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|  Hans Holbein : Self-Portrait, 1542 Source: Wikimedia Commons (see "image archives" below)
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Hans Holbein the Younger Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Hans Holbein at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan A Woman, 1532/34
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW! Many works online
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles 3 works online by Holbein
Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Hans Holbein at the Louvre Museum, Paris Erasmus
Hans Holbein at the Louvre Museum, Paris Portrait of a young woman smiling
Hans Holbein at the Louvre Museum, Paris Study for the Triumph of Riches, ca.1532
Hans Holbein at the Louvre Museum, Paris William Warham
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) 
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! 
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
National Gallery, London, UK
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW! Includes a biography of the artist
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam NEW!
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany Portrait of Simon George of Cornwall
The Royal Collection, London, UK
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut  A Hanseatic Merchant
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana Erasmus of Rotterdam, 1530/31
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Denver Art Museum / Berger Collection, Colorado Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VI), 1538
Drawings from the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan
Falmouth Art Gallery, England Portrait of a man with a beard
Frick Collection, New York City NEW! Sir Thomas More Thomas Cromwell
Galleria Borghese, Rome Ritratto di Enrico VIII
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
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland Alphabetically under "H"
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota 
Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil (in Portuguese) 
Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome (in Italian)  Giovane donna inglese (Young Englishwoman)
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands (in Dutch) 
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri Mary, Lady Guildford, 1527
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany
State Museums of Berlin Georg Gisze
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"
Telfair Museums, Savannah, Georgia (Click on the artwork title, not the thumbnail, to enlarge the image)
Teylers Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands NEW! Works from the museum's drawings and engravings collection
Hans Holbein at the The British Museum, London, UK
The Wallace Collection, London, UK NEW!
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid (Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image) Portrait of King Henry VIII, ca.1534-36
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid NEW! (Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
Valtion Taidemuseo (Finnish National Gallery), Helsinki, Finland
Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue, London, UK
Virtual Uffizi Sir Richard Southwell Portrait of a Man, thought to be Thoma More
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums 5 works online when last checked
D'Outre Manche Database of British Art in French Public Collections
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 6 works online
Hans Holbein at The Art Renewal Center
Hans Holbein at The Artchive 
The Athenaeum  134 works online
Web Gallery of Art 
WebMuseum 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Aiwaz Panopticon
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 
CGFA 
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
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation
Katherine Ara - Paintings Conservation & Restoration Portrait of Sir Thomas Wyatt the Younger
Medieval Macabre The Hans Holbein Dance of Death
The Modernist Journals Project (Click "Retrieve Images" to see artworks)
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Hans Holbein  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
Apollo Magazine Article: "Holbein's portrait of Sir Thomas Wyatt the Younger"
The Guardian Newspaper, UK Essay on Christina of Denmark, ca.1538
The Guardian Newspaper, UK Essay on A Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling, ca.1526-28
The London Evening Standard "How the English dumbed down Hans Holbein", 2006 article by Brian Sewell
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
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 Holbein and England
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 Hans Holbein the Younger: A Guide to Research
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 The Dance Of Death
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 Hans Holbein: Portrait of an Unknown Man
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