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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 Metsealed sample 2026-10-04T00:00:00.000Z

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art did not answer: met answered HTTP 403

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    1276 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API

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Results for "A Man Reading"6 records

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Reading by Berthe Morisot, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Reading

Berthe Morisot (d. 1895)

1873 · Painting, oil on canvas

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Portrait of a Man, Possibly Sir Soulden Lawrence by John I Smart, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Portrait of a Man, Possibly Sir Soulden Lawrence

John I Smart (d. 1811)

1770 · Portrait Miniature, watercolor on ivory in an amalgam frame

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Elderly Man Reading a Book by Nicolas Lagneau, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Elderly Man Reading a Book

Nicolas Lagneau (d. 1666)

first half 1600s · Drawing, black, red, white and chalk, with stumping; framing lines in black ink

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Man, Buffalo, and Calf by Li You, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Man, Buffalo, and Calf

Li You (d. 1145)

1145 · Painting, album leaf; ink and color on silk

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Casually Created on a Spring Day by Murase Taiitsu, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Casually Created on a Spring Day

Murase Taiitsu (d. 1881)

c. 1825–81 · Painting, hanging scroll; ink on paper

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Study of a Man with Hands in His Pockets by Gustave Caillebotte, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Study of a Man with Hands in His Pockets

Gustave Caillebotte (d. 1894)

1893 · Drawing, black chalk on Arches modern laid paper

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