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J A N U A R Y / F E B R U A R Y 2 0 2 2 | P E R S P E C T I V E 4 3 R E S O U R C E S T H E L O U V R E https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ C. MONKEY WITH A CONCH SHELL. PAINTED TERRACOTTA, FRENCH FROM THE FIRST HALF OF THE 18TH CENTURY. A. THE DRESSING CHAMBER OF THE EMPRESS EUGÉNIE AT THE PALACE OF SAINT-CLOUD. BY J. FOURNIER, 1860. B. THE DAY AND NIGHT CHAIR, SUPPOSEDLY (BUT PROBABLY NOT) OWNED BY SARAH BERNHARDT, BY GEORGE REY, 1906. The drsay is the finest collection of uropean art and decor from the mid-19th century to WWI you are likely to come across. There are many items in its collection that are digitized and available on the web. The information with the search is very good, but the available images, while downloadable, tend to be on the small side. Like The Louvre, it is stubbornly French, and you have to dig for the nglish search interface. r use the link aboe. ou will also find you get many more results using rench terms rather than nglish. The Louvre is a great source for research into uropean styles before the th centrury. There are two things to know going into the search window, the database is in rench, een on the nglish ersion of the page. f you type in chair, results, if you type in fauteuil, you get almost ,. The one real drawback to the site is you cant filter out obects without an image, so you end up scrolling through a lot of gray boes along with the images. ut once you find an image, there is a handy download button that delivers images that are decent resolution, along with a very detailed rench description of the obect. The digital collection at the Metropolitan Museum is only touched on here because it is the one many are already familiar with, and it is so user-friendly that it requires little explanation. There are hundreds of thousands of images of artwork of all kinds. Many of the images from the th century are rights resticted and cannot be downloaded, although you can still take a sceenshot but there is an pen Access" selection on the seachbar that will return only materials in the public domain that can be downloaded at high resolution and used without restriction. M U S É E D ' O R S AY T H E M E T R O P O L I TA N M U S E U M O F A R T https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/oeuvres?search https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection B A C