Arnold Böcklin · 1880

Isle of the Dead

Name: Isle of the Dead by Arnold Böcklin
Brand: Chromora
SKU: bocklin-isle-of-the-dead
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A small white-clad figure ferried by oarsman toward a high-walled rocky island of cypresses — the most reproduced print in early-20th-century European homes. Several versions; the 1883 Basel version is shown. Kunstmuseum Basel.

Up to 24 × 17 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

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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.

About this painting

The story of Isle of the Dead

Isle of the Dead is the best-known painting of Swiss Symbolist artist Arnold Böcklin (1827–1901). Prints were very popular in central Europe in the early 20th century—Vladimir Nabokov observed in his 1936 novel Despair that they could be "found in every Berlin home".

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

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