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François Boucher Works Online
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Original works by François Boucher available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Francois Boucher at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
2 works online
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Many works online
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
17 works by Boucher
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
20 works online by Boucher
Kress Foundation Collection
(Look for the "Image" links for super high resolution scans)
Joseph Presenting His Father and Brothers to the Pharaoh, ca.1723
Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Francois Boucher at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Diana Leaving Her Bath, 1742
Francois Boucher at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Morning Coffee, 1739
Francois Boucher at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Naiads and Triton: study for The Rising of the Sun, ca.1750-53
Francois Boucher at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Rinaldo and Armida, 1734
Francois Boucher at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Seated young woman, dressed 'Spanish-style'
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
18 paintings
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French)
Many works on paper online
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Musee d'Art Roger-Quilliot, Clermont-Ferrand, France (mostly in French)
Les laveuses (Zoom)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Drawings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Paintings collection online
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
National Gallery, London, UK
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa 
The Judgement of Susannah, with preparatory sketch
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!
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. NEW!
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
A Farmyard Scene
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock
Pastorale, 1750
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Young Country Girl Dancing
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
The Wooden Shoes
Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, Austin
Mucius Scaevola Putting His Hand in the Fire, ca.1726-28
Bowes Museum, County Durham, UK
Landscape with water-mill
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Vulcan Presenting Arms to Venus for Aeneas, 1756
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina
Joseph Presenting His Father and Brothers to the Pharaoh
Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio
Earth: Vertumnus and Pomona, 1749
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
8 works by or related to the artist
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
(Click on the title to see a specific work, then click on the image to enlarge)
Pausing by the Fountain
Fondation Bemberg Museum, Toulouse, France
Composition aux Putti
Frick Collection, New York City NEW!
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Germany (in German)
The Secret Message
Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas NEW!
Le Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours, France (in French)
Sylvie fuyant le loup qu'elle a blessé, 1756
Le Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours, France (in French)
Apollon révélant sa divinité à la bergère Issé, 1750
Le Musée Ingres, Montauban, France (in French)
Click on the artist name, then on the artwork title to view the work
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Venus and Cupid, ca.1732
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
3 works
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France (in French)
La Lumière du monde
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, France (in French)
(If the image is not clickable, click "Agrandir l'image" to enlarge the image)
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, France (in French)
Le Mariage de Psyché et de l'Amour
Musee Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland (in French)
Les oies du Frère Philippe, 1735
Musee Magnin, Dijon, France
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
3 works online
Nationalmuseum, Sweden
The Triumph of Venus
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Lille, France (in French)
La France gémit des troubles qui la divisent
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona
The Reading Lesson
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
Hercules and Omphale
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
The Dovecote, 1758
Slovenská Národná Galéria (Slovak National Gallery), Bratislava, Slovakia
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
Click "English" at the top right to switch the default language, then click "Search"
Teylers Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands NEW!
Works from the museum's drawings and engravings collection
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German)
Francois Boucher at the The British Museum, London, UK
The Huntington Library, California
The Wallace Collection, London, UK NEW!
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland NEW!
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
Timken Museum of Art, San Diego, California
Lovers in a Park
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
Valtion Taidemuseo (Finnish National Gallery), Helsinki, Finland
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
The Annunciation, chalk, ca.1749
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
6 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)
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:
Francois Boucher at The Art Renewal Center
Web Gallery of Art
WebMuseum 
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
CGFA
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
Digital Images — Photography by Ron Reznick
The Bird Catchers
The Fountain of Love (detail)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
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
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Miscellaneous Sites:
The Age of Enlightenment in the Paintings of France's National Museums
Morning Coffee
The Modernist Journals Project
(Click "Retrieve Images" to see artworks)
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Francois Boucher 
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
Arcadian Galleries
Biography of the artist
Artnet Magazine
The Dream of Saint Joseph
Artnet Magazine
The Apotheosis of Aeneas, 1746
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on Madame de Pompadour, 1759
"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.
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