Hans Holbein art links 

Hans Holbein : Self-Portrait, 1542
Source: Wikimedia Commons (see "image archives" below)

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
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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)

 

Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)

 

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

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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)

 

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.   search inside Holbein and England search inside Hans Holbein the Younger: A Guide to Research search inside The Dance Of Death search inside Hans Holbein: Portrait of an Unknown Man look inside Hans Holbein