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
438 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
303 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 4,692 matching records exist across the two collections.
Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved
Monarda didyma/ Scarlet Lion's Tail
The Hon. Booth Grey (d. 1802)
ca. 1791 (?) · Paper mosaic: cut piece of laid paper colored with watercolor, laid onto a supporting sheet colored entirely with black ink and marked with a white paper label
Cleared · Public Domain
live![[Unidentified Woman in Nine Oval Views] by Southworth and Hawes, The Metropolitan Museum of Art](https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ph/web-large/DP-42243-001.jpg)
[Unidentified Woman in Nine Oval Views]
Southworth and Hawes (d. 1863)
ca. 1850 · Daguerreotype
Cleared · Public Domain
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Arrangement in Flesh Colour and Black: Portrait of Theodore Duret
James McNeill Whistler (d. 1903)
1883 · Oil on canvas
Cleared · Public Domain
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Arrangement in Black, No. 3: Sir Henry Irving as Philip II of Spain
James McNeill Whistler (d. 1903)
1876, reworked 1885 · Oil on canvas
Cleared · Public Domain
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Arrangement in Black: Girl Reading
James McNeill Whistler (d. 1903)
ca. 1880–90 · Oil on wood
Cleared · Public Domain
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Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Artist's Mother
Thomas Robert Way (d. 1913)
1892 · Lithograph on chine collé; first state
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.
Rose Corder (Arrangement in Brown and Black)
Richard Josey (d. 1906)
1880 · Mezzotint on chine collé; proof
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.
Portrait Study in Black
Clarence H. White (d. 1925)
1896 · Platinum 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.
The grey cloak
Margaret Neilson Armstrong (d. 1944)
1903
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.
Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle
Henry Wolf (d. 1916)
1904 · Wood engraving on chine flotant
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.
Abraham Lincoln
George Grey Barnard (d. 1938)
ca. 1911–17; carved ca. 1919 · Marble
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.
White-Red Grey-Black
Judson Smith (d. 1962)
1951 · Casein on cardboard
In copyright
live1. Pin the work
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2. Read the arithmetic
Six weighted factors: the institution's own claim, the creator's term, the publication-age rule, the restrictions in their statement, your use, and whether a credit line is even possible.
3. Seal and export
Record the decision into a SHA-384 chain, then export a dated docket as JSON, CSV or Markdown with the credit line and the seal a colleague can re-verify.