Hans Memling Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Art Institute of Chicago
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German) 
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
Hans Memling 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 Gallery, London, UK
Hans Memling at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
4 works by Hans Memling
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
The Virgin and Child with St. Anthony Abbot and a Donor
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Hans Memling at the Prado Museum, Madrid
Nativity. The Adoration of the Magi. Purification, 1479-80
Hans Memling at the Prado Museum, Madrid
The Virgin and Child between two Angels, 1480-90
The Royal Collection, London, UK
(Zoomable - look for the magnifying glass and the text "Magnify image")
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
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St. Christopher
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
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St. Stephen
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands
Frick Collection, New York City
Portrait of a Man, ca.1470
Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome
Compassion for the Dead Christ, with a Donor
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice (mostly in Italian)
Ritratto di giovane uomo
Koninklijk Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium
Man with a Roman Coin
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "M"
Memling in Sint-Jan - Hospital Museum, Bruges, Belgium
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Québec
Portrait of a Man, ca.1490
Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil (in Portuguese)
National Brukenthal Museum, Romania
2 paintings online
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
The Man of Sorrows in the arms of the Virgin
Palazzo Bianco, Genoa, Italy
Use the "right" arrow to advance to Sala 16 in order to see Memling's Christ Blessing
Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City
Kneeling Female Donor with St. Anne
Pinacoteca Civica di Vicenza, Italy (in Italian)
Note that the black titles are not clickable but the dark gray titles are. Confusing.
Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands (in Dutch)
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
4 works online
Schleswig-Holstein Museums, Germany
1 work online
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)
Bathsheba at her Bath, King David and a Young Boy
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
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The Wallace Collection, London, UK
Angel with a Sword
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
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- images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Flemish Art Collection, Belgium
Moreel triptych, 1484
Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch)
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
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 309
Artarchiv Sample Artist Symbols + Monograms
Scroll down to monogram 678
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:
Hans Memling in the Art Renewal Center
96 works online
Hans Memling in the Artchive
Hans Memling at CGFA
Google Art Project NEW!
Portrait of an Unknown Man with a Letter (Uffizi Gallery, Florence)
Hans Memling at The Athenaeum 
72 works online
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
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Olga's Gallery
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 Hans Memling 
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
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)
The New York Observer
"Painter Hans Memling: Superhuman Style In Exhibition at Frick", article by Hilton Kramer
The New Yorker
"Hans Memling at the Frick", brief 2005 review by Peter Schjeldahl
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