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
247 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
327 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 3,705 matching records exist across the two collections.
Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved
Standing Scholar (Prophet?) Turned to the Right (Recto); Standing Scholar (Prophet?) Turned to the Left (Verso)
Germany, Middle Rhine (d. 1473)
ca. 1460–70 · Pen and carbon black ink, traces of black chalk underdrawing, on paper prepared with sanguine wash
Cleared · Public Domain
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Saint John the Evangelist
Upper Rhine (Switzerland)
ca. 1480 · Pen and blackish brown ink and gray wash over a black chalk underdrawing (still partially visible in the foliate forms of the throne at the upper right), the thin, pale lines of the preliminary ink drawing clearly distinguishable from the thicker, darker ones on top of them, which have dense, felt-like accumulations of tiny strokes in some of the shadows, but are by the same hand; traces of a curved line in black chalk and partly in brush and gray ink in the lower corners and at the upper right.
Cleared · Public Domain
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Christ Child Carrying the Cross
Anonymous, German, Upper Rhine, 15th century (d. 1500)
ca. 1490 · Woodcut, hand-colored, with traces of gilt
Cleared · Public Domain
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Goblet (Roemer) with map of the Rhine River
Unrecorded maker
early 17th century · Glass, engraved with a diamond point
Cleared · Public Domain
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View of Lahnstein on the River Rhine
Wenceslaus Hollar (d. 1677)
ca. 1636 · Pen and brown ink over black and red chalk
Cleared · Public Domain
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View of Calcar on the Lower Rhine near Cleves
Aelbert Cuyp (d. 1691)
ca. 1640–42 · Black chalk, brush and gray wash and graphite, watercolored in green and ochre yellow, partly brushed with gum arabic; framing lines in pen and black ink
Cleared · Public Domain
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The Great Executioner with the Head of Saint John the Baptist
Prince Rupert of the Rhine (d. 1682)
1658 · Mezzotint with engraving; third state
Cleared · Public Domain
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The Great Lansquenet or Standard Bearer
Prince Rupert of the Rhine (d. 1682)
1658 · Mezzotint; first state of two
Cleared · Public Domain
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View of the Rhine with Pfalzgrafenstein Castle and Kaub Seen from the South-East
Johann Adam Klein (d. 1875)
1815 · Graphite, pen and gray ink
Cleared · Public Domain
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View of the Rhine and Remagen from the North (?)
Ernst Fries (d. 1833)
1815–33 · Graphite, brush and gray wash
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.
The Rhine at Duisburg
Paul Klee (d. 1940)
1937 · Gypsum, oil, and charcoal on cardboard
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.
Untitled (The Rhine)
Anselm Kiefer (d. 9999)
1993 · Woodcut on paper mounted on canvas
In copyright
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