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
168 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
273 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 258 matching records exist across the two collections.
Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved
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Scenes and Calligraphic Excerpts from The Tale of Genji
Tosa School
early 17th century · Shikishi (poetry cards) mounted in an orihon album; calligraphies: ink on decorated paper; paintings: ink, color, and gold on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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Scenes and Calligraphic Excerpts from The Tale of Genji
Tosa School
early 17th century · Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, color, and gold on decorated-paper shikishi (poetry cards)
Cleared · Public Domain
live
Landscapes and poems
Dong Qichang (d. 1636)
early 17th century · Album of eight double leaves; ink, gold, and color on gold-flecked paper and ink on satin
Cleared · Public Domain
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Six Noh Performances in Scenes from Daily Life
Unrecorded maker
late 17th–early 18th century · Handscroll; ink, color, and gold on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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Mountain Stream on a Summer Day
Nakabayashi Chikutō (d. 1853)
first half of the19th century · Hanging scroll; ink on paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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Bay, Hill, and Figure on Shore (from Sketchbook X)
William Trost Richards (d. 1905)
1885 · Graphite on off-white wove paper
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.
House and Trees on a Hillside (from Sketchbook VII)
William Trost Richards (d. 1905)
1886 · Graphite on off-white wove paper
In copyright
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.
Architecture and Irises
Xie Zhiliu (d. 1997)
ca. 1930s · Sheet from a sketchbook; pencil and ink on paper
In copyright
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.
Notes on Tang, Song and Yüan Paintings and Calligraphies
Xie Zhiliu (d. 1997)
ca. 1949 · Bound volume; ink on paper
In copyright
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.
Untitled (Eisenhower says peace...)
Jesse Howard (d. 1983)
1953–60 · Paint on commercial fiberboard (Masonite)
In copyright
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.
Notes on Paintings and Excerpts from Books
Xie Zhiliu (d. 1997)
20th century · Bound volume; ink on paper
In copyright
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.
Shitao Chronology and Excerpts from Miscellaneous Books
Xie Zhiliu (d. 1997)
20th century · Bound volume; ink on paper
In copyright
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