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Adam Elsheimer: The Flight into Egypt, 1609
Source: Wikimedia Commons (see "image archives" below)
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Adam Elsheimer Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Saint Christopher, ca.1598-99
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Saint Agnes (recto); Figure Studies (verso), 1600
Adam Elsheimer at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Il Contento: Jupiter Ordering Mercury to Carry off Fortune, ca.1607
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) 
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
National Gallery, London, UK
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
Prado Museum Database, Madrid NEW!
(Linking to the Spanish-language version because it contains far more works than the English version)
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam NEW!
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
The Frankfurt Altarpiece of the Exaltation of the True Cross
The Royal Collection, London, UK
2 works online
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
5 works by or related to the artist
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas NEW!
Palais Fesch Musée des Beaux-Arts, Ajaccio, France (in French)
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
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)
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland NEW!
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
Saint Paul on Malta
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)
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:
Adam Elsheimer at The Art Renewal Center
Adam Elsheimer in the Web Gallery of Art 
Adam Elsheimer in the WebMuseum 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
Adam Elsheimer at CGFA
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
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
Wellcome Images Collection, London
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Adam Elsheimer 
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
The London Evening Standard
"Genius on a small scale", 2006 article by Brian Sewell
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