The print is the point
Anyone can sell the image — it’s public domain. What you’re buying here is the object: how faithfully, and how durably, the masterwork lands on your wall.
- Museum-grade cotton-rag
- Heavyweight archival cotton-rag stock — the same acid-free paper conservators trust — not thin poster stock.
- Archival pigment, 100+ years
- Pigment inks, not dye: rated to hold their colour past a century without fading or shifting.
- Colour-managed to the source
- Each file is profiled to the holding institution’s own scan, so the print reads as the painting does.
- Gallery canvas on solid wood
- Canvas is gallery-wrapped over kiln-dried solid-wood stretcher bars — taut, square, ready to hang.
The Kiss
Klimt’s golden embrace, at the summit of Art Nouveau.
- Work
- Gustav Klimt, The Kiss
- Artist / creator
- Gustav Klimt (Austrian, 1862–1918)
- Origin & date
- Vienna, 1907–1908
- Held by
- Belvedere, Vienna
Format
The full-resolution color-managed file — yours to print, study, and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan's resolution supports sizes up to 30x40 cleanly.
Size
$24.00
The story
Two lovers kneel at the edge of a flowering meadow, wrapped in a single robe of gold — his ornament all hard rectangles, hers soft circles and blossoms, the two dissolving into one shimmering field. Painted at the height of Klimt’s “Golden Period,” when he worked real gold leaf into the surface, The Kiss turns a private moment into an icon, secular and sacred at once. Look closely at where the meadow ends: the couple embrace on the very brink of a gold abyss, oblivious. Love as the whole world, and the edge of it, in one breath.
About this reproduction
- Faithful reproduction of a public-domain work, sourced from Belvedere, Vienna’s open-access release.
- Printed to order on archival cotton-rag stock, pigment inks rated 100+ years.
- Color-managed to the source scan.
- Every factual claim about this work — title, artist, date, and holding institution — is verified against the art-historical record and the source institution.
- Ships in 5–8 business days; satisfaction guaranteed.
