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
316 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)
318 ms. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access API
2 of 2 providers answered live. 429 matching records exist across the two collections.
Institutions answered newest-first by record, interleaved
A Painter at Work in his Studio
Thomas Wijck (d. 1677)
1663–77 · Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, over black and red chalk, on blue paper; framing lines at top and bottom in pen and brown ink
Cleared · Public Domain
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Staircase from Cassiobury Park, Hertfordshire
Edward Pearce (d. 1695)
ca. 1677–80 · Risers, treads: oak; balustrade friezes, finials: elm; newel posts, stringers, skirting, baluster bases, balusters, handrails: pine
Cleared · Public Domain
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Portrait of Louis-Philippe, Duc d'Orleans and His Son Louis-Phillipe Joseph, Duc de Chartres
Louis de Carmontelle (d. 1806)
1759 · Etching
Cleared · Public Domain
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A Maiden Aunt Smelling Fire
Thomas Rowlandson (d. 1827)
[May 1, 1806], reissued May 1, 1812 · Etching
Cleared · Public Domain
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A Maiden Aunt Smelling Fire
Thomas Rowlandson (d. 1827)
[May 1, 1806], reissued May 1, 1812 · Hand-colored etching
Cleared · Public Domain
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Wooden Staircase at Chartres
Henri-Jean-Louis Le Secq (d. 1882)
1852 · Salted paper print from paper negative
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.
A Darktown Wedding -- The Parting Salute
Currier & Ives (d. 1907)
1892 · LIthograph with printed color and hand-coloring
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 Darktown Wedding -- The Send Off
Currier & Ives (d. 1907)
1892 · LIthograph with printed color and hand-coloring
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.
Mme Vuillard in a Set Designer's Studio
Edouard Vuillard (d. 1940)
1893–94 · Oil on canvas
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.
Grill from the Avery Coonley House, Riverside, Illinois
Frank Lloyd Wright (d. 1959)
ca. 1908 · Oak
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.
[Atget's Work Room with Contact Printing Frames]
Eugène Atget (d. 1927)
ca. 1910 · Albumen silver print from glass negative
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.
Stairs, Mexico City
Tina Modotti (d. 1942)
1924–26 · Gelatin silver print
In copyright
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