About The Old Masters

A handful of paintings have escaped the museum to belong to everyone — the starry night, the great wave, the girl with a pearl earring, the golden kiss. Their copyright expired long ago; their images have been released, at last, by the institutions that hold them. The Old Masters exists to put that canon — faithfully, permanently, museum-grade — on your own wall. It is the flagship of the Provenance family of fine-art reproduction houses.

The curation

Every piece is a real, named work: The Starry Night at the Museum of Modern Art, the Great Wave at the Met, Water Lilies at the Art Institute of Chicago, Wanderer above the Sea of Fog at the Hamburger Kunsthalle. We name the artist, the date, and the holding institution for every work we sell, and we link its public source record — no anonymous stock imagery, ever. Every factual claim about a work is verified against the art-historical record.

The reproduction & quality promise

Every print is produced to order on archival cotton-rag stock with pigment inks rated for over a century, color-managed against the holding institution’s own high-resolution source scan. Where a scan can’t support the largest sizes cleanly, we cap the ladder rather than sell a soft print — the quality bar comes before the sale.

The copyright gate

This is the discipline that defines the house. We sell reproductions of works that are public domain in the United States — which, as of 2026, means first published in 1930 or earlier. That is a stricter test than the “the artist died 70 years ago” rule you’ll see in the press: that’s the European standard, and it produces false positives for a U.S. seller. We also keep an explicit do-not-reproduce denylist of famous names — Kahlo, Matisse, Picasso, Dalí, O’Keeffe, Warhol, and more — whose work feels free because the artists are long dead, but is not. When a work’s status is uncertain, we block it and review rather than guess. A piece is never listed until it clears all of this. Today, 80 works across 5 collections meet the bar. Read the full reproductions & copyright note →