What is the name of the largest painting in the Louvre?

The Wedding at Cana is the largest painting in the Louvre.

Painted by Paolo Veronese between 1562 and 1563, this enormous oil-on-canvas work measures about 6.77 by 9.94 metres. It depicts the biblical wedding feast at Cana, where Jesus transforms water into wine. Its scale—more than 67 square metres—makes it the largest painting in the Louvre’s paintings collection.

Veronese created the work for the refectory of the Benedictine monastery of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice. In 1797, Napoleon’s troops seized it during the French campaign in Italy and transported it to France. Because the canvas was too large to move normally, it was cut, rolled, and later reassembled.

Visitors often confuse “largest” with “most famous.” Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is far more famous, but it is much smaller. The Wedding at Cana hangs opposite the Mona Lisa in the Louvre’s Salle des États.