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Gerrit Dou: Old Woman Reading (Rembrandt's Mother), 1631
Source: Wikimedia Commons (see "image archives" below)
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Gerrit Dou Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW!
(There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
The Herring Seller, ca.1670-75
Portrait of a Man, ca.1640-45
Old Woman Unreeling Threads, ca.1660-65
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Prince Rupert, 1631
Astronomer by Candlelight, 1655
Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna
The Violin Player, 1653 (Zoom)
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
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
National Gallery, London, UK
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam NEW!
The Royal Collection, London, UK
Amsterdams Historisch Museum, Amsterdam (in Dutch)
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum, UK
Self Portrait
Christchurch Art Gallery / Te Puna O Waiwhetu, New Zealand
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK NEW!
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas NEW!
Manchester City Art Gallery, UK
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
St. Jerome in the Desert
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota 
A Hermit Praying, 1670
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Still Life with a Boy Blowing Soap-bubbles, ca.1635-36
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
2 drawings online
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
2 paintings online
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Self-portrait (Autoritratto) of Gerrit Dou
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 NEW!
Works from the museum's drawings and engravings collection
The Kremer Collection, The Hague, The Netherlands
Collection of paintings based at the Mauritshuis
The Wallace Collection, London, UK NEW!
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Still Life with Book and Purse, ca.1647
(Don't miss the "fullscreen" icon when viewing images)
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
2 works online when last checked
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
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)
Art Signature Dictionary NEW!
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Lempertz Auction Gallery, Cologne, Germany -- Highlights from Past Sales
A cat by the window of a painter's workshop, 1657
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:
Gerrit Dou at The Art Renewal Center
Gerrit Dou at The Athenaeum 
Gerrit Dou 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
Gerrit Dou at CGFA
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
Digital Images — Photography by Ron Reznick
Prince Rupert of Palatinate and his Tutor in Historical Dress
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
USC Annenberg School for Communication
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
FBI Art Theft Program
Boy Playing the Flute, stolen from a museum in Austria
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Gerrit Dou 
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
International Herald Tribune (now part of the New York Times organization)
"The Enchanting Gerrit Dou," article by Souren Melikian
The London Evening Standard
"Rembrandt's pupil lost the plot", 2000 article by Brian Sewell
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| 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.
Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
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Gerrit Dou 1613-1675
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