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Frans Hals: The Meagre Company (detail), 1633-37
Source: Wikimedia Commons (see "image archives" below)
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Frans Hals Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Frans Hals at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
2 works online
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
Great scans of Mauritshuis paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Frans Hals at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
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
National Gallery, London, UK
Frans Hals at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
8 works by Frans Hals
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Frans Hals at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
5 works online
Frans Hals at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
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)
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Isaak Abrahamsz. Massa
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
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
Portrait of a young woman, 1655-60
Frick Collection, New York City
4 works online
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
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)
Museumslandschaft Hessen, Germany (in German)
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
A Fisherboy
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
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
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Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest (in Hungarian)
Taft Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio
Several paintings by Frans Hals
The Kremer Collection, The Hague, The Netherlands
Collection of paintings based at the Mauritshuis
The Wallace Collection, London, UK
The Laughing Cavalier, 1624
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
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Family Group in a Landscape, ca.1645-48
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
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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)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Artarchiv Sample Artist Symbols + Monograms
Scroll down to monogram 416
Christie's Past Sale Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Frans Hals in the Art Renewal Center
Artchive
CGFA
Google Art Project NEW!
Portrait of a Couple in a Landscape (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)
Google Art Project NEW!
Malle Babbe (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin)
Google Art Project NEW!
Singing Boy with Flute (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin)
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)
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
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
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Olga's Gallery
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Additional Image Search Tools: NEW!
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Miscellaneous Sites:
The Modernist Journals Project
(Click "Retrieve Images" to see artworks)
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 100-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)
Taft Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio
"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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