The collection of European art at Yale comprises paintings, sculpture, textiles and a small but distinguished group of decorative arts, spanning the ninth through the nineteenth centuries, with a base of close to 2,000 objects. The painting collection is panoramic in range, with particular strength in Italian art of the early Renaissance. Featuring one of the largest and finest groups of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Tuscan paintings in the world, it also contains a significant number of Sienese fifteenth-century paintings and such acknowledged masterworks as Gentile da Fabriano’s Virgin and Child (ca. 1424–25), Antonio Pollaiuolo’s Hercules and Deianira (ca. 1475-80), and Pontormo’s Madonna del Libro (ca. 1545–46). The early Italian holdings are complemented by Northern Renaissance art, including Hieronymus Bosch’s Allegory of Intemperance (ca. 1495–1500) and Hans Holbein’s Hanseatic Merchant (1538), along with Dutch seventeenth-century landscape and portraiture, highlighted by Frans Hals's De Heer Bodolphe and Mevrouw Bodolphe, and a select group of paintings and oil sketches by Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck. Nineteenth-century works include important paintings by Eugène Delacroix and Jean-Léon Gérôme, strong groups of paintings by Corot, Monet, Degas, Vuillard and Cézanne, as well as Édouard Manet’s Young Woman Reclining in Spanish Costume (1862-1863) and Vincent van Gogh’s seminal Night Café (1888).

		Laurence B. Kanter laurence.kanter@yale.edu Laurence B. Kanter is the Lionel Goldfrank III Curator of European Art at the Gallery, Chief Curator, and formerly Curator-in-Charge of the Robert Lehman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He received his Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University in 1989. He is the author of the catalogue Italian Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1994) and coauthor of Luca Signorelli (2001) and numerous exhibition catalogues, including Painting in Renaissance Siena, 1420–1500 (1988), Italian Renaissance Frames (1990), Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence, 1300–1450 (1994), The Treasury of Saint Francis of Assisi (1999), and Fra Angelico (2005). Download curriculum vitae

		Karen Serres karen.serres@yale.edu Karen Serres, Nina and Lee Griggs Associate Curator of Early European Art, did her undergraduate work at the Ecole du Louvre in Paris and earned M.A.s from the Ecole du Louvre, the Sorbonne University, and the Courtauld Institute in London, where she was awarded a Ph.D in 2004. After completing an Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellowship at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, Karen was named Robert H. Smith Research Curator in the Department of Sculpture there. At the Gallery, she will undertake research on all aspects of the permanent collection, from painting to sculpture to decorative arts. Download curriculum vitae

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