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
218 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
368 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 1,456 matching records exist across the two collections.
Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved
Three women, one in the foreground drawing water from a well, two in the background washing; folio 45 (recto) from the Madrid Album "B"
Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) (d. 1828)
1795–97 · Brush and point of brush, carbon black washes
Cleared · Public Domain
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Brig on the Water
Gustave Le Gray (d. 1884)
1856 · Albumen silver print from glass negative
Cleared · Public Domain
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Well, my brave Englishman..., from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, March 5, 1864
Honoré Daumier (d. 1879)
March 5, 1864 · Lithograph on newsprint; second state of two (Delteil)
Cleared · Public Domain
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Low Water in the Mississippi
Frances Flora Bond Palmer (d. 1876)
1868 · Hand-colored lithograph with touches of gum arabic
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 Magi on their Way to Bethlehem, from The Youth of Christ, The New Testament series, bound in "Thesaurus Sacrarum historiarum Veteris et Novi Testamenti"
Gerard van Groeningen (d. 1573)
1579 · Engraving; second state of four
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.
A Water Meadow
Sir Francis Seymour Haden (d. 1910)
1859 · Etching; first state of two (Harrington); third state of five (Schneiderman)
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.
Way to get water from the well, bound in L'Oeuvre original de Vivant Denon. Collection de eaux-fortes, Volume 2
Baron Dominique Vivant Denon (d. 1825)
1873 · Lithograph
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.
Homeward Bound, from "Picture Poesies"
Arthur Boyd Houghton (d. 1875)
first published 1866, reissued 1874 · Wood 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.
Water pitcher
Tiffany & Co. (d. 9999)
1878 · silver and copper
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.
By the way, I suppose the Metropolitan Museum is well worth a visit?
Charles Frederick Peters (d. 1948)
1925–39 · Photomechanical process
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.
Where’s My Water?
Tabor Robak (d. 9999)
2015 · Twelve-channel digital animation, color, silent, 8 min., 58 sec.
In copyright
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