Barnes Foundation

U.S.A. / up to 2,000 ~ images available
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Barnes Foundation’s collection holds works by Paul Signac, Henri Rousseau, William James Glackens, Jean Baptiste Guiraud, Giacomo Guardi, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Roger de La Fresnaye and John Kane among others.

This part of the collection mostly focuses on the 19th – 20th century paintings. Landscapes, portraits and urban scenes are commonly found.

How to find images?

1. Visit https://www.barnesfoundation.org/.
2. Go to ‘Our Collection’.

Now you can see all collection items.
Direct link

Themes
Themes

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Authors
Authors

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Is the digital scan under an open licence?

Not all digital scans in this collection are under an open licence. Open licence is applied only to those digital scans where the original work is believed to be in the public domain in the U.S. Where digital scan is under an open licence, it is available to be downloaded in high resolution.

How to find them?

There is no filter to find images under open licence. 

You need to check each image individually:

1. Go to the image page
2. Check if there is a ‘Public domain’ mark under the image
If yes, the digital scan is under an open licence. 

More information by the provider:
Open access and copyright

Is the original work in the public domain?

Not all original works in this collection, which are under an open licence and available to download in high resolution, are in the public domain in the European countries. 

This is because the Barnes Foundation is in the U.S. and guided by the copyright law of the U.S. It applies open licence to digital scans where original works are believed to be in the public domain in the U.S

How to find images which you can reuse in most of the European countries? 

There is no filter to find images by date. 

You need to check each image individually:

1. Go to the image page
2. Identify all the authors and contributors
3. Find the death date of the last living author (dates are available)
If the last living author has passed away more than 70 years ago, most likely, his/her works are in the public domain in most of the European countries. 

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However, if you intend to use images for commercial purposes you might want to do additional checks to assess any risk. 

Please note, it is always your personal responsibility to make sure the original work is out of copyright in all countries where you distribute your new creative works. The supplier of the digital scan cannot guarantee this.

How to continue searching?

Go to the main page with all collection items (see section ‘How to find images?’). You can continue search using:

  • color bar
  • lines bar
  • light bar
  • space bar
  • shuffle results
  • keyword search
How to view search results?

Simple search results view with no additional functionalities.

How to continue browsing?

In the image page you can select ‘Visually related’ (more surprising or more similar) or ‘Ensemble’.

How to view an image?

Go to the image page, select ‘Details’ to see its larger version which you can zoom in/out.

How to view image metadata?

Go to the image page and select ‘Details’ above. Now you can see: 

  • artist
  • year
  • medium
  • dimensions
  • bibliography
How to download?

1. Go to the image page.
2. Go to ‘Details’.
3. Click on ‘Download image’ button.
4. A new window will open to request some information (this helps the provider to understand how images are used).

Then you will have 2 options to download an image:

  • Uncompressed TIFF Image
  • High Res JPEG Image
How to attribute?

Artist name, Title, Date. Barnes Foundation. Open licence (e.g. CC0 ) + a link

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