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Ivan Aivazovsky · 1850

The Ninth Wave

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Aivazovsky's most famous painting — survivors clinging to a mast at dawn after a storm, golden light breaking through cloud onto towering seas. Russian Museum, St. Petersburg.

Up to 24 × 16 in · landscape

Size

Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.

Format & finish

Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.

Scale next to a 5'10" person

2416

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Materials & quality

Canvas & inks

Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.

Floater frame

Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.

Posters

Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.

Faithful to the source

Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.

The story of The Ninth Wave

The Ninth Wave is an 1850 painting by Russian marine painter Ivan Aivazovsky. It is his best-known work.

Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Ivan Aivazovsky

Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky was a Russian Romantic painter who is considered one of the greatest masters of marine art. Baptized as Hovhannes Aivazian, he was born to Armenian parents in the Black Sea port of Feodosia in Crimea and was mostly based there.

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Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.