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
535 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
471 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 7,730 matching records exist across the two collections.
Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved
Design for a Ceiling with an Oval Trompe L'Oeil Painting
Anonymous, Italian, 17th century (d. 1700)
17th century · Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, and watercolor, over graphite and ruled construction
Cleared · Public Domain
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Design for a Ceiling with the Allegory of Dawn
Anonymous, Italian, 17th century (d. 1700)
ca. 1640–1700 · Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and gray wash, over graphite
Cleared · Public Domain
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Design for a Wall and Ceiling with Frames and Decorations in Stucco
Anonymous, Italian, 18th century (d. 1800)
ca. 1690–1710 · Black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash
Cleared · Public Domain
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Design for a Ceiling with an Allegorical Subject
Sir James Thornhill (d. 1734)
ca. 1713 · Pen and brown ink, brush and wash, over graphite (recto); graphite (verso)
Cleared · Public Domain
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Design for a ceiling with an allegory of Justice
Hendrik-Frans Verbruggen (d. 1724)
n.d. · Pen and brown ink, graphite, brush and gray and brown wash
Cleared · Public Domain
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Design for a Ceiling With an Elaborate Cove
Anonymous, Italian, Piedmontese, 18th century (d. 1800)
1700–1780 · Pen and gray and brown ink, brush and gray wash over black chalk underdrawing, with ruled and compass construction in leadpoint; scales at bottom
Cleared · Public Domain
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Design for a Ceiling, an Oblong with an Oval Center
Sir William Chambers (d. 1796)
1743–96 · Pen and ink, brush and wash
Cleared · Public Domain
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Design for an Oblong Ceiling with an Oval Centre
James Wyatt (d. 1813)
18th–19th century · Pen and ink
Cleared · Public Domain
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Design for an Oblong Panel Carved with Foliage
Anonymous, British, 19th century (d. 1900)
1822 · Pen and ink, brush and brown wash
Cleared · Public Domain
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Partial design for a ceiling with an ornate border
Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise (d. 1897)
1830–97 · graphite on wove paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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Design for an Oval Ceiling
Anonymous, British, 19th century (d. 1900)
19th century · Watercolor, heightened with gold
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.
Design for a Ceiling with Magnolias
Auguste Herbst (d. 1951)
1898 · Pen and brown ink, brush and pink and rose wash, heightened with white and gold
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