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
523 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
287 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 5 matching records exist across the two collections.
Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved
Studies for the Libyan Sibyl (recto); Studies for the Libyan Sibyl and a small Sketch for a Seated Figure (verso)
Michelangelo Buonarroti (d. 1564)
ca. 1510–11 · Red chalk, with small accents of white chalk on the left shoulder of the figure in the main study (recto); soft black chalk, or less probably charcoal (verso)
Cleared · Public Domain
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The Blessed Egidius (Cartoon for a Fresco in chapel at S. Maria degli Angeli, Assisi)
Lo Spagna (Giovanni di Pietro) (d. 1528)
1514–16 · Charcoal or black chalk; outlines pricked and pounced for transfer
Cleared · Public Domain
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View of Messina Harbor
Louis François Cassas (d. 1827)
1783 · Pen and black and brown ink, brush and brown and gray wash, over traces of black chalk; framing lines in pen and black ink
Cleared · Public Domain
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Entrée de la première Cataracte près d'Assouan
Maxime Du Camp (d. 1894)
1849–50 · Salted paper print from paper negative
Cleared · Public Domain
liveNo 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.
Entrance to La Ville Close, Concarneau, France
Philip H. Giddens (d. 1974)
ca. 1920–35 · Drypoint
In copyright
live1. Pin the work
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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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