Where to see famous paintings

Planning an art trip

Paris, New York and London hold the most paintings on our list, and in each of them you can see several masterpieces in a single day. Madrid's Prado and Reina Sofía are a short walk apart, as are Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum and Van Gogh Museum. Some famous works never travel and are only visible in one place, such as The Last Supper in Milan and the Sistine Chapel ceiling in the Vatican.

Museums sometimes lend works or close rooms, so always check the museum's website before you go.

Every painting by city

City	Painting	Museum
Private collection	Salvator Mundi	Private collection
Private collection	The Son of Man	Private collection
Amsterdam	The Night Watch	Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam	The Milkmaid	Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam	The Jewish Bride	Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam	The Potato Eaters	Van Gogh Museum
Amsterdam	The Bedroom	Van Gogh Museum
Amsterdam	Almond Blossom	Van Gogh Museum
Amsterdam	Wheatfield with Crows	Van Gogh Museum
Brussels	The Death of Marat	Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
Chicago	Paris Street; Rainy Day	Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago	A Sunday on La Grande Jatte	Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago	The Basket of Apples	Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago	The Child's Bath	Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago	The Old Guitarist	Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago	American Gothic	Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago	Nighthawks	Art Institute of Chicago
Cleveland	Twilight in the Wilderness	Cleveland Museum of Art
Detroit	The Nightmare	Detroit Institute of Arts
Florence	Primavera	Uffizi Galleries
Florence	The Birth of Venus	Uffizi Galleries
Hamburg	Wanderer above the Sea of Fog	Hamburger Kunsthalle
Kraków	Lady with an Ermine	Czartoryski Museum (National Museum in Kraków)
London	The Arnolfini Portrait	The National Gallery
London	The Ambassadors	The National Gallery
London	The Swing	The Wallace Collection
London	The Hay Wain	The National Gallery
London	The Fighting Temeraire	The National Gallery
London	Rain, Steam and Speed	The National Gallery
London	Ophelia	Tate Britain
London	A Bar at the Folies-Bergère	The Courtauld Gallery
London	The Lady of Shalott	Tate Britain
London	Sunflowers	The National Gallery
London	Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear	The Courtauld Gallery
Los Angeles	Irises	J. Paul Getty Museum (Getty Center)
Los Angeles	The Treachery of Images	Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
Madrid	The Garden of Earthly Delights	Museo del Prado
Madrid	Las Meninas	Museo del Prado
Madrid	The Third of May 1808	Museo del Prado
Madrid	Saturn Devouring His Son	Museo del Prado
Madrid	Guernica	Museo Reina Sofía
Mexico City	The Two Fridas	Museo de Arte Moderno
Milan	The Last Supper	Santa Maria delle Grazie (Cenacolo Vinciano)
Naples	Judith Slaying Holofernes	Museo di Capodimonte
New Haven, Connecticut	The Night Café	Yale University Art Gallery
New York	The Harvesters	The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York	The Musicians	The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York	View of Toledo	The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York	Juan de Pareja	The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York	Aristotle with a Bust of Homer	The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York	Young Woman with a Water Pitcher	The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York	The Death of Socrates	The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York	The Great Wave off Kanagawa	The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York	Washington Crossing the Delaware	The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York	The Horse Fair	The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York	Garden at Sainte-Adresse	The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York	The Dance Class	The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York	Madame X	The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York	Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat	The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York	The Starry Night	Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
New York	Wheat Field with Cypresses	The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York	Cypresses	The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York	The Sleeping Gypsy	Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
New York	Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies	The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York	The Gulf Stream	The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York	Les Demoiselles d'Avignon	Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
New York	Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I	Neue Galerie New York
New York	The Persistence of Memory	Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
New York	Christina's World	Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
Oslo	The Scream	National Museum of Norway
Otterlo	Café Terrace at Night	Kröller-Müller Museum
Paris	Mona Lisa	Musée du Louvre
Paris	The Oath of the Horatii	Musée du Louvre
Paris	Grande Odalisque	Musée du Louvre
Paris	The Raft of the Medusa	Musée du Louvre
Paris	Liberty Leading the People	Musée du Louvre
Paris	The Gleaners	Musée d'Orsay
Paris	The Angelus	Musée d'Orsay
Paris	Olympia	Musée d'Orsay
Paris	Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe	Musée d'Orsay
Paris	Whistler's Mother	Musée d'Orsay
Paris	Impression, Sunrise	Musée Marmottan Monet
Paris	Bal du moulin de la Galette	Musée d'Orsay
Paris	Starry Night Over the Rhône	Musée d'Orsay
Philadelphia	The Gross Clinic	Philadelphia Museum of Art
Ponce	Flaming June	Museo de Arte de Ponce
Rome	The Calling of Saint Matthew	Church of San Luigi dei Francesi
Rueil-Malmaison (near Paris)	Napoleon Crossing the Alps	Château de Malmaison
San Marino, California	The Blue Boy	The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens
The Hague	The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp	Mauritshuis
The Hague	The Goldfinch	Mauritshuis
The Hague	View of Delft	Mauritshuis
The Hague	Girl with a Pearl Earring	Mauritshuis
Vatican City	The Creation of Adam	Vatican Museums
Vatican City	The School of Athens	Vatican Museums
Venice	Vitruvian Man	Gallerie dell'Accademia
Vienna	The Tower of Babel	Kunsthistorisches Museum
Vienna	The Hunters in the Snow	Kunsthistorisches Museum
Vienna	The Kiss	Belvedere Museum
Washington, DC	Ginevra de' Benci	National Gallery of Art
Washington, DC	Woman Holding a Balance	National Gallery of Art
Washington, DC	Girl with the Red Hat	National Gallery of Art
Washington, DC	Watson and the Shark	National Gallery of Art
Washington, DC	Napoleon in His Study	National Gallery of Art
Washington, DC	Breezing Up (A Fair Wind)	National Gallery of Art
Washington, DC	Woman with a Parasol	National Gallery of Art
Washington, DC	Luncheon of the Boating Party	The Phillips Collection
Washington, DC	The Japanese Footbridge	National Gallery of Art