Balthasar van der Ast art links 

Balthasar van der Ast: Still Life with Fruit and Flowers, 1620-21

Original works by Balthasar van der Ast available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
 
 

Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK

Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Still Life with Fruits, Shells and Insects, 1620s
Plate with Fruits and Shells, 1630

Louvre Museum Database, Paris

Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague

Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague
Great scans of Mauritshuis paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project

Balthasar van der Ast at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas  
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National Gallery, London, UK
Flowers in a Vase with Shells and Insects

Balthasar van der Ast at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
2 works by Balthasar van der Ast

Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Balthasar van der Ast at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Still Life with Flowers
Still Life with Fruit and Flowers, ca.1620-21

Balthasar van der Ast at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Great scans of Rijksmuseum paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project

Rijksmuseum Research Database, Amsterdam (in Dutch)  
2 works by Balthasar van der Ast online

Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK

Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama
Still Life of Flowers, Fruit, Shells, and Insects, ca.1620-21

Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
Still Life of Fruit on a Kraak Porcelain Dish, 1617

Dordrechts Museum, Netherlands (in Dutch)  

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts

Le Musée de la Chartreuse de Douai, France (in French)  
Nature morte, ca.1630

Musee de Cambrai, France (in French)  
Nature morte: fruits et coquillages

North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Still Life with Basket of Fruit, 1622

Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona
Sea Shells

Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey

Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands (in Dutch)  

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)  
Nature morte

Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
Floral Still Life with Shells, 1622

Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
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Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
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Vancouver Art Gallery, British Columbia - Provenance Research
Still life with peaches and shells

 
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:

Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)  

 

Christie's Past Sale Archive   NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)

Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive   NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)

 

Balthasar van der Ast in the Art Renewal Center

Balthasar van der Ast at CGFA  

Balthasar van der Ast at The Athenaeum  

Balthasar van der Ast in the Web Gallery of Art  

WebMuseum  

World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  
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Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site

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Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)  

Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)