Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Art Institute of Chicago
Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Still Life with Attributes of the Arts, 1766
The Laundress, 1730s
Saying Grace (Le Benedicite), 1744
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Still Life with Fish, Vegetables, Gougères, Pots, and Cruets
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
3 works online by Chardin
Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin at the Louvre Museum, Paris
The Skate, ca.1725-26
Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Grace, 1740
Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Pipes and Drinking Pitcher (The Smoking Salon), ca.1737
Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Self-portrait with Spectacles, pastel, 1771
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) NEW! 
Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
Soap Bubbles
The Silver Tureen, 1728
Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
13 paintings from a 2000 exhibition of the artist's work
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Drawings collection online
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
8 works by Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
National Gallery, London, UK NEW!
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Still Life with Ray and Basket of Onions, 1731
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Still Life with Partridge and Pear
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
Still Life with a Rib of Beef
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto NEW!
Jar of Apricots
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana NEW!
The Bird-Song Organ, ca.1751
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
The Scullery Maid
Frick Collection, New York City
Lady with a Bird-Organ, 1753
Still Life with Plums, ca.1730
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Young Student Drawing
Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
The Attributes of the Arts, 1766
Musée Cognacq-Jay, Paris
Nature morte au chaudron de cuivre
Musée des Beaux Arts et d'Archéologie de Besançon, France (in French)
Portrait de vieille femme, pastel
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, France (in French)
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, France (in French)
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Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil (in Portuguese)
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Le Bénédicité, 1761
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Still Life with a Hare
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey NEW!
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
The Silver Goblet, ca.1728
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Germany ( in German)
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid NEW!
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Virtual Uffizi
Pictures from Image Archives:
Art Renewal Center
Artchive
CGFA
Web Gallery of Art
WebMuseum 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Artyst, Peintures du Monde (in French)
Artyzm
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site NEW!
Miscellaneous Sites:
Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation
Still Life Paintings: 19th Century Painting Techniques
The Age of Enlightenment in the Paintings of France's National Museums
The Ray
The Modernist Journals Project
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin 
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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
Biographical info
Frieze Magazine
"What It Is"
Gibbon Art Blog
International Herald Tribune (now part of the New York Times organization)
"Chardin's Austere Brilliance," article by Souren Melikian
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes) NEW!
PBS
"Chardin's World"
The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: An Unforgettable Fish From Honest Chardin
The Telegraph Newspaper, UK
Susannah Fiennes on Chardin's The Young Draughtsman
Time Magazine
"Silent Mysteries", 2000 article by Robert Hughes
Time Magazine
"Sonneteer of a World at Rest", 1979 article by Robert Hughes
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
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Chardin
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The Age of Watteau, Chardin, and Fragonard
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Discoveries: Chardin: An Intimate Art
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