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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

  • Clevelandlive

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

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Results for "Chinese Portrait Painter"8 records

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Portraits of the Qianlong Emperor and His Twelve Consorts by Giuseppe Castiglione, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Portraits of the Qianlong Emperor and His Twelve Consorts

Giuseppe Castiglione (d. 1766)

1736–70s · Painting, Handscroll; ink and color on silk

Cleared · CC0

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Portrait of Duli Xingyi by Kita Genki, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Portrait of Duli Xingyi

Kita Genki

1671 · Painting, hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

Cleared · CC0

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Layered Peaks and Splashing Waterfall: Portrait of Hua Yan as a Young Man by Hua Yan, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Layered Peaks and Splashing Waterfall: Portrait of Hua Yan as a Young Man

Hua Yan (d. 1765)

1705 · Painting, Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk

Cleared · CC0

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The Ninth Day Literary Gathering at Xing’an [Temporary Retreat] by Fang Shishu, The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Ninth Day Literary Gathering at Xing’an [Temporary Retreat]

Fang Shishu (d. 1751)

1743 · Painting, Handscroll; ink and color on silk

Cleared · CC0

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Scholar Watching the Waterfall by Luo Ping, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Scholar Watching the Waterfall

Luo Ping (d. 1799)

1764 · Painting, Hanging scroll; ink and light color on paper

Cleared · CC0

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A Vignette of Life on the Frontier by Jiao Bingzhen, The Cleveland Museum of Art

A Vignette of Life on the Frontier

Jiao Bingzhen (d. 1726)

c. 1717–22 · Painting, Folding fan; ink and color on paper

Cleared · CC0

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Portrait of Sugawara Michizane by Yōgetsu, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Portrait of Sugawara Michizane

Yōgetsu

late 1400s–early 1500s · Painting, hanging scroll; ink and color on paper

Cleared · CC0

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Waiting for the Moon in the Mid Autumn Festival by Shi Rui, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Waiting for the Moon in the Mid Autumn Festival

Shi Rui (d. 1470)

1400s · Painting, handscroll; ink, color, and gold on silk

Cleared · CC0

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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

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