Jean-Antoine Watteau Works Online
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Original works by Jean-Antoine Watteau available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Jean-Antoine Watteau at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Les habits sont italiens
Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
11 works by Watteau
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
4 works online by Watteau
Jean-Antoine Watteau at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Pilgrimage to Cythera (Embarkation for Cythera), 1717
Jean-Antoine Watteau at the Louvre Museum, Paris
The Delicate Musician, ca.1717
Jean-Antoine Watteau at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Kneeling male nude lifting a drapery, drawing, ca.1715-16
Jean-Antoine Watteau at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Eight studies of heads, drawing, ca.1715-16
Jean-Antoine Watteau at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Flora, chalk drawing, 1712-17
Jean-Antoine Watteau at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Study of a Woman Playing the Guitar, or Holding a Musical Score, drawing, ca.1717-18
Jean-Antoine Watteau at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Pierrot, formerly known as Gilles, ca.1718-19
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
13 paintings
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) 
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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
National Gallery, London, UK
The Scale of Love
Perfect Harmony
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
8 works by Jean-Antoine Watteau
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Prado Museum, Madrid
Gathering in a Park, 1712-13
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Study of two pilgrims and a standing woman
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
The Pilgrimage to the Island of Cythera
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Study of three male figures
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana
Frere Blaise de Sainte-Marie Donat, ca.1714
Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, Austin
Landscape in a Venetian Manner, ca.1715-16
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Studies of a Flutist and Two Women, chalk, ca.1717
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
12 works by or related to the artist
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK
Les Plaisirs du Bal
Frick Collection, New York City
The Portal of Valenciennes, 1709-10
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington - Provenance Research Project
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Heureux age! Age d'or (Happy Age! Golden Age)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Musée Cognacq-Jay, Paris
Trois études de chien et Etude de léopard s'étirant
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, France (in French)
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Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, France (in French)
Étude de têtes et de mains
Musee Magnin, Dijon, France
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
L'indifférent, chalk drawing, 1716
Museum Collection Database for the Region of Haute-Normandie, France
Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City
Seated Young Woman, ca.1716
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
Trois études d'une dame au chapeau
Schleswig-Holstein Museums, Germany
2 works online
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
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Teylers Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands (in Dutch)
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German)
The British Museum, London, UK
The Wallace Collection, London, UK
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
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Valtion Taidemuseo (Finnish National Gallery), Helsinki, Finland
Valtion Taidemuseo (Finnish National Gallery), Helsinki, Finland
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
Le Defile
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 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
CGFA
Web Gallery of Art
WebMuseum 
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
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Olga's Gallery
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
USC Annenberg School for Communication
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Miscellaneous Sites:
Dickinson Agents and Dealers in Fine Art, London, UK -- Notable past sales
Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation
The Age of Enlightenment in the Paintings of France's National Museums
The Pilgrimage to the Isle of Cythera
The Modernist Journals Project
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Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Jean-Antoine Watteau 
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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.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on Gilles and His Family, ca.1716-18
Time Magazine
"Sounding the Unplucked String: The glowing, meticulous paintings of Watteau", 1984 article by Robert Hughes
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
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| 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.
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The Age of Watteau, Chardin, and Fragonard
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Antoine's Alphabet: Watteau and His World
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Antoine Watteau 1684-1721
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