Jules Breton Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Jules Breton available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Jules Breton at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Fire in a Haystack, 1856
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) 
Jules Breton at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Commentary on Calling in the Gleaners
Musée d'Orsay Collection Database, Paris
4 works by Jules Breton online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 
Paintings collection online
Réunion des Musées Nationaux, France (in French)
2 works online
Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums, Scotland
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Chi-Mei Museum, Taiwan (in Chinese)
La bénédiction des blés
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Dahesh Museum, New York City (Zoomable)
Study for The Snack
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
The Vintage at Château Lagrange, 1864
The Weeders, 1860
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, Mississippi
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Religious Procession
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Quimper, France (in French)
Museum Collection Database for the Region of Haute-Normandie, France
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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The Feast of Saint John
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland
Tweed Museum of Art at the University of Minnesota, Duluth
By the Sea, 1865
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
Young Peasant Girl with a Hoe, 1882
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch)
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)
Christie's Past Sale Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Jules Breton in the Art Renewal Center
Jules Breton at CGFA
Jules Breton at The Athenaeum 
11 works online by Breton
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Additional Image Search Tools: NEW!
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Miscellaneous Sites:
The Fine Arts Conservancy, Florida
Interesting before-and-after examples of artwork restorations
Dans La Plaine, 1896
Articles and Reference Sites:
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
Encyclopedia Britannica, 1911 Edition
Complete article, now in the public domain. Obviously, some facts may have changed since 1911.
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)
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