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Original works by François Boucher available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database NEW!
Several works by François Boucher online
Francois Boucher at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Many works by Francois Boucher
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
17 works by Boucher
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana NEW!
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
20 works online by Boucher
Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Francois Boucher at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Diana Leaving Her Bath, 1742
Francois Boucher at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Rinaldo and Armida, 1734
Francois Boucher at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Morning Coffee, 1739
Francois Boucher at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Naiads and Triton: study for The Rising of the Sun, red chalk drawing, ca.1750-53
Francois Boucher at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Seated young woman, dressed 'Spanish-style', black chalk drawing, 1750
Francois Boucher in the Louvre Museum Database, Paris (only available in French)
18 paintings
Francois Boucher at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
Many works, including: Shepherd's Idyll, 1768
Jupiter, in the Guise of Diana, and Callisto
The Interrupted Sleep, 1750
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota 
3 works
Musee d'Art Roger-Quilliot, Clermont-Ferrand, France (mostly in French)
Les laveuses (Zoom)
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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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 of Art, Washington D.C.
21 works by Francois Boucher
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
The Judgement of Susannah, with preparatory sketch
National Gallery, London, UK
Landscape with a Watermill
Pan and Syrinx
The Billet-Doux
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Allegory of Music, 1752
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
The Chinese Market, ca.1767-69
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
A Farmyard Scene
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock
Pastorale, 1750
Art Fund for UK Museums
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia NEW!
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
A young lady holding a pug dog, 1740s
Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, Austin
Mucius Scaevola Putting His Hand in the Fire, ca.1726-28
Bowes Museum, County Durham, UK
Landscape with water-mill
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Vulcan Presenting Arms to Venus for Aeneas, 1756
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
The Presentation in the Temple
Music and Dance
Cupids in Conspiracy
Fountain with Two Tritons Blowing Conch Shells
Fountain of Venus
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Male Academy with Wings
Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina NEW!
Joseph Presenting His Father and Brothers to the Pharaoh
Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio
Earth: Vertumnus and Pomona, 1749
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
8 works by or related to the artist
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire NEW!
E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
(Click on the title to see a specific work, then click on the image to enlarge)
Pausing by the Fountain
Fondation Bemberg Museum, Toulouse, France
Composition aux Putti
Frick Collection, New York City
18 works online
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts NEW!
Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Germany (in German)
The Secret Message
Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
4 paintings online
Le Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours, France (in French)
Sylvie fuyant le loup qu'elle a blessé, 1756
Le Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours, France (in French)
Apollon révélant sa divinité à la bergère Issé, 1750
Le Musée Ingres, Montauban, France (in French)
(Note: The artist names and artwork titles don't appear clickable but they are)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Venus and Cupid, ca.1732
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen, France (partly in French)
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, France (in French)
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Musée des Beaux-Arts, Valenciennes, France (in French)
Musee Jenisch, Vevey, Switzerland (in French)
Les oies du Frère Philippe, 1735
Museum of Fine Arts, Lyon, France (in French)
La Lumière du monde
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
The Enjoyable Lesson, 1748
The Mysterious Basket, 1748
Nationalmuseum, Sweden
The Triumph of Venus
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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2 works by François Boucher online
Portland Art Museum, Oregon
The Flute Lesson, 1751
Prado Museum, Madrid (new website, can be quite slow)
Pan and Syrinx, ca.1762
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
Hercules and Omphale
Residenzgalerie Salzburg, Austria
Dreaming Shepherdess
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
The Dovecote, 1758
Samuel H. Kress Foundation Collection
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
The British Museum, London, UK NEW!
The Wallace Collection, London, UK
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
Timken Museum of Art, San Diego, California
Lovers in a Park
Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio
The Mill at Charenton
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Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City
Les jeunes amoureux (The Young Lovers)
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German) NEW!
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
The Annunciation, chalk, ca.1749
Professional Tools:
Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
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Pictures from Image Archives:
Art Renewal Center
Artonline
CGFA
Insecula
Web Gallery of Art
WebMuseum 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
Artyst, Peintures du Monde (in French)
Artyzm
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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
ImageNETion
University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Other Web Sites:
Beloit College Department of Classics
Venus and Vulcan, 1754
The Age of Enlightenment in the Paintings of France's National Museums
Morning Coffee
The Modernist Journals Project NEW!
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Francois Boucher
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 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting
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
Arcadian Galleries
Biography of the artist
Artnet Magazine
The Dream of Saint Joseph
Artnet Magazine
The Apotheosis of Aeneas, 1746
La Tribune de l'Art (in French)
La réunion des Arts
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Madame de Pompadour, 1759
Time Magazine
"Pink Is for Girls", 1974 article by Robert Hughes
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