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Ferdinand Bol: Jacob's Dream of the Ladder
Source: Wikimedia Commons (see "image archives" below)
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Ferdinand Bol Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Ferdinand Bol available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW!
(There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan NEW!
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
7 works by Bol
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
The Messenger of God Appearing to Joshua, 1640
Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French)
Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague
Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague
Great scans of Mauritshuis paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 
Woman at Her Dressing Table, ca.1645
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Paintings collection online
National Gallery, London, UK
A Lady with a Fan
An Astronomer
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam NEW!
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. NEW!
Amsterdams Historisch Museum, Amsterdam (in Dutch)
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Dayton Art Institute, Ohio
Portrait Of A Young Man With A Sword
Dayton Art Institute, Ohio
Portrait of a Young Man with a Sword, ca.1635-40
Dordrechts Museum, Netherlands (in Dutch)
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Hood Museum of Art, New Hampshire
Portrait of a Lady
Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland
2 etchings by Bol and a copy of one of his paintings
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Portrait of a Man Wearing a Plumed Cap
Musées de Lorraine, France (in French)
Coriolan et les femmes romaines
Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig (in German)
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK
Lieutenant-Admiral Michiel de Ruyter, 1667
National Museum in Warsaw, Poland (in Polish)
See the THIRD Flash presentation on the page: rollover + scroll thumbnails for two works by Bol
New Art Gallery, Walsall, England
Hagar at the Well
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
Portrait de Hendrick Trip
Philosophe en méditation
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
Click "English" at the top right to switch the default language, then click "Search"
Teylers Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands NEW!
Works from the museum's drawings and engravings collection
The Jewish Museum, New York City
Painting from the exhibition Reclaimed: Paintings from the Collection of Jacques Goudstikker
The Kremer Collection, The Hague, The Netherlands
Collection of paintings based at the Mauritshuis
The Wallace Collection, London, UK NEW!
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
Valtion Taidemuseo (Finnish National Gallery), Helsinki, Finland
3 prints online
Valtion Taidemuseo (Finnish National Gallery), Helsinki, Finland
Self-portrait
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
Bust of a Woman in a Hat, 1644 & Bust of a Man in a Hat
Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch)
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
UK National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (NICE)
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:
Ferdinand Bol at The Art Renewal Center
Ferdinand Bol in the Web Gallery of Art
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Artpx
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
Memory of the Netherlands Project
Great scans; use your mouse wheel to zoom in on the detail images
Olga's Gallery
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
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
The National Ossolinski Institute
This image through #5 are by Bol
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
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