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A painting can be out of copyright and thephotograph of it can still be protected.

Museums publish two different things about the same artwork: whether the work is in copyright, and whether their picture of it is. OpenPlate reads both, does the arithmetic on the published term, and shows you the sentence behind every point of the score.

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  • The Metlive

    361 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)

  • Clevelandlive

    542 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API

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Ensemble by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Ensemble

Unrecorded maker

ca. 1730 · (a) wool; (b) silk; (a, b) metallic thread

Cleared · Public Domain

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Nathaniel Hurd by John Singleton Copley, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Nathaniel Hurd

John Singleton Copley (d. 1815)

c. 1765 · Painting, oil on canvas

Cleared · CC0

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Daniel Crommelin Verplanck by John Singleton Copley, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Daniel Crommelin Verplanck

John Singleton Copley (d. 1815)

1771 · Oil on canvas

Cleared · Public Domain

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Portrait of Dora Wheeler by William Merritt Chase, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Portrait of Dora Wheeler

William Merritt Chase (d. 1916)

1882–83 · Painting, oil on canvas

Cleared · CC0

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View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow by Thomas Cole, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow

Thomas Cole (d. 1848)

1836 · Oil on canvas

Cleared · Public Domain

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Stag at Sharkey's by George Bellows, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Stag at Sharkey's

George Bellows (d. 1925)

1909 · Painting, oil on canvas

Cleared · CC0

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Fur Traders Descending the Missouri by George Caleb Bingham, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Fur Traders Descending the Missouri

George Caleb Bingham (d. 1879)

1845 · Oil on canvas

Cleared · Public Domain

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The Biglin Brothers Turning the Stake by Thomas Eakins, The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Biglin Brothers Turning the Stake

Thomas Eakins (d. 1916)

1873 · Painting, oil on canvas

Cleared · CC0

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Heart of the Andes by Frederic Edwin Church, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Heart of the Andes

Frederic Edwin Church (d. 1900)

1859 · Oil on canvas

Cleared · Public Domain

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The Race Track (Death on a Pale Horse) by Albert Pinkham Ryder, The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Race Track (Death on a Pale Horse)

Albert Pinkham Ryder (d. 1917)

c. 1896–1908 · Painting, oil on canvas

Cleared · CC0

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The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak by Albert Bierstadt, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak

Albert Bierstadt (d. 1902)

1863 · Oil on canvas

Cleared · Public Domain

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Mme L . . . (Laure Borreau) by Gustave Courbet, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Mme L . . . (Laure Borreau)

Gustave Courbet (d. 1877)

1863 · Painting, oil on fabric

Cleared · CC0

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