Free art, measured properly

69,000 public-domain artworks from National Gallery of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian Institution and National Gallery of Denmark (SMK), with the two things museums never tell you: the colours actually in the image, and how big you can print it.

Highlights

"King Lear," Act I, Scene I

Edwin Austin Abbey

Repose

John White Alexander

The Way They Live

Thomas Anshutz

The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak

Albert Bierstadt

Fur Traders Descending the Missouri

George Caleb Bingham

Mrs. David Chesebrough

Joseph Blackburn

The Ameya

Robert Frederick Blum

An Arctic Summer: Boring Through the Pack in Melville Bay

William Bradford

At the Seaside

William Merritt Chase

Carmencita

William Merritt Chase

James Abbott McNeill Whistler

William Merritt Chase

Heart of the Andes

Frederic Edwin Church

The Parthenon

Frederic Edwin Church

View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow

Thomas Cole

The Titan's Goblet

Thomas Cole

View on the Catskill—Early Autumn

Thomas Cole

Daniel Crommelin Verplanck

John Singleton Copley

Midshipman Augustus Brine

John Singleton Copley

Mrs. John Winthrop

John Singleton Copley

Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Kenyon Cox

The Valley of Wyoming

Jasper Francis Cropsey

The Beeches

Asher Brown Durand

The Artist's Wife and His Setter Dog

Thomas Eakins

The Chess Players

Thomas Eakins

Why this exists

Museums have released hundreds of thousands of high-resolution artworks into the public domain, and then left them in catalogues built for curators. You cannot ask the Met for a deep-blue landscape that prints at 24×36. You can ask here, because every image has been clustered in perceptual colour space and measured against a 300 DPI print threshold.

Everything indexed is free to download. Licences are shown per work, and links go back to the museum that holds it.