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

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Sofa by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Sofa

Unrecorded maker

c. 1820 · Furniture and woodwork, wood with painted and gilded decoration

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Dead Child On a Sofa by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Dead Child On a Sofa

Unrecorded maker

c. 1855 · Photograph, daguerreotype, applied color, quarter-plate

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On the Pale Silver Sofa by Maurice Denis, The Cleveland Museum of Art

On the Pale Silver Sofa

Maurice Denis (d. 1943)

1899 · Print, color lithograph on wove paper

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Portrait of a Woman Reclining on a Sofa by Jean-Antoine Laurent, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Portrait of a Woman Reclining on a Sofa

Jean-Antoine Laurent (d. 1832)

c. 1804 · Portrait Miniature, watercolor on ivory in a gilt metal frame c. 1805

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Academic Nude, Reclining on a Sofa by Auguste Belloc, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Academic Nude, Reclining on a Sofa

Auguste Belloc (d. 1868)

c. 1855 · Photograph, salted paper print from wet collodion negative

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Brocaded velvet cushion cover with carnations by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Brocaded velvet cushion cover with carnations

Unrecorded maker

late 1500s · Velvet, velvet, brocaded: silk, gilt-and-silver-metal thread

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Brocaded velvet cushion cover with crescents by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Brocaded velvet cushion cover with crescents

Unrecorded maker

1525–75 · Velvet, velvet, brocaded: silk, gilt- and silver-metal thread, and cotton

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Cradle or Baby Carrier by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cradle or Baby Carrier

Unrecorded maker

c. 1900 · Leather, Native-tanned hide, cotton cloth, glass beads, metal beads, brass bell, sinew thread, cotton thread

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Brocaded velvet with medallions in ogival lattice by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Brocaded velvet with medallions in ogival lattice

Unrecorded maker

late 1500s · Velvet, Silk: velvet, brocaded; gilt- and silver-metal thread

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