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
365 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
450 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 3,785 matching records exist across the two collections.
Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved
Design for a Wall Elevation with Grotesques
Anonymous, Italian, second half of the 16th century (d. 1600)
ca. 1540–70 · Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash; some stylus ruling; highlighted with white gouache; on blue paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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Design for the Right Pauldron of a Parade Armor
Jean Cousin the Elder (d. 1565)
ca. 1555 · Pen and ink with watercolor wash on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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Right and Part of the Left Half of a Design for a Cartouche
Michelangelo Colonna (d. 1687)
1624–87 · Pen and ink, over faint traces of black chalk
Cleared · Public Domain
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Left Half of a Wall Decoration for a Chapel
Francesco Ferrari (d. 1708)
ca. 1690 · Pen, brown ink and wash with touches of blue and green wash, over black chalk
Cleared · Public Domain
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Design for the left half of a chimneypiece
Anonymous, Italian, 17th century (d. 1700)
17th century · Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over leadpoint
Cleared · Public Domain
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Design for the right half of a chimneypiece
Anonymous, Italian, 17th century (d. 1700)
17th century · Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over leadpoint
Cleared · Public Domain
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Design for the Right Half of an Overdoor Decoration with a Bust
Giovanni Battista Foggini (d. 1725)
1672–1725 · Pen and brown ink, brush and gray-brown wash; a vertical graphite line through the center of the design
Cleared · Public Domain
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Design for the Decorative Scheme of a Wall
Anonymous, Italian, Piedmontese, 18th century (d. 1800)
ca. 1700–40 · Red chalk, brush and red wash over red chalk; ruled construction in leadpoint
Cleared · Public Domain
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Right Half of a Design for an Altar in Rococo Style
Anonymous, German, South Germany, 18th century (d. 1799)
ca. 1735–50 · Pen and brown ink, brush and gray and red wash
Cleared · Public Domain
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Design for one half of an Altar with a Pilastered Wall at the Right
Anonymous, Italian, Piedmontese, 18th century (d. 1800)
1700–1780 · Pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash, over graphite, with ruled and compass construction. Scales at bottom in pen and brown ink; framing lines in pen and brown ink
Cleared · Public Domain
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One Half of a Design for an Arch, With a Figural Sketch Pasted at lower right
Anonymous, Italian, Piedmontese, 18th century (d. 1800)
1700–1780 · Pen and brown ink, brush and green wash, over leadpoint or graphite (recto); red chalk (verso)
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.
Vertical Symmetrical Design with Lines of Squares at Center, with Only the Right Half Painted
Anonymous, French, 20th century (d. 2000)
ca. 1910–29 · Charcoal, gouache and gold paint
In copyright
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