hair - (unidentified illustration)

Edwin Austin Abbey

Lithograph of a woman with hand on hip facing a man in a long coat beside a curtain, with a seated figure at right.

Vot' servante, mosieu!...

Lithograph of a woman sinking into a river, weighed down by wet clothing, reaching toward overhanging trees.

Death of Ophelia (Act. IV. Sc. VII), from Shakespeare's Hamlet

Eugène Delacroix, 1843

Drawn print of a man and woman reclining together on grass beside a tree in a wooded setting.

(Dans les Bois.)

Pen and ink study of a robed angel with clasped hands and spread wings, surrounded by radiating hatched lines.

Study of an Angel, for The Quest of the Holy Grail (series of fifteen paintings for the Boston Public Library, comple…

Edwin Austin Abbey

Pencil sketch of a horse pulling a carriage with a spoked wheel and seated driver, with loose shading in the background.

Sketch of a horse pulling a carriage

Edwin Austin Abbey

Pen sketches of a bust beside a handwritten letter from Harper & Brothers dated March 15, 1890.

Two sketches of a bust

Edwin Austin Abbey

Etching of a grand villa with arcaded wings above a formal garden with fountains, parterres and figures on terraces.

Veduta della Villa dell'Emo Sig.n Card. Alesandro Albani fuori di Porta Salaria (View of the Villa of His Eminence Ca…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1769

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

Lithograph of a farrier shoeing a grey horse in a timber stable while a handler holds the bridle and a child watches.

The Flemish Farrier

Théodore Géricault, 1821

Etching of a massive stone arch under a giant radiating wheel of beams, with tiny figures among the masonry.

The Giant Wheel, plate 9 from Carceri d'Invenzione (Imaginary Prisons)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1750

Etching of ruined Roman baths walls and arches among trees, with small figures in the open ground, by Piranesi.

Veduta delle Terme di Tito (View of the Baths of Titus), from Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1775

Mezzotint portrait of a seated man in period dress with lace cuffs, hand on chin, beside a book and inkwell.

Edward Payne Esq.r

James Watson, 1783

Lithograph of a seated man gazing up at a standing woman in a shawl beside a table with a decanter and glass.

Le mercredi l'on peint sa flamme...

Etching of a skeleton playing a violin while seated, drawn with loose, dense hatching lines.

Death Playing a Violin

Charles Émile Jacque, 1846

Etching of a woman balancing on a white horse walking a tightrope before a dark crowd, from Goya's Los disparates.

Disparate puntual (Punctual Folly), unnumbered plate from the series Los disparates (The Follies/Irrationalities)

Francisco Goya, 1816

Woodcut print of a reclining nude in red and white against blue and red abstract shapes.

Liegender Akt (Reclining Nude)

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1907

Etching of a large tree beside a chapel, a figure on rocks above a stream, and a house on the right.

The Chapel with Steps

Anthonie Waterloo, 1640

Joseph Bloomfield, Esq.

Enoch Gridley, 1802

Engraved portrait of a man in a dark coat and white cravat, turned three-quarters to the right, with wavy hair.

Benjn (Benjamin) Rush, M.D.

William R. Jones

Trade circular with numbered colored illustrations of 1830s furniture and a central view of Meeks & Sons' New York factory.

Joseph Meeks & Sons' Manufactory of Cabinet and Upholstry Articles: Circular No. 6

Endicott & Swett, 1833

Lithograph of an older man leaning toward a young woman with an upswept bun who glances sideways at him.

Ah! tu ne me reconnais pas aux Champs-Lysees...

Hand-colored print of a woman in a pink ruffled gown and black mask standing between gray stage curtains.

Senorita

Hand-colored lithograph of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Blind, a white multi-story building with pedestrians and stre

Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind from Views of Philadelphia and Its Vicinity

John Caspar Wild, 1840

Engraving of the Virgin nursing the infant Christ beside a resting donkey, with a man in a tree at left and a distant town.

The Holy Family on the Flight into Egypt

Jacob Matham, 1589

Lithograph of a man in a dark coat embracing a smiling woman in an apron and bonnet beside a kitchen counter.

Av'ous fini!

Paul Gavarni, 1858

Woodcut of a haloed crowned king with a scepter beside gold coin chests, a horse, a tree with arms, and a distant castle.

Saint Guntramus

Leonhard Beck, 1510

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

Etching of a canal with a stone bridge, moored boats, a clock-towered building, trees and a hatched cloudy sky.

Le Pont Sur Le Canal (Bridge over the Canal)

Johan Barthold Jongkind, 1873

Hand-colored print of a white neoclassical court-house with columns, with horse-drawn carriage and period pedestrians in the

Troy, Court-House, Plate 42 from a set of 54 views

Isidore Laurent Deroy, 1850

Lithograph of a woman in a ruffled gown standing in a parlor, with a seated man and a woman writing at a table.

(?). (Me Voila Prete.)

Etching of a bridge over a canal with tall-masted boats moored beneath, lampposts and buildings on the banks, and water refle

Bridge, Rotterdam (Chioggia: Fishing Boats)

Mortimer Menpes, 1912

Etching of a courtyard terrace with laundry, potted plants, women at work, and brick houses under a cloudy sky.

The Terrace, from the series Vedute (Views)

Canaletto, 1741

Lithograph of a misty pond framed by trees and rolling hills, with a rock outcrop at left.

Stockbridge Pond

Miss M, 1842

Etching of a Venetian canal with an arched stone bridge, moored boats, and dark buildings reflected in the water.

In the Eye of the Sun, Venice

Mortimer Menpes, 1915

Lithograph of two men at a shop entrance on a city street, one in a top hat, with a woman in a bonnet nearby.

Arrete malheureux! c'est ma tante!!...

Paul Gavarni, 1839

Etching of a woman asleep in a wicker chair beside a pond with water lilies and trees.

Soiree d'Ete

James Tissot, 1881

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

Etching of the Colosseum's interior showing tiered arches, a central arena with a column and small figures, by Piranesi, 1776

Veduta dell'Anfiteatro Flavio detto il Colosseo (View of the Flavian Amphitheater Called the Colosseum), from Vedute…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1776

Black and white lithograph of a man in a top hat leaning toward a woman in a white gown resting against a wall.

Saprelotte! Mosieu Arthur, vous me permittrez de vous dire que ca ne peut pas toujours durer comme ca!...

Etching of the Ponte Molle bridge over the Tiber with many arches, rowboats with figures on the water, and a flagged tower at

Veduta del Ponte Molle sul Tevere (View of the Milvian Bridge over the Tiber), from the series Le Antichita Romane (T…

Luigi Rossini, 1822

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

Etching of an elderly bearded man in a cap and fur collar, looking upward and holding a bracelet at his wrist.

Elderly Man with a Bracelet, from the Raccolta di Teste (Collection of Heads)

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1757

Engraved oval portrait of Reverend John Davenport, a bearded clergyman in a dark coat and white collar, with an open book bel

The Rev.d John Davenport, B.D., The First Minister of New Haven, from 1638 until 1668

Amos Doolittle, 1797

Etching of a rider in a patterned costume on a bull, with a short spear in its back, charging left in an arena.

El mismo Ceballos montado sobre otro toro quiebra rejones en la plaza de Madrid (The Same Ceballos Mounted on Another…

Francisco Goya, 1816

Etching of a seated man talking with a woman at a well beside crumbling ruins, with onlookers and a distant city.

Christ and the Woman of Samaria Among Ruins

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1634

Engraving of mounted warriors with bows and lances charging across a grassy plain before rocky mountains.

The Encounter

James S. King, 1885

Hand-colored costume plate of a woman in a pink gown with feathered headdress and a child in a red tunic beside her.

Costume de la chavaliere d'Eon, jouee par Emile Taigny. ...

Lithograph of a young man on a chair peering over a garden wall at a woman's face among leafy trees.

Virginie!...Maman!...Ou es-tu donc!...

Lithograph of a woman in a nightgown holding a candle beside a sleeping man in a nightcap, by Honoré Daumier.

Dis donc, Bichette. . .à quoi songes-tu donc de te promener comme ça la nuit?. . .est-ce que t'es somnambule, ou bien…

Honoré Daumier, 1844

Daumier lithograph: a woman in a long dress gestures at a dismayed man holding his trousers, with a flying pair of trousers a

Une femme comme moi. . .remettre un bouton?. . .vous êtes fou!. . ./Allons bon!. . .voilà qu'elle ne se contente plus…

Honoré Daumier, 1844

Black-and-white lithograph of a woman in a lace-trimmed gown seated at a table, holding a letter, glancing to the side.

Ah! rends-moi Phaon, ou je meurs!

Paul Gavarni, 1844

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

Black-and-white lithograph of a woman in an apron pointing at a startled seated man in a kitchen with hanging pans.

Haie!!!!!

Etched portrait of a smiling man with curly hair, mustache and monocle, head tilted, in a collared shirt.

Whistler no. 2

Mortimer Menpes, 1902

Diptych woodblock print of women in kimono and a man strolling under cherry blossoms on a grassy hill.

Third Month: Cherry Blossom Time at Gotenyama

Torii Kiyonaga, 1784

Etching of overgrown Roman brick ruins with arched openings, small figures in the foreground, and a rider on a path.

Rovine di uno degli alloggiamente de'Soldati presso ad una delle eminenti fabbriche di Adriano nella sua Villa in Tiv…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1774

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

Etching of Joseph gesturing to Mary and the infant Christ in a bedchamber, an angel near an open window, 1750.

Joseph Announces to Mary the Order to Leave, from the series Idee pittoresche sopra la fuga in Egitto (Flight into Eg…

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1750

Black and white lithograph of a man in a long coat peering at a woman in a striped gown holding a hand mirror indoors.

...dix-sept vrancs. - Non!...cent sous. - Quinze vrancs (barceque c'est fous!)...

Grey misty print of a rural field with a haystack, a row of trees and blurred figures under a rainy sky.

Effet de Pluie (Rain Effect)

Camille Pissarro, 1879

Etching of the Holy Family under a palm tree, with the Virgin on a donkey, angels above, and figures resting in the foregroun

The Holy Family under a Palm Tree, from the series Idee pittoresche sopra la fuga in Egitto (Flight into Egypt)

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1750

Hand-colored print of a woman in a blue cape and white skirt, holding a pink bow and black lace shawl.

FEMME DE CHAMBRE. Ladie's (sic) maid

Etching of Santa Maria Maggiore basilica in Rome with a tall ancient column in the foreground and figures in the piazza.

Veduta della Basilica di S.ta Maria con le due Fabbriche laterali di detta Basilica (View of the Basilica of Santa Ma…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1749

Etching of the Holy Family at a thatched doorway, with an angel leading a donkey and Joseph leaning on a staff beside Mary an

Joseph and Mary in front of a House, from the series Idee pittoresche sopra la fuga in Egitto (Flight into Egypt)

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, 1750

Gérard de Rayneval, from American Statesmen, set of 12

Pierre Eugène Du Simitière, 1781

Etching of two views of a ruined stone gateway with arches, horsemen and a carriage, with Italian captions below.

Dedication Page, from Antichità di Pesto (Antiquities of Paestum)

Filippo Morghen, 1765

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

View on Coast

Black and white lithograph of a bespectacled man and a seated woman in a white gown in a drawing room with a fireplace.

Les billets une fois pris, on n'en rendra pas la valeur...

Etching of a canal town with a palazzo, a church with bell tower, boats on water and figures on the riverbank.

Al Dolo (At Dolo), from the series Vedute (Views)

Canaletto, 1735

Engraved oval portrait of Dr. George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne, with mitre, crozier and Bible below.

Dr. George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne

John Brooks, 1730

Lithograph of a standing man in striped clothing facing a seated figure on a rock, with workers in a cloudy landscape behind.

Le nouveau seigneur de la terre...pas fier avec le vilain...

Paul Gavarni, 1853

Etching of the Arch of Septimius Severus in Rome with a tall column, a domed church, and small figures in the foreground.

Arco di Settimio Severo. Nel mezzo di questo passava l'antica Via Sacra che portava i Trionf.ti in Campid.o (Arch of…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1759

Black and white lithograph of two men in top hats talking on a cobbled street beside a building with a LABRUYERE sign.

...Pas moyen! c'est une femme invisible a l'oeil nu....

Black and white lithograph of a couple seated on a sofa, woman with a bird on her hand, man reading a booklet, curtains behin

La Lune De Miel