 |
| Georges de La Tour art links |
Georges de La Tour Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Georges de La Tour at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Young Virgin Mary, ca.1640
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
The Musicians' Brawl, 1625
Georges de La Tour at the Louvre Museum, Paris
The Cheat with the Ace of Diamonds
Georges de La Tour at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Saint Joseph the Carpenter, ca.1642
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
6 paintings
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist
Prado Museum Database, Madrid NEW!
(Linking to the Spanish-language version because it contains far more works than the English version)
The Royal Collection, London, UK
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Saint Anne with the Christ Child
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Frick Collection, New York City NEW!
The Education of the Virgin
Haus der Kunst, Munich (mostly in German) 
The Pea Eaters, 1616-25
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas NEW!
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Musée de Grenoble, France (in French)
Saint Jerome, ca.1639
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, France (in French)
(If the image is not clickable, click "Agrandir l'image" to enlarge the image)
Musées de Lorraine, France (in French)
Saint Jean-Baptiste dans le désert
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Saint Thomas
New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester, England
Choirboy, ca.1640-45
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
Le vielleur
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
Young Man with a Pipe
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
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)
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Georges de La Tour at The Art Renewal Center
Georges de La Tour at The Artchive
Georges de La Tour 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)
California State University WorldImages Database
Georges de La Tour at CGFA
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
Olga's Gallery
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW!
Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Miscellaneous Sites:
Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation
Analysis of Job and his Wife
Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation
Philippe Gambette Web Site (in French)
Saint Joseph charpentier, from the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Besançon
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Georges de La Tour 
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
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History
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
International Herald Tribune (now part of the New York Times organization)
"La Tour in Paris: Of Light and Tragedy," article by Souren Melikian
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
look inside
Georges de La Tour and His World
look inside
Georges De La Tour
|
|
|
|
|
|
