Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Model for an Equestrian Statue of Louis XIV
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Pluto Abducting Proserpine
Francois Girardon at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Louis XIV on Horseback, bronze
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
6 sculptures
Francois Girardon at the Prado Museum, Madrid
The Grand Dauphin
The Royal Collection, London, UK
(Zoomable - look for the magnifying glass and the text "Magnify image")
Château de Versailles, France
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
11 works by or related to the artist
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts NEW!
National Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia
Kidnapping of Proserpine (with a 360-degree Quicktime view - slow-loading but a nice touch)
Philadelphia Museum of Art
(Tip: On the zoom-in page, use the slider bar to magnify the image)
Apollo
Sculptures of Versailles, France (in French) 
(Tip: Click "Zoom navigable", not the thumbnail, to get the largest image size)
Click "artistes", then find the artist alphabetically in the list
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland NEW!
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Francois Girardon in the Art Renewal Center
5 paintings online
Francois Girardon at CGFA 
Francois Girardon in the Web Gallery of Art 
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)
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Francois Girardon 
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 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting
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
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes) NEW!
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