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Thomas Couture Works Online
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Original works by Thomas Couture available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Thomas Couture at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Drummer Boy, 1857
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
A girl's head
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
The Little Bather, 1849
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
3 paintings
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) 
Skip to the final page for several works on paper by Thomas Couture
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Musee d'Art Roger-Quilliot, Clermont-Ferrand, France (mostly in French)
Baudelaire et la présidente (Zoom)
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Artworks in the museum's collections database
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
"Works in focus:" Romans during the Decadence
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Paintings collection online
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Réunion des Musées Nationaux, France (in French)
Jules Michelet, historien
Le Baptême du Prince impérial, 1856
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam NEW!
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Canton Museum of Art, Ohio
The Roman Decadence (replica)
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Dahesh Museum, New York City (Zoomable)
Portrait of a Man
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
Cuirassier, 1856-58
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Portrait of the Artist
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota 
Musée des Augustins, Toulouse, France
La Soif de L'Or, 1844
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, France (in French)
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen, France (in French)
.PDF document with a good reproduction of Damocles
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, France (in French)
Portrait de Madame Poullain-Dumesnil
Musee Magnin, Dijon, France
Philadelphia Museum of Art
The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas
The Huntington Library, California
The Wallace Collection, London, UK NEW!
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland NEW!
Valtion Taidemuseo (Finnish National Gallery), Helsinki, Finland
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
A Realist, 1865
Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (in German)
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
Wallpaper panel: Les Prodigues or Souper a la Maison doré
Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch)
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)
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:
Thomas Couture at The Art Renewal Center
Thomas Couture at The Athenaeum 
Tzigane
Thomas Couture in the Web Gallery of Art
Thomas Couture in the 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)
Boston College Fine Arts Department
California State University WorldImages Database
Thomas Couture 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
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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Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Thomas Couture 
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
La Tribune de l'Art (in French)
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