Gerrit van Honthorst Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK William, Earl of Craven, 1642
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia The Luteplayer, 1624 The Childhood of Christ, ca.1620 Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane (The Agony in the Garden), ca.1617
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles Christ Crowned with Thorns, 1620 Musical Group on a Balcony, 1622
Gerrit van Honthorst at the Louvre Museum, Paris Concert on a Balcony, 1624
Louvre Museum Database, Paris 2 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
Gerrit van Honthorst at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
National Gallery, London, UK
Gerrit van Honthorst at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam The Merry Fiddler, 1623 Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, with His Wife and Three Daughters, 1647
Gerrit van Honthorst at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Great scans of Rijksmuseum paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Rijksmuseum Research Database, Amsterdam (in Dutch)  19 works by Gerrit van Honthorst online
The Royal Collection, London, UK (Zoomable - look for the magnifying glass and the text "Magnify image")
Amsterdams Historisch Museum, Amsterdam (in Dutch) 
Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery, Greenville, South Carolina
Boughton House, Northamptonshire, UK Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia
Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands The Procuress
Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands Granida and Daifilo
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Crocker Art Museum, California Allegory of Painting, 1648
Dayton Art Institute, Ohio The Flea Hunt
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK Anna van den Corput
Gerrit van Honthorst in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota  The Denial of St. Peter, ca.1620-25
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, France (in French)  (If the image is not clickable, click "Agrandir l'image" to enlarge the image)
Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig (in German) 
National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands (in Dutch) 
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)  Portrait d'homme
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri Smiling Girl, a Courtesan, Holding an Obscene Image, 1625
Seattle Art Museum
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"
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel The Death of Seneca, ca.1625
The Kremer Collection, The Hague, The Netherlands Collection of paintings based at the Mauritshuis
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid - to switch to English, scroll to the bottom of the page and click "English Version" - images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
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 Signatures Scroll down to signature 172
Artarchiv Sample Artist Symbols + Monograms Scroll down to monogram 488
Christie's Past Sale Archive NEW! (database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Lempertz Auction Gallery, Cologne, Germany -- Highlights from Past Sales Lute player
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:
Gerrit van Honthorst in the Art Renewal Center
Gerrit van Honthorst at CGFA 
Digital Images — Photography by Ron Reznick Christ Crowned with Thorns
Google Art Project NEW! Adoration of the Child (Uffizi Gallery, Florence)
Gerrit van Honthorst in the Web Gallery of Art 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  (a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish) 
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish) 
Farbdia Archiv (Color Slide Archive) (in German)  Thousands of photographs of fresco cycles and wall decorations in churches and other buildings in and around Germany. Click "Galerie" for a normal overview; click "digilib" to zoom in.
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
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Miscellaneous Sites:
UK Government Art Collection
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Gerrit van Honthorst  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) 
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