Martin Desjardins Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Martin Desjardins at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Pierre Mignard, First Painter to the King, marble
Martin Desjardins at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Four Captives, also known as Four Defeated Nations, bronze, 1682-85
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
The Royal Collection, London, UK
(Zoomable - look for the magnifying glass and the text "Magnify image")
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
2 works by or related to the artist
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Sculptures of Versailles, France (in French) 
(Tip: Click "Zoom navigable", not the thumbnail, to get the largest image size)
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
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National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
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:
Artcyclopedia
Captives
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
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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
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)
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