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Pieter Aertsen: La Greengrocer, 1567
Photograph by Flickr user "ho visto nina volare", Creative Commons licensed
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Pieter Aertsen Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Pieter Aertsen available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, UK
Preparations for a Feast
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
See the "Netherlands 15th – 16th centuries" section
Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
National Gallery, London, UK
Scenes from the Life of a Bishop Saint
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam NEW!
Amsterdams Historisch Museum, Amsterdam (in Dutch)
Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana
Kitchen Still Life with a Scene of the Supper at Emmaus Beyond, 1551/53
Bonnefanten Museum, Netherlands
(to switch to English, click "english" at the top of the page)
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
Christ on the Cross
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
Annunciation
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, France (in French)
L'Adoration des bergers
National Museum in Warsaw, Poland (in Polish)
See the FIRST Flash presentation on the page: rollover + scroll thumbnails
National Museum of Art of Romania
The Adoration of the Magi
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
3 works online
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
Click "English" at the top right to switch the default language, then click "Search"
Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest (in Hungarian)
Teylers Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands NEW!
Works from the museum's drawings and engravings collection
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Pieter Aertsen at The Art Renewal Center
Pieter Aertsen in the Web Gallery of Art 
Pieter Aertsen in the WebMuseum 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
Pieter Aertsen at CGFA
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
Memory of the Netherlands Project
Great scans; use your mouse wheel to zoom in on the detail images
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW!
Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
University of Leipzig, Germany
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Articles and Reference Sites:
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History 
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Encyclopedia Britannica, 1911 Edition
Complete article, now in the public domain. Obviously, some facts may have changed since 1911.
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