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Jan Vermeer Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
See the "Holland 17th century" section
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
Great scans of Mauritshuis paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
National Gallery, London, UK
A Young Woman seated at a Virginal
A Young Woman standing at a Virginal
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
In-depth study of Woman Holding a Balance, ca.1664
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam NEW!
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. NEW!
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
The Geographer
The Royal Collection, London, UK
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
7 works by or related to the artist
Frick Collection, New York City NEW!
Girl Interrupted at Her Music
Mistress and Maid
Officer and Laughing Girl
Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Germany (in German)
The Girl with the Wineglass
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany
State Museums of Berlin
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
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National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
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)
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:
Google Art Project
6 works online
Jan Vermeer at The Art Renewal Center
Jan Vermeer at The Artchive
Jan Vermeer at The Athenaeum 
3 works online
Jan Vermeer in the Web Gallery of Art 
Jan Vermeer in the WebMuseum
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Artliste
Image archive with zoomable images
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
Jan Vermeer at CGFA
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
Memory of the Netherlands Project
Great scans; use your mouse wheel to zoom in on the detail images
Mondo Mostre, Milan (in Italian)
Painting from a 2008-2009 exhibition
Mondo Mostre, Milan (in Italian)
The Love Letter
MyStudios
Olga's Gallery
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW!
Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Essential Vermeer: The life and work of the 17th c. Dutch master Johannes Vermeer
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
(Click "Retrieve Images" to see artworks)
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 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
Biographical info
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on Girl With a Pearl Earring, ca.1665
The London Evening Standard
"Clumsy start but a perfect finish", 2001 article by Brian Sewell
The London Evening Standard
"The light Master of Delft", 2001 article by Brian Sewell
The London Evening Standard
"Vermeer cannot be genuine", 2004 article by Brian Sewell
The New Yorker
"The Sphinx", 2001 article by Peter Schjeldahl
The Telegraph Newspaper, UK
David Hockney on Vermeer's The Art of Painting, 1666-68
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