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  • The Swing
    The Swing
    Jean-Honoré Fragonard
    c. 1767–1768 · Wallace Collection
  • Las Hilanderas
    Las Hilanderas
    Diego Velázquez
    1655–1660 · Museo del Prado
  • Medusa
    Medusa
    Caravaggio
    1597 · Uffizi Gallery
  • Self-Portrait as Bacchus
    Self-Portrait as Bacchus
    Caravaggio
    c. 1595 · Galleria Borghese
  • Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window
    Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window
    Johannes Vermeer
    c. 1657–1659 · Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
  • Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
    Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
    After Pieter Brueghel the Elder, possibly by Pieter Brueghel the Elder and Pieter Brueghel the Elder
    2nd millennium · Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
  • White House at Night
    White House at Night
    Vincent van Gogh
    1890 · Hermitage Museum
  • The Dream of a Knight
    The Dream of a Knight
    Raphael
    c. 1504 · National Gallery
  • Flora
    Flora
    Titian
    c. 1517 · Uffizi Gallery
  • The Embarkation for Cythera
    The Embarkation for Cythera
    Jean-Antoine Watteau
    1717 · Department of Paintings of the Louvre
  • The Feast of the Gods
    The Feast of the Gods
    Giovanni Bellini and Titian
    1514–1529 · National Gallery of Art
  • Apollo in the Forge of Vulcan
    Apollo in the Forge of Vulcan
    Diego Velázquez
    1630 · Museo del Prado
  • The Lady of Shalott
    The Lady of Shalott
    John William Waterhouse
    1888 · Tate
  • Echo and Narcissus
    Echo and Narcissus
    John William Waterhouse
    1903 · Walker Art Gallery
  • Narcissuss
    Narcissuss
    Caravaggio
    c. 1600 · Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica
Painting Atlas

Ten thousand of the world’s best-known paintings, and where each one has been.

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SourcesWikidata (CC0), Wikimedia Commons, and the open-access programs of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Every fact links to its source.