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
2338 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
304 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 2,074 matching records exist across the two collections.
Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved
The American Landscape, No. 1, Engraved from Nature Expressly for This Work, and from Well Authenticated Pictures, With Historical and Topographical Illustrations
William Cullen Bryant (d. 1878)
1830 · Illustrations: engraving
Cleared · Public Domain
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Vale of Kashmir
Robert S. Duncanson (d. 1872)
1867 · Painting, oil on canvas
Cleared · CC0
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American Falls, Niagara
Jasper Francis Cropsey (d. 1900)
ca. 1855 · Graphite and white gouache on dark buff-colored wove paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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Twilight in the Wilderness
Frederic Edwin Church (d. 1900)
1860 · Painting, oil on canvas
Cleared · CC0
live![[Landscape, Pride's Crossing] by Samuel Masury, The Metropolitan Museum of Art](https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ph/web-large/DP274829.jpg)
[Landscape, Pride's Crossing]
Samuel Masury (d. 1874)
ca. 1856 · Salted paper print from paper negative
Cleared · Public Domain
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View of Schroon Mountain, Essex County, New York, After a Storm
Thomas Cole (d. 1848)
1838 · Painting, oil on canvas
Cleared · CC0
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Landscape – Fruit and Flowers
Frances Flora Bond Palmer (d. 1876)
1862 · Hand-colored lithograph
Cleared · Public Domain
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The Sleeping Faun
Harriet Goodhue Hosmer (d. 1908)
modeled 1864, carved c. 1870 · Sculpture, marble
Cleared · CC0
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.
Stormy Landscape
Joshua Shaw (d. 1861)
1818 · Oil on canvas
In copyright
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View of Florence
Thomas Cole (d. 1848)
1837 · Painting, oil on canvas
Cleared · CC0
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.
[15 Stereographic Views of European and American Landscape and Architecture]
Unknown
1859–66 · Glass positives
In copyright
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Trees on a Rocky Hillside
Asher B. Durand (d. 1886)
c. 1849 · Painting, oil on canvas
Cleared · CC0
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2. Read the arithmetic
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3. Seal and export
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