A resource that provides more than one million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with an accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research.
The Met Museum in New York has made thousands of their images available for use for free. Use the "Public Domain Artworks" filter in the left-hand column to identify these images.
Some 68,000 items on the Brooklyn Museum's website are either "orphaned works" or licensed under a Creative Commons license. To be safest, we recommend you check the full record of each image and use only Creative Commons images.
Each of the Barnes Foundation's nearly 2,000 online images includes a copyright statement designating appropriate use. Those that are labelled as "Public Domain" are available for high resolution download and may be used freely.
The Getty has provided over 110,000 images that are available for free download and use. They may be searched and browsed on their full database of images.
The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. has large, searchable online image collections. Limiting to "Open Access" images allows you to find images that can be freely used in publications and websites.
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has made all of their public domain images free for download and reuse. Select an image, then look for the "Object data" link. Scroll down to find out if that image is public domain. High resolution downloads are also available by request.
A selection of their 25,000 public domain images are available for high-resolution download on this page (instructions for proper usage and citation are provided). The museum has also made educational videos for these works.
Many of the images in this online collection are provided with Creative Commons licenses that allow for reuse without any restrictions (CC0). Look at the full description of an image to determine the rights.
Online Resources compiled by The Courtauld Institute of Art
