Rights clearance desk for images
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.
Where this page got its records
969 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
356 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 369 matching records exist across the two collections.
Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved
A Man Seated on a Throne
Follower of Piero della Francesca (d. 1492)
second half 15th century · Pen and brown ink, brush and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white (partly oxidized), over traces of black chalk.
Cleared · Public Domain
live![The Ninth Day Literary Gathering at Xing’an [Temporary Retreat] by Fang Shishu, The Cleveland Museum of Art](https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1979.72/1979.72_web.jpg)
The Ninth Day Literary Gathering at Xing’an [Temporary Retreat]
Fang Shishu (d. 1751)
1743 · Painting, Handscroll; ink and color on silk
Cleared · CC0
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Twenty-five bust portraits of famous scholars
Unidentified artist
16th or 17th century · Handscroll; ink and color on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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Portrait of a man in court robes with fur surcoat
Unidentified artist
late 18th–early 19th century · Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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Portrait of Qianlong Emperor As a Young Man
Unidentified artist
19th century · Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
Cleared · Public Domain
liveNo open reproduction
The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.
[Unidentified Man and Woman Seated at Table]
Walker Evans (d. 1975)
August 1944 · Gelatin silver print
In copyright
liveNo open reproduction
The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.
[Unidentified Man and Woman Seated at Table]
Walker Evans (d. 1975)
August 1944 · Gelatin silver print
In copyright
liveNo open reproduction
The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.
[3 Portraits of Unidentified Man Seated in Walker Evans' Apartment at 441 East 92nd Street, New York City]
Walker Evans (d. 1975)
1940s · Film negative
In copyright
liveNo open reproduction
The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.
[12 Portraits of Unidentified Man]
Walker Evans (d. 1975)
1950s–60s · Film negative
In copyright
liveNo open reproduction
The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.
[28 Portraits of Unidentified Man, Possibly England]
Walker Evans (d. 1975)
1960s · Film negative
In copyright
liveNo open reproduction
The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.
[6 Portraits of Walker Evans and Unidentified Man Seated Outside]
Unknown
1960s · Film negative
In copyright
liveNo open reproduction
The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.
[Four 35mm Film Frames: Portraits of Unidentified Man Seated at Desk with Telephone]
Walker Evans (d. 1975)
1950s–60s · Film negative
In copyright
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