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Yale University Art Gallery

1,301 works

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hand-colored print of a rider on a rearing horse in a bullring, with a bull at the gate and onlookers at right.

Plate I, from the series Colección de las principales suertes de una corrida de toros (Collection of the Main Actions…

Antonio Carnicero, 1790

Etching of a shepherd with a staff leading grazing sheep across a meadow beside trees, with birds in the sky.

Tropeau de Porcs

Charles Émile Jacque

Pencil sketch of cypress trees, rolling hills and a domed building in a rural landscape, with handwritten notes below.

Roman(?) landscape as seen from balcony (recto); Seascape (verso)

Edwin Austin Abbey

Lithograph of a draped body on a bier in a vaulted church, with kneeling monks praying and tall candles lit beside it.

Guillaume le Conquérant rapporté après sa mort à l'Église de Boscherville (William the Conqueror Lying in State at th…

Théodore Géricault, 1823

Etching of two stacked river views of the Seine with poplar trees, a houseboat, moored boats and a distant town under clouds.

Le Bords de la Seine (The Banks of the Seine)

Maxime Lalanne, 1862

Etched title page with a decorative cartouche, drapery, and ruins, inscribed Antichità Romane Fuori di Roma by Piranesi, 1748

Title Page, from Antichità Romane Fuori di Roma Disegnate ed Incisa da Giambat[tis]ta Piranesi, Architetto Veneziano.…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1748

Brown ink and wash drawing of a classical procession with a reclining figure carried past columns and arches.

The Marriage Procession of Psyche, study for a fresco in the Castel Sant'Angelo (r); heavily draped figures (v)

called Perino del Vaga Pietro Buonaccorsi, 1545

Etching of a vast imaginary prison interior with stone arches, timber scaffolding, hanging chains, and tiny figures.

The Well, plate 13 from Carceri d'Invenzione (Imaginary Prisons)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1750

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

Sheet of sketches of faces and bodies

Edwin Austin Abbey

Etching of a crowded city square with figures in cloaks, stone buildings, a tower, and an arched bridge over a river.

The Slave Market or The Small View of Paris

Jacques Callot, 1629

Hand-colored print of a snowy farmyard in winter with a farmhouse, barn, cows, chickens, and a man carrying hay.

The Farmer's Home - Winter

Currier & Ives, 1863

Etching of Tiber Island in Rome with a church, stone bridges, rowing boats on the river and an overgrown embankment.

Veduta dell'Isola Tibertina (View of the Tiber Island), from Vedute di Roma (Views of Rome)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1775

Lithograph of two women in a draped interior, one at a dressing table with a jewelry box, the other by a window.

Les Medaillons a la Mode

Paul Gavarni, 1839

Etching of a man pointing while carrying a woman on his back, surrounded by grotesque, shouting onlookers in dark setting.

Disparate desordenado (Disorderly Folly) or Disparate matrimonial (Matrimonial Folly), also known as La que mal marid…

Francisco Goya, 1816

Black and white woodcut of stylized trees and angular branches forming a dense park scene pattern.

Park Scene

Jacoba van Heemskerck van Beest, 1914

Pencil sketch on tan paper of overgrown shrubs before a stone wall, an arched doorway and a tall tree.

Overgrown garden(?) cemetery(?)

Edwin Austin Abbey

Pencil sketch of two clenched hands and forearms in combat, with faint scribbled studies on the lower right of the page.

Sketch of two arms in combat

Edwin Austin Abbey

Hand-colored print of a cotton weaving mill with rows of power looms, workers, and a young girl in a pink dress.

Progress of Cotton: # 10 - Weaving

James Richard Barfoot, 1840

Etching of Roman ruins near the Ponte Palatino, with a round temple, a colonnaded temple, cattle and figures in a square.

Anticaglie presso il Ponte Palatino (Ruins near the Ponte Palatino)

Etching of massive ancient stone walls by a river, with rowing boats, a sewer arch, and a domed temple above.

Veduta delle antiche Sostruzioni fatte da Tarquinio Superbo dette il Bel Lido, e come altri erette da Marco Agrippa a…

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1776