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A painting can be out of copyright and thephotograph of it can still be protected.

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.

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    216 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)

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    336 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API

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The Castellan Tomb in Saint Germain-des-Prés by Jean Chafourier, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Castellan Tomb in Saint Germain-des-Prés

Jean Chafourier (d. 1757)

1724 (before) · Pen and black and gray ink, brush and black, beige, green, gray, and orange wash

Cleared · Public Domain

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The Death of Dido by Giovanni Francesco Romanelli, The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Death of Dido

Giovanni Francesco Romanelli (d. 1662)

1679 · Tapestry, tapestry weave: silk and wool

Cleared · CC0

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Pity by William Blake, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Pity

William Blake (d. 1827)

ca. 1795 · Relief etching, printed in color and finished with pen and ink and watercolor

Cleared · Public Domain

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"Old Pat," The Independent Beggar by Samuel Lovett Waldo, The Cleveland Museum of Art

"Old Pat," The Independent Beggar

Samuel Lovett Waldo (d. 1861)

c. 1819 · Painting, oil on wood

Cleared · CC0

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Idée du tableau le plus touchant du Salon de l’an 9 (La Pauvre rentière) by Chevalier Férréol de Bonnemaison, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Idée du tableau le plus touchant du Salon de l’an 9 (La Pauvre rentière)

Chevalier Férréol de Bonnemaison (d. 1826)

ca. 1800 · Etching and aquatint

Cleared · Public Domain

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Jesus being portrayed by King Abgar’s painter (folio 143 recto), from a Mirror of Holiness (Mir’at al-quds) of Father Jerome Xavier by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Jesus being portrayed by King Abgar’s painter (folio 143 recto), from a Mirror of Holiness (Mir’at al-quds) of Father Jerome Xavier

Unrecorded maker

1602–4 · Manuscript, Gum tempera, ink, color, and gold on paper

Cleared · CC0

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Pity the Sorrows of a Poor Old Man by Théodore Géricault, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Pity the Sorrows of a Poor Old Man

Théodore Géricault (d. 1824)

1822 · Lithograph

Cleared · Public Domain

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Grave Stele by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Grave Stele

Unrecorded maker

400–350 BCE · Sculpture, pentelic marble

Cleared · CC0

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Theatrical Mendicants Relieved - have Pity upon all our Aches and Wants! by James Gillray, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Theatrical Mendicants Relieved - have Pity upon all our Aches and Wants!

James Gillray (d. 1815)

1824–27 · Hand-colored etching

Cleared · Public Domain

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The Oak Tree and the Reed by Charles François Daubigny, The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Oak Tree and the Reed

Charles François Daubigny (d. 1878)

c. 1873 · Drawing, blue, gray, and black wash, and graphite

Cleared · CC0

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Figure 48: Mild weeping, pity and feeble false laughter by Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne de Boulogne, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Figure 48: Mild weeping, pity and feeble false laughter

Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne de Boulogne (d. 1875)

1854–56, printed 1862 · Albumen silver print from glass negative

Cleared · Public Domain

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Portrait of Miss Mary Tadman by John I Smart, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Portrait of Miss Mary Tadman

John I Smart (d. 1811)

1809 · Portrait Miniature, watercolor and graphite, heightened with traces of white gouache on paper

Cleared · CC0

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