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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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    264 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)

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

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Results for "Behold the broken eggs, the question is"12 records

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Ostrakon with a Letter from Gennadius to Peter by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Ostrakon with a Letter from Gennadius to Peter

Unrecorded maker

580–640 · Pottery fragment with ink inscription

Cleared · Public Domain

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Varuna, Lord of Knowledge; Regent of the West by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Varuna, Lord of Knowledge; Regent of the West

Unrecorded maker

9th century · Bronze

Cleared · Public Domain

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Venus by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Venus

Unrecorded maker

early 16th century · Bronze, with yellow-brown natural patina

Cleared · Public Domain

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Seated Hercules in the act of shooting at the stymphalian birds by Vittore Gambello, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Seated Hercules in the act of shooting at the stymphalian birds

Vittore Gambello (d. 1537)

ca. 1515–20 · Bronze

Cleared · Public Domain

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Christ and the Two Thieves Crucified by Michelangelo Buonarroti, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Christ and the Two Thieves Crucified

Michelangelo Buonarroti (d. 1564)

ca. 1560–70 · Bronze

Cleared · Public Domain

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Watch with scenes from the story of Rebekah at the well by Johannes van Ceulen, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Watch with scenes from the story of Rebekah at the well

Johannes van Ceulen (d. 1715)

ca. 1676–80 · Case: painted enamel on gold, and raised enamel on gold; Movement: gilded brass, partly blued steel, and silver

Cleared · Public Domain

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Broken Eggs by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Broken Eggs

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (d. 1805)

1756 · Oil on canvas

Cleared · Public Domain

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The Rest (Le Repos) by Jean-Baptiste Le Prince, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Rest (Le Repos)

Jean-Baptiste Le Prince (d. 1781)

1771 · Etching and aquatint printed in brown ink

Cleared · Public Domain

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Behold the broken eggs, the question is whether the omelette will come out well, from 'News of the day,' published in "Le Charivari" by Honoré Daumier, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Behold the broken eggs, the question is whether the omelette will come out well, from 'News of the day,' published in "Le Charivari"

Honoré Daumier (d. 1879)

June 2, 1866 · Lithograph on newsprint; second state of two (Delteil)

Cleared · Public Domain

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No 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.

On the Shore, from "Picture Poesies"

John William North (d. 1924)

first published 1867, reissued 1874 · Wood engraving

In copyright

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No 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.

A Literary Debate in the Darktown Club: The Question Settled

Thomas B. Worth (d. 1917)

1885 · Lithograph, printed in color

In copyright

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No 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.

Broken II

Burçak Bingöl (d. 9999)

2013 · Stonepaste; drawn, painted, glazed and glued

In copyright

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