Inheritables.com Art Gifts Made To Last Centuries, About Us. Inheritable Fine Art Prints, Museum quality Giclées, Archival reproductions from original artwork.

Welcome! Inheritables.com is a family run art studio based in the USA - although our artistic roots go back to the 1880's in France and Spain! Our great great grandfather; Basque artist Agustin Zaragüeta started it all when followed his passion and moved to Paris to become an artist. There he developed his craft and produced many pieces which we fortunately have available here today. He later opened his own art photography studio in Pamplona Spain (this was back in the 1890's! His life inspired a ripple of art in his offspring - which is still going strong today. We hope you enjoy collecting or gifting our art as much as we have.

After almost two centuries, the Zaragueta family art collection is being introduced to the world for the first time, as Archival Quality Giclées: Fine art reproductions - exquisitly reproduced - with the latest pigments and substrates rated to last centuries! (see Wilhelm-Research.com).

Agustin Zaraguetas 19th Century Personal Card
Sample Page From His Workbook

Coming from a long line of engineers and doctors, in the late 19th century, our great grandfather; Agustin Zaragüeta went against family tradition and moved to Paris to become an artist... and learn about a revolutionary new technology that promised to change the art world. The technology was Chromolithography: the first color printing process. Before "chromos" each lithograph printed had to be colored by hand - many times by someone other than the original artist. To my great grandfather, Chromolithography represented much more than a color printmaking process, it was a way to unite people world wide with the universal language of beauty.

In the 19th century a new technology, for the first time, made it possible for people worldwide to enjoy beautiful art. Thanks to Chromolithography: (the first color printing process) many unkown artists works were preserved for future generations. Now in the 21st century a new preservation process has inspired Inheritables.com to make these and other fine art reproductions available again for future generations to enjoy.

After years in Paris creating beautiful art and chromolithoghraphs, Agustin Zaragüeta moved back to Pamplona Spain to open his own studio. Photography was just beginning, anhis art studio expanded to the photographic arts (which we have a few on glass negatives!). This was a thriving time, and his eldest son Luis Zaragüeta (my grandfather) helped run. Since this was before electricity or plastics, negatives were made of glass, and were developed during the daytime by using the suns rays through a small vent in the ceiling of the darkroom which was on the top floor of the studio. The studio (Zaragueta and sons) continued to operate after Agustin Zaraguetas passing, with the help of his son (my grand father); Luiz Zaragueta. Unfortunately he also passed away much too young during the Spanish Civil War.

Luis Zaragüeta (my grandfather) had two children. Luis-mari and Blanca Maria (Mary, my mother). Luis-mari took to watercolors in his later years, but it was Mary (my mother) who continued the family tradition and studied classical oil painting under the tutelage of Fernando Alvarez de Sotomayor, the Director of the Museo del Prado (and a teacher of Salvador Dalí). At age 23 she painted one of her greatest works when she was commissioned by the Marques de Cánovas del Castillo to create a portrait of his wife. For over 2 months, she went every morning to capture the subject in the right light. They liked it so much that they decided to display it in the grand room of their main residence in Barcelona. It is most likely there to this day.

About a year later, Mary Zaragüeta moved to Buenos Aires Argentina with her mother. Mary got a job as an artist for Culmen Publishing where she worked on projects for some of the largest corporations of the time. She married at 27 and had two children: Blanca and me: George. In 1969 the family moved to the US where we still live today. Now 85, Mary Zaragueta and I, like my 19th century great grandfather - learned of a breakthrough printmaking technology that produces the truest art reproductions (with pigmented inks that last for centuries). Having inherited so much beautiful artwork from my great grandfather and having so much art around me all my life: mainly from my mother and a few from my uncle; we decided to re-open the Zaragüeta family studio - now in the Internet age as: Inheritables.com. Now you can have your own reproduction of these first color chromolithographs... so they can again be enjoyed for centuries... hopefully again uniting the peoples of the world with the universal language of beauty.