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
3072 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
546 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 2,367 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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Sketch for In the Hospital (verso)
Jean Louis Forain (d. 1931)
fourth quarter 1800s or first third 1900s · Drawing, black and red chalk
Cleared · CC0
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Design for a Vase (recto); Sketch of Small Vase (verso)
Jacques François Joseph Saly (d. 1776)
ca. 1752 · Pen and brown ink over graphite (recto); graphite (verso)
Cleared · Public Domain
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In the Hospital (recto) Sketch for In the Hospital (verso)
Jean Louis Forain (d. 1931)
fourth quarter 1800s or first third 1900s · Drawing, watercolor and gouache over black crayon
Cleared · CC0
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Sketch for the Judgment of Solomon (?); verso: Dancing Mythological Figures
Christian Gottlieb Schick (d. 1812)
late 18th–early 19th century · Pen and brown ink, over a sketch in graphite; verso: black chalk.
Cleared · Public Domain
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Woodland Scene
Pieter George Westenberg (d. 1873)
1819 · Pen and dark gray ink, brush and gray wash, over black chalk; framing lines in pen and dark gray ink
Cleared · Public Domain
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Greenwich Hospital (recto); Study of a Building (verso)
David Cox (d. 1859)
1820s · Watercolor over graphite (recto); graphite (verso)
Cleared · Public Domain
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Foggy Landscape in the Apennine; verso: Sketch of Landscape
Carl Wagner (d. 1867)
early 19th-mid-19th century · Watercolor, over graphite; verso: graphite
Cleared · Public Domain
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Contribution Receipt of the Special American Hospital in Paris for Wounds of the Face and Jaw
Auguste Rodin (d. 1917)
1916 · Drypoint, second state of two
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.
Sketch for "The Acrobats in the Circus"
Fernand Léger (d. 1955)
1918 · Oil on canvas
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.
Sketch for the Lafayette (verso)
John Sloan (d. 1951)
1927 · Graphite 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.
Costume Study for Robed, Bearded Boyar with Staff; verso: Sketch for the same figure
Pavel Petrovic Froman (d. 1940)
1929 · Watercolor, gouache, gold paint, over graphite; verso: graphite.
In copyright
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