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Pieter Bruegel the Elder Works Online
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Original works by Pieter Bruegel available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Pieter Bruegel at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan The Wedding Dance, ca.1566
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna 5 paintings online; see the "Netherlands 15th – 16th centuries" section
Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Pieter Bruegel at the Louvre Museum, Paris Alpine landscape, ca.1553
Pieter Bruegel at the Louvre Museum, Paris The Beggars, 1568
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) 
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History  A variety of artworks, with biographical info
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
National Gallery, London, UK The Adoration of the Kings
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW! Includes a biography of the artist
Prado Museum Database, Madrid NEW! (Linking to the Spanish-language version because it contains far more works than the English version)
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam NEW!
The Royal Collection, London, UK Massacre of the Innocents, ca.1565-67
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK 23 works by or related to the artist
Drawings from the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan
Frick Collection, New York City NEW! The Three Soldiers
Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome Battle off the Port of Naples
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland Etchings by or after (mainly after) Pieter Bruegel
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin Fortitudo (Fortitude)
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam The Tower of Babel, ca.1563
Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp, Belgium Mad Meg (Dulle Griet)
National Brukenthal Museum, Romania
Oskar Reinhart Collection, Switzerland The Adoration of the Magi in the Snow, 1567
Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome (in Italian) 
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels The Census at Bethlehem
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels Prudence, drawing
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)  Several works by Pieter Bruegel I
Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas Prudence, 1559, engraving after Pieter Bruegel's painting
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen Click "English" at the top right to switch the default language, then click "Search"
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Pieter Bruegel at the The British Museum, London, UK
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland NEW!
Timken Museum of Art, San Diego, California Parable of the Sower
Université de Liège Collections (in French) 
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City Charity (Charitas)
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums 2 works online when last checked
Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch) 
Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch) 
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)
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:
Google Art Project The Dutch Proverbs (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin)
Google Art Project The Harvesters (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
Pieter Bruegel at The Art Renewal Center
Pieter Bruegel at The Artchive 
Pieter Bruegel at The Athenaeum 
Pieter Bruegel in the Web Gallery of Art 
WebMuseum 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Aiwaz Panopticon
Artliste Image archive with zoomable images
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  (a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
CGFA 
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish) 
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish) 
Humanities Web 
Olga's Gallery
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW! Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
The Halter Collection 4 paintings online
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Columbia University Visual Media Center Explore Bruegel's The Netherlandish Proverbs
FBI Art Theft Program The Temptation of St. Anthony
Rocbo Culture (in French)  Geometric analysis of Brueghel's The Blind Leading the Blind (click "retour" to see more works analyzed)
The National Ossolinski Institute Landscape with a Town in a Valley and St. Jerome, 1560
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Pieter Bruegel  Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
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
Arcadian Galleries Biography of the artist
The Guardian Newspaper, UK Essay on Dulle Griet, ca.1564
The New York Observer "Copiously Lurid Bruegel Demands Great Patience", article by Hilton Kramer
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