Ensure authenticity, ownership, and royalties by fingerprinting your artwork through the Peggy app.
Creating a digital fingerprint for your artwork is essential for authenticating its provenance and securing a royalty whenever the artwork is resold. Our digital fingerprinting technology enables artists—or gallerists representing them—to create unique, verifiable records of their work, ensuring that collectors can trace its history, legitimacy, and ownership. Here’s how you can get started with this feature in Peggy.
Why Digital Fingerprinting?
The digital fingerprint provides a unique “ID” for each artwork, allowing secure tracking of its ownership history. This technology also guarantees a 5% royalty for the artist on every resale of the artwork. Peggy’s app is compatible with most modern smartphones, allowing artists and gallerists to use high-quality smartphone cameras to capture the optical details necessary for fingerprinting.
What Artwork Can Be Fingerprinted?
Currently, digital fingerprints can be created only for two-dimensional, unique works such as:
- Paintings
- Works on paper (before framing with glass)
We cannot yet fingerprint three-dimensional works (e.g., sculptures or textiles) or multiples (e.g., photographs or editions). If your artwork falls into one of these categories, please contact support@peggy.com to discuss our new NFC technology, which may be a suitable alternative.
Ready to Start?
Watch our step-by-step video tutorial here for detailed guidance on creating a digital fingerprint for your artwork in the Peggy app.
Fingerprinting Irregularly Shaped Artworks
For artworks that aren’t rectangular, such as circular tondo paintings, you’ll need to measure the largest square or rectangular area within the artwork:
- For circular artworks (e.g., a tondo), enter the dimensions of the square located inside the circle and fingerprint within that area.
- For irregular shapes (e.g., a trapezoid), enter the dimensions of the largest rectangle within the shape, then proceed to fingerprint that area.
