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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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  • The Metsealed sample 2026-10-04T00:00:00.000Z

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art did not answer: met answered HTTP 403

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

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Results for "Summer (one of a set of four)"7 records

Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved

The Four Seasons:  Summer by Pieter van der Heyden, The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Four Seasons: Summer

Pieter van der Heyden (d. 1572)

1570 · Print, engraving

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Bamboo in Four Seasons: Summer by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Bamboo in Four Seasons: Summer

Unrecorded maker

1279–1368 · Painting, hanging scroll; ink on silk

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Sunset Glow over a Fishing Village, from Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang by Sesshū Tōyō, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Sunset Glow over a Fishing Village, from Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang

Sesshū Tōyō (d. 1506)

1460s–1550s · Painting, Hanging scroll from a set of eight; ink and color on silk

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The Four Seasons by Kano Tan’yū, The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Four Seasons

Kano Tan’yū (d. 1674)

1668 · Painting, Six-panel folding screen, ink and slight color on paper

Cleared · CC0

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Young Woman Looking at a Pot of Pinks by Suzuki Harunobu, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Young Woman Looking at a Pot of Pinks

Suzuki Harunobu (d. 1770)

c. 1767 · Print, color woodblock print, with embossing

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The Four Seasons by Kano Tan’yū, The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Four Seasons

Kano Tan’yū (d. 1674)

1668 · Painting, pair of six-panel folding screens, ink and slight color on paper

Cleared · CC0

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The Four Seasons by Kano Tan’yū, The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Four Seasons

Kano Tan’yū (d. 1674)

1668 · Painting, Six-panel folding screen, ink and slight color on paper

Cleared · CC0

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