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Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Jan Vermeer at the Louvre Museum, Paris
The Lacemaker
Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague
Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague NEW!
Great scans of Mauritshuis paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Jan Vermeer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
5 paintings
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
Jan Vermeer at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
6 paintings
Jan Vermeer at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
In-depth study of Woman Holding a Balance, ca.1664
National Gallery, London, UK NEW!
A Young Woman seated at a Virginal
A Young Woman standing at a Virginal
Jan Vermeer at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
The Love Letter, ca.1669-70
The Kitchen Maid, ca.1658
View of Houses in Delft (The Little Street), ca.1658
Woman Reading a Letter, ca.1662-63
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam NEW!
Great scans of Rijksmuseum paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Rijksmuseum Research Database, Amsterdam (in Dutch)
4 works by Jan Vermeer online
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
The Geographer
The Royal Collection, London, UK
(Zoomable - look for the magnifying glass and the text "Magnify image")
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
7 works by or related to the artist
Dresden State Art Collections
Frick Collection, New York City
Girl Interrupted at Her Music, ca.1660
Mistress and Maid, 1665-70
Officer and Laughing Girl, 1655-60
Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Germany (in German)
The Girl with the Wineglass
State Museums of Berlin
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Jan Vermeer in the Art Renewal Center
Jan Vermeer in the Artchive
Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: Girl Interrupted in her Music, ca.1658-61
Jan Vermeer at CGFA
Rasiel's Wallpapers
(Click on the size of the scan you wish to view)
The Athenaeum 
3 works online
Web Gallery of Art 
WebMuseum
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Artyst, Peintures du Monde (in French)
Artyzm
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)
Humanities Web
Mondo Mostre, Milan (in Italian)
Painting from a 2008-2009 exhibition
Mondo Mostre, Milan (in Italian)
The Love Letter
MyStudios
Olga's Gallery
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Web Sites Dedicated to the Artist:
Essential Vermeer: The life and work of the 17th c. Dutch master Johannes Vermeer
Miscellaneous Sites:
Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
Scroll down to signature 548
Artarchiv Sample Artist Symbols + Monograms
Scroll down to monogram 1085
Delft Artists and Patrons
FBI Art Theft Program
The Concert, stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston
Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation
Analysis of The Artist in his Studio
Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation
The Modernist Journals Project
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Jan Vermeer 
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 75-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) NEW!
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on Girl With a Pearl Earring, ca.1665
The Telegraph Newspaper, UK
David Hockney on Vermeer's The Art of Painting, 1666-68
Time Magazine
"Dutch Treat", 1996 article by Robert Hughes
Time Magazine
"Shadows and Light", 2001 article by Robert Hughes
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