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Charles Le Brun Works Online
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Original works by Charles Le Brun available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
The Holy Family
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Portiere Showing the Fouquet Arms, 1659-60
Spring, 1661-62
Louis XIV's Entry into Dunkerque, 1662
Daedalus and Icarus, ca.1645-46
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
4 works online by Le Brun
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna
Portrait of the Sculptor Nicolas le Brun, ca.1635 (Zoom)
Charles Le Brun at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Alexander in Babylon, 1665
Charles Le Brun at the Louvre Museum, Paris
The Apotheosis of Hercules, 1650-58
Charles Le Brun at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Chancellor Séguier at the Entry of Louis XIV into Paris in 1660, ca.1655-61
Charles Le Brun at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Relationship of the human figure with that of the lion, ca.1671
Charles Le Brun at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Two men carrying a cross, 1685
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
17 paintings
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) 
Skip forward to about page 9 for hundreds of works on paper by Charles Le Brun
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa 
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam NEW!
The Royal Collection, London, UK
Château de Versailles, France
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK NEW!
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Le Musée de la Chartreuse de Douai, France (in French)
Portrait équestre de Louis XIV
Le Musée Ingres, Montauban, France (in French)
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France (in French)
La Résurrection du Christ
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, France (in French)
(If the image is not clickable, click "Agrandir l'image" to enlarge the image)
Musee Magnin, Dijon, France
Musées de Lorraine, France (in French)
Vierge à l'Enfant
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
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Teylers Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands NEW!
Works from the museum's drawings and engravings collection
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German)
The Jewish Museum, New York City
Painting from the exhibition Reclaimed: Paintings from the Collection of Jacques Goudstikker
The Wallace Collection, London, UK NEW!
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland NEW!
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
Design for a fountain
Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch)
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:
Google Art Project
4 works online
Charles Le Brun at The Art Renewal Center
Charles Le Brun in the Web Gallery of Art
Charles Le Brun in the WebMuseum 
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
CGFA
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW!
Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
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Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Charles Le Brun 
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
Biographical info
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