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Jörg Breu the Elder Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Jorg Breu at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
A Woman, ca.1515
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Tournament Scene, 1510
Bridal Scene, 1520
Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
Portrait of a man, 1533
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Saint George and the Dragon, ca.1520
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Germany ( in German)
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
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
3 works online when last checked
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
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:
Jorg Breu at The Art Renewal Center
Jorg Breu in the Web Gallery of Art 
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)
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW!
Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
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.
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