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

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Hemlock Forest, Lehigh Valley Railroad by William H. Rau, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Hemlock Forest, Lehigh Valley Railroad

William H. Rau (d. 1920)

c. 1895 · Photograph, albumen print from wet collodion negative

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Pont-de-Buis, on the Doufine, France by Jules DuClos, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Pont-de-Buis, on the Doufine, France

Jules DuClos (d. 1879)

c. 1865 · Photograph, albumen print from wet collodion negative

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Bear Lake, LVRR by William H. Rau, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Bear Lake, LVRR

William H. Rau (d. 1920)

c. 1898–99 · Photograph, albumen print from gelatin dry plate negative

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An October Day in the White Mountains by John Frederick Kensett, The Cleveland Museum of Art

An October Day in the White Mountains

John Frederick Kensett (d. 1872)

1854 · Painting, oil on canvas

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Sideboard by Joseph Alexis Bailly, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Sideboard

Joseph Alexis Bailly (d. 1883)

c. 1855 · Furniture and woodwork, walnut

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Chemin de fer de Toulouse à Bayonne. Pont de l'Aran (en trois arches de 17m d'ouverture chacune). Situation des travaux au 21 juillet 1861 by Édouard Baldus, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Chemin de fer de Toulouse à Bayonne. Pont de l'Aran (en trois arches de 17m d'ouverture chacune). Situation des travaux au 21 juillet 1861

Édouard Baldus (d. 1889)

1861 · Photograph, albumen print from collodion negative

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The Monastery of San Pedro (Our Lady of the Snows) by Frederic Edwin Church, The Cleveland Museum of Art

The Monastery of San Pedro (Our Lady of the Snows)

Frederic Edwin Church (d. 1900)

1879 · Painting, oil on canvas

Cleared · CC0

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