Adriaen van Ostade Works Online
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Original works by Adriaen van Ostade available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Art Institute of Chicago
Adriaen van Ostade at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan Many works online
Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK Fiddler at the door of a house, 1639
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia 13 works by van Ostade
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles Peasant Festival on a Town Street, 1674
Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Adriaen van Ostade at the Louvre Museum, Paris Family portrait, 1654
Adriaen van Ostade at the Louvre Museum, Paris Bleeding the Pig, pen and ink drawing
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
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
Adriaen van Ostade at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas  (Zoomify viewer requires Java in order to view images)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  Paintings collection online
National Gallery, London, UK
Adriaen van Ostade at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 3 works by Adriaen van Ostade
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Adriaen van Ostade at the Prado Museum, Madrid Village Kitchen, 1630-40
Adriaen van Ostade at the Prado Museum, Madrid Villagers Singing, 1632
Adriaen van Ostade at the Prado Museum, Madrid Country Concert, 1630-40
Prado Museum, Madrid Country Concert, 1638
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 9 works online
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Great scans of Rijksmuseum paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Rijksmuseum Research Database, Amsterdam (in Dutch)  13 works by Adriaen van Ostade online
The Royal Collection, London, UK (Zoomable - look for the magnifying glass and the text "Magnify image")
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia 10 prints online
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, Austin The Breakfast (Le gourmet en campagnie), ca.1647-52
Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois 3 works online (Note that this site opens each work in a new window)
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum, UK Drinking Scene
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK 6 works by or related to the artist
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia The Doll
David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK 4 paintings
Falmouth Art Gallery, England Dance in a Tavern
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota 
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, France (in French)  (If the image is not clickable, click "Agrandir l'image" to enlarge the image) La Faiseuse de koukes
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, France (in French)  (If the image is not clickable, click "Agrandir l'image" to enlarge the image) Buveurs dans une grange
Museum Bredius, Netherlands
Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig (in German) 
Philadelphia Museum of Art (Tip: On the zoom-in page, use the slider bar to magnify the image) 2 paintings by Adriaen van Ostade online
Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands (in Dutch) 
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)  Intérieur d'auberge
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri Peasants Dancing in a Tavern, 1659
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"
Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest (in Hungarian) 
Teylers Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands (in Dutch)  De schoenmaker
Teylers Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands (in Dutch)  Herberg met drinkende en dansende boeren
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German) 
The British Museum, London, UK
The Kremer Collection, The Hague, The Netherlands Collection of paintings based at the Mauritshuis
The Wallace Collection, London, UK Buying Fish, 1669 Interior with Peasants, 1663
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
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City The Dance in the Inn
Valtion Taidemuseo (Finnish National Gallery), Helsinki, Finland
Vejle Kunstmuseum, Denmark (in Danish) 
Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue, London, UK
Watford Museum, England Peasant Brawl
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch) 
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French) 
UK National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (NICE) Page forward several times for works by Adriaen van Ostade
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 363
Artarchiv Sample Artist Symbols + Monograms Scroll down to monogram 757
Lempertz Auction Gallery, Cologne, Germany -- Highlights from Past Sales Peasants dancing in a barn, 1635
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:
Art Renewal Center 27 paintings online
CGFA 
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 
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish) 
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Olga's Gallery
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser
Wellcome Images Collection, London 
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Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Adriaen van Ostade  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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