Diego Velázquez Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Art Institute of Chicago
Diego Velazquez at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
A Man, 1623/30
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Head of a Man in Profile, ca.1616
Luncheon, ca.1617
Portrait of Count-Duke Olivares, 1638
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
3 paintings online
Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French)
Diego Velazquez at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
Manet/Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting
Diego Velazquez at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla, Seville, Spain (in Spanish)
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Retrato de D. Cristóbal Suárez de Ribera
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 
Paintings collection online
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
2 works online
National Gallery, London, UK
Diego Velazquez at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
3 works by Diego Velazquez
Diego Velazquez at the Prado Museum, Madrid
48 works online
Diego Velazquez at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Great scans of Rijksmuseum paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Biblioteca Nacional de España (in Spanish)
Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Spain
Portrait of Philip IV (fragment)
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
Portrait of Philip IV on horseback, 1634-40
Frick Collection, New York City
King Philip IV of Spain, 1644
Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome (in Italian)
Portrait of Innocent X
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Still Life
Portrait of a Lady
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Madre Jerónima de la Fuente, 1620
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Don Pedro de Barberana
Le Musée Ingres, Montauban, France (in French)
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Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
Female Figure (Sibyl with Tabula Rasa), ca.1648
Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
Portrait of King Philip IV, ca.1623-24
Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
The Immaculate Conception, ca.1618
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, France (in French)
Démocrite
Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia, Spain (in Spanish)
Autorretrato (Self-Portrait)
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona
Saint Paul
Museum Collection Database for the Region of Haute-Normandie, France
Museum of the Hispanic Society of America, New York City
3 paintings online
Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome (in Italian)
Many works online
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Portrait of the Infanta Maria Teresa
Poznan National Museum, Poznan, Poland
Ringling Museum of Art, Florida
Philip IV, King of Spain, ca.1625/28
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
Prince Baltasar Carlos in Silver, ca.1633
The Lady with a Fan, ca.1630-50
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
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Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue, London, UK
The Waterseller of Seville, ca.1620
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
4 works
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
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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:
Diego Velazquez in the Art Renewal Center
Diego Velazquez in the Artchive
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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CGFA
Google Art Project NEW!
The Three Musicians (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin)
Google Art Project NEW!
Luncheon (The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg)
Google Art Project NEW!
Portrait of a Lady (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin)
Rasiel's Wallpapers
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The Athenaeum 
114 works online by Velazquez
Web Gallery of Art
WebMuseum
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
Aiwaz Panopticon
California State University WorldImages Database
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
Mondo Mostre, Milan (in Italian)
Scroll down for a work from a 2007 exhibition
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Olga's Gallery
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Additional Image Search Tools: NEW!
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation
The Modernist Journals Project
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Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Diego Velazquez 
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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
Antiques & Fine Art Magazine
Old Woman Cooking Eggs, 1618
International Herald Tribune (now part of the New York Times organization)
"Rome's Magnificent Homage to Velazquez," article by Roderick Conway Morris
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on The Water-Seller of Seville, ca.1620
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on Prince Baltasar Carlos in Silver, 1632-33
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on Dwarf Sitting on the Floor, 1645
The London Evening Standard
"Painter of the people", 2006 article by Brian Sewell
The London Evening Standard
"At his majesty's service", 2006 article by Brian Sewell
The New York Observer
"Manet/Velázquez: Brilliant Exhibit Crossing Pyrénées", article by Hilton Kramer
The New Yorker
"Manet/Velázquez: The Spanish Manner in the Nineteenth Century", 2002 review by Peter Schjeldahl
Time Magazine
"Velazquez's Binding Ethic", 1989 article by Robert Hughes
Time Magazine
"Spain's Conquistador", 1999 article by Robert Hughes
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
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| 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.
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Velazquez: Painter and Courtier
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Velazquez: The Technique of Genius
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Diego Velazquez: The Face of Spain
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Velasquez: The Genius of the Spanish School
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Masters of Art: Velazquez
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Diego Velasquez
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