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
273 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
302 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 913 matching records exist across the two collections.
Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved
Design for the Decoration of a Ceiling with the Allegories of the Four Continents and the Signs of the Zodiac
Anonymous, French, 17th century (d. 1700)
ca. 1680–1710 · Pen and brown ink, brush and brown, gray, and red wash, heightened with white, over red and black chalk
Cleared · Public Domain
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Design for a Ceiling
Ercole Procaccini The Younger (d. 1680)
17th century · Pen and brown ink, brush and brown, green, blue and peach wash, over black chalk
Cleared · Public Domain
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Design for a Ceiling
Jean Berain (d. 1711)
n.d. · Pen and brown ink with brush and gray wash
Cleared · Public Domain
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Chariot of Apollo
Sir James Thornhill (d. 1734)
1700–1734 · Pen and brown ink, brush and wash, over traces of graphite
Cleared · Public Domain
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Salon Ceiling, Houghton Hall, Norfolk
Isaac Ware (d. 1766)
1735 · Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash
Cleared · Public Domain
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Apollo and Daphne: Design for a Wall or Ceiling Panel
Anonymous, Italian, 18th century (d. 1800)
18th century · Pen and brown ink, pink and green wash
Cleared · Public Domain
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Design for a Ceiling with Apollo on his Wagon in the Central Compartment
Anonymous, Italian, 18th century (d. 1800)
18th century · Pen and ink, wash, and watercolor
Cleared · Public Domain
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Design for Ceiling: Apollo and the Hours
Angelica Kauffmann (d. 1807)
1760–1807 · Pen and black ink, brush and gray ink, brown wash, watercolor, over black chalk
Cleared · Public Domain
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Design for Ceiling
Charles Monblond (d. 1900)
19th century · Pen and black ink, brush and gray wash over graphite
Cleared · Public Domain
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The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.
Hands, Study for "Apollo in His Chariot with the Hours"
John Singer Sargent (d. 1925)
1921–25 · Charcoal on off-white wove paper
In copyright
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