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Frans Hals: The Meagre Company (detail), 1633-37
Source: Wikimedia Commons (see "image archives" below)
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Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Frans Hals at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Portrait of a Gentleman in White, ca.1637
Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
Portrait of a man, 1660-63
Fitzwilliam Museum PHAROS Website, Cambridge, UK
Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands
Dutch museum with 12 works by Hals in their collection
Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands
paintings listed in the museum database
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Glove, ca.1650
Portrait of Man
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Saint John the Evangelist, 1625
Krannert Art Museum, Illinois
Portrait of Cornelis Guldewagen
Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna
Portrait of a Man, 1650/52 (Zoom)
Frans Hals at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Buffoon with a Lute, ca.1624-26
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
3 paintings
Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague
Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague NEW!
Great scans of Mauritshuis paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Frans Hals at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
Many works, including: Merrymakers at Shrovetide, ca.1615
Portrait of a Bearded Man with a Ruff, 1625
The Smoker, ca.1623-25
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
2 works online
Frans Hals at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
8 works by Frans Hals
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
National Gallery, London, UK NEW!
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Frans Hals at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
5 works online
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam NEW!
Great scans of Rijksmuseum paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Rijksmuseum Research Database, Amsterdam (in Dutch)
11 works by Frans Hals online
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Portrait of a Man and a Woman
The Royal Collection, London, UK
(Zoomable - look for the magnifying glass and the text "Magnify image")
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
De Heer Bodolphe
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Mevrouw Bodolphe
Amsterdams Historisch Museum, Amsterdam (in Dutch) NEW!
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto NEW!
Isaak Abrahamsz. Massa
Brooklyn Museum, New York City NEW!
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
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Portrait of a Dutch Family
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
(Click on the title to see a specific work, then click on the image to enlarge)
Portrait of a Man, ca.1660-66
Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston upon Hull, England NEW!
Portrait of a young woman, 1655-60
Finnish National Gallery Art Collections, Helsinki, Finland NEW!
Frick Collection, New York City
4 works online
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts NEW!
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
The Rommel Pot Player
Frans Hals in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Portrait of a Man
Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil (in Portuguese)
Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig (in German)
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
National Museum Kassel, Germany (in German)
Ringling Museum of Art, Florida
Portrait of Pieter Jacobsz. Olycan, ca.1639
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
2 works online
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
Portrait of a Woman, ca.1650-52
San Diego Museum of Art, California - Provenance Research Project
Portrait of Isaac Abrahamsz Massa, ca.1635
State Museums of Berlin
Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest (in Hungarian)
Taft Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio NEW!
Several paintings by Frans Hals
The Kremer Collection, The Hague, The Netherlands NEW!
Collection of paintings based at the Mauritshuis
The Wallace Collection, London, UK
The Laughing Cavalier, 1624
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid NEW!
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Family Group in a Landscape, ca.1645-48
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid NEW!
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Fisherman Playing the Violin, ca.1630
Timken Museum of Art, San Diego, California
Portrait of a Man
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch)
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
UK National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (NICE) NEW!
Pictures from Image Archives:
Frans Hals in the Art Renewal Center
Frans Hals in the Artchive
CGFA
The Athenaeum 
Web Gallery of Art
WebMuseum
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Aiwaz Panopticon
Artpx
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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California State University WorldImages Database
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
Mondo Mostre, Milan (in Italian)
Painting from a 2008-2009 exhibition
Olga's Gallery
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site NEW!
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Miscellaneous Sites:
Artarchiv Sample Artist Symbols + Monograms
Scroll down to monogram 416
Christie's
Portrait of Tieleman Roosterman
The Modernist Journals Project
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Frans Hals 
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 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting
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.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes) NEW!
Taft Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio NEW!
"Putting a Name to the Face: Frans Hals' Portrait of a Man", an illustrated article in .PDF format
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on The Laughing Cavalier, 1624
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