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Yale University Art Gallery

127 works

Hanging scroll of playful brown demons playing music, climbing a ladder, and flying among clouds, with an umbrella at left.

Playful Demons

Kawanabe Kyōsai

Hanging scroll of white and red peonies with leaves and buds, a dark butterfly on the red flower, and white butterflies above

Peonies and Butterflie

Gilded panel painting of a stormy sea battle with sinking ships, armored men, sea monsters, and a chariot on a shore.

The Shipwreck of Aenea

Apollonio di Giovanni, 1450

Ink painting of a seated robed poet beside vertical calligraphy, mounted as a Japanese hanging scroll.

The Poet Hitomaro

Konoe Nobutada, 1607

Fan painting of a dark bird on a bean plant branch beneath a pale moon, with calligraphy and a red seal.

Harvest Moon and Raven Bean with Haiku

Horizontal panel of a hunt, a colonnaded court with gilded figures, and city builders with a crane and ships, framed in gold.

Aeneas at Carthage

Apollonio di Giovanni, 1450

Hanging scroll of a twisting plum branch in ink with pale blossoms, surrounded by calligraphic inscriptions and red seals.

Ink Plum

Hanging scroll of ink plum branches with white blossoms and a column of black calligraphy with red seals.

Plum Blossom and Calligraphy

Painted panel of a gilded royal procession under arched loggias, with horsemen and a city in the background.

Meeting of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba

Apollonio di Giovanni, 1440

Fan-shaped ink and color landscape with craggy mountains, pine trees, and distant hills, with calligraphy and red seals.

Landscape in the Style of Huang Gongwang

Wang Yuanqi, 1712

Ink painting on silk of a drooping willow above a gnarled trunk with blossoming peach branches, with calligraphy and red seal

Willow Tree and Blossoming Peach

Hanging scroll with an ink rubbing of a lotus roof tile beside a column of Japanese cursive calligraphy.

Lotus Roof Tile Rubbing with Waka

Ōtagaki Rengetsu

Ink landscape hanging scroll with tall rocky mountains, pine trees, small pavilions and a calligraphic inscription in the upp

Landscape

Hanging scroll of a misty cliff, a windswept pine, bare trees, and a seated scholar by water, with calligraphy at upper right

Landscape in the style of Li Tang

Head of a Lion

Takeuchi Seihô, 1901

Hanging scroll of robed figures gathered in a garden with pine trees, bamboo, banana plants, and a winding stream.

Elegant Gathering in the Western Garden

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

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

Ink painting of a heron standing on a rock beside a slender reed, on a hanging scroll with a blank background.

Cormorant in the style of Miyamoto Musashi

Ink landscape hanging scroll with misty mountains, tree clusters, a small hut, and calligraphy in the upper left.

Landscape in the manner of Mi Fu

Gilded panel of a bearded bishop saint with a staff and book, with a small monk in the gable above.

Episcopal Saint and Franciscan Monk (gable)

Martino di Bartolomeo, 1415

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

Ink landscape hanging scroll with steep mountains, a distant lake with a small boat, and calligraphy with red seals at upper

Drinking in a Boat Under the Autumn Moon

Gilded Gothic panel of a crowned saint holding a palm and wheel, with a small deacon saint in the pinnacle above.

Saint Catherine and Deacon Saint

Martino di Bartolomeo, 1415

Ink landscape hanging scroll with a waterfall, pavilion on rocks, pine trees, and a small boat on misty water.

Waterfall in a Landscape

Ink scroll of a woman leaning on a blossoming plum tree beside a rock, with calligraphy and red seals.

Lady Leaning on a Plum Tree

Gai Qi, 1820

Ink painting on paper of a pine tree, plum blossoms and bamboo, with calligraphy inscription and red seals above.

The Friends of the Cold Season

Ink painting of a snowy winter landscape with mountains, a pagoda, small boats on misty water, and a thatched hut.

Winter Landscape

Ink landscape scroll with steep mountains, pine and willow trees, a small pavilion by water, and calligraphy at upper left.

Landscape in the Style of Ni Zan (1301-1374)

Ink landscape with a pavilion, pine and bamboo by water, a figure on a rock, and seal-script calligraphy above.

Zhong Kui in his studio

He Shaoji, 1871