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Original works by Jean-Baptiste Greuze available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
5 works by Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
33 paintings and drawings
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Exhibition: Greuze, the Draftsman
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
6 works online by Greuze
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
15 paintings
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) NEW! 
Many works on paper online
Jean-Baptiste Greuze at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
Many works, including: A Young Peasant Boy
Aegina Visited by Jupiter
Madame Jean Baptiste Nicolet, 1780s
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 
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Portrait of a Boyca.1750
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Drawings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
2 works online
Jean-Baptiste Greuze at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
7 works by Jean-Baptiste Greuze
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Epiphany, 1774
National Gallery, London, UK NEW!
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam NEW!
Great scans of Rijksmuseum paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Rijksmuseum Research Database, Amsterdam (in Dutch)
The Royal Collection, London, UK
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Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia
2 works online
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
The well-beloved mother
Bowes Museum, County Durham, UK
Girl with a dead canary
Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin
Young Artist at a Drawing Board, 1750s
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Head of a Young Woman
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
Study for 'The Return of the Young Sportsman'
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Portrait of Jean-Nicolas Billaud-Varenne, 1790s
E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
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Portrait of the Painter Laurent Pécheux
Finnish National Gallery Art Collections, Helsinki, Finland NEW!
Fondation de l'Hermitage, Lausanne, Switzerland
Le petit paresseux, 1755
Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The Wool Winder, ca.1759
Frick Collection, New York City
Baptiste aîné, ca.1790
Madame Baptiste aîné, ca.1790
The Wool Winder, ca.1759
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Hood Museum of Art, New Hampshire
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
La Simplicité
Le Musée Ingres, Montauban, France (in French) NEW!
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Jean-Baptiste Greuze in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Middlebury College Museum of Art, Vermont NEW!
Study of an Old Man (The Village Betrothal)
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France (in French)
La Dame de charité
Musee Magnin, Dijon, France NEW!
Museo Glauco Lombardi, Parma, Italy
Ritratto del padre teatino Paolo Maria Paciaudi
National Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia
Portrait of a Young Girl
National Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia
Head of a Girl, red chalk drawing
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
National Museum in Warsaw, Poland (in Polish)
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Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Innocence
Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands (in Dutch) NEW!
Ringling Museum of Art, Florida
Meditation, ca.1780
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
Portrait de George Gougenot de Croissy
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Germany ( in German)
Kopf einer Schlafenden (Anne-Gabrielle Babuti)
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German) NEW!
The Wallace Collection, London, UK
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Connecticut
Indolence (La Paresseuse Italienne)
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
Le Geste Napolitain, 1757
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
Portrait of George Augustus Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke, 1780
Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch)
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
UK National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (NICE) NEW!
Pictures from Image Archives:
Jean-Baptiste Greuze in the Art Renewal Center
Artcyclopedia
A Young Peasant Boy
Jean-Baptiste Greuze at CGFA
Jean-Baptiste Greuze in the Web Gallery of Art
Jean-Baptiste Greuze in the WebMuseum 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Artyzm
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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Boston College Fine Arts Department
California State University WorldImages Database
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!
University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Miscellaneous Sites:
Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
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The Age of Enlightenment in the Paintings of France's National Museums
The Paternal Curse. The Ungrateful Son
The Modernist Journals Project
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Jean-Baptiste Greuze 
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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
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes) NEW!
The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Domestic Draftsman, A Man Out of Time
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