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A painting can be out of copyright and thephotograph of it can still be protected.

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    1049 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)

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

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Head of a Bearded Man Wearing a Turban (recto); Latin script (verso) by Master of the Death of Absalom (?), The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Head of a Bearded Man Wearing a Turban (recto); Latin script (verso)

Master of the Death of Absalom (?) (d. 1500)

ca. 1510 · Brush and black brown ink heightened with white gouache on slate gray prepared paper.

Cleared · Public Domain

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The Race Track (Death on a Pale Horse) by Albert Pinkham Ryder, The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Race Track (Death on a Pale Horse)

Albert Pinkham Ryder (d. 1917)

c. 1896–1908 · Painting, oil on canvas

Cleared · CC0

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Death by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Death

Unrecorded maker

mid-17th century · Lindenwood with traces of pigment, spruce base

Cleared · Public Domain

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Death of the Virgin by Master of Heiligenkreuz, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Death of the Virgin

Master of Heiligenkreuz

c. 1400 · Painting, tempera and oil with gold on panel

Cleared · CC0

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The Death by Thomas Rowlandson, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Death

Thomas Rowlandson (d. 1827)

February 1, 1789 · Hand-colored etching and aquatint

Cleared · Public Domain

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Sleep and Death Cista Handle by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Sleep and Death Cista Handle

Unrecorded maker

400–375 BCE · Sculpture, bronze

Cleared · CC0

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The Advocate and Death, from "Dance of Death" by Wenceslaus Hollar, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Advocate and Death, from "Dance of Death"

Wenceslaus Hollar (d. 1677)

[1651] late 18th century printing · Etching; second state of four

Cleared · Public Domain

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Knight, Death, and the Devil by Albrecht Dürer, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Knight, Death, and the Devil

Albrecht Dürer (d. 1528)

1513 · Print, engraving

Cleared · CC0

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[Death Scene] by François Aubert, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[Death Scene]

François Aubert (d. 1906)

1867 · Albumen silver print from glass negative

Cleared · Public Domain

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The Death of Dido by Giovanni Francesco Romanelli, The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Death of Dido

Giovanni Francesco Romanelli (d. 1662)

1679 · Tapestry, tapestry weave: silk and wool

Cleared · CC0

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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.

Death Sleeping

Anonymous, French, 16th century (d. 1600)

16th century · Woodcut

In copyright

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Mercenaries and a Woman with Death in a Tree by Urs Graf the Elder, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Mercenaries and a Woman with Death in a Tree

Urs Graf the Elder

1524 · Print, woodcut

Cleared · CC0

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