 |
| Frans van Mieris art links |
Frans van Mieris the Elder Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
Dutch courtship, 1675
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
5 works by van Mieris
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Pictura (An Allegory of Painting), 1661
The Doctor's Visit, 1667
Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague
Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague
Great scans of Mauritshuis paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
National Gallery, London, UK
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam NEW!
The Royal Collection, London, UK
Amsterdams Historisch Museum, Amsterdam (in Dutch)
CODART - Dutch and Flemish paintings in the Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu
1 painting by Frans van Mieris I (inventory number 0756/3185)
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
Dog lying down
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "M"
MacKenzie Art Gallery, Saskatchewan
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, France (in French)
(If the image is not clickable, click "Agrandir l'image" to enlarge the image)
National Brukenthal Museum, Romania
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands (in Dutch)
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"
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German)
The Wallace Collection, London, UK NEW!
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
Portrait of a Woman with a Lap-Dog, 1672
Virtual Uffizi
The Dutch Charlatan
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
3 works online when last checked
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)
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:
Frans van Mieris at The Art Renewal Center
Frans van Mieris 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)
California State University WorldImages Database
Frans van Mieris at CGFA 
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
Memory of the Netherlands Project
Great scans; use your mouse wheel to zoom in on the detail images
New York Public Library Digital 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
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
The BBC
A Boy Blowing Bubbles
The Modernist Journals Project
(Click "Retrieve Images" to see artworks)
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Frans van Mieris 
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
|
|
|
|
|
