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
276 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
316 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 311 matching records exist across the two collections.
Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved
Study for a Male Figure Lowered into a Grave (recto); Kneeling Female Figure in Profile to Left (verso)
Cigoli (Ludovico Cardi) (d. 1613)
1607–13 · Point of brush and blue wash, heightened with white, over black chalk, on blue paper
Cleared · Public Domain
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Study of an Urn; Study for the Frieze Decoration around the Urn
Edward Pierce (Pearce) II (d. 1700)
ca. 1690 · Pen and brown ink, brush and blue-gray wash, over black chalk; stencilled gold border
Cleared · Public Domain
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Study of a Fire Urn
Anonymous, French, 18th century (d. 1800)
ca. 1770–90 · Brush and gray and brown wash
Cleared · Public Domain
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Study of a Female Nude
Henri Lehmann (d. 1882)
1840 · Oil on canvas
Cleared · Public Domain
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Branch of ivy (recto); Study of an urn for "Damocles" (verso)
Thomas Couture (d. 1879)
ca. 1866 · Black fabricated chalk and white chalk
Cleared · Public Domain
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A Bachelor in His Study (The Sportsman's Breakfast)
J. Buttfield (d. 1900)
late 19th century · Watercolor
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.
Study for "Le Poème de l’âme" (The Poem of the Soul)
Anne-François-Louis Janmot (d. 1892)
ca. 1861 · Graphite
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.
The Darktown Fire Brigade -- Saved!
Thomas B. Worth (d. 1917)
1884 · Hand-colored lithograph
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.
The Darktown Fire Brigade -- To the Rescue!
Thomas B. Worth (d. 1917)
1884 · Hand-colored lithograph
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.
The Darktown Fire Brigade -- A Prize Squirt: "Now den! Shake her up once moah fur de Mug."
Currier & Ives (d. 1907)
1885 · Hand-colored lithograph
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.
The Darktown Fire Brigade -- Under Full Steam: Now den Squirt, for all Shes Wuff.
Currier & Ives (d. 1907)
1887 · Hand-colored lithograph
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.
The Darktown Fire Brigade -- Slightly Demoralized: "I knowed we'd make em take water!"
Currier & Ives (d. 1907)
1889 · Lithograph, printed in color
In copyright
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