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| Museum |
City |
Country |
No. of paintings |
Notes |
| Musée du Louvre |
Paris |
France |
11,900 paintings [1] |
See Category:Paintings of the Louvre |
| Museo del Prado |
Madrid |
Spain |
8,600 paintings [1] |
See Category:Paintings in the Museo del Prado |
| State Hermitage Museum |
St. Petersburg |
Russia |
7,869 paintings [2] |
|
| Royal Collection |
Various |
United Kingdom |
7,000 paintings [3] |
|
| Rijksmuseum |
Amsterdam |
Netherlands |
5,500 paintings [4] |
|
| Musee d'Orsay |
Paris |
France |
5,033 paintings [5] |
|
| Galleria degli Uffizi |
Florence |
Italy |
4,800 paintings [6] |
| Tate |
Various (primarily London) |
England, United Kingdom |
4,442 paintings [7] |
| Neue Pinakothek |
Munich |
Germany |
4,000 paintings [8] |
| Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen |
Antwerp |
Belgium |
3,200 paintings [9] |
| Museum of Fine Arts |
Budapest |
Hungary |
3,000 paintings [10] |
| Städel |
Frankfurt |
Germany |
2,700 paintings [11] |
| National Gallery |
London |
England, United Kingdom |
2,300 paintings [12] |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art |
New York, New York |
United States |
2,200 paintings [13] |
| Victoria and Albert Museum |
London |
England, United Kingdom |
2,000 paintings [14] |
| Yale Center for British Art |
New Haven, Connecticut |
United States |
1,900 paintings [15] |
| Accademia Carrara |
Bergamo |
Italy |
1,800 paintings [16] |
| Ashmolean Museum |
Oxford |
England, United Kingdom |
1,697 paintings [17] [18] |
(inc. 200 paintings from Christ Church Picture Gallery) |
| Museum of Fine Arts |
Boston, Massachusetts |
United States |
1,600 paintings [19] |
| Gräflich Lambergsche Gemählde-Gallerie, Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien |
Vienna |
Austria |
1,600 paintings [20] |
| Liechtenstein Museum |
Vienna |
Austria |
1,500 paintings [21] |
| Kunsthistorisches Museum |
Vienna |
Austria |
1,400 paintings [22] |
| National Gallery of Art |
Washington, D.C. |
United States |
1,200 paintings [23] |
| Fitzwilliam Museum |
Cambridge |
England, United Kingdom |
1,181 paintings [24] |
| Fogg Art Museum |
Cambridge, Massachusetts |
United States |
1,100 paintings [25] |
| Cleveland Museum of Art |
Cleveland, Ohio |
United States |
1,011 paintings [26] |
| Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza |
Madrid |
Spain |
1,000 paintings [27] |
| Munch Museum |
Oslo |
Norway |
1,000 paintings [28] |
| Wadsworth Atheneum |
Hartford, Connecticut |
United States |
900 paintings [29] |
| Minneapolis Institute of Arts |
Minneapolis, Minnesota |
United States |
900 paintings [30] |
| Musée Condé |
Chantilly |
France |
850 paintings [31] |
| Alte Pinakothek |
Munich |
Germany |
| Mauritshuis |
The Hague |
Netherlands |
800 paintings [32] |
| Doria Pamphilj Gallery |
Rome |
Italy |
800 paintings [33] |
| Barnes Foundation |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
United States |
800 paintings [34] |
| Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister |
Dresden |
Germany |
750 paintings [35] |
| Wallace Collection |
London |
England, United Kingdom |
650 paintings [36] |
| Dulwich Picture Gallery |
London |
England, United Kingdom |
644 paintings [37] |
| Courtauld Institute of Art |
London |
England, United Kingdom |
530 paintings [38] |
| Palazzo Pitti |
Florence |
Italy |
500 paintings [39] |
| Vatican Museums |
Vatican City |
Vatican City |
460 Paintings [40] |
Excluding the Raphael Stanze, Sistine Chapel et al |
| J. Paul Getty Museum |
Los Angeles, California |
United States |
450 paintings [41] |
| Musée Picasso |
Paris |
France |
250 paintings [42] |
(small selection of work by other artists) |
| Van Gogh Museum |
Amsterdam |
Netherlands |
200 paintings [43] |
Notable Exceptions (lack of information):
- Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
- The Phillips Collection, Washington, USA
- Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
- Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, France
- Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris, France
- Musée Marmottan-Monet, Paris, France
- Musée Marmottan-Monet, Paris, France
- Schloss Wilhelmshöhe, Kassel, Germany
- Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy
- Palazzo Spada, Rome, Italy
