Our reproductions & copyright

Every work Angels of the Andes sells is a reproduction of a work in the public domain — meaning its original copyright has expired (typically because the artist died more than 70–100 years ago, depending on jurisdiction) or it was never subject to copyright to begin with.

We source each source image from a museum’s open-access release or a verified public-domain archive (for example, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Open Access program, or a Wikimedia Commons file carrying a confirmed public-domain license tag). The holding institution or archive is named on every product page, alongside a link back to the original record.

A piece is never listed for sale on this site until its public-domain status has been individually verified. Works we haven’t finished sourcing are never quietly published — they simply stay off the shop.

What you are buying is our print — a physical or digital reproduction we produce from the source scan — not the original artwork, and not a license to the underlying image beyond your own personal use of the print or file you purchase.

Questions about a specific piece’s provenance? Every product page links directly to the source institution’s own record for that work.