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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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Results for "Studies for a Costume"8 records

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Study for "The Romancer" (Le Conteur) by Jean-Antoine Watteau, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Study for "The Romancer" (Le Conteur)

Jean-Antoine Watteau (d. 1721)

c. 1716 · Drawing, red chalk; red and black chalk (upper left figure)

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Four Studies of the Head of a Young Italian Woman by Edgar Degas, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Four Studies of the Head of a Young Italian Woman

Edgar Degas (d. 1917)

1856 · Drawing, graphite

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Three Studies of a Woman Wearing an Elaborate Headdress by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Three Studies of a Woman Wearing an Elaborate Headdress

Unrecorded maker

c. 1500 · Drawing, Pen and brown ink; retouched with brush and brown wash, lead white (partially oxidized)

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Vaslav Nijinsky in Le Spectre de la Rose by Auguste Bert, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Vaslav Nijinsky in Le Spectre de la Rose

Auguste Bert (d. 1945)

1913 · Photograph, Halftone photogravure

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Study for "An Apotheosis of a Saint" (for San Bernardino dei Morti, Milan) by Sebastiano Ricci, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Study for "An Apotheosis of a Saint" (for San Bernardino dei Morti, Milan)

Sebastiano Ricci (d. 1734)

c. 1695 · Painting, oil on canvas

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Portrait of Sandford Peacocke by William Wood, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Portrait of Sandford Peacocke

William Wood (d. 1809)

1801 · Portrait Miniature, watercolor on ivory in a gold frame with glazed reverse

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Two Dolls or Puppets Sitting on Cushions by Henri Joseph Harpignies, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Two Dolls or Puppets Sitting on Cushions

Henri Joseph Harpignies (d. 1916)

c. 1870–80 · Drawing, Watercolor with graphite underdrawing on heavily textured wove paper

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A Man Seated on the Edge of a Table by Charles Parrocel, The Cleveland Museum of Art

A Man Seated on the Edge of a Table

Charles Parrocel (d. 1752)

18th century · Drawing, Red chalk

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