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
245 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
395 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 8 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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Design for a Wall Decoration with the Sacrifice of Abraham and the Flight into Egypt
Giovanni Lanfranco (d. 1647)
1582–1647 · Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over traces of red chalk, highlighted with white gouache, on blue paper; architectural moldings above and below indicated in ruled black chalk lines
Cleared · Public Domain
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Wall clock (pendule en cartel)
Jean Godde l'aîné (d. 1749)
ca. 1740–45 · Case: gilded bronze, oak, and tortoiseshell on brass marquetry on oak; Dial: white enamel and gilded brass with blued-steel hands; Movement: brass and steel
Cleared · Public Domain
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Hercules and Omphale
Vincennes Manufactory (d. 1756)
ca. 1749–50 · Soft-paste porcelain
Cleared · Public Domain
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Mantel clock (pendule de chiminée)
Paul Gudin Le Jeune (d. 1755)
clock ca. 1750, figures decorated ca. 1737/38 · Case: hard-paste and soft-paste porcelain, with gilded-bronze mounts; Dial: white enamel with blue numerals for hours and blue numerals for minutes; Movement: brass and steel
Cleared · Public Domain
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Mantel clock ("Pendule Uranie")
Jean-André Lepaute (d. 1789)
ca. 1764–70 · Case: patinated bronze and gilded bronze; Dial: white enamel; Movement: brass and steel
Cleared · Public Domain
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Pendant with Saint Anthony of Padua
Kongo artist
16th–19th century · Partially hollow cast brass
Cleared · Public Domain
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The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.
Solution générale du problème de la photographie des couleurs
Charles Cros (d. 1888)
1869 · Printed book
In copyright
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