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
677 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
395 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 2,157 matching records exist across the two collections.
Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved
Segment of Chapter 19 of the Lotus Sutra
Kujō Kanezane (d. 1207)
late 12th century · Handscroll section mounted as a hanging scroll; ink on colored paper decorated with cut gold (kirikane), sprinkled gold (sunago), and silver leaf
Cleared · Public Domain
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Portrait of Elizabeth Spiegel
Dirck Dircksz. Santvoort (d. 1680)
1639 · Painting, oil on wood
Cleared · CC0
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Maximilian I Hearing Mass
Hans Weiditz the Younger (d. 1536)
ca. 1515 · Woodcut
Cleared · Public Domain
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Shri Raga, from a Ragamala
Unrecorded maker
c. 1695 · Painting, Gum tempera and gold on paper
Cleared · CC0
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The Sense of Hearing
Joseph Heintz the Elder (d. 1609)
16th century · Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash. Touches of gray wash. Framing lines in pen and brown.
Cleared · Public Domain
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Celestial Musician
Unrecorded maker
1300s · Embroidery, silk and gold thread over two layers of cotton, embroidery
Cleared · CC0
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The Sense of Hearing (recto); light sketch of a woman's head and an arm (verso)
Hendrick Goltzius (d. 1617)
late 16th–early 17th century · Black chalk, heightened with white chalk, stumped; traces of brown and yellow chalks
Cleared · Public Domain
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Hearing (Auditus), from "Quinque Sensuum"
Franz Cleyn (d. 1658)
ca. 1655 · Engraving
Cleared · Public Domain
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Design for a Cartouche and Representation of Hearing, plate 3 from "Neu Inventierte auf die artigste Facon Sehr nutzliche Schild"
Johann Georg Pintz
printed ca. 1750–56 · Etching
Cleared · Public Domain
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Hearing (one of a pair)
Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory (d. 1784)
ca. 1755 · Soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration and gilding
Cleared · Public Domain
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Nydia, the Blind Flower Girl of Pompeii
Randolph Rogers (d. 1892)
1853–54; carved 1859 · Marble
Cleared · Public Domain
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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 Five Senses: Hearing (Auditus)
Etienne Delaune (d. 1583)
1573–80 · Etching
In copyright
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