The 21 most popular paintings for reproductions of oil paintings by the old masters

High-quality, faithful reproductions and art copies of famous painters enjoy unabated popularity. Numerous suppliers offer museum-quality replicas.

For art lovers who don't have the necessary cash for an original by the old masters – and that probably applies to most of us – this offers the possibility of bringing a faithful copy of your favorite work into your own home – as hand-painted reproductions .

Reproductions are also a popular choice as an artistic gift

Art reproductions are an excellent way to acquire paintings by world-renowned, exceptional artists at an affordable price.

Unlike art prints, these replicas are hand-painted by talented artists as exact 1:1 copies and even artificially aged using special techniques to closely resemble the original. Artists with many years of experience create valuable replicas on meticulously prepared canvas.

On particularly high-quality replicas, almost every brushstroke of the original artwork can be seen in the finished piece

A variety of artistic styles and themes are available

reproductions of paintings oil painting reproductions include Impressionism , modern and abstract art , Realism, Orientalism, Cubism, Baroque , and Renaissance.

Among the most popular artists reproduced are Vincent Van Gogh , Leonardo da Vinci , Rembrandt van Rijn, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Paul Cézanne, Henri Rousseau, Claude Monet , Camille Pissarro, Gustav Klimt , Paul Gauguin, Edgar Degas, Wassily Kandinsky, Edvard Munch , Frida Kahlo , Pablo Picasso , Jackson Pollock , Salvador Dalí , Jan Vermeer , Amedeo Modigliani, Paul Klee, Alfons Maria Mucha, Franz Marc, Henri Rousseau, Paul Cézanne, Édouard Manet , Joseph Turner, Sandro Botticelli, Winslow Homer, John William Waterhouse, Gustave Caillebotte, Caravaggio, Artemisia Gentileschi and George Bellows.

The 21 most popular oil paintings for reproductions

The selection of works available for high-quality replicas is extremely extensive. Dozens of providers – both national and international – have specialized in this area online, and their range of famous, popular, important, and artistically valuable pieces from across art history is immense.

However, a number of paintings have emerged as particularly popular choices for high-quality art reproductions. We have compiled the 21 most popular works in the list below. You've probably come across one or two of them before…

1. “Starry Night” by Vincent van Gogh

Year: 1889 | Medium: Oil on canvas | Location: Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City

Vincent van Gogh , a tormented mind and brilliant artist, was one of the greatest figures in 20th-century art. His distinctive style, characterized by vibrant colors, set him apart from many other artists of his time.

The famous Starry Night is a painting that was created in the second half of the nineteenth century during his hospital stays in a mental asylum.

The swirl and the circular brushstrokes, which are very noticeable, are the result of a specific painting technique developed by him.

We can feel the flickering effect of his work, which reflects Van Gogh's feverish temperament.

2. “Impression, Sunrise” by Claude Monet

Year: 1872 | Medium: Oil on canvas | Location: Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris

Claude Monet was one of the most important representatives of Impressionism . This seminal work was created in 1874 and is likely to have marked the birth of this Art Movement .

What is striking is the almost complete absence of dark shadows and the broad application of color. Light becomes the undisputed protagonist of each of his paintings and his trademark.

In this Impressionist painting, you see the harbor at dawn . The still-weak sun penetrates the landscape, but barely reveals any contours. Rather, it is the many nuanced shades of color that lend the painting a special atmosphere and make it bright and luminous. Monet reveals his poetic side through direct contact with nature and expresses this in his paintings in an unparalleled way.

3. “Bal du moulin de la Galette” by Pierre Auguste Renoir

Year: 1876 | Medium: Oil paint | Size: 31 × 175 cm | Art movement: Impressionism | Location: Musée d'Orsay

Auguste Renoir was also a major figure in Impressionism. His works are full of optimism, vitality, and energy, depicting bohemian Parisian life in the late 19th century. This famous oil painting from 1876 is considered an absolute masterpiece of Impressionism .

We observe that contours and defining lines are almost entirely absent, and that forms are instead created through color. Renoir, like other representatives of Impressionism, uses neither shadows nor the color black.

His works reveal a certain dynamism that almost seems to move the figures on the surface of the canvas.

4. “San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk” by Claude Monet

Year: 1908 | Medium: Oil on canvas | Art movement: Impressionism | Location: Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan

Mone often painted privately and within his familiar surroundings. He preferred the view from his hotel to avoid crowds and people.

All the more surprising, then, is the fact that his subject for this painting, San Giorgio Maggiore at dusk, could only be seen from this perspective from the lakeside promenade called Riva degli Schiavoni. A place known to always be crowded with large and noisy people, especially at dusk.

It is fortunate for posterity that the artist, who otherwise lives a rather secluded life, seems to have made an exception here.

5. “Two Sisters” by Pierre Auguste Renoir

Year: 1881 | Medium: Oil on canvas | Dimensions: 100.5 x 81 cm | Art movement: Post-Impressionism | Location: Art Institute of Chicago, USA

Renoir began painting this work in April 1881 and sold it in July of the same year. Since then, it has changed hands frequently. It finally ended up at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1933, where it remains to this day.

An interesting side note: Contrary to what the title might suggest, the two models were not sisters at all. The older of the two was an 18-year-old woman who soon became an actress. The younger woman's identity is unknown.

6. “The Kiss” by Gustav Klimt

Year: 1907-1908 | Medium: Oil and paper on canvas | Location: Belvedere, Vienna

Gustav Klimt was one of the most important artists of the Vienna Secession . His works are exquisite and are particularly distinguished by the use of gold, which lends his pieces a special brilliance. This also earned him the nickname "Viennese Golden Boy" .

Klimt's paintings continue to influence contemporary art and have become an indispensable source of inspiration for design and decoration in our everyday lives.

The Kiss, one of Klimt's most famous works, was created in the early twentieth century and is considered part of the Art Movement Art Nouveau . The gold color makes the kissing couple stand out from the background in a luminous manner.

The striking, rectangular geometric shapes on the motif look like mosaic pieces on a kind of cloak that covers the man, while the woman is covered with circular shapes without edges.

7. “The Dance Lesson” by Edgar Degas

 

Edgar Degas was a French Impressionist painter and a world-renowned artist. His subject matter was primarily scenes from ballet.
His paintings represent a decadent Paris, yet are simultaneously full of elegance and wistful romanticism.

Unlike many of his contemporaries, Degas did not paint scenes from nature or landscapes. Defying this Impressionist trend, his paintings mostly depict enclosed urban environments from the respective photographic perspective.

“The Dance Lesson” is Edgar Degas’s magnum opus and portrays ballerinas during exercises in class. Specifically, it depicts the scene in which Jules Perrot, the renowned ballet master of the time, is teaching ballet to the class.

8. “Composition VII” by Wassily Kandinsky

Wassily Kandinsky laid the foundation for abstract art by experimenting with new art forms that opposed the previously dominant figurative art and the pictorial representation of reality.

In this way, the artist brought to life a completely new mode of expression, in which every color seems to be linked to an emotional state. Furthermore, each nuance is associated with a precise sound, creating a close connection between art and music.

Composition VIII is a fundamental work of geometric abstraction . Indeed, the artwork is characterized by stiffer lines than his previous paintings. Abstract representations of musical scores are vaguely discernible, along with a multitude of seemingly randomly arranged squares, triangles, and circles.

9. “The Scream” by Edvard Munch

Edvard Munch was one of the greatest representatives of Expressionism and played a significant role in the art of the early 20th century.

The Scream, his most famous work from 1893, has become a symbol of a tormented and depressed society. This fearful face has given the painting a timeless power, making it immortal, and reflects the artist's emotional state after several tragic events in his life.

The Scream was painted by Munch to depict himself and, above all, his mood when he was out in nature one day and his two friends (in the background) left him.

The style of this work was not something Munch stuck with for long. It was a relatively short phase for the Expressionist artist. He himself, incidentally, found the technique terrible and believed it displayed his unstable mind.

10. “Les Demoiselles d'Avignon” by Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso was a world-renowned Spanish painter and sculptor and is considered one of the leading figures of the 20th century in the world of visual arts.

This artist is known for his early-developed talent and versatility, which throughout his professional life ranged from cubist art to classicism and African art.

This Cubist masterpiece was created at the beginning of the 20th century and is one of the most famous paintings of his Cubist period. The painting depicts five prostitutes with stylistically distinctive angular bodies. Picasso's style moved away from figurative art during this phase. The women have deformed faces, and it almost appears as if they are wearing African masks.

11. “Number 3” by Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock was one of the leading representatives of abstract expressionism and the founding father of so-called action painting .

The works of this artist have always divided critics into two camps. There were passionate supporters and bitter opponents of his art. There was little middle ground.

Pollock created new ways of interpreting not only what we observe on the canvas, but all creative phases of the artist himself.

His most famous paintings were created between the post-war years of 1947 and 1950. His self-developed technique of dripping paint was a defining characteristic of his work. This technique essentially involves dripping paint onto a canvas or a surface lying on the floor using brushes and pencils. Sometimes the paint was also sprayed or thrown.

This is also how painting Number 3 came about.

12. “The Persistence of Memory” by Salvador Dalí

The Surrealist Salvador Dalí was an artist through and through. In the art world, he is considered one of the most important figures of the 20th century, and not only because of his artistic contributions. Beyond his work, he also stood out as a dazzling personality, displaying his extravagant character in defiance of all convention.

He was an eccentric and highly versatile person. Besides painting, he also dedicated himself to sculpture, writing, photography, and film.

Dalí is best known to most people for his surrealist art . His most famous painting, "The Persistence of Memory" from 1931, expresses an expanded sense of time through the dissolution of Watches as timekeepers.

13. “Café Terrace at Night” by Vincent van Gogh

This was the first painting in which Van Gogh used a starry background. He went on to paint several similar works in this style.

The famous painting has been featured in several films and television programs, which has undoubtedly boosted its popularity. An interesting fact is that the actual location includes some Roman buildings; however, Van Gogh chose not to include them – presumably for reasons of composition.

14. “Water Lilies” by Claude Monet

“Water Lilies” , or in German “Seerosenbilder”, is a collection of about 250 paintings, all of which were created in his flower gardens in Giverny.

These paintings capture the serene beauty and transcendent stillness of his water gardens. What is particularly interesting is that Monet created the majority of these works during a period when his eyesight was impaired by cataracts. This limitation lent the paintings a unique perspective and radiance, as Monet focused more on capturing light and color rather than precise details.

This series of paintings invites the viewer to see nature in a new, impressionistic way, emphasizing reflections in the water and fleeting plays of light. With these works, Monet left behind not only a testament to his artistic achievement, but also an insight into his personal connection to nature.

Today, these wonderful paintings are spread across many art museums around the world.

15. “Almond Blossoms” by Vincent van Gogh

This famous Japanese-style painting was created as part of a series of paintings during a creative phase of Van Gogh's career in which the artist was increasingly searching for meaning ( 1888 to 1890 in Arles and Saint-Rémy).

During this time, Van Gogh wrote numerous letters to his sister, describing his fascination with the blossoming trees. He gave expression to this fascination in many of his paintings. A style began to emerge that profoundly influenced Van Gogh. His work during this period had a profound impact on the rest of his life.

16. “The Artist's Garden at Vétheuil” by Claude Monet

In the autumn of 1878, after a difficult period in his life, Monet moved with his family and rented a house on the southern edge of Vétheuil, a quiet village on the banks of the Seine, almost 60 kilometers north of Paris. He persuaded the landlord to create gardens around the property and painted them while they were in full bloom. The boy in the painting is the artist's son.

This work is characteristic of Monet's preference for long horizons and vanishing point perspectives in his work. These capture the viewer's eye and direct it to the lower part of the picture.

17. “Adele Bloch-Bauer I” by Gustav Klimt

This painting was the last of Klimt's works using gold, thus concluding an era of his artistic output. It is one of two paintings by Adele Bloch-Bauer, a wealthy member of early 20th-century Viennese society and a patron and close friend of Gustav Klimt. The work was later stolen by the Nazis and subsequently passed through the hands of various art collectors for several years. It is currently housed in the Neue Galerie in New York.

18. “Girl with a Pearl Earring” by Jan Vermeer

A very striking painting, which, above all, lingers in the viewer's memory due to the portrayed sitter's distinctive gaze. Unfortunately, it lost some of its vibrancy with age. However, a restoration project in 1994 largely succeeded in restoring the brilliance of the original work.

To their surprise, they discovered during the restoration process that the black background was originally a deep green. The artist used many organic pigments in this painting, which faded and changed color over time.

19. “Breezing Up (A Fair Wind)” by Winslow Homer

Breezing Up (A Fair Wind) is an oil painting by the American artist Winslow Homer. It depicts a small sailboat named Gloucester maneuvering through the harbor of that city in a stiff breeze. On board are a man, three boys, and their catch.

The painting demonstrates the influence of Japanese art on American painters around the 19th century. Breezing Up is a celebrated example of American art.

20. “The Lady of Shalott” by John William Waterhouse

This is an illustration of a poem called "The Lady of Shalott." According to the story, the woman suffers from an unknown curse and is isolated in a tower. She can only leave the tower through a reflection in a mirror.

The painting depicts the woman letting go of a ship's chain as she is about to die. A highly melodramatic work, it is particularly memorable for its rich detail and melancholic atmosphere.

21. “Paris Street on a Rainy Day” by Gustave Caillebotte

The figures in this painting are dressed in typical contemporary Parisian fashion of the late 19th century. Caillebotte spent months positioning the figures in the painting, meticulously examining every detail.

Particularly noteworthy in this work is the reflection of light, which presents a very realistic interpretation. The painting's atmosphere is rather oppressive, and the people appear to be focused on themselves and in a hurry. The umbrellas reinforce this impression by shielding the people both from the rain and from each other.

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