Gerard David Online

    Gérard David Works Online    

Categorized & Annotated

  Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:

Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany

Art Institute of Chicago   NEW!

Gerard David at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
The Annunciation, ca.1490

Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German)  

Gerard David at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Four Heads of a Young Girl and Two Hands, ca.1500-05

Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French)  

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

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.   NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist

Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Prado Museum Database, Madrid   NEW!

(Linking to the Spanish-language version because it contains far more works than the English version)

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam   NEW!

Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery, Greenville, South Carolina

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Fondation Bemberg Museum, Toulouse, France
Vierge � l'Enfant

Frick Collection, New York City   NEW!
The Deposition

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself

Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "D"

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France (in French)  
La Lign�e de sainte Anne

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, France (in French)  
La Vierge entre les Vierges

Museum Collection Database for the Region of Haute-Normandie, France

Oskar Reinhart Collection, Switzerland
The Lamentation over Christ, ca.1490

Palazzo Bianco, Genoa, Italy
Use the "right" arrow to advance to Sala 16 in order to see a work by Gerard David

Palazzo Rosso, Genoa, Italy (in Italian)  
Click the "right" arrow until you get to Sala 13. If the "zoom" version of the images does not come up, try this page instead.

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)  
L'adoration des mages
La Vierge � la soupe au lait

Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
Annunciation, ca.1515

State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid

(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)

Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue, London, UK
St Anthony of Padua with a Nun, ca.1500

Virtual Uffizi
Adoration of the Magi

 National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:

Art Fund for UK Museums
Three legends of St Nicholas

Flemish Art Collection, Belgium
The Judgement of Cambyses, 1498

Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch)  

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
7 works online

Gerard David at The Art Renewal Center

Gerard David at The Artchive  

Gerard David in the Web Gallery of Art  

Gerard David in the WebMuseum  

Wikimedia Commons Image Database  

World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)

Aiwaz Panopticon

Artpx

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  

Gerard David at CGFA  

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

Memory of the Netherlands Project

Great scans; use your mouse wheel to zoom in on the detail images

New York Public Library Digital Gallery

Olga's 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

Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)

 

Miscellaneous Sites:

Katherine Ara - Paintings Conservation & Restoration
Madonna of the Milk Soup

Articles and Reference Sites:

Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Gerard David  
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 Virgin and Child with Saints and Donor, ca.1510