THE OLD MASTERS

The Collection

Every piece is a faithful, museum-grade reproduction of a public-domain masterwork, printed on archival stock and named to its source.

The Perennial Masters

The paintings everyone knows — the summit of the canon.

The Starry Night — The Starry Night
The most beloved night sky ever painted.

The Kiss — The Kiss
Klimt’s golden embrace, at the summit of Art Nouveau.

The Great Wave off Kanagawa — The Great Wave off Kanagawa
The most famous wave in the history of art.

Girl with a Pearl Earring — Girl with a Pearl Earring
The Mona Lisa of the North.

Water Lilies — Water Lilies
A world with no horizon — only reflection.

Mona Lisa — Mona Lisa
The most famous face in the world.

The Milkmaid — The Milkmaid
A stream of milk, and the whole of daily life made holy.

Sunflowers — Sunflowers
Yellow on yellow — Van Gogh’s hymn to gratitude.

Irises — Irises
A garden painted in the first week of the asylum.

Café Terrace at Night — Café Terrace at Night
The first night sky he ever painted — and no black in it.

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — A Sunday on La Grande Jatte
Two years, a million dots, one perfect afternoon.

Fine Wind, Clear Morning (Red Fuji) — Fine Wind, Clear Morning (Red Fuji)
The mountain, alone, at the moment the sun strikes it.

Sudden Shower over Shin-Ōhashi Bridge and Atake — Sudden Shower over Shin-Ōhashi Bridge and Atake
Rain drawn as line — the print that stopped Van Gogh in his tracks.

Hunters in the Snow — Hunters in the Snow
The greatest winter ever painted.

Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I — Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I
The “Woman in Gold” — Klimt’s golden period, in a face.

Bal du moulin de la Galette — Bal du moulin de la Galette
Sunlight through leaves, falling on a Sunday dance.

Impression, Sunrise — Impression, Sunrise
The painting that gave Impressionism its name.

The Dance Class — The Dance Class
The ballet from the wings — work, not spectacle.

The Bedroom — The Bedroom
The little yellow house at Arles, painted as pure rest.

Mont Sainte-Victoire — Mont Sainte-Victoire
The mountain Cézanne painted toward modern art.

Paris Street; Rainy Day — Paris Street; Rainy Day
A wet grey boulevard, and the loneliness of the modern city.

Madame X — Madame X
The portrait that scandalised Paris and made his name.

The Sublime & the Romantic

The soul alone before the infinite — awe, elegy, and doom.

Wanderer above the Sea of Fog — Wanderer above the Sea of Fog
The Romantic soul, alone before the infinite.

The Fighting Temeraire — The Fighting Temeraire
The end of the age of sail, at sunset.

The Lady of Shalott — The Lady of Shalott
Tennyson’s doomed enchantress, adrift toward Camelot.

The Sea of Ice — The Sea of Ice
A shipwreck crushed under slabs of polar ice.

Two Men Contemplating the Moon — Two Men Contemplating the Moon
Friendship, an uprooted oak, and the rising moon.

The Ninth Wave — The Ninth Wave
Survivors on a mast, and the sea lit like stained glass.

Rain, Steam and Speed — Rain, Steam and Speed
A locomotive coming at you out of the weather.

Twilight in the Wilderness — Twilight in the Wilderness
An American sunset with not one human figure in it.

Among the Sierra Nevada, California — Among the Sierra Nevada, California
The American West as a promised land, lit like scripture.

The Heart of the Andes — The Heart of the Andes
A whole continent’s wonder, in a single canvas.

The Oxbow — The Oxbow
Wilderness on one side, the tamed valley on the other.

Chalk Cliffs on Rügen — Chalk Cliffs on Rügen
Three figures at the edge of a dazzling white drop.

The Great Day of His Wrath — The Great Day of His Wrath
The end of the world, painted as a landslide of fire.

Morning in a Pine Forest — Morning in a Pine Forest
Bear cubs at play in the mist of a Russian dawn.

Golden Autumn — Golden Autumn
A birch-lined river, and the whole of a Russian October.

Liverpool Quay by Moonlight — Liverpool Quay by Moonlight
Gaslight, wet cobbles, and the moon on a Victorian dock.

Art Nouveau

The sinuous line, the halo arch, ornament that seems to grow.

Winter — from The Seasons — Winter — from The Seasons
The season as a woman, in Mucha’s Art Nouveau.

Zodiac — Zodiac
A woman crowned by the wheel of the heavens.

JOB — JOB
Hair like smoke — the most famous poster of the Belle Époque.

Rêverie — Rêverie
A woman turning a page, ringed by a halo of blossom.

Dance — Dance
From The Arts — motion caught in a single sweep of hair.

Gismonda — Gismonda
The overnight poster that invented a style.

Spring — from The Seasons — Spring — from The Seasons
The season as a woman, wreathed in new blossom.

Summer — from The Seasons — Summer — from The Seasons
Languor by the water, in the heat of the year.

Autumn — from The Seasons — Autumn — from The Seasons
The harvest season, heavy with fruit and gold.

Moulin Rouge: La Goulue — Moulin Rouge: La Goulue
The poster that turned advertising into art.

Divan Japonais — Divan Japonais
A café-concert in black, mustard and grace.

Jane Avril — Jane Avril
The dancer he loved best, caught mid-kick.

Myth by the Masters

The gods and legends, painted by the greatest hands.

The Birth of Venus — The Birth of Venus
The goddess arrives, blown ashore on a shell.

Nymphs and Satyr — Nymphs and Satyr
Four nymphs drag a reluctant satyr to the water.

Flaming June — Flaming June
The most beautiful sleep in Victorian art.

Hylas and the Nymphs — Hylas and the Nymphs
Seven faces in the water, and a boy who never comes back.

Echo and Narcissus — Echo and Narcissus
One of them cannot speak first; the other cannot look away.

The Lament for Icarus — The Lament for Icarus
The wings still on him, and the sun that did it overhead.

Bacchus and Ariadne — Bacchus and Ariadne
A god leaping from his chariot, mid-air, in love.

The Birth of Venus — The Birth of Venus
Botticelli’s subject, redone with academic perfection.

Pygmalion and Galatea — Pygmalion and Galatea
Ivory turning to flesh, from the knees up.

A Mermaid — A Mermaid
A siren combing her hair at the edge of the sea.

Proserpine — Proserpine
The queen of the underworld, and the fruit she cannot undo.

The Golden Stairs — The Golden Stairs
Eighteen maidens descending — to what, no one can say.

The Garden of the Hesperides — The Garden of the Hesperides
The nymphs, the golden apples, and the coiled dragon.

The Abduction of Psyche — The Abduction of Psyche
Love carrying the soul up into the light.

The Roses of Heliogabalus — The Roses of Heliogabalus
Guests smothered under a cascade of rose petals.

The Soul of the Rose — The Soul of the Rose
A woman leaning into a rose, eyes closed, breathing it in.

Ulysses and the Sirens — Ulysses and the Sirens
The sirens board the ship — bound to the mast, he cannot resist.

Natural History

Science drawn with the eye of an artist.

American Flamingo — American Flamingo
Audubon’s flamingo, bowed to fit the page.

Jellyfish — Discomedusae — Jellyfish — Discomedusae
The hidden symmetry of the deep, drawn by a scientist.

Snowy Owl — Snowy Owl
Two white owls on a crag, under a night sky.

Sea Anemones — Sea Anemones
Actiniae — Haeckel’s most riotous plate of colour.

Hummingbirds — Hummingbirds
Trochilidae — iridescence, catalogued.

Orchids — Orchids
Orchidae — flowers that look like insects, drawn like architecture.

Wild Turkey — Wild Turkey
Plate One of the greatest bird book ever made.

Carolina Parakeet — Carolina Parakeet
A lost bird, kept alive on the page.

Radiolaria — Radiolaria
Single-celled sea life, built like cathedral glass.

Sea Slugs — Nudibranchia — Sea Slugs — Nudibranchia
The most flamboyant colour in the sea, catalogued.

Rosa Centifolia — Rosa Centifolia
The cabbage rose, by the greatest botanical painter who ever lived.

Banana Flower with Insects — Banana Flower with Insects
The book that first showed how a caterpillar becomes a moth.

Hummingbirds — Hummingbirds
Gould’s jewels — iridescence printed in gold leaf.