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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
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Frans Hals at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
2 works online
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
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
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
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Paintings collection online
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
National Gallery, London, UK
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa 
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam NEW!
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Portrait of a Man and a Woman
The Royal Collection, London, UK
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 NEW!
Portrait of a Dutch Family, 1630s
Portrait Of Verdonck, 1620s
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 NEW!
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas NEW!
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
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
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
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 NEW!
State Museums of Berlin
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
Click "English" at the top right to switch the default language, then click "Search"
Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest (in Hungarian)
Taft Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio
Several paintings by Frans Hals
Teylers Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands NEW!
Works from the museum's drawings and engravings collection
The Kremer Collection, The Hague, The Netherlands
Collection of paintings based at the Mauritshuis
The Wallace Collection, London, UK NEW!
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland NEW!
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
Family Group in a Landscape, ca.1645-48
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
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
Portrait of a Young Woman
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)
Art Signature Dictionary NEW!
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
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
Portrait of a Couple in a Landscape (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)
Google Art Project
Malle Babbe (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin)
Google Art Project
Singing Boy with Flute (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin)
Frans Hals at The Art Renewal Center
Frans Hals at The Artchive
Frans Hals at The Athenaeum 
Frans Hals in the Web Gallery of Art
Frans Hals in the 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
Frans Hals at CGFA
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
Memory of the Netherlands Project
Great scans; use your mouse wheel to zoom in on the detail images
Mondo Mostre, Milan (in Italian)
Painting from a 2008-2009 exhibition
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Olga's Gallery
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
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
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
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
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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