Cleveland Museum of Art

U.S.A. / 7,243 ~ images available
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This diverse collection spans from the 14th to the 19th century, with main focus on prints and paintings from the 19th century.

Works by French authors are most widely represented, followed by the United States, Flanders, Germany, Spain and Japan.

Among illuminated religious manuscripts, satirical sketches of Paris life, American Civil War scenes and nature parks vistas are Goya’s etchings, Manet portraits and Gauguin’s landscapes.

Techniques vary from lithographs to engravings and etchings.

Paintings with oil on canvas, ink, tempera and gold, drawings with pastels and crayons can be most commonly found.

In the impressive list of authors you can find Honoré Daumier, Winslow Homer, Francisco de Goya, Albrecht Dürer, Edouard Manet, Paul Gauguin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Rembrandt, Peter Paul Rubens, Vincent van Gogh and many more.

Drawings (1,449)
Manuscripts (810)
Paintings (3,180)
Textile (1,753)

How to find images?

1. Visit http://www.clevelandart.org/.
2. Go to ‘Art’ > ‘Collection Online’.
3. Click ‘With images’.

Now you can see all collection items.
Direct link
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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?

A. Use a filter:
1. Go to the main page with all collection items (see section ‘How to find images?’)
2. Make sure Open Access is selected
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B. Check images individually:
1. Go to the image page
2. See ‘Download and share’ section
3. If the image is under an open licence, it will have a CC icon (which you can expand it)

More information on open access policy by the provider:
Open Access
FAQs

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 Cleveland Museum of Art 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?

Focus on older works:
1. Go to the main page with all collection items (see section ‘How to find images?’)
2. Make sure Open Access is selected
3. Click on Advanced Search
4. Narrow down results up to 1949 (please note, this is a creation/publication date, and not a death date of the author, which is needed for copyright checks)
Search results you get are now more likely to be in the public domain in most of the European countries.
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B. Now, after you limited results, 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?’). Here you can use the search field for artists, keywords or references

You can narrow down your results. 

You can use the ‘Advanced search’ to define: 

  • Artists
  • Culture
  • Title
  • Type of object
  • Location
  • Collection
  • Department 
  • Medium
  • Date
How to view search results?

You can sort results in various ways. You can view results in a grid or table format.

How to continue browsing?
  1. Go to the main page with all collection items (see section ‘How to find images?’).
  2. Go to ‘Art’ > ‘Curatorial departments’.
  3. Choose one of them, e.g. ‘African Art’, to go to its description.
  4. You can then click ‘view (African Art) in our collection’.

You can also find suggested links via the image page.

How to view an image?

Go to the image page where you can:

  • Click on it to zoom it in/out
  • Choose a large or thumbnail view
  • Download
  • Print
  • Share
How to view image metadata?

Go to image page, where you will find: 

  • Title
  • Material
  • Location
  • Description
  • Provenance
  • Related content 
  • Citation 
  • Further links
How to download?

1. Go to the image page.
2. See section ‘Download and share’ and choose:

  • JPEG and caption
  • High-resolution TIFF
  • Download metadata only
How to attribute?

Artist name, Title, Date. Cleveland Museum of Art. Open licence (e.g. CC0 ) + a link

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