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Off to see famous paintings at the Louvre? With some of the most famous paintings in the world housed in Paris' art museums, don't get overwhelmed - take this Louvre museum itinerary to ensure you'll see some of the best paintings in art history. 

From some 17,000 pages of art history books, Masterpiece Cards determined which famous paintings are most often cited. Then we used this HUGE database of art paintings and the number of citations each got to determine the top 250.  Masterpiece Cards were born,  about 250 famous paintings. Those in the Louvre are bold-faced type.

Based on our research using opinions from forty art historians, be sure to see these famous paintings at the Louvre:

• Angelico, Fra. The Coronation of the Virgin, ca. 1430 - 32 (above)

• Boucher, François. Diana Resting after Her Bath, 1742

• Brueghel, Jan. The Battle at Issus, 1602

• Brueghel, Pieter The Elder. The Beggars, 1568

• Caravaggio. The Death of the Virgin, 1605-06. Read about more Caravaggio paintings, Conversion of St. Paul, and The Cardsharps.

• Caravaggio. The Fortune Teller (La Zingara), ca.1594 - 1595.  Explore even more Caravaggio paintings

• Chardin, Jean-Baptiste Siméon. The Return from Market, 1739 (right)

• Clouet, Jean. Portrait of Francis I, 1525-1530

• Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille. Woman in Blue, 1874

• Correggio. Venus, Satyr, and Cupid (erroneously called The Sleep of Antiope), ca.1524 - 25

• Cranach, Lucas. Venus Standing in a Landscape, 1529.  Read about the Louvre's 2011 purchase of The Three Graces by Cranach.

• David, Gerard. The Marriage Feast at Cana, ca. 1511

• David, Jacques-Louis. The Oath of the Horatii, 1784. Below.  Explore two other Jacques Louis David paintings.   

• David, Jacques-Louis. The Sabine Woman, 1799

• Delacroix, Eugène. Women of Algiers, 1834;  The Massacre at Chios, 1824; Liberty Leading the People (28th July 1830), 1830. Discover other Delacroix paintings. 

• Delacroix, Eugène. Death of Sardanapalus, 1826

• Delacroix, Eugène. The Bark of Dante (Dante and Virgil in Hell), 1822

• Géricault, Theodore. Mounted Officer of the Imperial Guard, 1812
• Géricault, Theodore. Raft of the "Medusa", 1818 – 1819 (left)
• Géricault, Theodore. The Madwoman, ca. 1822
• Greuze, Jean-Baptiste. L'Accordee du Village (The Village Betrothal), 1761

• Gros, Antoine-Jean. Napoleon in the Plague House at Jaffa, 1804

• Hals, Frans. The Gypsy Girl, ca. 1628 - 1630.  Examine and read art analysis of Hals' The Laughing Cavalier.

• Holbein, Hans. Erasmus, 1523 

• Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique. Oedipus and the Sphinx, 1808.  Below.

• Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique. The Turkish Bath, 1862; Grande Odalisque, 1814

• Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique. Valpincon Bather, 1808

• Jordaens, Jacob. The Four Evangelists, ca.1625

• La Tour, Georges de. Joseph the Carpenter, ca. 1642

• Le Nain, Louis. La Charette (The Cart)

• Leonardo da Vinci. Madonna and Child with Saint Anne, ca. 1503 - 1506. (right) Explore more Leonardo paintings. Read about a newly authenticated Leonardo da Vinci painting  (July 2011)! 

• Leonardo da Vinci. The Virgin of the Rocks, ca.1485

• Leonardo da Vinci. The Mona Lisa, ca. 1505  

• Mantegna, Andrea. Calvary, 1456 – 1459

• Memling, Hans. Portrait of an Old Woman, ca. 1470-1475

• Metsys, Quentin. The Banker and His Wife, 1514

• Poussin, Nicolas. Et in Arcadia ego (Even in Arcadia I am), 1638 - 1639.  Learn about other famous art by Poussin. 

• Poussin, Nicolas. Echo and Narcissus, ca. 1627 - 1628.

• Prud'Hon, Pierre-Paul. Empress Josephine, 1805.  Left.

• Quarton, Enguerrand. Pieta of Avignon, ca. 1450

• Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio). The Virgin and Child with St. John the Baptist, 1507

• Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio). Baldassare Castiglione, ca.1514

• Rembrandt. The Flayed Ox, 1655

• Rembrandt. Supper at Emmaus, 1648.  Discover other Rembrandt paintings. 

• Renoir, Pierre-Auguste. Le Moulin de la Galette, 1876

• Ribera, Jusepe de. The Boy with the Clubfoot, 1642

• Rigaud, Hyacinthe. Portrait of Louis XIV, 1701. Below.

• Rubens, Peter Paul. Disembarkation of Marie de’Medici at the Port of Marseilles on November 3, 1600, 1622 – 1625.  Read about other Rubens paintings!

• School of Fontainebleau. Gabrielle d'Estrées and One of her Sisters in the Bath, ca. 1594 - 1599

• School of Fontainebleau. Diana the Huntress, ca. 1550.  Right. 

• Titian. The Pastoral Symphony (or Fete Champetre), ca. 1508.  Learn about other Titian paintings and Titian masterpieces. 
  

• Titian. Man with the Glove, ca. 1520-23.  Delve into the art history behind one of the best Titian paintings.

• Uccello, Paolo. The Battle of San Romano (right panel), ca. 1456.  Learn about this Renaissance masterpiece!

• van Dyck, Sir Anthony. Charles I of England, ca. 1635

• van Eyck, Jan. Madonna with Chancellor Nicolas Rolin, ca. 1435. Read about other famous paintings by van Eyck, like the Arnolfini Portrait and The Ghent Altarpiece.

• Vermeer, Jan. The Lacemaker, 1670-1671.  Left. Delve into the art history of other Vermeer paintings, The Allegory of Painting and The Kitchen Maid.

• Veronese (Paolo Caliari). The Marriage at Cana, 1562-63

• Veronese (Paolo Caliari). The Supper at Emmaus, ca. 1559-60

Watteau, Jean-Antoine. Embarkation for Cythera, 1717

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