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Rights clearance desk for images

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

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Results for "Portrait of the Artist"6 records

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Portrait of a Woman by Rembrandt van Rijn, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Portrait of a Woman

Rembrandt van Rijn (d. 1669)

1635 or earlier · Painting, oil on wood

Cleared · CC0

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Portrait of Dora Wheeler by William Merritt Chase, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Portrait of Dora Wheeler

William Merritt Chase (d. 1916)

1882–83 · Painting, oil on canvas

Cleared · CC0

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Portrait of a Woman by The Artist "V", The Cleveland Museum of Art

Portrait of a Woman

The Artist "V"

c. 1775 · Portrait Miniature, watercolor on ivory on a gold locket

Cleared · CC0

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Self-Portrait by John I Smart, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Self-Portrait

John I Smart (d. 1811)

1802 · Portrait Miniature, watercolor on ivory in a gold frame

Cleared · CC0

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Portrait of the Jester Calabazas by Diego Velázquez, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Portrait of the Jester Calabazas

Diego Velázquez (d. 1660)

c. 1631–32 · Painting, oil on canvas

Cleared · CC0

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The Blue Gown (Portrait of Ethel Coe) by Martha S. Baker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Blue Gown (Portrait of Ethel Coe)

Martha S. Baker (d. 1911)

1899 · Portrait Miniature, watercolor on ivory

Cleared · CC0

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2. Read the arithmetic

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3. Seal and export

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