
Earth, from "The Four Elements" (Les Quatre Eléments)
Abraham Bosse (d. 1676)
1630 · Etching
Cleared · Public Domain
liveRights 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
194 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
313 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 189 matching records exist across the two collections.
Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved

Earth, from "The Four Elements" (Les Quatre Eléments)
Abraham Bosse (d. 1676)
1630 · Etching
Cleared · Public Domain
live
Earth, from "The Elements"
Johann Justin Preissler (d. 1771)
1735 · Engraving
Cleared · Public Domain
live
Earth, from The Four Elements
Pierre Alexandre Aveline (d. 1760)
1738–49 · Etching and engraving
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.
Terra (Earth), from "The Four Elements"
Hendrick Goltzius (d. 1617)
1586 · Engraving
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.
Earth, from The Four Elements
Jacques de Gheyn II (d. 1629)
1595 · Engraving; first state of three (New Hollstein)
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.
Earth, from "The Four Elements"
Jacques de Gheyn II (d. 1629)
ca. 1595–97 · Engraving; New Hollstein's first state of two
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.
Aer (Air), from "The Elements" (copy)
Hendrick Goltzius (d. 1617)
after 1597 · Engraving
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.
Aqua (Water), from "The Elements" (copy)
Hendrick Goltzius (d. 1617)
after 1597 · Engraving
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.
Ignis (Fire), from "The Elements" (copy)
Hendrick Goltzius (d. 1617)
after 1597 · Engraving
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.
Terra (Earth), from "The Elements" (copy)
Hendrick Goltzius (d. 1617)
after 1597 · Engraving
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.
Earth from the Elements
Nicolaes de Bruyn (d. 1656)
1590–1656 · Engraving; first state of three
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.
Earth, from The Four Elements
Pierre Alexandre Aveline (d. 1760)
18th century · Etching and engraving
In copyright
live1. Pin the work
Choose the record and say what you are actually going to do with it. The product re-reads the work live and stores a snapshot, so your docket records what the institution said today.
2. Read the arithmetic
Six weighted factors: the institution's own claim, the creator's term, the publication-age rule, the restrictions in their statement, your use, and whether a credit line is even possible.
3. Seal and export
Record the decision into a SHA-384 chain, then export a dated docket as JSON, CSV or Markdown with the credit line and the seal a colleague can re-verify.