European Painting Highlights

The MFA's collection of European paintings, which ranges from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries, is one of the finest in the world, and contains some 1,500 works. Explore a selection of large-scale medieval and Renaissance altarpieces, a Romanesque chapel, and many easel paintings in oil or tempera on wood, metal, or canvas. Areas of strength include Tuscan painting of the fourteenth century, large holdings from the Dutch Golden Age, and a particularly rich collection of nineteenth-century French paintings, above all Barbizon and Impressionist landscapes.