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Yale University Art Gallery

1,302 works

Engraved ornamental panel with a bearded grotesque mask framed by a laurel wreath and acanthus scrolls.

Panel with a Mascaron (ornament with a mask)

Sebald Beham, 1543

Etching of a ruined Doric temple at Paestum with grazing cattle, workmen and a shepherd in the foreground.

Vue d'un autre temple, dans la ville de Pesto, que l'on croit communement avoir été dédié à Junon . . . (View of Anot…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1778

Loose pencil sketch of a seated figure and small figure beneath hatched shadows, with architectural guidelines on cream paper

Unidentified illustration- Study for Shakespearean scene, possibly early study for Mariana in "Measure for Measure"

Edwin Austin Abbey

Etching of a gnarled oak over a pond with a fallen trunk and two travelers in hats on the right bank.

The Travelers

Jacob Salomons z. Ruysdael, 1660

Etching of the Lateran Basilica facade with tall columns, roof statues, a crowded piazza, and carriages.

Veduta della Facciata della Basilica di S. Giovanni Laterano . . . (View of the Façade of the Basilica of San Giovann…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1775

Etching of a seated man in a hat beside a gnarled tree, with a rural building and hedgerows under a stormy sky.

Chateau des Revenants

Alphonse Legros

Etching of a mounted bullfighter grappling with a bull in an arena, spectators in the stands behind, by Goya.

Mariano Ceballos, alias el Indio, mata el toro desde su caballo (Mariano Ceballos, Alias the Indian, Kills the Bull f…

Francisco Goya, 1816

Etched interior view of a basilica nave with tall columns, coffered ceiling, distant altar, and small figures on the floor.

Veduta interna della Basilica di S. Maria Maggiore (Interior View of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore), from Vedu…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1768

Woodblock print of Mount Fuji reflected in a calm lake, with a thatched village, pine trees and a rowboat in the foreground.

Reflection of Fuji in Lake Misaka in Kai Province, from the series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji

Katsushika Hokusai, 1831

Brown wash drawing of a shepherd resting under a tree with sheep, a goat, wooded hills and boats on water.

Pastoral Landscape

called Claude Lorrain Claude Gellée, 1639

Etching of a cutaway ruined Roman temple with columns, brick walls, overgrown plants and small figures in the foreground.

Veduta del Tempio delle Camene anticamente circondato da un bosco nella valle Egeria . . . (View of the Temple of the…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1773

Lithograph of a stern schoolmaster at a desk ignoring a pupil with raised hand, other students behind, from Daumier's Profess

M'sieu . . . . M'sieu . . . . . M'siiieu . . . . . christi que c'est tannant d'avoir la colique quand le Pion pionse!…

Honoré Daumier, 1846

Etching of a figure walking a path beside a pond, with tall poplar trees and rolling hills under a hatched sky.

Sentier au Bord d'un Etang

Adolphe Appian, 1865

Etching of the nave of Saint Peter's Basilica with colonnades, coffered vaults, distant altar and small figures on the floor.

Veduta interna della Basilica di S. Pietro in Vaticano (Interior View of the Basilica of Saint Peter's in the Vatican…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1748

Etching of a bullfighter with cape and banderilla facing a bull in an arena, with spectators in the stands.

Origen de los arpones ó banderillas (Origin of the Harpoons or Banderillas), Plate 7 from La tauromaquia

Francisco Goya, 1816

Lithograph of a horse team pulling a loaded coal cart up a rocky hill, with a driver walking beside the lead horse.

Le Chariot de Charbon (The Coal Wagon)

Théodore Géricault, 1822

Etching of a ruined Roman arch with ivy-covered masonry, an inscription tablet, small figures and a statue niche at right.

Tav. 8 Arco di Druso alla Porta di Sebastiano in Roma (Pl. 8 Arch of Drusus at the Porta di Sebastiano in Rome), from…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1748

Lithograph of two horsemen galloping at night past a gallows, with a French dialogue caption below the image.

Faust and Mephistopheles Galloping on the Night of the Witches' Sabbath, from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust

Eugène Delacroix, 1827

Etching of a landscape with a tower, ruined pillars, a weeping tree, a church spire and small figures on a road.

Landscape with Tower and Two Ruined Pillars, from the series Vedute (Views)

Canaletto, 1735

Engraving of a sleigh overturning in snow, passengers tumbling out, horses racing, a dog running, bare trees behind.

The Sleighing Season-- The Upset, from Harper's Weekly, January 14, 1860

Winslow Homer, 1860

Etched street view of a large baroque palazzo with a sculptural group on its roof and pedestrians in the foreground.

Veduta del Palazzo fabbricato sul Quirinale per le Segreteria de Brevi et della Sacra Consulta (View of the Palazzo B…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1729

Etching of a bull charging a cape-wielding bullfighter in an arena, with a figure on the ground at right.

Capean otro encerrado (They Play Another with the Cape in the Enclosure), Plate 4 from La tauromaquia

Francisco Goya, 1816

Ink sketch on tan paper of a cyclist's fragmented forms in motion, with sweeping radiating lines.

Study II for Dynamism of a Cyclist

Umberto Boccioni, 1913

Charcoal sketch of two figures, one seated reading in the foreground and one standing behind, among dark trees.

Two figures - (unidentified illustration)

Edwin Austin Abbey

Hand-colored lithograph panorama of troops in battle near a river, with cannon smoke, a red-roofed house, and a cloudy sky.

Battle of New Orleans, January 8, 1815

H. Ladotte, 1840

Engraving of many people skating on ice before city buildings, with a sled and a fallen skater in the foreground.

Skating at Boston, from Harper's Weekly, March 12, 1859

Winslow Homer, 1859

Pencil sketch of a young woman in a dark hat with ribbon, resting her hand near her face, on cream paper.

Portrait of Jane Renouardt

Edouard Vuillard, 1926

Watercolor of a winding river valley with eroded cliffs, a white wagon, a rifleman, and a line of travelers on distant ridges

Near Mouse River

John Mix Stanley, 1854

Etching of a quayside scene with a seated woman, men beside an easel, a dog, and sailboats on water at right.

Quai Scene

Émile Frédéric Nicolle, 1885

Loose brown wash landscape of rolling hills with faint pencil figure sketch in the sky area.

Landscape

Edwin Austin Abbey