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|  Carlo Cignani: Joseph and Potiphar's Wife, ca.1680 Source: Wikimedia Commons (see "image archives" below)
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Carlo Cignani Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Carlo Cignani at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan Studies of a Male Torso with Additional Studies of Hands, Shoulders, and a Leg
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia Shepherd and Shepherdess
Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) 
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW! Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
Prado Museum Database, Madrid NEW! (Linking to the Spanish-language version because it contains far more works than the English version)
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia The five senses
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK 8 works by or related to the artist
Drawings from the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK NEW!
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Palais Fesch Musée des Beaux-Arts, Ajaccio, France (in French) 
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna (in Italian)  Madonna col Bambino
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
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
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
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 (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:
Carlo Cignani at The Art Renewal Center
Carlo Cignani in the Web Gallery of Art 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
Memory of the Netherlands Project Great scans; use your mouse wheel to zoom in on the detail images
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)
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Carlo Cignani  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
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