Antoine Pesne Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Portrait of Christian Augustus of Anhalt-Zerbst, 1725
Portrait of Johanna Elisabeth, Princess of Anhalt-Zerbst, ca.1746
Portrait of Johann Melchior Dinglinger, ca.1721
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) 
Antoine Pesne at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
Antoine Pesne at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Great scans of Rijksmuseum paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Rijksmuseum Research Database, Amsterdam (in Dutch)
The Royal Collection, London, UK
(Zoomable - look for the magnifying glass and the text "Magnify image")
Accademia Carrara, Bergamo, Italy (in Italian)
Ritratto dell'incisore Jean Mariette
N.B. The zoom-in feature ("Esplora il dipinto") only works with Internet Explorer
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
Portrait of an Old Jew
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
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The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German)
Valtion Taidemuseo (Finnish National Gallery), Helsinki, Finland
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
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 382
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:
Antoine Pesne in the Art Renewal Center
Antoine Pesne at CGFA
Antoine Pesne 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)
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
Farbdia Archiv (Color Slide Archive) (in German)
Thousands of photographs of fresco cycles and wall decorations in churches and other buildings in and around Germany.
Click "Galerie" for a normal overview; click "digilib" to zoom in.
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Olga's Gallery
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
Additional Image Search Tools: NEW!
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Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Antoine Pesne 
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.
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