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Jacob Jordaens Works Online
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Original works by Jacob Jordaens available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Jacob Jordaens at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Job, ca.1620
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
10 works by Jordaens
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
5 works online by Jordaens
Kress Foundation Collection
(Look for the "Image" links for super high resolution scans)
The Holy Family, ca.1614-17
The Judgment of Paris, ca.1620-25
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
See the "Flanders 17th century" section
Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna
Meleager and Atalante, 1618 (Zoom)
Jacob Jordaens at the Louvre Museum, Paris
The Holy Family with Saint Anne (?) and a Maidservant
Jacob Jordaens at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Jesus Driving the Merchants from the Temple
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
6 paintings
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French)
Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague
Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague
Great scans of Mauritshuis paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Drawings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Paintings collection online
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
National Gallery, London, UK
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa 
A Young Cavalier Executing a Levade in the Presence of Mars and Mercury
As the Old Sing, So the Young Pipe
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Prado Museum Database, Madrid NEW!
(Linking to the Spanish-language version because it contains far more works than the English version)
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam NEW!
Royal Academy of Arts Collection, London, UK
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
Many works online
Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina
Akademie der Bildenden Künst, Vienna (in German)
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
An Oracle (Thetis and Achilles Before the Oracle)
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Spain
The God Pan playing the Flute (fragment)
Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, Spain
The head of a peasant
Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois
Jupiter, Io, and Juno
Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery, Greenville, South Carolina
Bonnefanten Museum, Netherlands
(to switch to English, click "english" at the top of the page)
3 portraits online
Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, UK
The Nativity
Canton Museum of Art, Ohio
Painting of a Family Group
Christchurch Art Gallery / Te Puna O Waiwhetu, New Zealand
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
CODART - Dutch and Flemish paintings in the Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu
1 painting by Jacob Jordaens (inventory number 0004)
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
9 works by or related to the artist
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
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "J"
Le Musée Ingres, Montauban, France (in French)
Click on the artist name, then on the artwork title to view the work
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami, Florida
The Judgment of Paris, ca.1620-25
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Portrait of Elizabeth Jordaens, Daughter of the Artist
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Two Studies of the Head of an Old Man with a Beard, ca.1630
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France (in French)
Mercure et Argus
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, France (in French)
(If the image is not clickable, click "Agrandir l'image" to enlarge the image)
Le Christ en croix
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, France (in French)
(If the image is not clickable, click "Agrandir l'image" to enlarge the image)
Connais-toi toi-même
Museumslandschaft Hessen, Germany (in German)
Narodna Galerija (National Gallery), Ljubljana, Slovenia (in Slovenian)
National Brukenthal Museum, Romania
2 paintings online
National Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia
Study of a Peasant's head
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
Mercury and Argus
National Museum in Warsaw, Poland (in Polish)
See the Flash presentation on the page: rollover + scroll thumbnails
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
The Flight of Lot and His Family from Sodom, ca.1618-20
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Lille, France (in French)
La Tentation de sainte Madeleine
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
Ringling Museum of Art, Florida
Boaz, ca.1641/42
Ruth and Naomi, ca.1641/42
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
The Allegory of Fertility
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
Drawing for The Allegory of Fertility
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
Suffer the Little Children to Come Unto Me, 1615-16
Southampton City Art Gallery, England
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
Click "English" at the top right to switch the default language, then click "Search"
Teylers Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands NEW!
Works from the museum's drawings and engravings collection
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German)
The Faringdon Collection at Buscot Park, Oxfordshire, UK
An Unknown Woman
The Wallace Collection, London, UK NEW!
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland NEW!
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland
St Christopher carrying the Christ Child, ca.1630
Virtual Uffizi
Portrait of a Lady
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
Saint Christopher Carrying the Christ Child
Flemish Art Collection, Belgium
As the Old Sang, the Young Play Pipes, 1638
Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch)
Various works, mostly by Jacob Jordaens
Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch)
More works by Jordaens
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:
Jacob Jordaens at The Art Renewal Center
Jacob Jordaens at The Artchive
Satyr and Peasant, ca.1620-21
Jacob Jordaens 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
Jacob Jordaens at CGFA
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Memory of the Netherlands Project
Great scans; use your mouse wheel to zoom in on the detail images
Olga's 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
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Jacob Jordaens 
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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