Full fidelity capture
Printed from high resolution archival captures of the originals, so the brushwork and firelight survive the trip.
Old World Canvas
The paintings people cross oceans to see. Hung on your wall.
Museum grade canvas reproductions of the masterworks of the 1800s. Printed at full fidelity, stretched by hand, and made to order, one wall at a time.
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Ludwig Knaus · 1880 · Grohmann Museum, Milwaukee
Now Hanging
A father in greasepaint, one quiet hour
Behind the Scenes, painted by Ludwig Knaus in 1880, and reproduced at full fidelity on museum weight canvas.
The show starts in an hour. In the quiet of the tent, a clown feeds his baby first while the children warm themselves at the fire. People stand in front of this painting longer than any other in the room. Now it can hang in yours.
The Standard
Not a poster. A piece of the museum.
Every canvas is built to the same four standards, whether it hangs in a hallway or above the fireplace.
Archival pigment inks
Twelve channel giclee inks rated to resist fading for 100 years or more indoors.
Museum weight canvas
380gsm woven cotton, hand stretched over kiln dried pine so it never sags.
Ready to hang
Hardware arrives pre installed. Out of the box and on the wall in five minutes.
Why Old Paintings
Loved for a hundred years before you
New art gambles on your taste. These paintings already won the longest test there is.
Every painting in this collection earned its wall the hard way. Crowds queued for it. Critics argued over it. Museums bought it, guarded it, and hung it under glass and soft light for generations. When something holds a room for a century, that is not a trend. That is proof.
Our filter is simple and strict. A painting joins the collection only if it hung in a great museum and held its room for generations. Then we track down the finest archival capture of it in existence and print it the way conservators would want it printed. The collection keeps growing. The standard never moves.
Old World Canvas · The Masterworks
The Collection
The paintings the museums kept
Genre scenes, portraits, and landscapes of the 1800s, each reproduced at full fidelity from the finest capture of the original.
Hang it for a hundred days. Then decide.
Live with it through morning light and lamplight. If it is not the piece you hoped for, the return is on us.
- 100 day full refund
- Free damage replacement
- Lifetime color warranty
The Private View
Be first through the door
One email when a new masterwork arrives, with its story and its provenance. Nothing else, ever.