Jacob Jordaens Works Online
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Original works by Jacob Jordaens available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Art Institute of Chicago
Jacob Jordaens at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan Job, ca.1620
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia 10 works by Jordaens
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles 5 works online by Jordaens
Kress Foundation Collection (Look for the "Image" links for super high resolution scans) The Holy Family, ca.1614-17 The Judgment of Paris, ca.1620-25
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna Meleager and Atalante, 1618 (Zoom)
Jacob Jordaens at the Louvre Museum, Paris Jesus Driving the Merchants from the Temple, ca.1645-50
Jacob Jordaens at the Louvre Museum, Paris The Holy Family with Saint Anne and a Maidservant, ca.1620-23
Louvre Museum Database, Paris 6 paintings
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) 
Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague
Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague Great scans of Mauritshuis paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Jacob Jordaens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  Drawings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  Paintings collection online
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh 2 works online
National Gallery, London, UK
Jacob Jordaens at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 4 works by Jacob Jordaens
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa  A Young Cavalier Executing a Levade in the Presence of Mars and Mercury As the Old Sing, So the Young Pipe
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Jacob Jordaens at the Prado Museum, Madrid 5 works online
Jacob Jordaens at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 3 portraits
Jacob Jordaens at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Great scans of Rijksmuseum paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Rijksmuseum Research Database, Amsterdam (in Dutch)  7 works by Jacob Jordaens online
Royal Academy of Arts Collection, London, UK
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)  Many works online
Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina
Akademie der Bildenden Künst, Vienna (in German) 
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio An Oracle (Thetis and Achilles Before the Oracle)
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Spain The God Pan playing the Flute (fragment)
Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Spain The head of a peasant
Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois Jupiter, Io, and Juno
Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery, Greenville, South Carolina
Bonnefanten Museum, Netherlands (to switch to English, click "english" at the top of the page) 3 portraits online
Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, UK The Nativity
Canton Museum of Art, Ohio Painting of a Family Group
Christchurch Art Gallery / Te Puna O Waiwhetu, New Zealand
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
CODART - Dutch and Flemish paintings in the Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu 1 painting by Jacob Jordaens (inventory number 0004)
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK 9 works by or related to the artist
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington Hippomenes and Atalanta
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland Alphabetically under "J"
Le Musée Ingres, Montauban, France (in French)  Click on the artist name, then on the artwork title to view the work
Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami, Florida The Judgment of Paris, ca.1620-25
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York Portrait of Elizabeth Jordaens, Daughter of the Artist
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota  Two Studies of the Head of an Old Man with a Beard, ca.1630
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France (in French)  Mercure et Argus
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, France (in French)  (If the image is not clickable, click "Agrandir l'image" to enlarge the image) Le Christ en croix
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, France (in French)  (If the image is not clickable, click "Agrandir l'image" to enlarge the image) Connais-toi toi-même
Museumslandschaft Hessen, Germany (in German) 
Narodna Galerija (National Gallery), Ljubljana, Slovenia (in Slovenian) 
National Brukenthal Museum, Romania 2 paintings online
National Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia Study of a Peasant's head
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia Mercury and Argus
National Museum in Warsaw, Poland (in Polish)  See the Flash presentation on the page: rollover + scroll thumbnails
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo The Flight of Lot and His Family from Sodom, ca.1618-20
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Lille, France (in French)  La Tentation de sainte Madeleine
Ringling Museum of Art, Florida Boaz, ca.1641/42 Ruth and Naomi, ca.1641/42
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels The Allegory of Fertility
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels Drawing for The Allegory of Fertility
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri Suffer the Little Children to Come Unto Me, 1615-16
Southampton City Art Gallery, England
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen Click "English" at the top right to switch the default language, then click "Search"
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German) 
The Faringdon Collection at Buscot Park, Oxfordshire, UK An Unknown Woman
The Wallace Collection, London, UK An Allegory of Fruitfulness / Homage to Pomona, ca.1620-40
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid - to switch to English, scroll to the bottom of the page and click "English Version" - images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image
Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland St Christopher carrying the Christ Child, ca.1630
Virtual Uffizi
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
Flemish Art Collection, Belgium As the Old Sang, the Young Play Pipes, 1638
Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch)  Various works, mostly by Jacob Jordaens
Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch)  More works by Jordaens
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)
Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures Scroll down to signature 197
Artarchiv Sample Artist Symbols + Monograms Scroll down to monogram 518
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:
Art Renewal Center
Artchive  Satyr and Peasant, ca.1620-21
CGFA 
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)
California State University WorldImages Database 
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish) 
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish) 
Olga's Gallery
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
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Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Jacob Jordaens  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
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) 
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