World Famous Paintings List

  1. Mona Lisa (Leonardo da Vinci)

2) The Last Supper (Leonardo da Vinci)

3) The Starry Night (Vincent van Gogh)

4) Girl with a Pearl Earring (Johannes Vermeer)

5) The Birth of Venus (Sandro Botticelli)

6) The Night Watch (Rembrandt van Rijn)

7) Las Meninas (Diego Velázquez)

8) Impression, Sunrise (Claude Monet)

9) A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (Georges Seurat)

10) Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog – Caspar David Friedrich (c. 1818)

11) Café Terrace at Night (Vincent van Gogh)

12) The Kiss – Gustav Klimt

13) Liberty Leading the People (Eugène Delacroix)

14) The Great Wave off Kanagawa (Katsushika Hokusai) 1831

15) Nighthawks (Edward Hopper) 1942

16) The School of Athens (Raphael) 1509–1511

17) Whistler’s Mother (James McNeill Whistler) 1871

18) Avenue In The Rain (Frederick Childe Hassam)

19) Ophelia (John Everett Millais) 1851–52

20) The Peasant Wedding (Pieter Bruegel the Elder)

21) Garden of Allah (Maxfield Parrish)

22) The Creation of Adam (Michelangelo)

23) The Scream (Edvard Munch)

24) Vitruvian Man (Leonardo da Vinci) drawing

25) The Garden of Earthly Delights (Hieronymus Bosch)

26) Water Lilies (Claude Monet)

27) The Hay Wain (John Constable)

28) The Arnolfini Portrait (Jan van Eyck)

29) Composition VIII (Wassily Kandinsky)

30) Nocturne in Black and Gold – The Falling Rocket (James McNeill Whistler)

31) The Gross Clinic (Thomas Eakins)

32) The Death of Marat (Jacques-Louis David)

33) The Ambassadors (Hans Holbein the Younger) – 1533

34) Washington Crossing the Delaware (Emanuel Leutze) – 1851

35) The Sleeping Gypsy (Henri Rousseau) – 1897

36) The Raft of the Medusa (Théodore Géricault) – 1819

37) Flaming June (Frederic Leighton)

38) Judith Slaying Holofernes (Artemisia Gentileschi)

39 ) Saturn Devouring His Son (Francisco Goya)

40 ) The Execution of Lady Jane Grey (Paul Delaroche)

41. The Swing – Jean-Honoré Fragonard
42. The Oath of the Horatii – Jacques-Louis David
43. The Fighting Temeraire – J.M.W. Turner
44. Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette – Pierre-Auguste Renoir
45. The Blue Boy – Thomas Gainsborough
46. The Gleaners – Jean-François Millet
47. At the Moulin Rouge – Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
48. The Tower of Babel – Pieter Bruegel the Elder
49. The Sleeping Venus – Giorgione
50. Bathers at Asnières – Georges Seurat
51. The Card Players – Paul Cézanne
52. Portrait of Madame X – John Singer Sargent
53. The Gulf Stream – Winslow Homer
54. Lady with an Ermine – Leonardo da Vinci
55. The Desperate Man (Self-Portrait) – Gustave Courbet
56. The Water Lily Pond – Claude Monet (replacing Jackson Pollock’s No. 5, 1948)
57. Self-Portrait with Two Circles – Rembrandt (replacing Chagall’s I and the Village)
58. Portrait of a Young Woman (La Muta) – Raphael (replacing Picasso’s Dora Maar)
59. Portrait of Isabella d’Este – Leonardo da Vinci (lesser known, but elegant substitute)
60. View of Toledo – El Greco (powerful expressionistic landscape)

61 ) The Lady of Shalott – John William Waterhouse (1888)

62) The Hunters in the Snow – Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1565)

63) The Milkmaid – Johannes Vermeer

64) The Fighting Temeraire – J.M.W. Turner

65) A Bar at the Folies-Bergère – Édouard Manet (1882)

66) The Dance Class – Edgar Degas

67) The Madonna of the Rocks (Leonardo da Vinci)

68) The Lovers: The Poet’s Garden IV – Vincent van Gogh

69) The Triumph of Galatea – Raphael

70) The Disciples at Emmaus – Caravaggio

71) The Storm on the Sea of Galilee – Rembrandt van Rijn

72) The Infanta Margarita Teresa in a Blue Dress – Diego Velázquez

73) The Triumph of Death – Pieter Bruegel the Elder

74) The Young Hare – Albrecht Dürer

75) The Avenue at Middelharnis – Meindert Hobbema

76) The Baptism of Christ – Piero della Francesca

77) Primavera – Sandro Botticelli (c. 1470s)

78) The Annunciation – Fra Angelico

79) Saint George and the Dragon – Raphael

80) Charing Cross Bridge, London – Claude Monet

81) The Horse Fair – Rosa Bonheur (1852–55)

82) The Rocky Mountains, Lander’s Peak – Albert Bierstadt (1863)

83) Kindred Spirits – Asher B. Durand (1849)

84) Interior with Woman Reading a Letter – Johannes Vermeer

85) The Dream – Henri Rousseau (1910)

86) The Sleeping Congregation – William Hogarth (c. 1736)

87) The Adoration of the Magi – Gentile da Fabriano (1423)

88) Landscape of the Four Seasons – Sesshū Tōyō (15th century)

89) Portrait of a Young Woman – Rogier van der Weyden

90) The Lacemaker – Johannes Vermeer

91) The Music Lesson – Johannes Vermeer

92) Pallas and the Centaur – Sandro Botticelli

93) The Chess Players – Thomas Eakins

94) The Harvesters – Pieter Bruegel the Elder

95) The Vision of Saint John – El Greco

96) La Grenouillère – Claude Monet

97) Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione – Raphael

98) The Alchemist – Pieter Bruegel the Elder

99) Still Life with Flowers and Fruit – Jan van Huysum

100) Portrait of Pope Innocent X – Diego Velázquez

101) Prisoners from the Front – Winslow Homer (1866)

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