Hector Guimard Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Side Chair
Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan NEW!
Vase, 1897
Hector Guimard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Commentary on Bench for a Smoking Parlour
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Commentary on Central panel of a large balcony
Musée d'Orsay Collection Database, Paris
Many works by Hector Guimard online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
21 works online when last checked
Hector Guimard at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Entrance to the Métropolitain
Brohan Museum, Berlin, Germany (mostly in German) 
Buffet
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio NEW!
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
19 works by or related to the artist
Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Fireplace
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond NEW!
Cabinet, ca.1899
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
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:
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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California State University WorldImages Database
PBase Photo Sharing
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William Allen's Image Archive
Photographs of the famous Paris Metro entrance designed by Guimard
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Art Nouveau World Wide Server
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Hector Guimard 
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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.
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