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
81 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
665 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
Adam and Eve Mourning the Death of Abel
Michiel Coxie (I) (d. 1592)
ca. 1576 · Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, over black chalk; framing lines in pen and brown ink, by the artist; incised for transfer; verso covered with red chalk for transfer
Cleared · Public Domain
live
Lucas and Cornelius van Wael
Wenceslaus Hollar (d. 1677)
1646 · Etching; fourth state of four (NH)
Cleared · Public Domain
live
Tobit burying the Dead
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto) (d. 1664)
ca. 1647–51 · Etching
Cleared · Public Domain
live
Portrait of a Man
Jacob Backer (d. 1651)
ca. 1645–50 · Black chalk, heightened with white, with touches of red chalk (recto); pen and brown ink, brush and gray wash over black chalk (verso)
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.
Lucas and Cornelius de Wael
Wenceslaus Hollar (d. 1677)
1646 · Etching; first state of four (NH)
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
Record the decision into a SHA-384 chain, then export a dated docket as JSON, CSV or Markdown with the credit line and the seal a colleague can re-verify.