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
390 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
574 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 32 matching records exist across the two collections.
Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved
A Young Woman and Man Playing Shōgi (Japanese Chess); Chūnagon Kanesuke, from a series alluding to the Thirty-Six Poetic Immortals (Sanjūrokkasen)
Suzuki Harunobu (d. 1770)
ca. 1767–69 · Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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A Young Man and Woman with a Shamisen; Monk Saigyō, from a series alluding to the Three Evening Poems (Sanseki waka)
Suzuki Harunobu (d. 1770)
ca. 1768 · Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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Courtesan Viewing a Painting of Fukurokuju
Isoda Koryūsai (d. 1790)
ca. 1768 · Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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A Beauty Looking Down upon a Young Man Reading a Love Letter
Utagawa Toyoharu (d. 1814)
ca. 1771 · Woodblock print (pillar print); ink and color on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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Ono no Komachi: Number Two (Sono ni), from the series Stylish Parodies of the Six Poetic Immortals (Fūryū yatsushi rokkasen)
Chōbunsai Eishi (d. 1829)
1790s · Woodblock print; ink and color on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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The Courtesan Takigawa of the Ōgiya Brothel, from the series Seven Beautiful Komachi
Utagawa Toyokuni I (d. 1825)
ca. 1794 · Woodblock print (nishiki-e); ink and color on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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Mibu no Tadamine (no. 37), from the series A Pictorial Commentary on One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets (Hyakunin isshu eshō: Mibu no Tadamine)
Utagawa Kunisada (d. 1864)
ca. 1844 · Woodblock print (nishiki-e); vertical oban; ink and color on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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Fisherman’s Festival Robe (Maiwai) with Waves, Ship, and Fan
Unrecorded maker
19th century · Raw silk, hand-painted and paste-resist dyed
Cleared · Public Domain
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Seven Beauties of the Bamboo Grove
Watanabe Seitei 渡辺省亭 (d. 1918)
early 20th century · Hanging scroll; ink, color, and possibly lacquer 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.
Album containing prints clipped from American and British periodicals
Illman and Sons (d. 1900)
1815–60 · Hand-colored etching, engraving, lithograph, mezzotint
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.
The Three O'Clock Sitting
Henri Matisse (d. 1954)
1924 · Oil on canvas
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.
[South Seas: Woman in Kimono Seated on the Deck of the Cressida, From Behind]
Walker Evans (d. 1975)
1932 · Film negative
In copyright
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